Tom and Jerry: "Saturday Evening Puss" Comparison (1950/1966) 

So since people keep bringing up seeing the original on TV as a kid, to clarify: The TV edit was only the TV edit for the 1960s and 1970s, probably in response to the civil rights movement. Starting in the 1980s, they brought back the original Two-Shoes, but redubbed her to have less of an exaggerated accent. So that version was probably what you saw as a kid - or maybe it was the original, it's hard to say since the only difference was the voice.

i actually like the older black lady version a lot more somehow

They went from having overly designed to something plain as heck. For that much jewelry animated in the 50s is amazing.

"A party? At my house? EXCUSE ME!!!!"

The one with Mammy Two Shoes was better. Plus, she delivered that line "Excuse me!" with so much more feeling in it.

I never looked at Mammy negatively. I always thought she was fucking awesome. Do not know why this was changed.

the original animation is a 1000 times better

Not gonna lie. Mommy two shoes had the bling, the moves, and the “power” in the old version. I recall seeing both versions and tbh, the original takes the cake.

Mammy two shoes has just a lot of personality like I mean the OUTFIT SLAYS! That slim white woman remodel is just bland and boring 💀😭

Crazy the theatrical version had always aired on Cartoon Network Latam. Never censored mammy.

Love the fact when she tore the entire door out of her house, then zooms out to see the door was instantly repaired.

The 1950 version is a lot better not because of Mammy Two Shoes, but the continuity as well

i love the theatrical "EXCUUUUUUUUUUSE ME!"

I remember watching the original version of this on Cartoon Network all the time when I was a kid. I’ve never once seen the one with the white woman in my life let alone knew it existed.

LOVE Mammy Two-Shoes. She didn't put up with any nonsense from Tom! And the delivery of "Ex-CUUU-se ME!!!" Flawless!

Ironic when Mammy here is really less of a Mammy here, and more of a some party woman

I know people have already talked about Mammy Two Shoes, but overall the original version has more detail to it. Look at when she's running back to the house, there isn't a street lamp there.

I wonder why Tom's name was taken off his cat bed? Did anyone else see that too?

Not only do I think the original character was better but I also believe the animation was better in the original as well. As is Tom's bed has his name written in the original

I never even knew she was meant to be a mammy stereotype until reading about it a few months ago, I always saw her as a feisty black lady. I don't understand why they had to completely edit her out. Since they were capable of doing that why couldn't they have just given her a more "casual" appearance versus a maid-like dress? They already had someone re-dub her voice...

Mammy's got personality, with how she talks and the way she walks, she's infinitely more preferable than whatever stick they throw in place of her. She may be a product of her time, but she's interesting to watch and a staple part of my childhood growing up.

I love how their solution was to whitewash her instead of keeping her black while toning down the racial caricature aspects. It makes me even more thankful for the unedited versions of the shorts that were released with the famous Whoopi Goldberg speech. That was a frankly far more mature way of handling things.

I remember the black lady and I was watching most of it in 2000-2004

A party?! At my house?! EXCUSE ME!!! 🤣🤣🤣

If you put 0.25 speed when mammy two shoes is running to the house you will finally get to see her face reveal!

In the early 2000s on european Cartoon Network it was the old version with the black lady.

Mammy Two Shoes was one of my favourite things about the show when I was little. I remember seeing the 1966 edit too and was wondering why did Tom have a different owner now? It made me slightly sad.

even the house's color was changed.

Mammy Two Shoes was awesome and a badass. She was hysterical 😂😂

Mammy Two Shoes is legendary

As far as these things go, I'd argue this was good representation for the time. In the middle of Jim Crow-era, the showed a well dressed and arguably affluent Black woman living in the suburbs. She's voiced by Black actress Lilian Randolph in a time when the Hayes Code severly limited Black Visibility in film. And, arguably, she remains the main human character in one of the most beloved cartoons of U.S. History.

I remember seeing the black lady exclusively. It aired on Cartoon Network in the early 2000s

The problem is not really the character change, but rather the implementation of it. In the original you can see the black lady putting on makeup and jewelry with exaggerated gestures, the table is full of stuff like a bottle of perfume and rings and her way of moving and walking is fitting for a show like Tom and Jerry. While in the white lady is just... bland, it's like she's got no character other than being Tom's owner and that's it.

