Tex Avery Movies

Momma parrot is teaching her young-uns to say “Polly want a cracker” but little Peter doesn’t want a cracker, he wants to be a sailor like dad. Mom tells him…

An evening at a night club for penguins, (and a walrus or two). The stage show includes an appearance by a penguin incarnation of Bing Crosby, who sings a jazzy…

A wacky travelogue takes us to the forests of Yosemite, the rocks of Brice Canyon, the frozen wastes of Alaska, the desert wastes of New Mexico, the Grand Canyon, the…

It’s amateur night at the local theatre, and a procession of bad acts comes and goes: various musicians, a magician, and some actors. But they keep getting interrupted by Egghead…

While this could very well be a germ-of-an-idea parody of an Edgar Allan Poe story, The Tell-Tale Heart, there is no way on this earth that Mr. Poe, credited or…

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A series of gags hung on a football game. The running gag is a baby licking an ice-cream cone; the portly man sitting next to him keeps stealing licks. We…

An earthworm living in a hole in the ground is a nervous wreck since a nearby bird does believe the old adage “the early bird gets the worm”. Every morning,…

Our story concerns a famous flea circus. At the center of our story are a clown flea named Francois, and a glamorous flea named Fifi. Francois asks Fifi to marry…

A farmer is initially delighted to get a baby goat, but this soon turns to apprehension when he discovers that it eats literally anything (including, at one point, the animation…

A tour of the zoo, in typical Tex Avery style: a series of one-liners and sight gags, punctuated by Egghead teasing a lion at intervals, despite the admonishments of the…

Mammy blackbird puts her three little ones to bed, but one of them stays up reading “The Early Bird Catches the Worm.” Mammy throws the book out the window and…

Elmer is a dimwitted hunter, “wooking for wabbits.” Bugs is clever, smooth-talking character, who confuses Elmer with double-talk and misdirection. Elmer is no match for the wascally wabbit, even when…

In an unusual opening for a cartoon, Bugs wanders onto the screen during the credits and reads them aloud, mispronouncing all the names. When he gets to the title, he…

The cartoon opens with a slow-witted black hunter saying “I’m gonna get me a rhaaa-bittt!” He sees rabbit tracks that lead him straight to Bugs Bunny’s hole. Bugs heckles the…

Yet another variation on the Three Little Pigs theme, this time told as WW2 anti-German propaganda (the US had just entered the war), with the wolf as a thinly-disguised Hitler.

The Wolf escapes from prison but is hounded by the police dog named Droopy. Wherever The Wolf goes, the little fellow is there, too.

Two buzzards suffer from acute food shortage and make up for it by cooking each other, or at least trying to.

It’s the first game in the baseball series between the Yankee Doodlers and the Draft Dodgers. The pitcher uses the variety of equipment and a variety of pitches to thwart…

To prove he’s a true Indian Brave, Big Heel-Watha decides to catch a squirrel – but wouldn’t you know it; Screwy Squirrel is the first one he sees…

Screwy Squirrel decides to hijack this cartoon from his friend, Sammy Squirrel, who wanted to tell a sweet story about him and his cute woodland friends. Instead, Screwy Squirrel wants…

The screwy squirrel escapes from Moron Manor, and is chased by the watch dog.

The Wolf rides into town, terrorises it, kidnaps the girl, and is chased by the outraged townspeople, accompanied by Droopy, who despite introducing himself as “the hero” at the end,…

This starts off as an adaptation of Robert Service’s poem ‘The Shooting of Dan McGrew’, complete with a literal depiction of a man with one foot in the grave, but…

The sequel to ‘Screwball Squirrel’ (1944), with Screwy Squirrel being chased by the truant officer until he finds a helpfully-labelled chest of “Assorted Swell Things To Hit Dog On Head”.

George and Junior are two hungry bears who try to make a meal out of a not too bright barnyard chicken.

Clueless country rooster Clem’s plan to marry his sweetheart Daisy are ruined when city slicker Charles sweeps Daisy off her (hen’s) feet. When Charles takes Daisy to the big city,…

Screwy Squirrel is bought in a pet shop to be the companion of a daft dog so strong that he squeezes his playmates to death.

A virtual remake of ‘Dumb-Hounded’ (1943), in which Canadian Mountie Sergeant McPoodle (aka Droopy) relentlessly pursues the escaped wolf, who tries everything (including plastic surgery) to shake him off his…

A mangy cat on the verge of starvation finds a tiny canary and a bottle of ‘Jumbo-Gro’ fertilizer, which gives him an idea that leads to giant cats, dogs, mice…

The king of the jungle, after a well-spent day terrorising the rest of the animals, is petrified by a mouse…

Forest rangers George and Junior try to snuff out a frisky flame with a sparky personality that threatens to set the forest alight…

George and Junior decide to get a legitimate job as dog catchers. The problem is that Junior is afraid of even the tiny (and surprisingly fierce) dogs. George tries dressing…

George and Junior hunt for the world’s smallest pygmy.

A cat hates people to the extent that he goes to the moon, where he finds Alice in Wonderland to be a realistic portrayal of 19th century England, comparatively speaking.

B.O. Skunk finds himself attracted to various other animals, but one whiff and they run away. He tries some extreme techniques, including a Frank Sinatra impersonation; that gets the stage…

It’s hunting season, and all the ducks are wisely staying undercover – apart from this freshly-hatched little duckling, who turns out to be more than a match for two inept…

A little cat is being mercilessly tormented by a mean bulldog until one day he meets a black cat who offers a bad-luck service. Whenever the little cat blows a…

A millionaire with two dogs (Spike and Droopy) leaves his fortune to Droopy with the stipulation that should he be killed the entire fortune who would to Spike. Guess what…

Droopy is an unlikely fox-hound, but the highly civilised (and resourceful) English upper-class fox makes even more unlikely prey…