Tom, Jerry & Neo

This morning they’re showing a series of Tom & Jerry cartoons called “The Tom & Jerry Food Fight” (aside: every time I type ‘Tom’ I type ‘Tome’ and have to backspace. When did ‘tome’ become more common for me? goddess (that bitch), what a nerd).

You know when one of them—usually Tom[e] walks the plank or goes off a cliff or what-not—and Wile E. Coyote does this a lot as well—and they don’t fall right away? Usually they don’t start falling until they realize they should be falling!

It occurred to me that the Wachowski brothers just stole Looney Toons physics and applied raining green text-cell graphics to it and zip-bang! A cultural phenomenon!

Good thing that both are Warner Brothers properties, huh?