Take That, Walt!

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By 1944 Disney dominated the cartoon game.  Then a new player arrived, Tex Avery.  He was a director at MGM animations, and he fired the first major shot across Disney's bow.  The cartoon was 'Screwball Squirrel'.


This is Screwy and Sammy Squirrel.  Here is the clip:



Ha ha ha!  Sammy Squirrel is an effeminate super cute cartoon character who is completely self absorbed and lets us know in record time that he is the star of the picture. This does not sit well with Screwy, as we have seen.  Sammy is not very bright and shows up again at the end of the cartoon, where he gets 4 times the thrashing from the twin dogs and squirrels.


There is no clip of the actual beating but lots of stars and sound effects.


I think Screwball Squirrel is just as funny and elegant a creation as Bugs Bunny, but he did not catch on.  Tex created both Bugs and Daffy Duck.


The only two words for this squirrel are 'glory hole'.  But make up your own mind -


Can I call 'em or what?


Sammy was deliberately drawn to look like Thumper Rabbit, possibly the cutest anthro animal ever dreamed up.


Er..one of them, anyway.  This is somewhat offset by the voice of Bambi being that of a guy who became a Marine officer and was wounded and decorated in Vietnam.



This just had to be done.
 
 
Tex hated Screwy and killed him off at the end of Lonesome Lenny, 1946.


Frederick Bean Avery, 'Tex'.  We were born within a few miles of each other, so I got that going for me!


Mister Scribbles, ruining your childhood since 2012.

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