Movies: Tex Avery

Focuses on how the legend of animation, Tex Avery, revolutionized cartoons....

A dog chasing a quail keeps getting outsmarted....

The old fishing boat captain tells the story of Chilly Willy, a singing polar bear and a bulldog who quickly falls asleep when he hears a lullaby....

The narrator sets the scene for a warped version of the classic poem, and the hijinks when assistant Porky gives the blacksmith a rubber horseshoe, then a hot horseshoe on the horse's backside by accident....

A spot gag cartoon presenting amusing facts about bugs....

A collection of various gags in the form of a travelogue....

The early worm barely escapes the bird, again. In search of a way to get rid of the bird, he enlists the help of a cat, but the bird is too smart for the cat....

A starving cat wandering in the wilderness sees a sign that says "Ma's Place / Home Cooking / 3 Miles". The cat speeds into town, without noticing the sign that says "Ghost Town / Population 100 Ghosts". One of these ghosts is a mouse eager to get re...

Johnny Smith enters an America where the Indians behave like 1930s average Americans. When he is arrested, the girl Poker Huntas rescues and elopes with him....

A dog lives in harmony with its flea Homer, until Homer spots a lady flea on a passing dog and relocates....

Part of Tex Avery's "Speaking of Animals" series of animated shorts. A collection of puns, sight gags and slapstick jokes involving pigs, cows, chickens and other animals on a farm....

George and Junior are forced to deliver one of Santa's presents after they fail to mail in one of his letters....

Documentary of American animation directory Tex Avery including interviews with his peers including Chuck Jones....

A series of gags based on Mother Goose stories....

A determined bird goes out early to hunt for a worm and the bird gets into trouble....

News clip parody using footage from earlier Walter Lantz cartoons....

A cruise to Nome, Alaska, starts with some cruise-ship jokes: the ship pulls out of the harbor like a car, raising anchor also raises the front of the boat, the ship follows the coast by curving around it. On arrival, we see some local scenes: A peng...

A travelogue spotlights the tropical island of Pingo Pongo, showing the unusual flora and fauna and the lives of the happy natives. One of the “Censored 11” banned from TV syndication by United Artists in 1968 for racist stereotyping....

Blackout gags about the holidays. New Year's (the baby speaks to us). Valentine's Day, Washington Day, etc....