The Wacky World of Tex Avery
Encyclopedia
The Wacky World of Tex Avery is a cartoon
television show produced by DiC Entertainment
in 1997 and 1998.
, 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 the genius of Tex Avery and his classic characters such as Droopy, George & Junior & Screwball Squirrel.
(NOTE: Episodes 41 through 65 are no longer shown in the current 2010-11 syndication package for unknown reasons.)
From September 2010 until September 2011, the program is a part of the weekday morning This is for Kids
programming block for the digital subchannel
This TV
network, which is programmed by Cookie Jar Group; they acquired DiC in 2008. However, in this broadcast, the DiC logo was replaced by the Cookie Jar logo.
Most episodes of the show can now be seen on Hulu
and Jaroo.com.
Cartoon
A cartoon is a form of two-dimensional illustrated visual art. While the specific definition has changed over time, modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic style of such works...
television show produced by DiC Entertainment
DiC Entertainment
DIC Entertainment was an international film and television production company. In addition to animated television shows such as Ulysses 31 , Inspector Gadget , The Littles , The Real Ghostbusters , Captain Planet and the Planeteers , and the first two seasons of the English adaptation of...
in 1997 and 1998.
Production
The series was named after Tex AveryTex Avery
Frederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He did his most significant work for the Warner Bros...
, a cartoonist who is most famous for his work at Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Cartoons
Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. was the in-house division of Warner Bros. Pictures during the Golden Age of American animation. One of the most successful animation studios in American media history, Warner Bros. Cartoons was primarily responsible for the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical...
and MGM
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio was the in-house division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture studio in Hollywood, California during the Golden Age of American animation, responsible for producing animated short subjects to accompany MGM feature films in Loew's Theaters...
. 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 the genius of Tex Avery and his classic characters such as Droopy, George & Junior & Screwball Squirrel.
Segments
The show contains the following short series:- Tex Avery: The cartoon stars a goatGoatThe domestic goat is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep as both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae. There are over three hundred distinct breeds of...
-riding cowboy (voiced by Billy WestBilly WestWilliam Richard "Billy" West is an American voice actor. Born in Detroit but raised in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Billy launched his career in the early 1980s performing daily comedic routines on Boston's WBCN. He left the radio station to work on the short-lived revival...
) who saves the day and his girl Chasity Knott (voiced by Kathleen BarrKathleen BarrKathleen Barr is a Canadian voice actress. She is also the sister of Professor Mark Lyle Barr at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.-Filmography:...
) from his nemesis Sagebrush Sid (voiced by Billy WestBilly WestWilliam Richard "Billy" West is an American voice actor. Born in Detroit but raised in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Billy launched his career in the early 1980s performing daily comedic routines on Boston's WBCN. He left the radio station to work on the short-lived revival...
). Based on Bob ClampettBob ClampettRobert Emerson "Bob" Clampett was an American animator, producer, director, and puppeteer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes animated series from Warner Bros., and the television shows Time for Beany and Beany and Cecil...
's (a fellow animator at Warner Bros Studios in the 1930s) "Red Hot Ryder" from Buckaroo BugsBuckaroo BugsBuckaroo Bugs is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short released in August 1944, introducing Bugs Bunny to Looney Tunes and directed by Robert Clampett.-Plot:Unlike in most shorts, Bugs Bunny serves as an antagonist...
(WB 1944). Always appears as the opening segment, although not every episode has a Tex Avery segment. - Einstone: The cartoon stars a brilliant caveman (voiced by Ian James CorlettIan James CorlettIan James Corlett is a Canadian animation voice artist, writer, and musician. He is the creator of Studio B Productions' animated series Being Ian and Yvon of the Yukon....
) who is the world's first inventor. He tries to teach the other cave people how to be civilized with his inventions. A play on the name Einstein. Loosely based on Tex Avery's "The First Bad Man" {1955 MGM}. - Ghengis & Khannie: Ghengis the lionLionThe lion is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera, and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger...
