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Title: The Screwy Truant (1945)
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Wally Maher | ... | Screwy Squirrel (voice) (uncredited) |
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Dick Nelson | ... | Truant Officer Dog (voice) (uncredited) |
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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". Written by Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk>
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screwy squirrel character | cartoon dog | reference to tommy riggs and betty lou | truant | everything but the kitchen sink gag |Certificate:
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Screwy: Well, don't want to disappoint you, chum.
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(uncredited)
From French melody "Ah ! vous dirai-je, Maman" (music first published 1761)
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Every time Screwy hits the truant officer dog with one of the "Assorted Swell Things to Hit Dog on Head," the dog's Stetson hat morphs into a hat of another kind. In this order, it becomes a pork pie hat, a sailor-boy cap, a police officer's cap, a top hat, an Indian war bonnet, a witch's conical hat, a bicorne, a crown, a bowler, a fireman's hat, a football helmet, and finally the Stetson once again. See more »Quotes
Truant officer: Duh - gee whiz. He hit me with everything but the kitchen sink.Screwy: Well, don't want to disappoint you, chum.
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Crazy Credits
At the end, Screwy Squirrel lowers the THE END title card and says to the audience, "now that dopey truant officer never will know why I wasn't at school." The Truant Officer appears and demands to know why he wasn't at school. Screwy answers: "Because, I've got measles." Both characters now have spots on their faces; Then the camera pulls in on the words THE END... which become covered in spots as well! See more »Soundtracks
The Alphabet Song(uncredited)
From French melody "Ah ! vous dirai-je, Maman" (music first published 1761)
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Country:
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13 January 1945 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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The Screwball Squirrel cartoons are never favored for the annoying character. Rather, Screwball cartoons use some of Tex Avery's best gags. "The Screwy Truant" is a good example. In the course of the seven-minute short, Screwball spends time running away from the Truant Officer who is trying to get him into school. Along the way, there are characters lost in the wrong cartoon, the greatest of the sequences where the characters go in and out of doors in a hallway, and my personal favorite, the character finding a box simply labeled "Things to Hit (insert name of antagonist) With" followed by everything but the kitchen sink (well... never mind.)