#Screwy Squirrel

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Important Wikipedia article showing how insane cartoons once were

Screwy Squirrel (also known as Screwball Squirrel) is an animated cartoon character, an anthropomorphic squirrel created by Tex Avery for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The character was known for being brash and erratic, with few sympathetic personality characteristics such as Bugs Bunny's nobility and Daffy Duck's pathos. (Both of those characters are also creations of Tex Avery.)[2] Most of his cartoons saw him paired with Meathead Dog (voiced by screenwriter Cal Howard in Screwball Squirrel, Tex Avery in Happy-Go-Nutty and Pinto Colvig in The Screwy Truant) as his adversary. Meathead's physical appearance differed in between the three shorts in which he appeared (with his ears changing color from grey-blue to black in Happy-Go-Nutty, and donning a new color palette in The Screwy Truant), but otherwise the character remained the same.

Screwy's shorts revolve around his infliction of various forms of torture on Meathead – or another enemy – for seven minutes. In The Screwy Truant, one gag sees Screwy hitting Meathead over the head with everything he can find in a trunk labeled "Assorted Swell Stuff to Hit Dog on Head". When he finishes, Meathead remarks, "Gee whiz! He hit me with everything but the kitchen sink!" Screwy responds with, "Well, don't want to disappoint you, chum", then pulls out that very item and bashes him over the head with it.[1]

The final cartoon in the series, Lonesome Lenny (a broad parody of the characters of George and Lenny from the John Steinbeck novel Of Mice and Men), ends with a scene indicating that Screwy has been killed off as a regular MGM character. The 1946 cartoon begins with a wealthy woman purchasing the squirrel at a pet shop with the intention of giving him to her large dog Lenny as a companion. Pampered and dim-witted, Lenny is unaware of his brute strength; and later, when he hugs Screwy, he accidentally crushes him to death. In the cartoon's closing scene, the dog is now all alone and lying on the floor in his owner's mansion. After casually squeezing and pulverizing a big chew bone with his paw and crumpling his metal food bowl, he sits up, turns to the audience, and says, "You know, I had a little friend once, but he don't move no more." Lenny then reaches into a side "pocket" in his fur and pulls out the flattened body of Screwy. The squirrel is motionless and his eyes are closed. Seemingly dead, Screwy suddenly opens one eye and brings a sign out from behind his back that reads, "SAD ENDING, isn't it?" That gesture cast some doubt at the time on the finality of the crazy squirrel's demise. A similar "death" gag is presented at the conclusion of the 1957 Warner Bros. cartoon What's Opera Doc?, which was directed by Chuck Jones. In that cartoon, however, as a dead Bugs Bunny is being carried away by a guilt-ridden Elmer Fudd, the rabbit awakes to speak to the audience about the opera parody's sad ending.

It is said that the reason why Screwy was killed off in his last cartoon was that Tex Avery grew to openly dislike the character. Animator Mark Kausler used to send Avery letters about his rendition of Screwy, only for Avery to throw away anything related to the character.

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Moon Knight X Screwy Squirrel, for /co/

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Throbbing Aftermath “The Screwy Truant” (1945)

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Screwball Squirrel (MGM, 1944) - dir. Tex Avery

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Today, November 18th, but from 1928, Looney Tunes series is started in Theatres by Disney/Warner Bros. Entertainment (currently since 1991, Disney/SEGA Entertainment) with the first LT cartoon "Steamboat Willie" and his First Appearance of Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse in this short, and that is only a Beginning of the Famous Theatrical shorts series from Golden Age of Cartoons during 1928 until 1967 for Disney/Warner Bros. Entertainment (currently since 1991, Disney/SEGA Entertainment)

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Toon June 2023 Day 7 - Mallet

Screwy Squirrel with a mallet.

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for @comfymoth's werewolf cellbit au ^_^

Cellbit's cat is missing, and normally, this wouldn't be a big deal. Richarlyson wanders off all the time and he always shows up back home. But the sun's starting to set and he's not back. And Cellbit's a little worked up because the full moon is tomorrow night and his emotions are always screwy for the entire week beforehand.

