Tex Avery Directs Classic-era Looney Tunes
by bderoes-12985 | created - 22 Apr 2015 | updated - 22 Apr 2015 | PublicClassic-era ends in 1969.
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1. Gold Diggers of '49 (1935)
Approved | 8 min | Family, Animation, Short
Porky digs up some gold and send Beans to town to stake a claim.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Tommy Bond, The Californians, Joe Dougherty
Votes: 494
2. The Blow Out (1936)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Porky figures out that by picking up people's stuff he can get enough change to buy ice-cream sodas. A bomber leaves a time-bomb in and Porky goes at lengths to return it to him without knowing its a bomb.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Geneva Hall, Tex Avery, Joe Dougherty, Bernice Hansen
Votes: 337
3. Plane Dippy (1936)
8 min | Animation, Family, Short
Porky Pig joins the Army Air Corps. After overcoming the problems caused by his small stature and surviving the rigors of basic training, Porky gets his first assignment, as a janitor for ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Joe Dougherty, Bernice Hansen, Jack King
Votes: 280
4. I'd Love to Take Orders from You (1936)
G | 8 min | Family, Animation, Short
Quitting time for a scarecrow. He gets home, and his little boy scares him. To the title song, he teaches his son the basics of scare-crowing. Bedtime for junior; he prays to be a big ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tommy Bond, Count Cutelli
Votes: 203
5. Page Miss Glory (1936)
G | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
A bellhop in the No 1. hotel of a smalltown awaiting the arrival of Miss Glory dreams he has to page Miss Glory at a first class hotel in New York, and this turns out to be a nightmare. ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Bernice Hansen, Jackie Morrow, The Varsity Three
Votes: 545
6. I Love to Singa (1936)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A spoof of Al Jolson's "The Jazz Singer", a strict piano teaching owl is cursed with a son who "loves to singa", but only jazz.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Billy Bletcher, Tommy Bond, Lou Fulton
Votes: 2,097
7. Porky the Rain-Maker (1936)
8 min | Animation, Family, Short
The farm is suffering through a terrible drought. Porky's father sends him to the store to buy some feed with their last dollar. Outside the store, a huckster is selling pills to create all... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Joe Dougherty, Tex Avery, Earle Hodgins, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 269
8. The Village Smithy (1936)
8 min | Animation, Family, Short
The narrator sets the scene for a warped version of the classic poem, and the hijinks when assistant Porky gives the blacksmith a rubber horseshoe, then a hot horseshoe on the horse's backside by accident.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tedd Pierce, Tex Avery, Joe Dougherty, Earle Hodgins
Votes: 249
9. Milk and Money (1936)
8 min | Family, Animation, Short
Porky's father is going to lose his farm. Porky goes to town with his horse and works a milk route, with a warning that if he breaks a bottle he's fired. As he's delivering, cats follow ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Joe Dougherty, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 306
10. Don't Look Now (1936)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Cupid and a Devil are having fun on St. Valentine's Day with arranging and destroying love affairs. Cupid wins: he knows what to do with a lonely skunk...
