The segment's theme is " Home! Sweet Home!".Ī normal dog gains superpowers after licking a superhero's shoe and becomes a superhero himself, albeit an incompetent one. Maurice speaks with a Swedish accent Mooch has a New York accent, with a voice modelled on Jimmy Durante. Maurice's design is based on the canary from King-Size Canary, with his personality influenced by Junior Pig from One Ham's Family. This segment series centers on a young chicken named Maurice Squab who outwits Mooch, a fox constantly trying to eat him. Freddy and Banshee each have their own themes Beethoven for Freddy and Vivaldi for Banshee. Freddy was inspired by both one of Tex Avery's earlier characters, Homer the Homeless Flea and comedian Red Skelton's character, Freddy the Freeloader. The duo's names are a play on Genghis Khan, while Genghis's design is based on the lion from Slap Happy Lion with his voice being modeled after Sean Connery and Khannie's mannerisms being influenced by Shirley Temple.Ī playful, obnoxious, and uncultured fly named Freddy bothers an obese, lazy and exceedingly short-tempered billionaire named Amanda Banshee, whose continuous excessive attempts to get rid of him often involve the most extreme of ways. Genghis the lion is a warlord who leads his barbarian army across the world to conquer in the name of his emperor and often crosses paths with a female panda cub named Khannie who tends to thwart his plans through her innocent behavior. The theme song is " If You're Happy and You Know It". This segment is inspired by The First Bad Man, with Einstone's name being a play on Albert Einstein. He tries to teach his friends how to be civilized through the use of his inventions. This segment series centers on a brilliant caveman, Ughbert Einstone, who is the world's first inventor. The theme song is " Tarantella Napoletana". He was loosely inspired by Shorty from the Famous Studios era of Popeye the Sailor and Manuel from Fawlty Towers, borrowing some inspiration from Encino Man. His over-interpretive behavior constantly foil the schemes of sleazy conman, Dan. Pete is a diminutive bumbling Roman centurion from Pompeii who was buried in lava from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and two thousand years later breaks free from his preserved state in the modern world. He was inspired by Bob Clampett's (a fellow animator at Termite Terrace in the 1930s) Red Hot Ryder character from Buckaroo Bugs. This segment series centers on a cowboy named Tex Avery who saves the day and his love interest, Chastity Knott, from his nemesis, Sagebrush Sid. The series contains 7 segment series: The reason why the characters Tex Avery created weren't included was due to the fact that Tex Avery cartoons from WB and MGM are all owned by Turner Entertainment, then owned by Time Warner in 1996, and Universal's Tex Avery cartoons would still be owned by Universal Studios. In following years, The Wacky World of Tex Avery was overwhelmingly panned for it being an "insult" to Tex Avery's legacy, along with its animation, crude humor, voice acting, character designs and imagery, theme song, outdated stereotypes and characters. The series was first broadcast on French channel M6 on September 3, 1997, followed on by its broadcast in the United States on September 29, through syndication, until it ended on December 26 the same year, due to poor ratings and reviews. The creator describes the show as "homage to the brilliant, hilarious and groundbreaking animator Tex Avery and the wonderful squash-and-stretch cartoons of his era". īoth the series and the titular character were named after Tex Avery, a cartoonist who is known for his work at Warner Bros. The Wacky World of Tex Avery ( French: Le Monde Fou de Tex Avery) is an animated television series created by Robby London and co-produced by CINAR Corporation, Les Studios Tex SARL, Milimetros, M6 and Telcima. (to the tune of Infernal Galop from Orpheus in the Underworld) Canadian TV series or program The Wacky World of Tex Avery
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