Tex Avery Screwball Classics Cartoons Red Hot Riding Hood There were several masters of animation during Hollywoods golden era. Of the top two geniuses, one created elaborate fairy tales and ornate feature-length fantasias the other guy was Tex Avery. He just wanted to make you laugh. Having already been integrally involved in the development of Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny for Warner Bros. Avery moved to MGM in 1941 to create a set of comedy masterpieces that defined a new slapstick sty

The legendary Tex Avery constantly lampooned fairy tales, especially Disney's adaptations of them, for his entire career. Disney, in turn, borrowed an idea from Avery: using a narrator for "spot gags" in the Goofy cartoons. It couldn't have been more fitting, then, for the voice of Goofy, Pinto Colvig, to contribute virtually the same voice for a redneck wolf in Avery's MGM classic "Little Rural Riding Hood" (1949). | GoldenAgeCartoons.com

Cellbound (1955) is a Tex Avery animated short featuring Spike, a bulldog who tries to escape prison after 20 years in solitary. His plan unfolds in classic Avery style—filled with absurd gags, exaggerated motion, and surreal twists—only to land him right back where he started! Such cartoons are rare today because modern animation often favors emotional storytelling, realism, and structured plots over the wild, gag-driven humor of classics like Cellbound. The unrestrained, physics-defying comedy