The colors were brightened up so much that the woman turned into a different race.

Maaan! I Always love hearing the Original, Mammiy Two Shoes yell. "Thomas!!!" Even to this day, it still makes me laugh!! 🤣🤣🤣

I swear I remember seeing the 1950 version on Cartoon Network in the late 90s early 2000s.

I don’t care if Mammy Two Shoes was supposed to be a racist caricature,she’s better than the more thinner Caucasian woman you see in the 1966 version.

I’m glad the Mammy Two-Shoes version is what I got in the 1990s.

The white woman they inserted here isn't animated as well as Mammy was in the original.

I noticed HBO Max had Tom and Jerry on it. I was actually looking for this episode. It was not on there. The Saturday Evening Puss that i saw on t.v. when a was kid was one of my favorite episodes. Thank you for posting this.

The edit version looks like a nerdy girl in her late 20's excited for her very first date of her life.

I'm black and I don't have a problem with Mammy. Her appearance had more personality and she lives in a nice house. I wish I had a house.

La señora negra es la clásica que todos queremos.

I swear I have seen the unedited version on cartoon network mid 2000s i can clearly remember the stop light gag and the excessive amount of jewelry

i remember watching this as a kid, and i’m not old 😭i’m 21. the jewelry is the main memory i have. the edit looks like they did it in a rush tho

I remember watching the theatrical version on TV as a kid, and I had no problem with it. 🙂

She just runs all the way home, freaking breaking the door down. She may be stronger than 5 volt.

I can't believe they changed it from the theatrical version. These people would put pants and a shirt on the statue of David.

I remember growing up with the original nanny before she was scrubbed from TV. I always thought she was badass since she didn't take shit from tom

The black mammy two shoes is better WAYYYYYY better I don't even have to explain

I loved how Mammy would not let Thomas get away with any shenanigans even if Jerry was the tattletale. Mammy was the boss to Thomas and when the situation was known Jerry and badass.

They had to leave Mammy in, she was so dripped out and really fun to have around, i remember watching those tom n Jerry marathons just to see her!

I’ve always been familiar with Mammy because that’s what I’d always see on Boomerang in my country, although they always aired the 90s Turner dubbed versions with Mammy's voice changed to another actress, until around the rebranding, and then they started using the Spotlight Collection prints that kept the original voice of the character.

I remember watching the original version several times on Cartoon Network, and I recorded that one in a VHS tape, around 2006/2007😄 Also I had the Tom and Jerry Collection Special edition on DVD in 2011 and had the original one Greetings from Venezuela

1:14 Mammy two-shoes face reveal

They need to bring back Mammy Two Shoes in today’s world and in future Tom and Jerry projects too

When I was a kid, I didn't quite understand why Mammy Two Shoes wore a petticoat (and sometimes several petticoats, seen whenever Jerry scares her to jump on top of a stool). Then I grew up and, among my many jobs, I worked in a reception center and noticed that, even in an agreeable weather for a european, such as the very beginning of Fall, the boys from Africa fixed their bed to have one (if not several) wool blanket(s). Now I understand and that's both illuminating and saddening.

Man Boomerang had the balls then cuz I remember seeing the uncensored versions

The white woman went out without a purse or bag

Mammy 2 shoes imo, was the most badass woman character in any cartoon ever. Sassy, strong, sweet, capable, a woman who overcame the inherited condition to establish herself as THE ONE you don't fuck with, all in a realistic and relatable style.

I grew up with a DVD version of the right-side one, and remember that even as a kid I found it weird that such a thin innocent-looking lady could whoop Tom that hard

This TV edit version (1966) is seen on Cartoon Network Asia/Philippines way back in 2000s.

Oh im glad in my country i still see the original. I loved the real lady much more, shes more intimidating and believeable, also much more well animated.

Never saw the TV edited version interesting

Mammy Two Shoes version is the best one!🤣

I remember Mammy two shoes, the original

After all these years I was right all along. They're were 2 version of this.

Ugh, I liked the older original better.

Never saw "The Tv Edit." Appreciate the upload. Thank you.

The og is 100 times more expressive and well... cartoony in a cartoon, I like it better

God forbid we portray a Black working class woman as succesfull owner of a big house

1:10 - 1:11 (On the right side) that looked more than just being worried about someone partying at their own house, also was the 1950 version before WB decided to hire the "Whenever it is midnight outside it should be blue tinted to give off the same effect indoors guy"?

