I can&apost get that screwy Louis out of my head.
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Finally, screwy blood flow in the eye can lead to optic neuropathy.
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Your schedule is screwy, but roll with it—things will work out.
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Scheduling is all screwy this evening, keep your plans as simple as possible.
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The system we have in the U.S. is unique and again totally screwy.
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And then you're right smack in the middle of the run-down, screwy splendor.
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The last Screwy Squirrel cartoon, "Lonesome Lenny," directed by Tex Avery, is an inspired extra.
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Nobody knows exactly why the polls suddenly become screwy and less predictive during the summer.
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To Tawada — the acclaimed author of tender, screwy parables about outsiderdom — we are clad in language.
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"I had kind of a screwy past," Mr. Ludwig said after storing his carry-on bag.
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Now, of course, we know that such a person has got screwy potassium channels in their neurons.
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Delegates from Pennsylvania, which has screwy rules, "have a moral obligation" to vote for him, he said.
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He's a great writer, a rare talent, and a gift to our (or my, whatever) screwy, lazy generation.
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That victory no doubt bolstered the Bundys' feeling of moral certainty about their particularly screwy interpretation of the Constitution.
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The answer came from my daughter, who ran up the hill like a screwy Italo-English-speaking town crier.
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Soloway's world is aggressively specific: Jewy, screwy, L.A., upper middle class, not so much queer-friendly as queer-saturated.
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As screwy as it might sound, what matters is whose party's Electoral College representatives end up with more votes.
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Mercury retrograde will reenter Cancer on July 19, and your social calendar will get screwy, so keep your plans loose!
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He reflected on this return while folded into an armchair of his Washington office during another screwy week in the capital.
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Children are now depending on Facebook—which has a screwy history of moderating content—to deal with harassment and inappropriate content.
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They said look it's you, the big hair, the small hands, the screwy expressions, the orange skin, look, sir, it's you.
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The original data is screwy because OARC started counting non-research projects, like teacher training and professional education, in the research analysis.
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Ever since the repair shop replaced my screen, the touchscreen has been a little screwy, leading to more butt-dialing and butt-texting.
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There are over 1,500 emojis currently available on the iPhone, many of which look similar, and some look screwy when rendered by different platforms.
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Over the course of its 14 tracks, the mixtape is messy yet mesmerizing, bridging vast gaps between genres from screwy Houston rap to funk.
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What begins with a screwy reharmonization of the opening verse becomes a contortionist's dance through various rhythms: arena-rock pummel, disfigured march, twisted shuffle.
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Alan Tudyk—beloved for his supporting turns in Firefly, Dodgeball, A Knight's Tale, and other screwy, delightful entertainments—has always been an animated character actor.
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Newsom tries to pick his poison If you want to know just how screwy California's new system is, just remember this: Gubernatorial frontrunner Lt. Gov.
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The nonvoting regional presidents threw a monkey wrench into the market, and that had things a little screwy," Cashin told CNBC's "Squawk on the Street.
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And people are memorializing the heroic chatterbox — who died protecting Bran from the White Walkers via some screwy time-traveling/warging business — in elevators everywhere.
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The caucuses have always been screwy under the rubric of quaint, with people offering chocolates for votes and doing coin tosses to make final decisions.
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Then it decided to go screwy with a band of antiheroic villains saving the world in the fizzy disaster known as 2016's Suicide Squad.
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"Fasting can be a slippery slope to unhealthy habits and a screwy relationship with food," Jessica Cording, a registered dietitian, wrote for Shape magazine in August.
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Christina Applegate stars as the less screwy of the two, and she's conducting her own quixotic investigation into who drove the car that killed her husband.
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Undeniably great, both Chris Paul and Exodus represent the idealized versions of their respective fields, but both are also victims of bad timing and screwy circumstances.
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If tth events, as identified by the decay products of the Higgs boson, are screwy in relation to other mechanisms, it could point again to New Physics.
