Tom's Basement (Retake)

== Prologue ==
After a very long day at my high school, I decided that I'd have to take a well-deserved rest. As I took the sidewalk home, I noticed the mailman putting the package at my doorstep and running off back to their truck. I took the package inside and opened it.
It was a single DVD disk labled "Tom and Jerry 1962" with black marker.
"Tom and Jerry, huh?" This could be good. Tom and Jerry is a very entertaining cartoon, so it could easily help cure my boredom as there was nothing left that I really felt like doing. I decided to go upstairs and watch the cartoon. I got my chips, a cup of soda, and inserted the DVD.
Little did I know that this DVD was nothing like I expected.
== The DVD ==
I was shown a menu, with the background consisting of shapes with shades of blue and brown, similar to the japanese box art for the very first Sonic game. In the middle of the screen was the only option: "Play".
It was all 13 episodes of the Gene Deitch era. This Tom and Jerry era was notorious for its poor quality, awful choice of sound effects, and a slightly more... disturbing feel to it. I don't know what it is, but something about the episodes' violence seems a little more realistic than the previous (and beloved) Hanna-Barbera era.
After I had finished all 13 episodes, the screen had faded to black, without any credits screen. I thought I had finished the whole episode order, until I was brought to a warning screen.
"ATTENTION! THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS EXTREMELY GRAPHIC MATERIAL AND MATURE CONTENT. VIEWER DISCRETION IS HEAVILY ADVISED!"
The title card read 'Tom's Basement'. It showed an open door leading to a basement with a blue silhouette of Tom trembling, while a brown silhouette of Jerry hiding in the mousehole holding a KNIFE beside the door.
We begin with a shot of Tom's house. It pans to the living room, where Tom is shown walking to his bed, which is placed next to the basement door. He yawns and smacks his lips, then eventually falls asleep. It zooms out until we can see Tom's infamous, fat angry owner from the Deitch era walking down the hallway, visibly looking cranky. He stops in his tracks when he finds Tom sleeping in front of him, and next to the basement door. 
The owner was FURIOUS, trembling and snarling like a mad man, and his face turning beet red. He eventually lifts his foot, and...
BAM. He begins stomping on Tom's tail in a very realistic and painful way. Tom immediately wakes up, visibly exhausted, his eyes bloodshot. His eyes shoot towards the owner as he finally realizes what's happening. Tom begins fussing and yelling, pounding his fists on the floor. After 5 painful seconds of this, the owner stopped and said in a booming voice, "Never go down the basement door! I'm warning you now..." 
Tom was clearly terrified. He trembled for a moment before running off upstairs. The owner grumbles and walks away, still in a bad mood. Our view stays on the basement door, then zooms into the mousehole that Jerry resides in. He comes out the mousehole with a blank expression. He seems to be thinking for a moment, then gains an evil and creepy grin on his face, similar to Alien Jerry from "Tom and Jerry Tales". He heads off to the same room as Tom. 
Tom is shown laying on the couch, looking stressful. Jerry climbs up Tom and pulls his ears, obviously annoying Tom. He begins to chase Jerry around the house with a broom. While doing so, he accidentally trips on a banana set up by Jerry and falls into the basement. 
The owner hears the racket and goes to check out the problem, and notices Tom in the basement. He groans, frustrated, and pulls Tom out of the basement. He grabs the broom and thrashes Tom with it hard, then walks off. Tom begins to cry softly as Jerry is watching with an evil look on his face. The smile grows wider as he finds another way to get Tom into the basement. 
The next two minutes are pretty much the same plot. Jerry tricks Tom in clever ways into chasing him into the basement, then the owner finds out about it, then beats up Tom in a brutal fashion, despite it being Jerry's fault. 
What was weird is that the injuries stayed with Tom, even after the scene ended. 
By then, Tom is already heavily bruised and bleeding in some spots, limping with a broken leg. He finds Jerry leaning against the basement door with a smug grin on his face. Tom immediately notices and begins to cry and kneel down, begging Jerry not to hurt him. He doesn't talk, but he's sobbing and mumbling. He's also gesturing his hands so you can understand what he's trying to say. 
Jerry just laughed at Tom mockingly and pushed him down the basement door with seemingly no effort. 
You could hear Tom screaming and bumping down the stairs, almost realistically. After 3 seconds of that, a thumping noise, followed by a weary groan. Jerry turns around and climbs up the counter, ready to see what happens next. 
Well, the owner turned BALLISTIC when he found out that Tom had ended up in the basement. This was the final straw. He pulled Tom out of the basement, his fist clenched tightly around Tom. You could even see the veins. The screen began zooming in on the owner's face, then rapidly zoomed out as the owner began yelling LOUDLY, and by loudly, I mean louder than anything else in the cartoon. The camera began distorting and changing color, as well. 
"OH, YOU GODDAMN PUSSY! I OUGHTA STAKE YOUR HEAD ON THE DAMN STREETLIGHT! HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU NOT TO GO INTO THE BASEMENT, YOU DUMBASS?" 
Tom begins sobbing and limping away as the camera panned to Jerry, watching on the counter. He had a look of pity on his face, which turned into anger. He looked around and found a knife that was lying around near the basement door. Jerry jumped up, and stabbed the owner in the leg, quite graphically. The owner moaned as he passes out. 
Tom opened the basement door, as he and Jerry were about to carry the body down the stairs. What they found when they had reached the basement answered the question to why the owner didn't want Tom in the basement. 
There were dozens of other bodies, decaying and showing signs of violent deaths. The owner had been a serial killer this whole time. Tom looks visibly nauseous as he hesitantly places the body into the pile. He and Jerry begin to shake hands, seemingly triumphing over the serial killer, but as they shake hands, Jerry slowly but surely grows and evil grin on his face. At first, Tom is confused, but then he realizes what's happening, and exclaims in a ghostly, deep voice... 
"Don't you believe it..." 
Tom screams as Jerry pulls out a kitchen knife. He stabs Tom in the chest, instantly killing him, then threw the body into the pile. It then fades to a shot of Jerry building a "For Sale" sign, laughing maniacally, clearly planning to do it all again.
The end screen showed Tom and Jerry together like they usually would in the end cards from the Deitch era, but Tom wasn't there. He was gone. Jerry, however, was completely present, but he had a deranged and creepy smile on his face. He had blood on parts of his body, and held a knife with Tom's fur and flesh on it. 
And for a split second, you could see Tom's grey, bruised, and bleeding head pop out where he's supposed to be. He also had 'X' eyes. 
Truly a gruesome sight. I could understand why they put a warning at the beginning of the episode. I immediately took out the DVD and headed straight for the store. I reported this DVD to the manager, and they decided to investigate it. They told me they'd take a week to finish, so I guess I'll just have to wait 7 more days for an answer.
=== ONE WEEK LATER: ===
Well, they finally contacted me back.
Apparently, the short that I had watched was not supposed to be seen by anyone except for Deitch and his crew. 
It was also created because Deitch, at first, didn't like the idea of Tom and Jerry's senseless violence, so he had produced a cartoon that was completely off-model from the original Tom and Jerry.
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