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Screwy Squirrel (also known as Screwball Squirrel) is an animated cartoon character, an anthropomorphic squirrel created by Tex Avery for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.. Among some of the more outrageous cartoon characters, Screwy's feats include pulling objects out of thin air, doubling himself, and breaking the fourth wall, all the while uttering a characteristic cackling laugh.
The Screwy Truant was released on LaserDisc by MGM Home Entertainment as part of All This and Tex Avery Too! in 1992 [5] and The Compleat Tex Avery in 1993. [6] [7] It was released on Blu-ray by Warner Archive Collection as part of Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 1 on February 18, 2020.
Maher provided the voice of Tex Avery's cartoon character Screwy Squirrel for five shorts produced at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Screwball Squirrel, Happy-Go-Nutty, Big Heel-Watha (all 1944), The Screwy Truant (1945), and Lonesome Lenny (1946). He also voiced the Jimmy Durante-sounding turkey in Jerky Turkey (1945).
Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 1 was released on Blu-ray on February 18, 2020, and on DVD on December 1 with 19 shorts. All shorts are presented uncut (with a warning stating that the cartoons shown are products of their time and may contain jokes that, by today's standards, are considered racially insensitive) and digitally restored.
Screwy Squirrel: The Screwy Truant: Tex Avery: 120 • Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 1 DVD and Blu-ray. [49] • Extra on the DVD and Blu-ray of The Clock. [61] February 17, 1945: Barney Bear: The Unwelcome Guest: George Gordon (uncredited) 116 • Final MGM cartoon directed by George Gordon. • Animation by Michael Lah, Ed Barge, and ...
It is the only Screwy Squirrel's cartoon to have its alternate name, "(Buck of the Month)". Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 1 [8] 12 The Screwy Truant: 1945 Blu-Ray: Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 1 [8] 13 The Shooting of Dan McGoo: 1945 Originally withheld from broadcast during the television restrictions code for its suggestive ...
The decision to euthanize the squirrel was met with such criticism that Jake Blumencranz, a state lawmaker, proposed legislation to improve animal rights statutes, calling it “Peanut’s Law ...
Lonesome Lenny is a 1946 Screwy Squirrel cartoon directed by Tex Avery and released to theaters on March 9, 1946 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [1] It is the last Screwy Squirrel cartoon; he is "killed" off on-screen at the end of the short.