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Lonesome Lenny (1946)

| Family, Animation, Comedy | 9 March 1946 (USA)
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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.

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Cast

Uncredited cast:
... Lenny (voice) (uncredited)
... Lady (voice) (uncredited)
Wally Maher ... Screwy Squirrel (voice) (uncredited)
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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.

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Trivia

The last "Screwy Squirrel" cartoon. See more »

Quotes

Lenny: [Last line] You know I had a little friend once but he don't move no more.
[Holds up a dead Screwy Squirrel]
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Referenced in The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002) See more »

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Home Sweet Home
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Music by H.R. Bishop
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The last of the Screwball Squirrel shorts
29 January 2002 | by – See all my reviews

This short was the last one to feature Screwy Squirrel. His nemesis here is a dog patterned after the character Lenny from Of Mice and Men, which was a device used quite often in cartoons, particularly by Tex Avery (who used the two leads as the pattern for George and Junior as well). Good, if not particularly novel, short, which is probably why Avery stopped-he'd taken Screwy as far as he could and there wasn't much more to do with him. Characters were seldom important to Avery in any case. Well worth tracking down. Recommended.
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