I just watched an old Tom and Jerry cartoon in which the mouse convinces the cat that he has been repeatedly attempting suicide. As the cat sleeps, he places a gun in the cat's hand and points it at his face, then he slips a noose around his neck, then he places a knife in his hand and covers the knife and the cat's chest in fake blood.
Finally, the cat gets wise, and places the mouse in glass bottle where the cork is tied to the trigger of a gun pointed at the bottle, so that if the mouse attempts to escape, the gun will shoot him.
That is the most demented fucking shit I've ever god damned seen. And I'm positive that I saw it when I was little. Did I have any idea what I was seeing?
There are also the old Ren and Stimpy cartoons I grew up watching; you know, like the one where Stimpy gets a fan club and Ren becomes so consumed with jealousy that he hovers over Stimpy as he sleeps and talks about how twisting his head until his neck snaps.
Then this happens:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU29jCEfCGcMy point is that I did not grow up well adjusted.