(voiced by Lee TockarLee TockarLee William Tockar is a Canadian voice actor and visual artist who works for several studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is also a writer of children's literature, a musician, sculptor, illustrator and collected painter...
) leads his army across the world to conquer in the name of his Emperor (voiced by Maurice LaMarcheMaurice LaMarcheMaurice LaMarche is an Emmy Award winning Canadian-American voice actor and former stand up comedian. He is best known for his voicework in Futurama as Kif Kroker, as Egon Spengler in The Real Ghostbusters, Verminous Skumm and Duke Nukem in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Big Bob Pataki in Hey...
) and meets a young female pandaGiant PandaThe giant panda, or panda is a bear native to central-western and south western China. It is easily recognized by its large, distinctive black patches around the eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. Though it belongs to the order Carnivora, the panda's diet is 99% bamboo...
named Khannie (voiced by Cree SummerCree SummerCree Summer Francks , best known as Cree Summer, is a Canadian actress, musician and voice actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as college student Winifred "Freddie" Brooks on the NBC sitcom A Different World...
) who tends to ruin his conquering plans. A play on the name Genghis KhanGenghis KhanGenghis Khan , born Temujin and occasionally known by his temple name Taizu , was the founder and Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death....
. Ghengis is based on the lion from "Slap Happy Lion" (MGM 1947) - Maurice & Mooch: Maurice the ChickenChickenThe chicken is a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the Red Junglefowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, and with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird...
(voiced by Terry KlassenTerry KlassenTerry Klassen is a Canadian voice actor and voice director in Vancouver, British Columbia. He co-created Yvon of the Yukon. He is the voice director for shows including Martha Speaks, "Johnny Test", "George of the Jungle", "Ed, Edd n Eddy", several "Barbie" movies, "Transformers", "CardCaptors",...
) outwits Mooch the FoxFoxFox is a common name for many species of omnivorous mammals belonging to the Canidae family. Foxes are small to medium-sized canids , characterized by possessing a long narrow snout, and a bushy tail .Members of about 37 species are referred to as foxes, of which only 12 species actually belong to...
(voiced by Maurice LaMarcheMaurice LaMarcheMaurice LaMarche is an Emmy Award winning Canadian-American voice actor and former stand up comedian. He is best known for his voicework in Futurama as Kif Kroker, as Egon Spengler in The Real Ghostbusters, Verminous Skumm and Duke Nukem in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Big Bob Pataki in Hey...
) who constantly tries to eat him. Maurice is based on the canary character from "King-Size Canary", and acts rather like the pig boy in "One Ham's Family". - Pompeii Pete: A short bumbling Roman centurion from PompeiiPompeiiThe city of Pompeii is a partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei. Along with Herculaneum, Pompeii was destroyed and completely buried during a long catastrophic eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius spanning...
(voiced by Ian James CorlettIan James CorlettIan James Corlett is a Canadian animation voice artist, writer, and musician. He is the creator of Studio B Productions' animated series Being Ian and Yvon of the Yukon....
) was buried in lava and 2,000 years later is free to live in the modern world. His behavior annoys a businessman named Dan (voiced by Alec Willows). - Power Pooch: A normal dogDogThe domestic dog is a domesticated form of the gray wolf, a member of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term is used for both feral and pet varieties. The dog may have been the first animal to be domesticated, and has been the most widely kept working, hunting, and companion animal in...
(voiced by Phil HayesPhil HayesPhillip Lee Hayes is an English cricketer. Hayes is a left-handed batsman who bowls leg break. He was born in Bolton, Greater Manchester and educated at Bury College....
) gained superpowers after licking a superhero's (parody of SupermanSupermanSuperman is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics, widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born American artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective...
) shoe and became a superhero himself along with his blue catCatThe cat , also known as the domestic cat or housecat to distinguish it from other felids and felines, is a small, usually furry, domesticated, carnivorous mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and for its ability to hunt vermin and household pests...
sidekick Little Buddy (voiced by Lee TockarLee TockarLee William Tockar is a Canadian voice actor and visual artist who works for several studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is also a writer of children's literature, a musician, sculptor, illustrator and collected painter...
