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A screwy squirrel provokes a pedigreed birddog to chase him throughout the picture.A screwy squirrel provokes a pedigreed birddog to chase him throughout the picture.A screwy squirrel provokes a pedigreed birddog to chase him throughout the picture.
- Director
- Writer
- Stars
William Hanna
- Screwy Squirrel's Scream
- (uncredited)
Cal Howard
- Meathead
- (uncredited)
Wally Maher
- Screwy Squirrel
- (uncredited)
- …
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- TriviaFirst appearance of Screwball/Screwy Squirrel.
- GoofsOn the beached ship, Screwy paints a water/sky landscape on a placard to simulate the ship rocking by tipping the picture back and forth outside the porthole in order to make Meathead seasick. Watching Screwy, it is seen that he sometimes lifts the bottom of the painted placard above the bottom of the porthole window. However, when seen from inside the ship (where Meathead is), the view of the "water" (painted bottom of the placard) is unbroken.
- Quotes
Screwy Squirrel: Well, that's the end of him. You people want in on a little secret? You wanna know how I tricked that guy all through the picture?
[a second Screwy Squirrel appears]
Screwy Squirrel: [Both of them] We was twins all the time! Ha ha ha ha!
[Two Meatheads appear, each taking a hold of one of the Screwys]
Meathead: [Both of them] So was we. Ha ha ha ha!
Sammy Squirrel: My cartoon would have been cuter.
Screwy Squirrel, Meathead: Oh, brother, not that!
[They all beat up Sammy]
- ConnectionsEdited into Putty (1992)
Featured review
Tex Avery Flipping The Bird At Warner Brothers?
This was the first appearance of Screwy Squirrel, and like most of Tex Avery's animated shorts for Fred Quimby at M-G-M, filled with sight gags aplenty,along with the usual kinetic pacing that put Avery on the map. Screwy wasn't as popular as some of the other cartoon characters of the period (let's face it---Screwy is little more than Avery's answer to Bugs Bunny,like Woody Woodpecker was Walter Lanz's answer to Bugs). This short begins looking like it's going to be yet another 'Happy Harmony' short (M-G-M's answer to Disney's 'Silly Symphony' shorts,complete with cutsy woodland creatures & plots that can bring on diabetic shock),but this is flushed down the crapper fast, once Screwy makes his debut. Screwy manages to taunt a bloodhound (known as Meathead)for almost all of the short (with some pretty sadistic,but funny results). Toss in a sprinkle of Avery's use of surrealism, and you have yourself a laugh fest. Aired at various times on Cartoon Network's sister station, Boomerang, or on one of several early M-G-M Avery DVD's.
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- Runtime7 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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