Favorite Tex Avery Cartoons

[jonmayo15]

In honor of the centennial...
What are your favorite Tex Avery Cartoons?

Mine are...

Thugs With Dirty Mugs- What's not to love about this, such a great skewering of the gangster film genre and the seriousness of movies in general... with a floy-floy.

Northwest Hounded Police- My favorite Droopy cartoon, with such wild takes that it's amazing. Tex's fast-paced humor is at its peak... he's under that rock...:droopy: :wolfie:
Here's hoping for a Tex Avery set... or at LEAST a disc in the next Golden Collection.
I'll probably be back to add more of my favorites later.

Edit- I know a thread like this was done a while ago, but I decided to make a new one in honor of Tex's centennial.

[oceansoul]

Bad Luck Blackie
Magical Maestro
Who Killed Who?
Doggone Tired
King-Size Canary
Blitz Wolf
Screwball Squirrel
Lonesome Lenny
Out-Foxed
Homesteader Droopy
Rock-a-bye Bear
Wild and Woolfy
Legend of Rock-a-bye Point
Sh-h-h-h
all Red Hot cartoons

These are my favourite masterpieces. But I love basically all Avery cartoon after the MGM switch (including the Lantz ones), with the exception of some later MGM cartoons like the lacklustre tomorrow series.

[BloodyChamp]

I know. The man made literally so few cartoons that weren't phenominal. "Cellbound" is my favorite MGM one but "Crazy Mixed up Pup" from the Lantz studio might be my favorite cartoon of his, period. I can't say enough about 4 measly cartoons in this case. Those last 4 cartoons he did at Lantz ARE among his best work, rather than just being the last 4 cartoons he ever made before quitting at the other studio...

[Leviathan]

Tex had an incredibly high batting average (every bit as muhc as Clampett and Jones), he's what stands out as my favorites.

The Blow Out
Miss Glory
I Love to Singa
I'd Love to take Orders From You
Little Red Walking Hood
Daffy Duck and Egghead
Cinderella Meets Fella
Daffy Duck in Hollywood
Hamateur Night
Thugs with Dirty Mugs
A Wild Hare
The Bears Tale
Tortoise Beats Hare
Hollywood Steps Out
The Heckling Hare
All This and Rabbit Stew
Blitz Wolf
Dumb-Hounded
Screwball Squirrel
Swing-Shift Cinderella
Lonesome Lenny
Northwest Hounded Police
Slap-Happy Lion
King Sized Canary
Bad Luck Blackie
Out-Foxed
The Cat who Hated People
Ventriloquist Cat
Symphony in Slang
Magical Maestro
Rock-a-Bye Bear
Billy Boy
Homesteader Droopy
The Last Bad Man
Crazy Mixed-Up Pup
The Legend of Rock-a-Bye Point

[J. J. Hunsecker]

I get a sense of Deja Vu, but here goes again...

WB

Thugs With Dirty Mugs
Hollywood Steps Out
The Heckling Hare

MGM

The Blitz Wolf
Dumb-Hounded
Red Hot Riding Hood
Screwball Squirrel
Northwest Hounded Police
King Size Canary
Lucky Ducky
The Cat That Hated People
Bad Luck Blackie
Wags to Riches
Little Rural Riding Hood
Cock-A-Doodle Dog
Magical Maestro
The Three Little Pups
Drag Along Droopy
Deputy Droopy
Cellbound

Lantz

Crazy Mixed-Up Pup

[larriva9/11]

How about the most underrated Tex cartoons?

I'd give a nod to "Tortoise Beats Hare"--it gets a bad rap for "miscasting" Bugs, and is perhaps overshadowed by subsequent Bugs/Cecil outings; but I feel it deserves credit for demonstrating how broad the parameters could be for depicting this new star character. "A Wild Hare" introduced him merely as Elmer's ideal nemesis; "TBH" proved his versatility--just compare to "Elmer's Pet Rabbit" and you'll see how truly precocious Tex's depiction (perhaps the first true "Clampett-style" Bugs) was.

[kaseykockroach]

My favorite Tex Avery shorts shall always be... (in no particular order).
Little Rural Riding Hood
King-Size Canary
Magical Maestro
Billy Boy
Little Tinker
Swing Shift Cinderella
Northwest Hounded Police
The Flea Circus
Screwy Truant
The Blow Out
Plane Dippy

[Eugene the Jeep]

The Heckling Hare
Red Hot Riding Hood
Deputy Droopy
Magical Maestro
Bad Luck Blackie
Billy Boy
King Size Canary
Crazy Mixed-Up Pup

...and many others, of course

[oceansoul]

How about the most underrated Tex cartoons?

One Cab's Family is a contender.

[Matt the Y]

Plane Dippy
The Blow Out
Daffy Duck and Egghead
Thugs With Dirty Mugs
Screwball Football
A Wild Hare
Ceiling Hero
Porky's Preview
The Heckling Hare
Blitz Wolf
Who Killed Who?
Lonesome Lenny
King Size Canary
Half Pint Pygmy
Lucky Ducky
Doggone Tired
Wags to Riches
The Cuckoo Clock
Symphony in Slang
Car of Tomorrow
Magical Maestro
The Three Little Pups
Homesteader Droopy
Field and Scream
Cellbound
Crazy Mixed Up Pup

[The Spectre]

How about the most underrated Tex cartoons?


A lot of his WB stuff would come under this category, I'd say.

[Nick]

WB:
"Plane Dippy"
"The Blow Out"
"Milk and Money"
"Porky the Wrestler"
"Porky's Duck Hunt"
"The Isle of Pingo Pongo"
"Daffy Duck in Hollywood"
"Thugs With Dirty Mugs"
"Cross Country Detours"
"The Bear's Tale"
"A Wild Hare"
"Of Fox and Hounds"
"The Heckling Hare"

MGM:
"Who Killed Who?"
"What's Buzzin' Buzzard?"
"Screwball Squirrel"
"The Screwy Truant"
"The Shooting of Dan McGoo"
"Lonesome Lenny"
"Northwest Hounded Police"
"Hound Hunters"
"Slap Happy Lion"
"King Sized Canary"
"Little 'Tinker"
"The Cat That Hated People"
"Bad Luck Blackie"
"Little Rural Riding Hood"
"Wags to Riches"
"The Cuckoo Clock"
"Cock A Doodle Dog"
"Symphony in Slang"
"Droopy's Double Trouble"
"Magical Maestro"
"Rock A Bye Bear"
"Three Little Pups"
"Billy Boy"
"Dixieland Droopy"
"Homesteader Droopy"
"Deputy Droopy"

Lantz:
"The Legend of Rock-a-Bye Point"
"Crazy Mixed Up Pup"

It's amazing how Tex Avery made consistently great cartoons throughout his whole career. I can't name a cartoon of his that fails to offer at least some amusement to me.

[Speedy Boris]

I don't care if it's a blackout gag cartoon, "TV of Tomorrow" is one of the greatest cartoons ever. It takes full advantage of the fact that it's a cartoon, especially in the scenes where it combines live action and animation (like the commercial disposal).

[Vdubdavid]

I don't care if it's a blackout gag cartoon, "TV of Tomorrow" is one of the greatest cartoons ever. It takes full advantage of the fact that it's a cartoon, especially in the scenes where it combines live action and animation (like the commercial disposal).

I've often wondered whose hand that was in the disposal gag. Could it have been Avery's himself?