User blog comment:Umbrello/Childhood Nightmares: TV/@comment-25052433-20150126034232

Some of the disturbing shows that came to mind later, were more disturbing on a psychological level than anything that was actually shown. Examples I recall now...

-There was a Looney Tunes episode (this seems to be a theme now) which had Sylvester the cat and some unnamed mouse character. Basically, Sylvester's owners left on vacation and forgot to leave any food out. So he runs around the house and finally finds the cans of cat food. But now the mouse has the can opening. Sylvester begs the mouse for the can opener, but the mouse simply torments him through the entire episode. Finally, at the end, Sylvester gets the can opener, only to find the mouse has padlocked the cabinet containing the food.

Now, I guess what bothered me about this as a kid is that the entire thing seemed unprovoked and the mouse seemed perfectly content to let Sylvester starve. At no point was Sylvester even being aggressive towwards the mouse, he was simply trying to get into the cat food.