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Uranus also begins its retrograde on August 23, which could find your sleep schedule getting a little screwy—make extra time to rest and don't overbook yourself.
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So they all vote for the budget and then a bunch of them don't want to vote to borrow the money to support the budget which is screwy.
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His C.V. also includes a list of credits for voice acting in dozens of cartoons and video games — roles with names like Screwy Squirrel, Bat-Mite and Gnome Ruler.
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Chaffetz reveals 'screwy' reason for missing work "The council must be prepared to impose additional and stronger sanctions on North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile programs," the president said.
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Now I would say the general business hope is that this all gets resolved and that they sort this all out and that there's nothing screwy that happens here.
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"Trump is not the rough-talking, screwy, ignorant candidate they say he is, but is actually a wise politician," a columnist wrote in a North Korean propaganda magazine, DPRK Today.
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By executing a parry and riposte on a specific part of a specific staircase, players con the game into triggering its "death camera," thanks to the physics and geometry getting screwy.
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A parallel universe has been created as a new source of energy for our depleted world, but something screwy has happened and Will must hop over there to assess the situation.
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It's also worth noting that machines designed to flag nudes have proven screwy, and that this might also prevent kids from looking up images and information related to inquiries about sexual education.
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The Broadway revival of "Exit the King" in 2009 (for which Geoffrey Rush received a Tony Award as the king) rendered the play as a screwy comedy extravaganza with a somber conclusion.
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The Coen brothers' homage to old Hollywood features Josh Brolin as a high-powered fixer experiencing both a crisis of faith and a crisis of vocation during a few particularly screwy days.
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"In general, movies would rather look at women than analyze them — except when the lady in question is (at least apparently) a little screwy," writes Terrence Rafferty in his review of A Dangerous Method.
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Consider his use of a quote by Abraham Lincoln to state the very obvious — that this is one screwy world these days and it requires a lot more than just tech to make it better.
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Where a film like Guardians of the Galaxy is able to mine laughs out of the Guardians' screwy family dynamic, Gadot's Diana and Pine's Steve Trevor are two worlds colliding in the funniest possible ways.
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As if my own ineptitude wasn't enough, the cars' pathfinding AI is a little bit screwy, leading to situations where long lines of vehicles queue up behind one car trying to turn left across a divided highway.
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The time has finally come: Drake has gone to the other side, to the realm of absurd, screwy, uncontrollable delirium; a place that you, me, and even Drake himself know it'll be difficult to return from safe and sound.
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And if you have made the jump from iOS to Android, you know just how ridiculously frustrating it is to have your text messages lost into the ether, due to the screwy way the data-to-SMS transition is handled.
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If women's sexual desire is discussed at all, it's usually presented as pathetic (Helena in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," say) or screwy (like Blanche in "A Streetcar Named Desire"), while what men see and want and do typically drives the action.
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I'm going to blame it on the screwy sense of orientation one experiences in virtual reality, but it probably owes just as much to my fear of falling off a mechanical skateboard simulator in the middle of the crowded E3 show floor.
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"It turns out that Trump is not the rough-talking, screwy, ignorant candidate they say he is, but is actually a wise politician and a prescient presidential candidate," said the column, written by a China-based Korean scholar identified as Han Yong Muk.
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The phone is rumored to be vastly different — and certainly more intentionally bendable — than anything available from chief rivals Apple and LG. It sounds a little screwy, but this type of device might actually be really helpful if it works as intended.
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Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Project (release date unknown) Since releasing his screwy, Pynchonian stoner-mystery Inherent Vice in 2014, Paul Thomas Anderson hasn't exactly been idle, directing the documentary Junun and several music videos for songs off of Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool.
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He understands that he's to be framed for a horrible crime, so the violin instrumentals start elevating to a high, disorientating pitch, camera angles get all screwy, and my man Cruise is about to do something really stupid (establishing the mood for all things stupid moving forward).
