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Some of the most freaky highlights include a bit where Screwy paints himself white against a white backdrop, looking like a pair of hideous demon eyes and a horrible laughing mouth hoving in midair, an amped-up reliance on body horror (which has already been a mainstay of this series, and the replacement of Screwy's disgusting sniffing with a ...
- The Screwy Truant (1945) directed by Tex Avery - Letterboxd
Short Animation - In this Technicolor MGM cartoon, director...
- The Screwy Truant (1945) directed by Tex Avery - Letterboxd
The Screwy Truant (1945) follows the further exploits of one Screwball Squirel! This time his out playing hooky from school. Whilst he's enjoying himself, a real stupid Truant officer spends the whole day trying to catch the wayward Squirrel and drag him back to school.
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Short Animation - In this Technicolor MGM cartoon, director Tex Avery introduces us to a couple of quirky characters: Screwy Squirrel (voiced by Wally Maher), who is playing hooky from school, and the Truant Officer Dog (voiced by Dick Nelson), whose job is to bring in the AWOL student. How many times can the dog take a bonk on the head with ...
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- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM Cartoon Studio
- Tex Avery
Sep 17, 2023 · Branson Reese’s review published on Letterboxd: I cannot overstate how funny it is to me every time these Screwy Squirrel shorts open with a painting of Screwy Squirrel's big smiling face. You can practically hear the audiences screaming and rushing for the exits while I look on through a window from eighty years in the future, cackling and ...
Summary. The cartoon centers around an adolescent version of Screwy Squirrel, who skips school to go fishing, which causes truant officer Meathead Dog (here seen with a different color palette but otherwise the same) to go around attempting to arrest Screwy, with various failures.
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