Does Drew Barrymore's Mother's Day wish sound like your ideal?

by

Sara McGinnis

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For Drew Barrymore, Mother's Day isn't about wild adventures and grand gifts. Just hand and this celebrity mom a remote and her two daughters, and she's good to go.

"We don’t have any big plans or anything," the mother of Olive and Frankie, who recently confirmed her plans to divorce husband Will Kopelman, told People on Sunday. "I would like to start the day by ourselves, just me and the girls, vintage Tom and Jerry."

Speaking of the cat and mouse antics, Drew gushed her 3 and 2-year-old daughters "live for it! There is a real oddity to the humor, it’s kind of deep and dark and weird."

Drew Barrymore first tried watching newer cartoons before going back to the 1940s classic.

"[Tom and Jerry] was something that I could tolerate watching," she explained. "I love Sesame Street because [you go through] the Sesame Street phase, and then you go through the Dora the Explorer phase, and then you are in that mid-range. I was like, ‘Girls, I need to show you this because there is such good comedy here!’

"I was like, ‘I just need to go back, I just need some Tom and Jerry.’ And it turned out that they loved it! The physical comedy is amazing, and a lot of great animated films have such adult themes, but done in a way that children are loving it."

I don't recall my kids watching Tom and Jerry specifically, but we did go through pretty much the same thing Drew and her girls have. After weeks of 'hot dog, hot dog, hot diggity dog' and 'we're going on a trip in our favorite rocket ship,' I needed a break. Dora and Diego aren't the worst, but they wear on your nerves after long enough! For us, Chip 'n' Dale reruns quickly became a new favorite, as well as Popeye (though some of those are a bit questionable, in hindsight).

My idea of a great Mother's Day is similar to Drew's. The husband and kids traditionally make us all a giant breakfast, the consuming of which inevitably causes us to be lazy and nap. Typically he'll then take the kids to see his mom, and I get a few hours of time to myself before visiting my own mother. It's nothing too exciting, but I'm not complaining.

What's your idea of a great Mother's Day? Is your family into any vintage cartoons?

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