My top 30 favorite Tex Avery MGM cartoons
by comic_guy87 | created - 02 Sep 2011 | updated - 02 Sep 2011 | PublicMy own personal list my favorite cartoons of Tex Avery at his best.
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1. Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
The characters of the traditional fairy tale demand a new approach to the story as a sexy urban comedy with Red as a nightclub singer.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Elvia Allman, Sara Berner, Daws Butler, Pinto Colvig
Votes: 2,753
2. Northwest Hounded Police (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A wolf convict makes his escape, but is pursued by a diminutive Mountie who seems to be everywhere.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bill Thompson, Tex Avery, Frank Graham, William Hanna
Votes: 1,314
3. The First Bad Man (1955)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The first Texas bad man come running into town a million years B.C.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Ritter, Tex Avery, June Foray
Votes: 452
4. Field and Scream (1955)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A close look at fishermen and hunters.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Gilman Rankin
Votes: 315
5. Swing Shift Cinderella (1945)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Bored with chasing Red Riding Hood, the Wolf decides to go after Cinderella, but her fairy godmother takes a shine to him instead - and has an arsenal of magical powers to help achieve her ends.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Sara Berner, Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Frank Graham
Votes: 914
6. What's Buzzin' Buzzard? (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Family, Comedy
Two buzzards suffer from acute food shortage and make up for it by cooking each other, or at least trying to.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Daws Butler, William Hanna, Pat McGeehan, Dick Nelson
Votes: 516
7. Henpecked Hoboes (1946)
Approved | 8 min | Family, Comedy, Animation
George and Junior are two hungry bears who try to make a meal out of a not too bright barnyard chicken.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Dick Nelson
Votes: 385
8. The Shooting of Dan McGoo (1945)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
This starts off as an adaptation of Robert Service's poem 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew', complete with a literal depiction of a man with one foot in the grave, but when Dan McGoo turns out ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bill Thompson, Tex Avery, Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner
Votes: 731
9. Wild and Woolfy (1945)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The Wolf rides into town, terrorises it, kidnaps the girl, and is chased by the outraged townspeople, accompanied by Droopy, who despite introducing himself as "the hero" at the end, in ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bill Thompson, Ann Pickard Rhea, Tex Avery, Sara Berner
Votes: 687
10. Who Killed Who? (1943)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A man is murdered in an isolated mansion, and the detective tries to find out whodunit. But the house he's investigating is decidedly haunted, and he never knows just what's 'round the next corner.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Kent Rogers, Tex Avery, Sara Berner, Billy Bletcher
Votes: 1,092
11. Lonesome Lenny (1946)
8 min | Family, Animation, Comedy
Screwy Squirrel is bought in a pet shop to be the companion of a daft dog so strong that he squeezes his playmates to death.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Sara Berner, Wally Maher
Votes: 578
12. Bad Luck Blackie (1949)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Comedy
A cute and very tormented kitten is bullied by an incomparably evil bulldog, who lives to know better after a black cat crosses his path.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: William Hanna, Harry Lang, Pat McGeehan, Tex Avery
Votes: 1,647
13. The Cuckoo Clock (1950)
Passed | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A cat is driven up the wall by the inhabitant of the cuckoo clock, so he spends the film trying to catch him.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Daws Butler, William Hanna
Votes: 480
14. King-Size Canary (1947)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
A mangy cat on the verge of starvation finds a tiny canary and a bottle of 'Jumbo-Gro' fertilizer, which gives him an idea that leads to giant cats, dogs, mice and canaries chasing each other round Lilliputian towns and cities...
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Sara Berner, Pinto Colvig, Frank Graham
Votes: 1,834
15. Slap Happy Lion (1947)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Comedy
The king of the jungle, after a well-spent day terrorising the rest of the animals, is petrified by a mouse...