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It's a showdown between David, the Shadow King, and the mutant friends he's vowed to protect — and given how this season has played out, the only predictable thing is that we should expect the unpredictable, something as screwy as a silent film, when the final fight eventually goes down.
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" As Mr. Bailey remembered, Ford's campaign manager, James A. Baker III (a Texan who later served as President George H. W. Bush's secretary of state) found the commercial "nutty, absolutely screwy" and said, "You can't make a reference to Dallas that way without losing the state of Texas.
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And one thing their data from 1952 to 2008 clearly shows, according to Wang, is that head-to-head polls from January through April tend to be better predictors of the eventual winner than polls from May through July: (That's relatively good news for Clinton, since she led Trump by a substantial margin during this early period, although polls this autumn will give us an even better sense of the race.) Nobody knows exactly why the polls suddenly became screwy and less predictive during the summer.
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And one thing their data from 1952 to 2008 clearly shows, according to Wang, is that head-to-head polls from January through April tend to be better predictors of the eventual winner than polls from May through July: (That's relatively good news for Clinton, since she led Trump by a substantial margin during this early period, although polls this autumn will give us an even better sense of the race.) Nobody knows exactly why the polls suddenly become screwy and less predictive during the summer.
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The Screwy Truant is a 1945 Screwy Squirrel cartoon directed by Tex Avery and released by MGM.
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The cartoon centers around an adolescent version of Screwy Squirrel, who skips school to go fishing, which causes truant officer Meathead Dog to go around attempting to arrest Screwy, with various failures. At the end, Screwy reveals that he wasn't in school because he had measles.
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On April Fools' Day 1997, Cartoon Network ran an edited version (minus one blackface gag) of the 1944 Screwy Squirrel cartoon Happy-Go-Nutty repeatedly from 6 AM to 6 PM, as part of an April Fool's joke that the cartoon character had taken over the channel. In 2013, both Meathead and Screwy Squirrel make appearances as residents of "Fairy Land" in Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure retaining most of their traits. Screwy Squirrel was voiced by Paul Reubens and Meathead is voiced by John DiMaggio. In 2019, Screwy Squirrel makes an appearance as a landlord of an apartment building called Screwy Arms Apartments, in the third season of The Tom and Jerry Show episode called "Double Dog Trouble".
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His dummy, Screwy, never lies. Screwy voices all that Soliquisto cannot or will not say, including terrible truths about himself. (Song of the Saw) Under the pier is another world of English shale beach and cold sea. Here lives Mrs.
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He also makes various cameos in the series. Screwy is voiced by Sean Kenin.
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Lonesome Lenny is a 1946 Screwy Squirrel cartoon directed by Tex Avery and released to theaters on March 9, 1946 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is the last Screwy Squirrel cartoon; he is "killed" off on-screen at the end of the short.
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Screwy Squirrel (originally Screwball Squirrel) is an animated cartoon character, an anthropomorphic squirrel created by Tex Avery for Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer. He is generally considered the wackiest and outright most antagonistic of the screwball cartoon characters of the 1940s. Among the most outrageous cartoon characters ever created, Screwy can do almost anything to almost anyone: he pulls objects out of thin air, doubles himself, and constantly breaks the fourth wall, all the while uttering a characteristic cackling laugh. The character was not as successful as Avery's Droopy was at this time, and Screwy appeared in only five cartoons: Screwball Squirrel (1944), Happy- Go-Nutty (1944), Big Heel-Watha (1944), The Screwy Truant (1945), and Lonesome Lenny (1946).
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Screwy Squirrel becomes the playmate of a lonesome, dopey, and strong dog Lenny, in a broad parody of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men".
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The snippet-review for Blockbuster reads, "Pleasant comedy owes screwy bounce to Ball."Blockbuster Entertainment Guide to Movies and Videos (Mercer Island, WA: Island Books, 1998), 521.
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Bag Bag knows, but will not say. Just as Screwy always tells the truth, so too does Mrs. Bag Bag, but Mrs. Bag Bag's truths are oblique, couched in riddles and rhymes.
