Jerry the Mouse was one of the two main characters in the Ugly Country cartoon Tom and Jerry. Introduced by China Central Television in the 1990s, it swept the nation and became a vivid childhood memory for countless people born in the 1980s.
It also made an outstanding contribution to spreading the Ugly Country's soft power. Even now, many people in their thirties and forties had their fondness for and yearning toward the Ugly Country planted in their hearts alongside the cartoon's broadcast.
Many people saw life in the United States through this cartoon: liquefied gas, radios, washing machines, refrigerators... That was supposedly the Ugly Country in the 1930s and 1940s. There were luxury cars, diamonds, spaceships, and yachts too. Even today, many places could not match the standard of living depicted in that era of the Ugly Country.
Ha... who wouldn't yearn for it? A yearning formed in childhood, if never fulfilled or touched, could sometimes become like roots growing from one's knees, burrowing deep into the ground and forcing one to kneel there, head tilted upward, continuing to yearn.
Of course, Tom and Jerry was unquestionably an excellent work.
"If I'm Jerry, then you're Tom? Too bad the mouse usually tricks the cat in the cartoon, while reality isn't like that." Su Mei felt that Zhu Juntang was more like Jerry the Mouse.
Although Zhu Juntang was incapable of tricking Liu Chang'an, she could make him so furious that he jumped about in rage, smoke practically rising from his head. Tom often had his mentality wrecked by Jerry in just the same way.
"No, there's reproductive isolation between mice and cats." Liu Chang'an had no idea why, but he sounded a little smug. "We made a Zhu Juntang, after all."
"What kind of wording is that? Didn't we