tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993307026115460029.post1343698340064075278..comments2024-03-28T08:16:32.209-07:00Comments on Supervised By Fred Avery: Tex Avery's Warner Brothers Cartoons: Screwball Football: Cavorting Sports RetortsFrank M. Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04673579882180372546noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993307026115460029.post-83168576922996526352017-07-11T20:59:11.250-07:002017-07-11T20:59:11.250-07:00I find it interesting that Disney took from Avery&...I find it interesting that Disney took from Avery's shorts. I wonder if Jack Kinney had this short in mind when he was making How To Play Football (1944).Vimaconehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11547557126423533934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993307026115460029.post-20691223320164161132016-06-17T21:05:25.570-07:002016-06-17T21:05:25.570-07:00For years in the back of my mind, that Dogman ref ...For years in the back of my mind, that Dogman ref looks suspiciously like Chuck Jones' Mountie from "Snowman's Land."Jonathan Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12233850225669612698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2993307026115460029.post-38190401291818181982016-06-09T21:11:24.749-07:002016-06-09T21:11:24.749-07:00The running gag here fulfills the Avery credo of &...The running gag here fulfills the Avery credo of "<i>What would the audience least expect?</i>" about as well as possible. We know what's coming from 77 years of hindsight of watching the Avery and Warner's style, but audiences of the day had to be shocked that Tex would go there (and some audiences of today would be shocked, too, if they saw this for the first time -- but not J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.com