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He is sitting in Jeff's car. When Jeff finally asks who he is, the man replies "Me? I'm the author of the story – screwy idea, wasn't it?" He then rolls up the car window.
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Musiker explains his task of trying to find the right words to fit the tune, singing it to Beetzie ("Every measure note for note"). Although Beetzie finds Musiker's tune "screwy" she takes the job.
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Droopy's Tennis Open is a tennis video game developed by Bit Managers and published by LSP for the Game Boy Advance. It stars the character Droopy. Other playable characters include McWolf, Butch, Bubbles Vavoom, Dripple, and Screwy Squirrel.
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The Glass Bottle recorded two singles. Both were straight pop songs. "I Ain't Got Time Anymore" hit No. 36 in 1971. Also, in 1974, Goodman anonymously released Screwy T.V., an album of risque parodies of then-popular TV series.
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Cartoon Network has broadcast its share of stunts over the years, many on April Fools' Day. In 1997, it showed the Screwy Squirrel short "Happy- Go-Nutty" for 12 hours, repeated in a loop, with the tongue-in-cheek claim that Screwy had taken over the programming studio and would show nothing else. Numerous complaints were received about this particular event, generally fielded by Cartoon Network's cable providers, who had been left in the dark about the stunt. Likely because of the backlash, Cartoon Network has not shown such an unannounced stunt of this magnitude since.
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His work for MGM comic books included The Addams Family, Tom & Jerry, Droopy, and Screwy Squirrel, and Mr. Magoo for UPA, and The Pink Panther and The Inspector for DePatie-Freleng. For Walter Lantz, Carl wrote Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda, Chilly Willy, and Homer Pigeon comic books.
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When the camera rolls on Hamburger's orders, it starts shooting bullets. Hamburger begins crying while stating "This isn't a gangster picture!" Daffy sympathetically gives him a gift, promising to stop being screwy, and walks away. However, Daffy then pops up out of the gift box, bites Hamburger's nose and starts jumping around.
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A 1961 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated cartoon entitled The Abominable Snow Rabbit parodies Lennie and George. In American theatrical cartoons from Warners and MGM, large strong dimwitted characters of various species were often depicted and voiced as burlesques of Chaney Jr.'s interpretation of Lennie, most notably in Lonesome Lenny, the final cartoon featuring Screwy Squirrel.
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A modern review by AllMovie felt the earlier film, Rafter Romance, had more charm and better character development, but said this film "treats the same material in a more broadly comedic manner, sometimes moving into downright screwy territory". This review also noted the unusual casting of Franklin Pangborn, who usually played effeminate characters, as Mary's lascivious boss.
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This is a list of theatrical animated cartoon shorts distributed by Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer which were not part of any other series such as Tom and Jerry, Droopy, Barney Bear, Screwy Squirrel, George and Junior, Spike and Tyke, Spike or Happy Harmonies.Maltin, Leonard, Of Mice and Magic:History of American Animated cartoons 1980 All the cartoons were produced in Technicolor.
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Electric guitar, recordings played on tape recorders, and participants yelling at the audience were features of the event. In a related action, she photographed Pérez as "Screwy Louie" carrying a cross through the Second Street Tunnel. Carlos Almaraz was diagnosed with AIDS during the 1980s, eventually leading to his death. After his death, Flores' fame continued to grow.
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I asked Allen if I could do something screwy by playing this 'Papa Loved Mama' song. Kim Williams came in and we wrote the bridge right before we cut it. After we cut it, we knew that it had to make the album. 'Walking After Midnight' then moved to The Chase, and 'Papa Loved Mama' was placed on Ropin' the Wind.
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The podcast Yang co-hosts with Matt Rogers, Las Culturistas, is described by Vulture as both "delightfully screwy" and a "two- headed snark routine". , the podcast has 170 episodes. Each one opens with an interview with a pop culture guest, then goes to one-minute rounds of "I Don't Think So, Honey!" (IDTSH) where the hosts and guests each expound on pet peeves.