He's half way through debating if he should suck it up and just call Forever and admit he's freaking out over their cat when he gets a text from Roier. It's a picture of Roier in his kitchen smiling at the camera with a very familiar white-and-brown cat on his shoulders, and a message that says "I think this is yours."

Cellbit takes several seconds to process how he feels, both about the way Roier looks in the light of the sunset and how his cat should not be at Roier's house. He takes a look at the picture again as he replies and swears Richarlyson looks incredibly smug about the whole thing. That cat's too smart for his own good, but Cellbit loves him enough to drive out to the woods anyway.

Roier is standing on his porch when he gets there, watching Richarlyson sniff at what's probably a squirrel trail. He grins as Cellbit pulls up and quite literally jumps off the porch to greet him. It reminds him of a dog, ironically enough, and he can't help the smile creeping onto his face.

"Gatinho! Hola," he greets, laughing as Richarlyson climbs up his leg to get closer.

"Olá, guapito," Cellbit smiles at him before turning his attention to the cat purring on Roier's shoulder. "Richarlyson."

He only gets a pleased meow in response and a paw reaching out to try and bat at his face. It's very cute, but Cellbit's trying to be a disappointed father so he can't smile and coo at him the way he wants to. Richarlyson lets out another meow, clearly annoyed that his efforts didn't work.

"How did you even get here?" Cellbit sighs, reaching out and picking the kitten off of Roier.

"Maybe he just likes me," Roier offers.

"He loves you, but that doesn't mean he can disappear for hours and show up at your house."

"But it got you here, so is it really that bad?" Roier tilts his head and bats his eyelashes a few times, looking at Cellbit with a smile. "You should come in for a bit." Before Cellbit can answer. "Por favor, gatinho? For me?"

And Cellbit should be going home to prepare for the full moon, but he really can't say no when Roier asks him like that. (He can't say no to Roier at all, but he's ignoring that fact.) He shakes his head with a fond smile and adjusts his grip on Richarlyson, following Roier into his house, and he gets the feeling Richarlyson's purring is because he got exactly what he wanted.

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OC PARTYYY

I’ve been having a ball doing a bunch of character work with @ickyguts and @technicoloranimalviolence they are creative mad-scientists and their ocs are all super fun and wonderful. Throw them an ask or two in their inboxes if you wanna know more about them ;D

Curtain call:

@ickyguts ocs:

Hopps the Kangaroo bartender

Screwy the Experiment

Icky the Squirrel

Bullet the Mink

@technicoloranimalviolence ocs:

Neil the Alien

Kyle the Coyote

Bully the Blue Tongued Skink

My ocs:

Nergal the Adalatherium

Dumuzi the Kimbetopsalis Simmonsae

Geshtu the Cronopio Dentiacutus

Kyle the Mononykus

Splash the Tuarangisaurus

John the Rat

Lydia the Rat

Aaron the Goat

Abigail the Rat pup

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Two New Reference Sheets

Here are the new reference sheets for the Buschschwanz Twins.

Credit to Kevin Langley for the Screwy Squirrel model sheets.

No copyright infringement intended.

EDIT (12/9/2024): Updated.

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updated list (up to 5 pages now!)

1913 - Krazy Kat

1914 - Gertie Dino

1918 - Koko the clown

1919 - Felix the cat

1919 - Olive Oyl

1922 - Julius the cat

1925 - Pete

1926 - Winnie the Pooh

1927 - Oswald the lucky rabbit

1927 - Ortensia cat

1928 - Clarabelle cow

1928 - mickey mouse

1928 - minnie mouse

1929 - horace horsecollar

1929 - Bosko talks Ink kid

1929 - popeye the sailor man

1930 - pluto

1930- bimbo

1930 - betty boop

1932 - goofy goof

1932 - Bluto

1933- Buddy (looney tunes)

1934 - donald duck

1935 - porky pig

1935 - little kitty

1935 - oliver owl

1935 - ham & ex

1935 - beans the cat

1936 - owl Jolson

1937 - Petunia pig 

1937 - gabby goat

1937 - Daffy duck

1937 - egghead

1937 - elmer fudd

1937 - della duck

1937 - HDL

1939 - Casper

1939 - Sniffles

1939 - Barney Bear

1940 - Tom & Jerry

1940 - daisy duck

1940 - bugs bunny

1940 - woody woodpecker

1941 - Butch (alley cat)

