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Cartman
02-01-2002, 02:30 PM
a CN advertisement featuring Screwey Squirrel where a cute squirrel comes by and starts talking about how where he lives everyone is nice to each other and no one ever fights. Screwy then leads him behind a tree and beats him up.
Batfan
02-01-2002, 03:27 PM
That was from an acutual Screwy Squirrel cartoon. The very first one I believe.
Matthew Hunter
02-01-2002, 05:48 PM
Actually, I DO rmember that...they took that scene and made it into a Cartoon Network ad a long time ago.
-Matthew
PorkyandDaffy
02-01-2002, 09:34 PM
Yeah, I remember that. It was the same scene from SCREWBALL SQUIRREL, but the lines of that scene were re-dubbed for the ad, even though all the lines in the ad were basically the same as the one in the original scene.

I love that scene, mostly because it's such a rip on Disney's "cutesy" cartoons.
J Lee
02-01-2002, 11:39 PM
Avery wasn't just ripping Disney in that one, he was ripping his own studio, specifically the ultra-cute cartoons Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising had been doing at MGM before Tex came on board (he also did it at the start of "Red Hot Riding Hood"). Given Quimby's distaste for Hugh and his desire, resisted by Harman, to get more slapstick into the MGM cartoons, it couldn't have bothered him that much to see Avery take a shot at both Harman and Walt at the same time.
Sogturtle
02-02-2002, 04:54 AM
Originally posted by J Lee
Avery wasn't just ripping Disney in that one, he was ripping his own studio, specifically the ultra-cute cartoons Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising had been doing at MGM before Tex came on board (he also did it at the start of "Red Hot Riding Hood"). Given Quimby's distaste for Hugh and his desire, resisted by Harman, to get more slapstick into the MGM cartoons, it couldn't have bothered him that much to see Avery take a shot at both Harman and Walt at the same time.

You're quite right John... But it is even stranger than that. The unit that Tex was heading, was in fact the former Hugh Harman unit!!! And complete with some holdover members. What's more is that for a while Tex was actually making cartoons right alongside Rudy Ising!! ! So the little squirrel's reference to "Barney Bear" is not just an attack on Ising's star, but a frontal attack on Mr. Sleepy Bear himself, Rudy Ising!! It's amazing that after such a jibe that Ising didn't succeed in getting Tex drafted!
Guess it just shows what a nice guy Rudy really was.