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Screwball Squirrel (1944)
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1 April 1944 (USA) morePlot:
A screwy squirrel provokes a pedigreed birddog to chase him throughout the picture. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Tex Avery's Zaniest Character moreCast
(Cast) | Wally Maher | ... | Screwy Squirrel (voice) (uncredited) |
| Dick Nelson | ... | Meathead (voice) (uncredited) |
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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First appearance of Screwball/Screwy Squirrel. moreQuotes:
[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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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.