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What follows is a journey up a beanstalk to Fairyland, a magical land ruled by a greedy giant and home to all manner of fabled characters, some portrayed by classic MGM cartoon characters such as Droopy as Old King Cole and Screwy Squirrel as Simple Simon's pieman. Now, Tom and Jerry must put an end to their furry feud long enough to save both Fairyland and Storybook Town.
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After distributing Ub Iwerks' Flip the Frog and Willie Whopper cartoons and Happy Harmonies by Harman and Ising, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer founded its own cartoon studio in 1937. The studio had much success with Barney Bear (1939-1954), Hanna and Joseph Barbera's Tom and Jerry (1940) and Spike and Tyke (1942). In 1941, Tex Avery left Warner Bros. for MGM and would there create Droopy (1943), Screwy Squirrel (1944) and George and Junior (1944).
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Later they would make appearances in Dark Horse Comics with Tex Avery's Wolf and Red and Screwy Squirrel. Lucky Ducky was a originally planned to feature George and Junior.Adamson, Joe, Tex Avery: King of Cartoons, 1975, De Capo Press In 2019, both George and Junior make an appearance as zoo catchers in the fourth season of The Tom and Jerry Show episode called "Shadow of a Doubt". They also make various cameos in the series.
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Her visual design and voice varied somewhat between shorts. Other Avery characters at MGM included Screwy Squirrel and the Of Mice and Men-inspired duo of George and Junior. Other MGM cartoons directed by Avery include Bad Luck Blackie, Cellbound, Magical Maestro, Lucky Ducky, Ventriloquist Cat and King-Size Canary. Avery began his stint at MGM working with lush colors and realistic backgrounds, but he slowly abandoned this style for a more frenetic, less realistic approach.
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The most famous was the 1937 Silly Symphony Little Hiawatha, whose hero is a small boy whose pants keep falling down.View on YouTube The 1941 Warner Bros. cartoon Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt features Bugs Bunny and a pint-sized version of Hiawatha in quest of rabbit stew.View on YouTube The 1944 MGM cartoon Big Heel-watha, directed by Tex Avery, follows the overweight title character's effort to win the hand of the chief's daughter by catching Screwy Squirrel.
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Droopy is an animated character from the golden age of American animation. He is an anthropomorphic dog with a droopy face, hence his name. He was created in 1943 by Tex Avery for theatrical cartoon shorts produced by the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. Essentially the polar opposite of Avery's other MGM character, the loud and wacky Screwy Squirrel, Droopy moves slowly and lethargically, speaks in a jowly monotone voice, and—though hardly an imposing character—is shrewd enough to outwit his enemies.
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Screwball Squirrel is based on the original Screwball "Screwy" Squirrel in 1944, but now his adventures take place in a public city park, as he messes with hot-headed park attendant Dweeble and his dumb guard dog, Rumpley. He was voiced by Charlie Adler. He would also appear in one direct-to-video film, Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure, voiced by Paul Reubens. He would also make a cameo appearance in the Season 3 episode of The Tom and Jerry Show, "Kid Stuff".
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In the 1941 cartoon The Prospecting Bear, Barney is paired with a donkey named Benny Burro. Though Benny would only make two further cartoon appearances, he would later feature as Barney's partner in numerous comic book stories. In the 1944 Tex Avery cartoon Screwball Squirrel, Barney Bear is mentioned by Sammy Squirrel as he talks to Screwy Squirrel at the beginning. Barney Bear would not appear in new material again until Filmation's The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show in 1980.
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Porky's post at the pinnacle of the Warners' pantheon was short- lived. In 1937, the studio tried pairing Porky with various sidekicks, such as love interest Petunia Pig, cantankerous foil Gabby Goat, and a screwy black duck, Daffy. Daffy Duck, the creation of Tex Avery, was by far the most popular, eventually outshining even Porky. In fact, Friz Freleng satirized this phenomenon when he directed You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940), where Daffy convinces Porky to quit his job at Warner Bros.