). - Freddy the Fly: An obnoxious flyFlyTrue flies are insects of the order Diptera . They possess a pair of wings on the mesothorax and a pair of halteres, derived from the hind wings, on the metathorax...
(voiced by Billy WestBilly WestWilliam Richard "Billy" West is an American voice actor. Born in Detroit but raised in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Billy launched his career in the early 1980s performing daily comedic routines on Boston's WBCN. He left the radio station to work on the short-lived revival...
) bugs an obese billionaire named Amanda Banshee (voiced by Scott McNeilScott McNeilScott McNeil is a Canadian actor and voice actor. He currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada...
). Freddy is loosely based on one of Tex Avery's earlier characters, Homer the Homeless FleaCartoon AlleyCartoon Alley is an American television program that aired on Turner Classic Movies every Saturday Morning at 11:30 AM ET.Hosted by Ben Mankiewicz, the series featured three classic animated shorts from the 1930-1950's per episode. Most shorts were from The Golden Age of American animation. Each of...
.
Episodes
- 1. Rodeo, Rodeo, Where for Art Thou Rodeo?/The Dis-Orderly/A Bird in the Brain Is Worth Two in the Bush
- 2. The Not-So-Great Train Robbery/Humpty Dumpty Had a Great Wall/Marital Blitz
- 3. Cabin Fever/Cruisin' for a Bruisin'/Breakfast in Bedlam
- 4. Bottleneck Bear/Sitter Jitters/Flychiatry
- 5. Driving Mr. Dan/Who Kilt the Conqueror?/Saur Loser
- 6. Mine, Mine, Mine/Stupe De Jour/Teacher's Pest
- 7. Silence Of The Lames/Aloha Oy!/Black and Blue Belt
- 8. Cat Scratch Fervor/Say Goodnight, Freddy/Quiet Please
- 9. Tell-Tale Fly/True or False Alarm/SSS-PEED
- 10.Greek A-Boo/Toothpaste Pete/Cave Improvement
- 11.A Man Called Horsey/Neanderthal Mom/Toy Store Story
- 12.Disasterpiece Theater/You Take the High Road/Caveman and Wife
- 13.What's Yours Is Mayan/Wish Upon a Star Traveler/Mile High Fly
- 14.Gangster Rip/Himalaya Down and Die/The Ugh-Lympic Games
- 15.Out of Shape, Out of Mind/Pain in the Rain Forest/Bank You Very Much
- 16.Virtual Tex/Chicken Scouts/Pompeii Away
- 17.Tex-Babies/Gunga Dan/Is There A Doctor In The Cave?
- 18.Ever Herd of Cows?/The Return of Dr. Hydrant/Fortunate Fly
- 19.Not Even a Sporting Chance/Fat Chance/La Misery
- 20.Caddywhack/Mutts Attacks!/Dances on Lions
- 21.Wish I Canoe You/Bug To The Future/Yes, We Have No Electricity
- 22.Fly-Incarnation/Power Puppy/The One That Didn't Get Away
- 23.Fat and Fatter/Cake Me a Bake/Count Danula
- 24.The Toothless Fairy/A No-Etiquette Barbarian In King Arthur's Court/Look Who's Ughing
- 25.Pony Distress/My Fair Freddy/Re-Pete Customer
- 26.A-Hunting We Won't Go/Top Gun Shy/Sidekicked
- 27.The President's Fly/The Long-Awaited Evil Twin Episode!/Donkey Conqueror
- 28.Wrapped Up in His Work/Cyrano De Burg-A-Rock Head/Terminal Veloci-Pete
- 29.Up a Tree Without a Paddle/Mechanically Declined/Power Pooch No More
- 30.Water You Gonna Do?/Run for Your Lifeguard!/A Shoe Thing!