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Billy Bletcher, Tommy Bond, Jack Carr
Votes: 220
11. Porky the Wrestler (1937)
7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Porky, along with everyone else, is hitchhiking to the big wrestling match. He gets a ride from the challenger, but at the arena, Porky is mistaken for the challenger and gets thrown into ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Joe Dougherty, Mel Blanc, Tex Avery, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 222
12. Picador Porky (1937)
6 min | Family, Animation, Short
Porky and two pals stumble onto a Mexican town on the day of the town's annual bullfight. When they learn the contest winner gets 1,000 pesos, Porky and the pals get costumes - Porky a ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Joe Dougherty, Mel Blanc, Tex Avery, Billy Bletcher
Votes: 221
13. Porky's Duck Hunt (1937)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Family, Short
New duck hunter Porky is constantly taunted by a very early version of Daffy, and all the other ducks.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Robert Clampett, Jackie Morrow
Votes: 630
14. I Only Have Eyes for You (1937)
8 min | Family, Animation, Musical
The iceman is in love with a pretty girl, and an old spinster is pining and cooking for him. But his dreamgirl prefers crooners like Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallee, or Eddie Cantor. After leaving... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Elvia Allman, Sara Berner, Count Cutelli, Rufe Davis
Votes: 231
15. Uncle Tom's Bungalow (1937)
8 min | Animation, Family, Short
In this parody of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Little Eva and Topsy try to rescue old Uncle Tom from the clutches of the evil slave-dealer Simon Simon [sic] Legree.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Elvia Allman, Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Basin Street Boys
Votes: 290
16. Ain't We Got Fun (1937)
Approved | 8 min | Family, Animation, Short
The cat's asleep, so the mice are on the loose, for a while at least, in the pantry. When he wakes up, they pile the food on him and get him thrown out, and then they *really* have the run of the house.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Elvia Allman, Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Bernice Hansen
Votes: 334
17. Porky's Garden (1937)
7 min | Animation, Family, Short
A small town agricultural fair is giving a prize for the largest home grown product. Porky sets to work planting a garden; his neighbor tries a feed mix for his chickens. But the chickens ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Abe Dinovitch, Earle Hodgins, George Humbert
Votes: 305
18. I Wanna Be a Sailor (1937)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
A young parrot, against his mother's wishes, wants to become a mariner like his no-account father, runs away from home, and heads for the ocean with a young duck who wants to join him.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Elvia Allman, Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Tommy Bond
Votes: 320
19. Egghead Rides Again (1937)
Approved | 7 min | Western, Family, Animation
City dweller Egghead dreams of being a cowboy, but his bouncing around gets him kicked out of his boarding house. He sees an ad for a ranch looking for a cowboy and applies. His tryout ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Tex Avery, Billy Bletcher, Sons of the Pioneers
Votes: 268
20. A Sunbonnet Blue (1937)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Two mice in love are joking and playing at a fashionable hat shop. But a rat tries to play the old fashiomed villain who kidnaps the girl. So all the other mice there are helping her lover ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Tommy Bond
Votes: 211
21. Little Red Walking Hood (1937)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
A retelling of Little Red Riding Hood with Elmer Fudd, Wolf, Red, and Granny. Granny won't let the Wolf in her house, but she lets Elmer walk right in the front door. The Wolf seeing this breaks the door down so he can get inside.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Elvia Allman, Mel Blanc, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 500
22. Daffy Duck & Egghead (1938)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
A very early appearance of a barely recognisable Daffy Duck, seen here tormenting Egghead, a prototype Elmer Fudd who is just as unsuccessful with ducks as he was later to be with a certain wascally wabbit.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert Clampett, Tedd Pierce, Danny Webb
Votes: 681
23. The Sneezing Weasel (1938)
7 min | Animation, Family, Short
Mama hen takes her chicks out to breakfast, but little Wilbur can't get any worms. Finally, a big worm escapes, and he runs after it; meanwhile, the rest of the family has gone inside to ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Elvia Allman, Tex Avery, Count Cutelli, Bernice Hansen
Votes: 220
24. The Penguin Parade (1938)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
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 version of, "When my ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Mel Blanc, Cliff Nazarro, The Sportsmen Quartet
Votes: 171
25. The Isle of Pingo Pongo (1938)
9 min | Family, Animation, Short
A travelogue spotlights the tropical island of Pingo Pongo, showing the unusual flora and fauna and the lives of the happy natives.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Mel Blanc, The Jones Boys, Harland Evans
Votes: 302
26. A Feud There Was (1938)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The McCoys and the Weavers are two feuding hillbilly clans. Elmer Fudd, Peacemaker, attempts to end the fighting; but violence and zaniness win out.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher
Votes: 230
27. Johnny Smith and Poker-Huntas (1938)
8 min | Family, Animation, Short
Johnny Smith enters an America where the Indians behave like 1930s average Americans. When he is arrested, the girl Poker Huntas rescues and elopes with him.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Mel Blanc, Bernice Hansen
Votes: 156
28. Daffy Duck in Hollywood (1938)
8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Daffy Duck wreaks havoc on a movie set at Wonder Pictures ("if it's good, it's a Wonder"). Daffy's creative editing impresses producer I. M. Stupendous.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Jim Bannon, Sara Berner, Rolfe Sedan
Votes: 884
29. Cinderella Meets Fella (1938)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A partial updating of the Cinderella story. When the fairy godmother is late, Cinderella calls the police, who put out an APB and find her in a bar. Her first attempt at turning the pumpkin... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Elvia Allman, Tex Avery, Mel Blanc, Bill Days
Votes: 290
30. The Mice Will Play (1938)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
The mice are on the loose after hours in a doctor's office, playing with the various pieces of medical apparatus. Susie Mouse is caged for research until her lover Johnnie frees her. A ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, The Four Playboys, Bernice Hansen, Margaret Hill-Talbot
Votes: 262
31. Hamateur Night (1939)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
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 Elmer Fudd singing "She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain".