*Theatrical was dramatically better*

thank you for finding this absolute rare piece of edited controversial media!

Maybe Jerry would have had a better ending for him if he would’ve just let Tom win

4 kids be like

I had a black nanny named Mrs teresa and she found “Mammy Two Shoes” really funny

The earlier version was Super! All the black community have a beautiful way of speaking... And this movie carried it beautifully...Great job by Animators and the Voice Over artists... It was nice picturization... ❤❤❤ On the other hand, white one looked boring, flat and unsuitable to the story....

Dutch Cartoon Network early 2000s mostly showed the Mammy Two Shoes originals (well, except for the changed voicetrack for Mammy).

I never even knew about the edit so this is all news to me.

I never seen that TV edit before but although I like the mammy two shoes the black woman better

It's kinda weird noticing the stereotypes you didn't notice as a kid. Like when I was younger I had a bunch of Tom and Jerry dvds and saw reruns every now and then on Boomerang, and not once did it come across my mind to see Mammy as this racist caricature, I always saw her as just the owner of Tom, and all the cleaning she did was not because she was a hired maid or something but just because she wants to have a clean house. I just came from a video about the Jim Crow museum and there was a part talking about the Mammy stereotype, and I thought to myself "hmm that character looks a bit like the owner lady from Tom and Jerry" so I went looking and found the wiki page talking about it, and now I'm here. The wiki page also mentions the reason for the redesign, stating "as he [director Gene Deitch] felt a "stereotypical black housekeep" character "didn't work in a modern context."" So with the help of Chuck Jones they either kept the same model and just made the skin white, or as show here just drawing over Mammy entirely.

Never have I ever seen the 1966 version

The quality got worse on the remake..

Oh so that explains why the VHS and the tv versions felt similar but different! Original one better by far. That and as a kid I never knew about black people so this was my introduction to them and even though it was a bit scary (I was very young btw) it made them feel more human and help younger me to understand they the same as everyone else; they just looked different (also helped teach the lesson "don't judge a book by it's colour" ) especially her name which I thought she was called Mommy two-shoes. Eg. The motherly figure and a goody two-shoes (which mean't a good person to a fault), so as a kid she was a kind mother to Tom. So I had no idea who the white woman was. Tbh I thought she was an imposter.

If you go frame by frame when she is running, its the only time you see her face.

I grew up with the black lady in the 2000s (I'm from 98). She was dubbed to spanish since I live in Argentina. Thank god I could watch her and not that mayonnaise water down version.

1:14 We can't see her face on the right

I never saw the Mammy Two Shoes shorts as racist but maybe because of the voice, but the Thea Vidale redub versions of the cartoons are pretty nice.

They showed the original versions of Tom & Jerry episodes with Mammy Two-Shoes here in the UK well in to the early 2000s.

You know, i actually saw the censored version first, but only after rewatching it in older age i felt that something was off.

That new animation looks so choppy compared to how beautifully smooth the original was. I know Mrs Two Shoes is a problematic caricature of the black maid archetype but completely white-washing her wasn’t the best way to go about doing it as it implies that her skin colour was the thing people took issue with when really it was her role that was problematic. Just make her the owner of the house instead of the maid, downplay her more stereotypical traits and you can have something that is far more acceptable whilst still keeping her ethnicity.

I remember that as a kid, I saw the Mammy one and only that one

The black woman makes it more funny, and I should know, I had a momma that whoops ass if you cross the line.

Growing up in Serbia, i always had the original version. Never saw the other one. The original is way better.

I can see why they’d change it, but couldn’t they have just had a black character who didn’t have the caricatures? It also just looks strange to see that cheap 60’s animation and aesthetics juxtaposed with that nice and clean pre-late-50’s animation.

Older one was better, nothing beats a sassy black women they’re always funny and a joy

we had the black woman on tv in sweden and she is by far the funniest one of the two.

All I remember is the 1950s version, I don't remember seeing the edit. and I am from the 80s

I watched both versions on Cartoon Network in the Philippines back when I was a kid and we had cable back then. I must say that Mammy was better, more unique, and more stylish. The other girl was just some typical teenager, but she was also funny though.