The Wacky World of Tex Avery



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Wacky World of Tex Avery""

"The Wacky World of Tex Avery" is a Sixty Five Episode Cartoon show that DiC Entertainment produced in 1997 and 1998 before going defunct a few years later. Named after the late great Tex Avery, a cartoonist who is most famous for his work at Warner Bros and MGM, the creator Brody Dowler describes the show as "homage to the brilliant, hilarious and groundbreaking animator Tex Avery and the wonderful squash-and-stretch cartoons of his era". The series was an attempt to capture the true aspect of his genius and his classic characters such as Droopy, George & Junior & Screwball Squirrel.

The show contains the following short series:

 * Tex Avery: A goat-riding cowboy who saves the day and his girl Chastity Knott from his nemesis Sagebrush Sid (no relation to the real one). Based on Bob Clampett's "Red Hot Ryder" from Buckaroo Bugs; although it always appears as the opening segment, not every episode has a Tex Avery segment.
 * Einstone: A brilliant caveman who is the world's first inventor, trying to teach the other cave people how to be civilized with his inventions; a play on the name Albert Einstein, he's also loosely based on another one of Tex Avery's cartoons, "The First Bad Man."
 * Ghengis & Khannie: Ghengis the Lionhearted leads his army across the world to conquer in the name of his Emperor and meets a young female panda named Khannie who tends to ruin his conquering plans; a play on the name Genghis Khan, the former is based on the lion from "Slap Happy Lion".
 * Maurice & Mooch: Maurice the Chicken outwits Mooch the Fox who tries to eat him, the former based on the canary character from "King-Size Canary."
 * Pompeii Pete: A short bumbling Roman supercenturion from Pompeii was buried in lava and 2,000 years later is free to live in the modern world, annoying a businessman named Dan.
 * Power Pooch: A normal dog gained superpowers after licking a superhero's shoe, becoming a superhero himself along with his blue cat sidekick Little Buddy.
 * Freddy the Fly: An obnoxious fly bugs an obese billionaire named Amanda Banshee, the former loosely based on one of Tex Avery's earlier characters, Homer the Homeless Flea.

The Wacky World of Tex Avery provides examples of:

 * Affectionate Parody: A whole lot.
 * Ambiguously Jewish: Lampshaded with Burrito.
 * Averted with Amanda.
 * Animated Anthology
 * Brick Joke: So many...
 * Butt Monkey: Mooch, Dan, and Amanda.
 * Catch Phrase
 * Tex Avery: "You try to be a nice guy but no...!" "I don't think so."
 * Sagebrush Sid: "What are YOU looking at?!"
 * Pompeii Pete: "Scusi, scusi."
 * Freddy: "Hiya, toots/pal/folks!"
 * Amanda: "Time to die, fly!"
 * Cats Are Mean: In the Power Pooch shorts, except for Little Buddy.
 * Covers Always Lie: Tex is shown riding a horse in his opening of his shorts and in bumpers, while he actually rides a goat.
 * Creepy Child: Subverted with Khannie.
 * Arguably double subverted with Maurice.
 * Averted with Little Buddy.
 * Cross Dressing Voices: Scott McNeil as Amanda.
 * Curious As a Monkey: Pompeii Pete.
 * Cute Bruiser: Khannie, Maurice, and Little Buddy.
 * Dastardly Whiplash: Dan has several traits of one.
 * Death Is a Slap On The Wrist
 * Death Is Cheap
 * Does Not Like Shoes: Pompeii Pete mostly wears sandals.
 * Does This Remind You of Anything?
 * Doomy Dooms of Doom
 * The Dragon: Genghis, while the Emperor is arguably the Big Bad.
 * Drop What You Are Doing: Avery and Einstein
 * The Emperor: The Emperor, duh.
 * Evil Twin: Power Pooch has one.
 * Getting Crap Past the Radar: A lot of the behavior Freddy does.
 * Gross Up Close Up
 * Gross Out Show: Played for laughs
 * Harmless Villain: Up and down in regards to Sagebrush Sid.
 * Hey It's That Voice: Various Canadian voice acting veterans.
 * Cree Summer as Khannie, while Billy West is the title character.
 * In Name Only: Really has nothing to do with the legendary Avery.
 * Kawaiiko: Khannie and Maurice.
 * Arguably Little Buddy as well.
 * Money, Dear Boy: According to Nancy Avery (daughter of the legendary cartoonist), she only approved the show, as well as selling the rights to her father's name to get her kids into college.
 * Never Say Die: Averted.
 * The Pollyanna: Khannie.
 * Public Domain Soundtrack: Both the show, and most (but not all) of the segments has an original theme based on PD music (e.g., Home on the Range for the Tex Avery segment, If You're Happy and You Know it for Einstone, Home Sweet Home for Maurice and Mooch, The Can-Can for the show itself, etc).
 * Redheaded Hero: Tex Avery
 * Rich Bitch: Amanda Banshee, oh so much. She uses her servants as furniture, for once thing.
 * Shout Out: One Maurice and Mooch short has an Elmer Fudd-like hunter carrying a rabbit. Another Bugs-ish bunny showed up in a Tex cartoon. Amanda once saw Red's face in her mirror. One Power Pooch short was pretty much a rehash of "King-Size Canary". There were quite a few nods to the master, actually.
 * Token Mini-Moe: Exaggerated with Khannie.
 * Yellow Peril: The Emperor