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At Wonder Studios ("If it's a good picture, it's a Wonder"), producer I.M. Stupendous is interrupted in his office by Daffy asking for an acting position, and quickly responds "No!" and breaks the fourth wall by stating, "Y'know, that duck's screwy!" The phone rings and Daffy pops out of it saying "You're correct, absolutely correct!", pinching Stupendous's nose. Stupendous then phones Director von Hamburger (a parody of Josef von Sternberg) and orders him to finish the picture he's working on that day.
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Red Riding Hood and "Wolfie" (from Swing Shift Cinderella) make a cameo appearance. In the middle of the cartoon, the two interrupt one of Screwy's antics with the wolf chasing Red across the screen, only for Screwy to interrupt by showing the title of the cartoon, saying he is in the wrong cartoon. Swing Shift Cinderella wasn't released for another seven months, so it can be inferred that the script was being written at the time, and Tex wanted to give a short teaser for it.
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According to Bielen and Urish, Starr's drumming variations ensure that the tension keeps mounting. John Lennon claimed that the song was "one of the fuckin' best rock 'n' roll records ever made." Allmusic critic Ned Raggett describes Ono's vocal as a "screwy blues yowl," claiming that it suggests "something off Led Zeppelin III gone utterly berserk." New York Times critic Allan Kozinn compares Ono's vocal to "a wailing, overdriven electric guitar," claiming its virtuosity compares with the actual electric guitar playing of Lennon and Clapton.
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He was unsuccessful, polling 1.8 percent of the primary vote. Jones also evinced an interest in unidentified flying objects, having first encountered unexplained aerial phenomena at Warrnambool, Victoria, in 1930. He reported witnessing another UFO in October 1957, but admitted that he was "loath to talk about it publicly lest people should think I was either an incompetent witness or getting a little screwy in the head". In the mid-1960s he patronised the Commonwealth Aerial Phenomena Investigation Organisation and joined the Victorian UFO Research Society.
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Avery's preferred gag man Heck Allen said that Avery himself provided the voice on several occasions, and "You couldn't tell the difference."Adamson, Joe, Tex Avery: King of Cartoons, De Capo Press, 1975. Droopy himself was a versatile actor: he could play a Mountie, a cowboy, a deputy, an heir, or a Dixieland-loving everyday Joe with equal ease. The same voice was used for Big Heel-Watha in the Screwy Squirrel cartoon of the same name and for a Pilgrim who chases a turkey modeled after Jimmy Durante in Avery's 1945 short Jerky Turkey.
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Meanwhile, Tex Avery came to MGM in 1941 and revitalized their cartoon studio with the same spark that had infused the Warner animators. Tex Avery's wild surreal masterpieces of his MGM days set new standards for "adult" entertainment in Code-era cartoons. Tex Avery did not like to use recurring characters but did stay faithful to a character throughout his career at MGM with Droopy, who was created in Dumb-Hounded in 1943. Tex also created Screwy Squirrel in 1944, but Tex was less fond of him and discontinued the series after five cartoons.
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The Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts by Warner Bros. Animation, for instance, introduced dozens of funny animals, many of whom have reached iconic status in American culture. Other notable funny animals from the color film era included Universal's Woody Woodpecker, Wally Walrus, Chilly Willy and Andy Panda; MGM's Screwy Squirrel, Barney Bear and Droopy; and Terrytoons' Heckle and Jeckle, Gandy Goose, Dinky Duck and Mighty Mouse. MGM's Tom and Jerry also exhibit a lot of funny animal traits, even though Tom is depicted as a pet housecat.
