Despite a lack of evidence — and how a few minutes of internet research can easily prove or disprove most anything — urban legends and myths about pop culture persist. There's even an especially dark one about Tom and Jerry. Reportedly, the final Tom and Jerry cartoon ends with a real and disturbing finality, with both characters killing themselves by way of lying down on train tracks and getting run over.
Yep, Tom and Jerry commit suicide. However, like about 99 percent of urban legends, this isn't true, but some nuggets of truth have been exaggerated. In the 1956 short "Blue Cat Blues," Tom gets incredibly despondent when his girlfriend leaves him for another cat, and Jerry tries to pull him out of his funk, only to have his best mouse gal pal dump him, too. The episode ends with them both sitting on tracks while a train approaches. But the cartoon doesn't actually depict their deaths. Nor do they really die, because plenty more Tom and Jerry cartoons were produced after "Blue Cat Blues," well into the '60s. Still, that's a pretty dark show for kids.
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