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A screwy squirrel provokes a pedigreed birddog to chase him throughout the picture.A screwy squirrel provokes a pedigreed birddog to chase him throughout the picture.A screwy squirrel provokes a pedigreed birddog to chase him throughout the picture.
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- Stars
William Hanna
- Screwy Squirrel's Scream
- (uncredited)
Cal Howard
- Meathead
- (uncredited)
Wally Maher
- Screwy Squirrel
- (uncredited)
- …
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- TriviaFirst appearance of Screwball/Screwy Squirrel.
- GoofsOn the beached ship, Screwy paints a water/sky landscape on a placard to simulate the ship rocking by tipping the picture back and forth outside the porthole in order to make Meathead seasick. Watching Screwy, it is seen that he sometimes lifts the bottom of the painted placard above the bottom of the porthole window. However, when seen from inside the ship (where Meathead is), the view of the "water" (painted bottom of the placard) is unbroken.
- Quotes
Screwy Squirrel: Well, that's the end of him. You people want in on a little secret? You wanna know how I tricked that guy all through the picture?
[a second Screwy Squirrel appears]
Screwy Squirrel: [Both of them] We was twins all the time! Ha ha ha ha!
[Two Meatheads appear, each taking a hold of one of the Screwys]
Meathead: [Both of them] So was we. Ha ha ha ha!
Sammy Squirrel: My cartoon would have been cuter.
Screwy Squirrel, Meathead: Oh, brother, not that!
[They all beat up Sammy]
- ConnectionsEdited into Putty (1992)
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One of Tex Avery's attempts at developing a continuing character.
Tex Avery preferred doing one-shot cartoons as opposed to using a regular character or characters. He was more interested in the gags than anything else. Studios, of course, want something recognizable to the audience, to developing continuing interest and thus sell more tickets. So Avery, because MGM wanted him to come up with a character to rival the Tom and Jerry shorts done by the other principle unit at the studio (Hanna and Barbera) came up with Screwball Squirrel.
While Screwy was a decent enough character, the trouble was that he was too limited, too much a one-note character. He was a walking sight gag. There were five cartoons done with Screwy before the series ended, in typical Avery style, with Lonesome Lenny. The Screwy cartoons are funny, but also too predictable. The first one, here, opens wonderfully with a lighthearted (or maybe not) shot at cutesy little animal cartoons that were staples at "other studios" for years and takes off from there. This is probably the best of the series. Well worth watching. Most highly recommended.
While Screwy was a decent enough character, the trouble was that he was too limited, too much a one-note character. He was a walking sight gag. There were five cartoons done with Screwy before the series ended, in typical Avery style, with Lonesome Lenny. The Screwy cartoons are funny, but also too predictable. The first one, here, opens wonderfully with a lighthearted (or maybe not) shot at cutesy little animal cartoons that were staples at "other studios" for years and takes off from there. This is probably the best of the series. Well worth watching. Most highly recommended.
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- llltdesq
- Nov 17, 2002
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- Runtime7 minutes
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