1941 - Toodles (tom’s love interest)

1941 - Fauntleroy fox

1941 - Crawford crow

1942 - Spike the dog 

1942 - Tuffy/Nibbles 

1942 - Beaky buzzard

1942 Mama buzzard

1942 - Henery hawk

1942 - wolf (blitz wolf)

1942 - jose carioca

1942 - tweety bird

1943 - meathead (tom n jerry)

1943 - droopy

1943 - Chip and Dale

1943 - red (red hot riding hood)

1943 - topsy (tom n jerry)

1944 - screwy squirrel (mgm)

1944 - Panchito pistoles

1945 - Sylvester cat

1945 - Pepe le Pew

1945 - yosemite sam

1946 - gossamer

1946 - foghorn leghorn

1946 - george (henpecked hoboes)

1946 - junior (henpecked hoboes)

1947 - goofy gophers (Mac and Tash)

1947 - scrooge mcduck

1948 - gladstone gander

1948 - hippety hopper

1948 - Marvin the Martian

1948 - Lightning (tom and jerry)

1949 - butch (tex avery)

1949 - wile e Coyote

1949 - road runner

1949 - tyke the pup

1949 - playboy penguin

1949 - penelope pussycat

1950 - little quaker (tom n jerry)

1950 - granny

1950 - Sylvester Jr

1950 - snoopy

1951 - clyde bunny

1952 - gyro gearloose

1953 - sam sheepdog

1953 - ralph wolf

1953 - southern wolf (tex avery)

1954 - Goldie o-gilt

1954 - Taz

1954 - witch hazel

1954 - speedy Gonzales 

1955 - Michigan J. Frog

1956 - flintheart glomgold

1957 - grinch

1958 - huckleberry hound

1958 - yogi bear

1958 - boo boo

1959 - quickdraw McGraw (Latino)

1959 - snugglepuss (gay)

1961 - Ludwig von drake

1961 - magica de spell

1964 - fethry duck

1967 - woodstock (peanuts)

1978 - Garfield

1981 - Mario

1981 - donkey kong

1981 - Pauline

1983 - Luigi

1985 - princess peach

1985 - bowser

1987 - webby

1987 - Beakley

1987 - launchpad

1987 - Duckworth

1988 - Roger Rabbit

1988 - Jesscia Rabbit

1988 - Benny the cab

1989 - Fenton 

1990 - babs

1990 - buster

1990 - plucky

1990 - hamton

1991 - sonic the Hedgehog

1991 - doctor Eggman

1991 - drake mallard/darkwing wingduck

1992 - tails

1993 - Amy rose

1993 - yakko warner

1993 - wakko warner

1993 - dot warner

1994 - knuckles

1996 - lola bunny

1999 - spongebob

2001 - shadow

2001- Shrek

2001 - donkey

2001-  princess fiona

2001 - gingerbread man

2001 - Pinocchio 

2004 - puss in boots

2007 - Shaun the sheep

2007 - Bitzer

2011 - kitty softpaws

2011 - Humpty Dumpty

2011 - tina russo

2011 - (dhmis) Red guy, yellow guy and duck

2017 - Lena de spell

2017 - mark beaks

2022 - perrito

2022 - death

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Public Domain Forecast

There's a good amount of hubbub about Mickey Mouse entertaining the public domain next year, and it made me think, so what is the forecast for charters entering the public domain in the next twenty years, with a disclaimer that these only apply to the characters original appearances and you still need to dodge trademarks and this is for US copyright. And of course this is just a highlights list that will mostly be cartoon and comic characters.

