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Director:
Tex Avery
Writer:
Heck Allen (story)
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Release Date:
1 April 1944 (USA) more
Plot:
A screwy squirrel provokes a pedigreed birddog to chase him throughout the picture. | add synopsis
User Comments:
Tex Avery's Zaniest Character more

Cast

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Wally Maher ... Screwy Squirrel (voice) (uncredited)
Dick Nelson ... Meathead (voice) (uncredited)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
7 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
First appearance of Screwball/Screwy Squirrel. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Sammy Squirrel: Hello.
Screwy Squirrel: Hello.
[sniff]
Screwy Squirrel: Say, what kind of cartoon is this going to be, anyway?
Sammy Squirrel: Well, you see, I play the lead in the picture, and my name is Sammy Squirrel, and the story is all about me and all my furry little friends in the forrest...
Screwy Squirrel: Oh, brother! Not that! Not that!
Sammy Squirrel: ...there's Wallace Woodchuck, and Benny Badger, and Horace Hedgehog, and Danny Donkey, and Doris Duck...
Screwy Squirrel: Mmm-hmmm... do tell.
[Walks Sammy behind a tree and beats him up]
[...]
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Movie Connections:
Followed by The Screwy Truant (1945) more
Soundtrack:
Frühlingslied (Spring Song) more

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4 out of 7 people found the following comment useful:-
Tex Avery's Zaniest Character, 8 July 2003
Author: Michael Daly (fanstp43@aol.com) from United States

MGM asked Tex Avery to develop a running character to rival Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera's Tom & Jerry, and Avery, who was gag-oriented as a director, developed a character suited to his style of animated comedy, Screwy Squirrel.

The cartoon features Avery's brand of superbly-timed and edited gags revolving around the chase theme universal to cartoons, but two gags display Avery's aversion to running characters and also hurt the cartoon's quality. Both involve a saccharine-sweet squirrel straight out of Disney central casting who is viciously pummeled to death, first by Screwy, later by both Screwy and the dog who's been chasing him throughout the short. The gratuitous nature of these assaults is repellent and unfortunately common to cartoons of the 1940s; unlike the physical gags elsewhere in the cartoon, these scenes are not done for laughs, but for sadistic joy and as such are unnecessary and ugly.

This is not the best entry in the five-short series for Screwy Squirrel, but it is a good start.

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