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Not all of the comedic bits work as well as others, but the good outweighs the bad and the film is funny enough to succeed. The sex is graphic, even by the standards of a seventies drive-in film, and the nudity quite plentiful." :"Teenage Hitch-Hikers isn't for the puritanical viewer, rather, it's very much a product of its time as it delivers all manner of scenes of wanton sexuality and screwy comedy. It's hardly a politically correct film, but that's half of its charm right there.
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In this screwy romantic comedy, a young woman (Lucille Ball) stands to inherit $20 million provided she marries an American citizen. Unfortunately, she is in love with a handsome foreigner. To get the money, she marries the first Yankee she runs across—with every intention of obtaining a quickie divorce in Reno as soon as the money comes through. The bickersome newlyweds take a trailer and set off across the country to Reno, but through a series of zany mishaps and adventures they realize that they are slowly falling in love.
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Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator and director, known for producing and directing animated cartoons during the golden age of American animation. His most significant work was for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, where he was crucial in the creation and evolution of famous animated characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, George and Junior, and Chilly Willy. Gary Morris described Avery's innovative approach: > Above all, [Avery] steered the Warner Bros.
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Hughes retained his seats with increased majorities in subsequent elections, and took the Devon County Council seat from the local party's Chief Whip in the council. To date, two councillors have subsequently become mayors: Alan Hope in Ashburton, Devon and Chris "Screwy" Driver on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. At the Bootle by-election in May 1990, the Loony candidate (Sutch) received more votes than the candidate for the continuing Social Democrats. The story was a major headline in many UK newspapers; ironically, the by-election itself had attracted little coverage.
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The Rock 'n' Roll Loony Party was a minor political party in the United Kingdom. Founded in 2000, the group split from the Official Monster Raving Loony Party after the death of Screaming Lord Sutch."Sutch high hopes in craziest town", Birmingham Post, 1 April 2000 Stephen Ingle claims that it was formed by Librarians.Stephen Ingle, The British Party System: An Introduction It was initially based in Cannock, at the Laughing Leopards pub, which was run by its joint deputy leader, while its leader was Chris "Screwy" Driver.
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Maggie Hennefeld "Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes", Columbia UP, 2018. Slapstick also became a common element in animated cartoons starting in the 1930; examples include Disney's Goofy shorts, Walter Lantz's Woody Woodpecker and The Beary Family, MGM's Tom and Jerry, the unrelated Tom and Jerry cartoons of Van Beuren Studios, Warner Bros. Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies, MGM's Barney Bear, and Tex Avery's Screwy Squirrel. Slapstick was later used in Japanese Tokusatsu TV Kamen Rider Drive and in the United States used in the two 1960s TV series, Gilligan's Island, and Batman.
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With work you could assemble any dozen jottings into a free-wheeling adventure like the loose-jointed Arabian Nights tales, where one thing follows another without much logic. But not much of Land of Fate matches the screwy imagination of the best Nights tales. At times the designer's creativity clearly flags, such as in this candid beginning to an entry describing the secrets of Hilm: "The City of Kindness is boring." And, as with the rulebook, there is no hint in all these pages of how to develop these jottings into a memorable, characteristically Arabian campaign.
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The mournful Soliquisto, a once great music hall artiste, believes he has come to the end of his career. He used to headline halls like the Hackney Empire, but now he is lucky to play small rooms at the end of piers. His act has always consisted of trained animals: a singing parakeet (Parakeet to Meet You), and two all-dancing, all-singing cats—one male, Stinkfoot, and one female, Persian Moll. Each of these were creations of true brilliance, but all he has left now is Moll, his ventriloquist's dummy Screwy, and his eager nephew and assistant Buster.
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Dummer and his wife also performed as a duo, and peaked at number 54 in the UK Singles Chart with their cover version of "Blues Skies", and were also known for "Own Up If You're Over 25". He then managed The Screaming Blue Messiahs for three years, before restoring properties in France and Portugal. He formed Screwy Truants with French musicians, sang and played harmonica with French guitarist Jean-Claude Manuel, and drummed with harmonica player and blues singer Nico Toussaint. Dummer is currently still drumming with various groups in Bordeaux and working as an antiques trader, furniture restorer and author.
