I think my childhood was accompanied by various animations that were criticized by adults as childish. I was also ignorant and couldn't tell right from wrong. I often responded to my parents verbally, but secretly bought CDs behind my back. Looking back now, it makes me laugh that I actually took some of the words of adults as the truth of the world, and I also laugh that I was immature and failed to understand the mockery of the world in the anime at that time.

At that time, I would accept any anime calmly, just because it was interesting and made me laugh, and I regarded it as a source of happiness. Now it seems that I have based my happiness on all kinds of tragedies in the world.

The villain should be unlucky and suffer all kinds of unreasonable disasters; the righteous should be lucky and often have a glimmer of hope in desperate situations. We laugh when villains suffer, and we are happy when heroes die well. This is what I always knew when I was young. But now that I think about it, do I really know who is the good guy and who is the villain? Maybe they are not good or bad in the first place, but we classify them as good or bad.

Just like "Tom and Jerry" in childhood, I believe that a considerable number of people treat Tom Cat as a bad guy from the perspective of Jack the Mouse. Why? Because Tom mistreats Jack, teases him, and even sometimes wants to eat him, but Jack is always forced to fight back and always acts as a desperate counterattack, so we unconsciously divide them into good and bad.

However, if we recall carefully, isn’t it Tom Cat who was hurt the most? Every time he was high-spirited, he ended up with unkempt hair and a disheveled appearance. Every time he had a chance to win, he was overturned in the end, and he only ended up with a severe disability. It is natural for a cat to catch a mouse, and it is natural for a mouse to play with a cat. There is no right or wrong, it is just our different perspectives on things.

"Tom and Jerry" is a classic, not only because of its humor, but also because of its irony.

Nearly every episode of Tom and Jerry They all reflect a social reality, and cats and mice are just the epitome of social people and the abbreviation of the struggle for interests. When we were children, we gained happiness from this anime, and when we grew up, we reflected on it and gained reality.

Coincidentally, there is another animation work that is childishly written but is read as a classic. It also blends humor and reality, making people gain joy while also understanding many truths. This animation work is "Sponge" Baby".

I believe that most people born in the 1990s had a childhood with SpongeBob SquarePants. He was cheerful and optimistic, loved life, and his long-term mindless actions often brought joy to people. But anyone who revisits the work "SpongeBob SquarePants" will find that this animation is too mature and satirizes almost every kind of person and thing. It is not an animation that children should watch at all. Now that I think about it, how stupid or naive I must have been when I was so happy watching such an extremely realistic anime without knowing its deeper meaning.

There is a famous aphorism in the book "There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people", so in the animation, there can also be a saying "There are 100 million SpongeBob SquarePants in the eyes of a hundred million people". In "SpongeBob SquarePants", Patrick represents ignorance, Mr. Krabs represents greed, Squidward represents arrogance, Sandy represents science, and only SpongeBob SquarePants is a blank white paper. I don’t know whether it is intentional or not, but the prototype of Spongebob is a sponge, a common sponge in life that absorbs all liquids around it. No matter what you give it is sewage or mountain spring, it will absorb it all without rejecting it, eventually affecting itself. The same is true for Spongebob in the play. No matter whether the people around him are good or bad, he can't tell clearly, so he simply imitates them completely, until he wakes up after his heart is completely corrupted, and he repeats this endlessly.

In the end, I won’t say much. After all, everyone’s opinions will be different. Talking too much about big principles will be counterproductive. I also hope that if friends who see this have the same experience as me, you might as well share your stories or thoughts about these classic animations, just for fun, and to prove that these are indeed classics. The above are all personal opinions.