Screwball Squirrel.

Screwball "Screwy" Squirrel is a cartoon character, an anthropomorphic squirrel created by Tex Avery for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, generally considered the wackiest of the screwball cartoon characters of the 1940s, who include Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Woody Woodpecker. Screwball Squirrel. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... Anthropomorphism, also referred to as personification or prosopopeia, is the attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, forces of nature, and others. ... Genera Many, see the article Sciuridae. ... Tex Avery Frederick Bean Fred/Tex Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an animator, cartoonist, and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during the Golden Age of Hollywood. ... For alternate meanings of MGM, see MGM (disambiguation). ... A screwball is a baseball pitch that is thrown so as to break in the opposite direction of a curveball. ... // Events and trends World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ... Bugs Bunny, as seen in the Looney Tunes short Rabbit Transit. ... Daffy Duck in Duck Amuck. ... Woody Woodpecker in the 1948 short Wacky-Bye Baby, directed by Dick Lundy. ...

Among the most intangible and non-standard cartoon characters ever created, Screwy can do almost anything to almost anyone: he pulls objects out of thin air, doubles himself, and constantly breaks the fourth wall; all the while uttering a characteristic cackling laugh. The character was not a successful as Avery's Happy Hound (later Droopy Dog) was at this time, and Screwy was phased out after only appearing in five cartoons between 1944 and 1946. Droopy Dog in Señor Droopy. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...

The character was notable for being brash and erratic, and is considered by some to be annoying with few sympathic personality characteristics such as Bugs Bunny's nobility or Daffy Duck's pathos. Most of his cartoons revolve around him inflicting various forms of torture on his enemy (usually a dog) for seven minutes. In one cartoon, Screwy hits a dog across the head with everything he can find in a trunk labeled "Swell Stuff to Hit Dogs on the Head With". When he finishes, the dog remarks, "Gee whiz! He hit me with everything but the kitchen sink!" Screwy, producing a kitchen sink and knocking the dog over the head with it, responds "Well, I don't wanna disappoint ya, chum!" Bugs Bunny, as seen in the Looney Tunes short Rabbit Transit. ... Daffy Duck in Duck Amuck. ... Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris (Linnaeus, 1758) The dog is a canine mammal of the Order Carnivora. ... Many modern sinks are made of stainless steel Older sinks are usually made of porcelain. ...

Hanna-Barbera Cartoons resurrected Screwy for the Droopy: Master Detective Saturday morning cartoon on Fox Kids in 1993-1994. The Tex Avery originals have been frequently seen on Turner Broadcasting System-run networks such as the Cartoon Network and Boomerang. Cartoon Network Studios, formerly known as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ... Saturday morning cartoon is the colloquial term for the typical television animation programming that was typically scheduled on Saturday mornings on the major American television networks since the mid 1960s. ... The Fox Broadcasting Company, usually referred to as just Fox (the company itself prefers the capitalized version FOX), is a television network in the United States. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Turner Broadcasting System logo The Turner Broadcasting System (often abbreviated to Turner or TBS) is the company managing the collection of cable networks and properties started by Ted Turner in the mid-1970s. ... Cartoon Network is a cable television channel created by Turner Broadcasting and dedicated to showing animated programming. ... Boomerang is the name of at least four TV networks owned by Cartoon Network, one in the United States, one in the United Kingdom, one in Australia and one in Spain, which shows classic animated cartoons, mainly from the Warner Brothers, MGM, and Hanna-Barbera archives. ...

Screwball Squirrel cartoons

• 1944: Screwball Squirrel
• 1944: Happy-Go-Nutty
• 1944: Big Heel-Watha
• 1945: The Screwy Truant
• 1946: Lonesome Lenny

External link

• Screwball Squirrel at the Big Cartoon DataBase.