2024 (1928): Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, Tigger (Winnie the Pooh)

2025 (1929): Popeye, Tintin, Buck Rogers

2026 (1930): Blondie and Dagwood, Nancy Drew, Pluto (Disney)

2027 (1931): Babar the Elephant, Dick Tracey, Wimpy (Popeye)

2028 (1932): Goofy, Bluto (Popeye), Conan the Barbarian

2029 (1933): King Kong, The Lone Ranger, Perry Mason

2030 (1934): Donald Duck, Flash Gordon, Mary Poppins

2031 (1935): Porky Pig, Bride of Frankenstein, Little Lulu

2032 (1936): The Phantom, Green Hornet, Ferdinand

2033 (1937): Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Bilbo Baggins, Huey, Dewey, and Louie

2034 (1938): Superman, Bugs Bunny, The Adams Family,

2035 (1939): Batman, Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer, Casper the Friendly Ghost , Captain Marvel (Shazam)

2036 (1940): Tom and Jerry, Horton the Elephant (Dr Seuss), Woody Woodpecker, Captain America, Robin (Batman)

2037 (1941): Wonder Woman, Aqua Man, Plastic Man, Archie

2038 (1942): Mighty Mouse, Thumper (Disney), José Carioca

2039 (1943): Chip 'n' Dale, Droopy, Alfred Pennyworth

2040 (1944): Screwy Squirrel

2041 (1945): Moomins, Yosemite Sam, Sylvester the Cat

2042 (1946): Foghorn Leghorn,Thomas the Tank Engine, Snufkin

2043 (1947): Scrooge McDuck

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Best of Tex Avery: King Of Cartoons Lobby Cards (1988)

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Anthro Allies Remastered (Part 4)

Part Two of the mammals

Lagomorphs

Sprint (Rabbit hybrid)

Gregory ( Continental Giant/Flemish Giant)

Eira (Snowshoe Hare)

Jack/Seac (Hare/ Jackrabbit)

Chica (Pika)

Ignatius (Volcano Rabbit)

Rodents

Zuke (Grasshopper Mouse), Peak (House/Field Mouse), Duke (Pack rat), Sneak (Black/Brown Rat), Poke (Spiny Mouse), Mesh (Maned Rat). Bound (Jerboa), Branch (Birch Mouse), Squeak (Mouse-Like Hamster), Cheeks (Hamster), Leap (Gerbil), Flirt (Vole), Ermentrude (Bamboo Rat/African Mole rat), Root (Zokor), Cliff (Lemming), Kastur (Muskrat)

Engi (Beaver), Kicks (Kangaroo rat), Go-4 (Gophers), Pouch ( Pocket mouse)

Rookie (Guinea Pig), Virtue (Capybara), Buster (New World Porcupine), Patricia/Thorn (Old World Porcupine), Cookie (Chinchilla), O.T. (Nutria), Bare (Naked Mole Rat), Dwojra (Blesmol Mole Rat)

Wrilly (Grey Squirrel), Maple (Red Squirrel), Danny (Chipmunks), Glide (Flying Squirrel), Philip (Marmot/Groundhog), Maisie (Prairie Dog), Areca (Palm Squirrel), Bling (Oriental Giant Squirrel), Nobby (Dormouse), Mount (Mountain beaver)

Fisk (Spring Hare), Screwy (Scaly tail), Twinge (Flying Mouse)

Scandentia

Felicity (Large Treeshrew)

Banxs (Pen Tailed Treeshrew)

Dermoptera

Galan (Philippine Colugo/Flying Lemur)

Flag (Sunda Colugo/Flying Lemur)

Primates

Anomy (Unspecified Monkey)

Ina (Unspecified Monkey) Belongs to @mabelcococups

Richie (Lemur)

Tara (Tarsier)

Manga (Old and New World Monkey)

Samosa (Ape)

Wicked (Human/Fae)

Forge (Human/ Shapeshifter)

Quilia (Human/Fire creature)

Xuitra (Human/Ice Creature)

Mystery (Mutant Human)

Historia (Mutant Human)

Mada/Adam (Clone Human)

Emey (Human)

Previous/Next

(For More Information About The Earthdemons, Neo demons, The Anthro allies , the O'Kong family and more of theses characters as well as updates please visit the @the-earthdemon-hub for more)

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Toon June 2024 Day 26: Funny Animal: Screwy Squirrel is one of funniest animals.

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It seems like a tall task, but there is a way to do it.

As you saw with Spongebob, Cartoon Physics (or Toon Force) can get extremely wacky. The Fastest Speed Feat ever calculated is now within a Cartoon Sponge (but he’s still slower than the Incalculable speeds of Archie Sonic and the Flashes). Practically anything that can’t be done can be done thanks to Cartoon Physics. Is it even possible to defeat it? There is, but first you must know the rules of Cartoon Physics…

Rule 1 - No, not at any time, only when it was funny.

