[ryanmcdonough]

There are elections.

There is farming.

There is definitely commerce (restaurants and animal parlours).

Only the dogs (and 1 cat) out of all the animals can speak so the chicken being unable to isn’t unusual.

I think those were the main things said in that article and they were all incorrect.

Source - a parent who watched them with their child.

[jclulow]

Also, an apparently nostalgia-rich rose coloured recollection of the artistic expression present in earlier hand-animated cartoons that I suspect would not stand up to serious scrutiny.

[hutzlibu]

I had to forbid Tom and Jerry to my toddler. It is just 95% violence, various forms of hitting someone on the head. And after my boy mimicked this behavior to his sister ... I stopped this good old times cartoon.