This hyper-violent retelling of Tom and Jerry's classic "cat and mouse" shenanigans has always been a favorite element of mine in the Simpsons. It is used by the show's writers as a creative way to reduce violence (and the voyeuristic way in which television and news media present such violence to their larger audiences) to it's primal elements. As such, it's interesting on a few different levels: to establish a very non-preachy/unassuming link between violence in humans and other animals, a great meta-device to show the absurdism of cartoon violence but also how it is not innocuous and can desensitize. It's also a cool way for the the writers to pay homage to generations of animation gold, as well as get in some low brow/below the belt takes on cultural issues.
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