The first thing to understand is there is a reason for these actions. They do it because it's funny. It’s how one moment Spongebob can’t lift two marshmallows and another he rotates the planet yet not gravity. It really depends on what could get a laugh. You may not find a specific thing funny, but someone else did. And that’s enough to make it work. So if you don’t think Teen Titans Go is funny, that’s not going to stop them from doing all their wacky stuff because there is someone who will.

Rule 2 - It's laughter that keeps a toon young…

When the laughter stops, a toon grows old and forgotten. Remember Screwy Squirrel? His cartoon physics can rival that of Bugs Bunny or the like. But because he has been forgotten, he is basically erased from any contention of people’s favorite cartoons. And if his old media is lost for time, he might as well be dead.

Rule 3 - We may be bound by a certain moral code…

Not all Toon Force are equal. They are bound to the character’s core. Twilight Sparkle, for example, has a little bit of Cartoon Physics. It's how she can survive being smashed by various things. But her Toon Force pales in comparison to Pinkie Pie’s, who has done things that Twilight can’t do because she is a person of logic and reasoning. She isn’t as absurd as the Pink Menace. 

Those are the three rules to Cartoon Physics. Now that you know them, how do you beat them? There are definitely ways to do it but it’ll be tricky. 

Method 1 - Remove the Humor (Realistically)

A master of Toon Force’s greatest strength is bringing their opponent into their madness. They get so wrapped up in the shenanigans it opens so many opportunities for comedy. To defeat that, the opponent must be able to keep things serious. While there could be jokes to be made, there’s not a lot of them. Examples of this working include the Mask losing to Lobo when he used a Guilt Grenade to make the Mask see all the horrors he actually did. Or in Spongebob Vs Aquaman where the little sponge empathized with the lame hero and gave him the opening with the Trident. If you can make it a serious event, you can reduce their effectiveness.

Method 2 - Remove the Humor (Reality Warpers)

You’re a reality warper. You can do anything you wish. But despite that, this creature with Cartoon Physics is capable of matching you. What to do? Simple. Remove any source of Humor. Keep them alone with nothing to bounce off of. Sure, they could entertain themselves, but you can only do so for long. Eventually, when it's just the two of you, they’ll be powerless to stop you. So you can just let them simply grow old and forgotten… Or be like Nickelwise and steal their soul.

Method 3 - Don’t be the Aggressor (Realistically)

For some toons, their best use of Toon Force is when they’re dealing with people who are aggressive with them. Look at the majority of Bugs Bunny Cartoons: Elmer Fudd, Marvin, that Opera Singer, they eventually became aggressive towards your favorite Wabbit. But two characters seem to always get the upper hand on him: Cecil Turtle and the Gremlin. They do not act aggressively towards Bugs Bunny. In fact, the Gremlin is more Tweety like in his fight against Bugs. This makes Bugs Bunny the Antagonist. So all the Toon Force he once wields to get a rise of his aggressors is now used to basically make him look like a fool. And as seen in some Classic Cartoons, can lead to their deaths.

Method 4 - Know your opponents limits (Realistically)

As mentioned before, not all Toon Force users are equal. If you can figure out their specific limitations, you can find a way to win thanks to those limitations. If Popeye’s best stuff is when he eats Spinach, just try to make sure he has no access to it. Hard to do when he can will it out of nowhere but if Bluto can do it for a time so can others with superior speeds. If their best stuff is when they’re being attacked, make them the Aggressors and Rope-a-dope them. If you can figure out their character trait that makes their Cartoon Physics work, you can figure out a way around it.

Method 5 - Out Toon Them (Other Toon Force Users)

Not all Toon Force Users are the same. Some are superior to others. And if that’s the case, they could realistically push themselves to places the other wouldn’t or even couldn’t. As seen in Multiverse Match’s Fight between Donald Duck and Daffy Duck. Donald was just able to do things that Daffy couldn’t. So Donald won the fight. 

Those are the Methods of defeating Cartoon Physics. Will we see someone who does not have a lot of Toon Force be able to defeat someone who does? Who knows. Only the future will tell…