[2] Her creation points to the ubiquity of stereotype in American popular culture,[3] and the character was removed from the series after 1953 due to protests from the NAACP.

[6] She always called Tom by his full name Thomas (originally Jasper), and frequently used African-American Vernacular English with a Southern accent.

2 DVD set, while explaining the importance of African-American representation in the cartoon series, however stereotyped, mentions the incorrect name numerous times.

[8] The housekeeper character was retired from the Tom & Jerry cartoons by Hanna and Barbera following several years of protests and condemnations from the NAACP.

[4] In this short, Mammy is scared by Jerry onto a stool and shakes with fear as a diamond ring, false teeth, a pair of dice, and a straight razor fall from beneath her dress.

"[10] MGM Animation/Visual Arts, under the supervision of Chuck Jones, created replacement characters for Mammy in the Tom and Jerry cartoons featuring her for television.

These versions used rotoscoping techniques to replace the housekeeper on-screen with a similarly stocky white woman (in most shorts) or a thin white woman (in Saturday Evening Puss); Randolph's voice on the soundtracks was replaced by an Irish-accented (or, in Puss, generic young adult) voice performed by actress June Foray.

[13] A very similar character, who was also played by Lillian Randolph, had appeared previously in Disney's Silly Symphony series, most notably Three Orphan Kittens (1935).

[14] In the context of the book, "Mammy Twoshoes" is a nickname playfully given to her by the kittens, due to the fact that her big shoes is what stands out about her in their perspective.

In a 1975 article, animator Mark Kausler referred to the Tom & Jerry character as Mammy Two-Shoes, elaborating that she was "so named because her face was never shown; only shots from the mid-shoulders down".

2 includes an introduction featuring Whoopi Goldberg explaining the racial stereotyping in the cartoons, where she explicitly refers to the character as "Mammy Two Shoes".