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Elvia Allman, Tex Avery, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc
Votes: 379
32. A Day at the Zoo (1939)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
A tour of the zoo, in typical Tex Avery style: a series of one-liners and sight gags, punctuated by Elmer Fudd teasing a lion at intervals, despite the admonishments of the narrator.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Danny Webb, Tex Avery, Mel Blanc, Gilman Rankin
Votes: 545
33. Thugs with Dirty Mugs (1939)
8 min | Animation, Crime, Family
Killer and his gang are robbing every bank in town in numerical order, except they skip the 13th National Bank. The police are unable to catch them, despite their predictability (and their ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Danny Webb, Tex Avery, Mel Blanc, John Deering
Votes: 646
34. Believe It or Else (1939)
8 min | Animation, Family, Short
In this spoof of the newsreel series, we meet a man who drinks large amounts of milk, a snake charmer, a man building a ship in a bottle, the world's loudest hog caller, a man who hasn't ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Danny Webb, Tex Avery, Cliff Nazarro
Votes: 219
35. Dangerous Dan McFoo (1939)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
An arctic saloon. The tiny dog, Dan McFoo, is playing a pinball-like marble game in the back. His girlfriend, Sue, sounding like Katharine Hepburn, stands by. A stranger comes in with eyes ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 368
36. Detouring America (1939)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
This travelogue across America is filled with sight gags such as the 'Old Reliable' geyser spitting into a spittoon, cliff-dwelling Indians who walk horizontally up and down the faces of ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 355
37. Land of the Midnight Fun (1939)
8 min | Family, Animation, Short
A cruise to Nome, Alaska, starts with some cruise-ship jokes: the ship pulls out of the harbor like a car, raising anchor also raises the front of the boat, the ship follows the coast by ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 160
38. Fresh Fish (1939)
7 min | Family, Animation, Short
A tour of the waters near a South Sea island, introducing us to the various kinds of marine life, including the pickled herring, the hermit crab, the starfish, a seahorse race, and many ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Danny Webb, Tex Avery, Sara Berner
Votes: 226
39. Screwball Football (1939)
G | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
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 see the warmups (a kicker punts ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, John Wald
Votes: 181
40. The Early Worm Gets the Bird (1940)
Approved | 8 min | Family, Animation, Short
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 warns the little ones about ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Margaret Hill-Talbot, Mel Blanc, Bernice Hansen
Votes: 284
41. Cross Country Detours (1940)
Not Rated | 10 min | Family, Animation, Short
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 Colorado River and the giant redwoods of California.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Lou Marcelle, Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc
Votes: 286
42. The Bear's Tale (1940)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Family, Short
The bears go out for a bicycle ride while their porridge cools. Goldilocks comes along, but stops at grandmother's house instead, where the wolf is waiting. He sends her away, then realized... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc
Votes: 492
43. A Gander at Mother Goose (1940)
Approved | 6 min | Family, Animation, Short
A collection of short gags based on classic nursery rhymes and fairy tales. Mary, Mary Quite Contrary, in her best Katharine Hepburn, tells us how her garden is really doing. Humpty Dumpty ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Margaret Hill-Talbot, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 387
44. Circus Today (1940)
Approved | 9 min | Family, Animation, Comedy
A barker guides us through a sideshow, a menagerie, and on to the big top, for a series of typical Avery gags. For example, the trapeze artists, the Flying Cadenzas, literally fly; the lion... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Don Brodie, Tex Avery, Mel Blanc, Eddie Marr
Votes: 179
45. A Wild Hare (1940)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
While hunting rabbits, Elmer Fudd comes across Bugs Bunny, who tricks and harasses the hunter.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Votes: 1,868
46. Ceiling Hero (1940)
6 min | Family, Animation, Short