- 31.Tallywho?/The Eggs-stra Terrestrial/Double-O Scussi
- 32.Stagecoach Tex/Bored of the Flies/Slaphappy Birthday
- 33.To Ape or Not to Ape/Tarred and Married/Peek-A-Boom
- 34.What Big Feet You Have!/Peer Pressure/Doggie Pounded
- 35.Just Plane Trouble/Can't Fly Me Love/P.P. Loves Fifi
- 36.My Dinner With Mooch/Diamonds Are for Heifer/Squirrel Trouble
- 37.Sagebrush Sindy/Courting Disaster/The Postman Always Barks Twice
- 38.Chastity Peak/Ready, Willing and Cable/Crass Action Hero
- 39.Aw, Mush!/The Wrath of Khannie/The Midas Touche
- 40.That's Shoe Biz!/Dial M for Moron/I'll Take Manure
(NOTE: Episodes 41 through 65 are no longer shown in the current 2010-11 syndication package for unknown reasons.)
- 41.Showdown at the OK Corral/Carnivores Anonymous/Presidential Pooch
- 42.To Ape or Not to Ape/What, Me Hostage?/Coach Mooch
- 43.Mutiny on the Poultry/The Running Dan/Mine, Mine, Mine
- 44.Don't Shoot, It's a Shoot/Dawn of the Dan/Ever Herd of Cows?
- 45.Tex-Files/Income Outcome/Asgard Me Not
- 46.Moochini the Magnificent/Pumped Up!/Map-solutely Not
- 47.Tex Meets Execs/Agent From H.O.R.D.E./SSSPEED
- 48.Gunga Dan/Atlantis Shrugged/Mini the Mooch
- 49.Driving Mr. Dan/Buzzin' Couzin'/20/20 Houndsight
- 50.The Texorcist/The Return of Dr. Hydrant/May the Stressed Man Win
- 51.Dan the Man Child/Queen Khannie/Backseat Bedlam
- 52.Flea! Run Away!/Family Food/Remember the Rigmarole
- 53.Armed Adillo/My Dinner With Mooch/Queasy Cuisine
- 54.Tex-tra Credit/Power Puppy/Eski-No-Mo
- 55.That's Shoe Biz!/Chicken Fried Cousins/Rich Meets Poe
- 56.The Dog Who Would Be King/Butlervania/Gym Dandy
- 57.Moby Cow/Dan's Best Friend/Unsurely You Jest
- 58.Narrated Tex/Emperor on Holiday/Superchump
- 59.Night of the Living Dumb/What Big Feet You Have/The Butlers Did It
- 60.Corporate Takeover/The Dog Who Would Be King/Stressed Guest
- 61.Moby Cow/Dan or Dana/Shoeless
- 62.Justice of the Pieces/The Buddy Guard/The Meat Tree
- 63.Tex and Sid's Blooper Spectacular/Time Flies, Chickens Don't/Men in Lavender
- 64.The Original Origin Story/Harrier Pigeon/Bat-Dan
- 65.Yearnin for a Learnin/The Stepford Chickens/French Twist
Cast
- Billy WestBilly WestWilliam Richard "Billy" West is an American voice actor. Born in Detroit but raised in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, Billy launched his career in the early 1980s performing daily comedic routines on Boston's WBCN. He left the radio station to work on the short-lived revival...
- Tex Avery, Sagebrush Sid, Freddy the Fly - Ian James CorlettIan James CorlettIan James Corlett is a Canadian animation voice artist, writer, and musician. He is the creator of Studio B Productions' animated series Being Ian and Yvon of the Yukon....
- Einstone, Pompeii Pete - Phil HayesPhil HayesPhillip Lee Hayes is an English cricketer. Hayes is a left-handed batsman who bowls leg break. He was born in Bolton, Greater Manchester and educated at Bury College....