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Vonnie Beraner, Sara Berner, Peter Bletcher
Votes: 584
16. Screwball Squirrel (1944)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Comedy
A screwy squirrel provokes a pedigreed birddog to chase him throughout the picture.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: William Hanna, Cal Howard, Wally Maher
Votes: 1,120
17. Blitz Wolf (1942)
Passed | 10 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
Yet another variation on the Three Little Pigs theme, this time told as WW2 anti-German propaganda (the US had just entered the war), with the wolf as a thinly-disguised Hitler.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Leone Le Doux, Sara Berner, Pinto Colvig, Frank Graham
Votes: 1,461
18. The Hick Chick (1946)
7 min | Animation, Family, Comedy
In this triangle drama a country chicken chooses between a country rooster and a city rooster.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Sara Berner, Frank Graham, Cal Howard, Harry Lang
Votes: 504
19. Batty Baseball (1944)
Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A series of visual gags about baseball. One running gag has an angry fan screaming "Kill the ump!" Be careful what you wish for.....
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Pinto Colvig, William Hanna, Leone Le Doux, Wally Maher
Votes: 537
20. Hound Hunters (1947)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
George and Junior get a job as dog catchers, but are increasingly frustrated in their attempts to catch one measly little dog.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Dick Nelson
Votes: 426
21. Jerky Turkey (1945)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
A Pilgrim ventures out to procure a turkey for the first Thanksgiving.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Frank Graham, Leone Le Doux, Wally Maher
Votes: 642
22. The Cat That Hated People (1948)
Passed | 7 min | Family, Animation, Comedy
A black cat explains reason after reason why he cannot stand people, and opts to relocate to the moon. When he does, he finds characters there that make him realize people aren't so bad anyway.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Paul Frees, Colleen Collins, Pinto Colvig, Pat McGeehan
Votes: 874
23. Out-Foxed (1949)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Droopy is an unlikely fox-hound, but the highly civilised (and resourceful) English upper-class fox makes even more unlikely prey...
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bill Thompson, Tex Avery, Daws Butler, Robert Cannon
Votes: 790
24. Señor Droopy (1949)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A bullfight contest between Droopy and The Wolf, staged in the Chili Bowl.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bill Thompson, Lina Romay, Tex Avery, Nestor Paiva
Votes: 861
25. Billy Boy (1954)
Passed | 6 min | Animation, Family, Comedy
A farmer is initially delighted to get a baby goat, but this soon turns to apprehension when he discovers that it eats literally anything (including, at one point, the animation artwork).
Directors: Tex Avery, Dick Lundy | Star: Daws Butler
Votes: 542
26. Drag-A-Long Droopy (1954)
Passed | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Droopy is a shepherd. His sheep graze into cattle country, despite the warning sign. He gets in an argument with the cattle owner, but of course, nobody wins a battle against Droopy.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bill Thompson, Tex Avery
Votes: 609
27. The Three Little Pups (1953)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A variation on the age-old 'Three Little Pigs' theme, with Droopy and pals being the target of one of the most laid-back wolves you'll ever see.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bill Thompson, Daws Butler, Red Coffey, Joe Trescari
Votes: 621
28. One Ham's Family (1943)
Approved | 8 min | Family, Animation, Comedy
A hungry wolf with ham in the shape of a pig kid stands in for Santa Claus.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Sara Berner, Pinto Colvig, Kent Rogers
Votes: 473
29. Cock-a-Doodle Dog (1951)
Approved | 6 min | Comedy, Family, Animation
Collection of classic Tex Avery visual gags, set up as a battle between a sleep-deprived bulldog who just wants some shut-eye, and a rooster driven by his natural instincts to crow all night long.
Director: Tex Avery | Star: Tex Avery
Votes: 391
30. Rock-a-Bye Bear (1952)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Comedy
Spike gets a job running the house for a hibernating bear. Only problem is that same bear is VERY noise-sensitive, and Spike's got a rival that wants his job.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Sara Berner, Daws Butler, William Hanna
Votes: 603
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