A series of blackout gags parodying aviation and aviation films. Gags include a parchutist whose parachute reads "Good to the last drop", jokes about LA's expanding city limits, and a satire of test pilot and their bravery.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 125
47. Holiday Highlights (1940)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Blackout gags about the holidays. New Year's (the baby speaks to us). Valentine's Day (it's Leap Year, so the girl turns to the boy) Washington's Birthday (the cherry tree story). Arbor Day... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Gilman Rankin
Votes: 208
48. Wacky Wildlife (1940)
8 min | Animation, Family, Short
A series of typical Avery spot gags set around wild animals. A dainty deer drinks very loudly and rudely from a lake. A pack rat swaps an egg and an acorn, then back again ("monotonous, ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce, Bernice Hansen, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 193
49. Of Fox and Hounds (1940)
Approved | 9 min | Family, Animation, Short
Willoughby, a big dumb hound, is repeatedly tricked by George, the fox, into jumping off cliffs, among other things.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Mel Blanc
Votes: 267
50. The Crackpot Quail (1941)
8 min | Family, Animation, Short
A dog chases a quail through the forest; the quail keeps outsmarting the dog (and keeps referring to the dog as "doc"). The dog, none too bright, keeps running into trees, while the quail's topknot keeps falling into his face.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Tex Avery
Votes: 225
51. The Haunted Mouse (1941)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A hungry cat makes his way into a ghost town and finds nothing but a spectral mouse.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Walter Tetley
Votes: 238
52. Tortoise Beats Hare (1941)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
An upset Bugs challenges the slick Cecil Turtle to a race.
Director: Tex Avery | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,637
53. Porky's Preview (1941)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Family, Short
The audience enters Porky's movie theater, with a collection of quick gags: A firefly acting as usher, a kangaroo taking tickets and putting the stubs in her pouch, a chicken buying child ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Sara Berner, Cliff Nazarro
Votes: 502
54. Hollywood Steps Out (1941)
Approved | 8 min | Family, Animation, Short
A tour of Ciro's Nightclub packed with caricatures of many top stars, including (in order) Cary Grant, Greta Garbo, Edward G. Robinson and Ann Sheridan, Johnny Weissmuller, James Cagney, ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Dave Barry, Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Kay Kyser
Votes: 1,144
55. The Heckling Hare (1941)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
This time Bugs is chased by hunting dog Willoughby.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Tex Avery, Kent Rogers
Votes: 967
56. Aviation Vacation (1941)
6 min | Family, Animation, Short
One of the prohibited Warner Bros. cartoons, short course of history, pygmies, gypsies and presidents.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bill Days, Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 285
57. All This and Rabbit Stew (1941)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Bugs heckles a black hunter and escapes from a bear.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Darrell Payne, Danny Webb
Votes: 864
58. The Bug Parade (1941)
6 min | Family, Animation, Short
Documentary style short full of bug puns.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 191
59. The Cagey Canary (1941)
8 min | Family, Animation, Short
A cat (not Sylvester) tries to capture a little canary bird (not Tweety), and not get caught by protective Granny.
Directors: Tex Avery, Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Sara Berner, Elvia Allman
Votes: 223
60. Aloha Hooey (1942)
8 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Sammy Seagull and Cecil Crow have stowed away on the same ship. Cecil, from Iowa, wants to see a hula dancer; fortunately, they've just come within flying distance of a tropical island with... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Sara Berner, Mel Blanc, Pinto Colvig
Votes: 178
61. Crazy Cruise (1942)
TV-G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
A travelogue, stopping in a southern tobacco plantation, the Swiss Alps, Egypt, Central Europe, Africa, and others, long enough for one joke per location. Bugs Bunny makes only a cameo appearance at the end.
Directors: Tex Avery, Robert Clampett | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce
Votes: 340
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