- Power Pooch - Terry KlassenTerry KlassenTerry Klassen is a Canadian voice actor and voice director in Vancouver, British Columbia. He co-created Yvon of the Yukon. He is the voice director for shows including Martha Speaks, "Johnny Test", "George of the Jungle", "Ed, Edd n Eddy", several "Barbie" movies, "Transformers", "CardCaptors",...
- Maurice Squab - Maurice LaMarcheMaurice LaMarcheMaurice LaMarche is an Emmy Award winning Canadian-American voice actor and former stand up comedian. He is best known for his voicework in Futurama as Kif Kroker, as Egon Spengler in The Real Ghostbusters, Verminous Skumm and Duke Nukem in Captain Planet and the Planeteers, Big Bob Pataki in Hey...
- Mooch, Emperor, Mr. Squab, Narrator - Alec Willows - Dan the Man
- Lee TockarLee TockarLee William Tockar is a Canadian voice actor and visual artist who works for several studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is also a writer of children's literature, a musician, sculptor, illustrator and collected painter...
- Ghengis, Little Buddy - Cree SummerCree SummerCree Summer Francks , best known as Cree Summer, is a Canadian actress, musician and voice actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as college student Winifred "Freddie" Brooks on the NBC sitcom A Different World...
- Khannie - Scott McNeilScott McNeilScott McNeil is a Canadian actor and voice actor. He currently resides in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada...
- Amanda Banshee - Kathleen BarrKathleen BarrKathleen Barr is a Canadian voice actress. She is also the sister of Professor Mark Lyle Barr at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.-Filmography:...
- Miss Chasity Knott - Jane Montifee - Mrs. Squab
DVD and current-day syndication
The series is not available in the form of the original episodes, although there are individual DVD releases of Power Pooch, Pompeii Pete, and Tex Rides Again, each containing bonus episodes with other characters from the show like Freddy the Fly.From September 2010 until September 2011, the program is a part of the weekday morning This is for Kids
Cookie Jar Toons
Cookie Jar Toons is a daily children's programming block on the This TV digital broadcast network. The block is programmed by Toronto based Cookie Jar Entertainment...
programming block for the digital subchannel
Digital subchannel
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network, which is programmed by Cookie Jar Group; they acquired DiC in 2008. However, in this broadcast, the DiC logo was replaced by the Cookie Jar logo.
Most episodes of the show can now be seen on Hulu
Hulu
Hulu is a website and over-the-top subscription service offering ad-supported on-demand streaming video of TV shows, movies, webisodes and other new media, trailers, clips, and behind-the-scenes footage from NBC, Fox, ABC, and Obstacle on October 20th 2011 Nickelodeon and CBS and many other...
and Jaroo.com.
International broadcast
Chile-
- Canal 13Canal 13 (Chile)Canal 13 , is the second oldest television station in Chile. It is owned by Luksic Group associated with the Papal Catholic University of Chile. Its inaugural transmission took place on August 21, 1959...
(1997–2001) Canada - YTV (1997–1999) France
- M6 (1997-1999)
- Télétoon (2002)
- Canal+ FamilyCanal+ FamilyCanal+ Family is a Scandinavian premium television channelshowing family movies and programs from CBeebies.The channel broadcasts from 6.30 a.m. to 6 p.m....
(2008) - GulliGulliGulli is a French television network dedicated to children's programming. It is available through digital terrestrial television "TNT" in partnership with Lagardère Active, and France Télévisions with children's programmes from France 3. Gulli is also known as Cyperbot.-Programmes:Children can...
(2010-present) United States - First-run syndication (1997-1999)
- This TVThis TVThis TV is a United States general entertainment television network, with a large emphasis in its programming on movies....
(2010–2011) - huluHuluHulu is a website and over-the-top subscription service offering ad-supported on-demand streaming video of TV shows, movies, webisodes and other new media, trailers, clips, and behind-the-scenes footage from NBC, Fox, ABC, and Obstacle on October 20th 2011 Nickelodeon and CBS and many other...
(2010-present)
- Canal 13
External links
- The Wacky World of Tex Avery on RetroJunk