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Droopy, Master Detective is a spoof of detective films and cop shows, featuring Droopy and his son, Dripple, as detectives on the mean streets of a big city. Newly made seven-minute episodes were mixed in with new seven-minute cartoons featuring the Tom and Jerry Kids characters. The rest of the half-hour program mostly was taken up by Screwball Squirrel, another Tex Avery creation from the 1940s. In these new cartoons, Screwy made his home in a public park, making life miserable for hot-headed park attendant Dweeble and his dog Rumpley — both, rather typical Hanna-Barbera comedy foes rather than Tex Avery-inspired characters.
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Claude "Screwy" Maddox (1901 - June 21, 1958),Roemer, Jr., William F., Accardo: The Genuine Godfather (1995), p.138 born John Edward Moore, was a Chicago mobster and head of the Circus Cafe Gang whose ranks included future Chicago mobsters Anthony "Tough Tony" Capezio, Vincenzo De Mora ("Machine Gun" Jack McGurn, one-time owner of the "Green Mill") and Antonino "Tony" "Joe Batters" Accardo. Maddox was a member of a gang called Egan's Rats in his hometown of St. Louis, Missouri, which was absorbed by Alphonse "Big Al," "Scarface" Capone's gang, the Chicago Outfit. During Prohibition, the Circus Cafe Gang was the single North Side organization allied with Capone's Chicago Outfit.
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Woody Woodpecker is driving in town singing, only to come across a Used Car Row where Buzz Buzzard is the Honest Injun, (actually Dishonest Injun), one of several car dealers with proprietorships on Used Car Row. Resorting to deliberate sabotage in order to attract business, Buzz causes Woody Woodpecker to wreck his car when he drives by. Since Woody is now in need of a car, Buzz is more than happy to show the woodpecker around the lot. Woody has a hunch that something screwy is going on, but Buzz promises that his cars are clean (one exception is when a skunk leaves a car).
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The following list is a filmography of all animated short subjects distributed by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) motion picture studio through Loew's Incorporated between 1934 and 1958 and between 1961 and 1967. Between 1937 and 1957, MGM ran an in-house cartoon studio which produced shorts featuring the characters Barney Bear, Little Dee-Dee, Droopy, Red Hot Riding Hood & The Wolf, Screwy Squirrel, George and Junior, Spike, Spike and Tyke, and their best-known work, Tom and Jerry. Outside producers included Ub Iwerks (1930–34), Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising (1934–38), William L. Snyder (1961–62), and Chuck Jones (1963–67, via MGM Animation/Visual Arts).
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Pierce said the Andy and Ron subplot was "so well played that it threatens to usurp the mural storyline". Sandra Gonzalez particularly praised the "murinal" jokes about Jerry's mural, as well as Ron's claim that he ran a sheet metal factory when he was nine, and that "Child labor laws are ruining this country." Time magazine television critic James Poniewozik said make jokes connected in "The Camel", including the Andy shoeshine plot and the "unexpectedly glamorous" sewage department. But he particularly praised the character development in the main plot, in which "each in their own way sticks to the purity of their uniquely screwy ideas".
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This distinctive "Lunceford style" was largely the result of the imaginative arrangements by trumpeter Sy Oliver, which set high standards for dance-band arrangers of the time. Though not well-known as a musician, Lunceford knew how to play several instruments and was even featured on flute in "Liza". Comedy and vaudeville played a distinct part in Lunceford's presentation. Songs such as "Rhythm Is Our Business" (featured in a 1937 musical short with Myra Johnson (Taylor) on vocals), "I'm Nuts about Screwy Music", "I Want the Waiter (With the Water)", and "Four or Five Times" displayed a playful sense of swing, often through clever arrangements by trumpeter Sy Oliver and bizarre lyrics.
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Tex Avery was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor, and director. He became famous for producing animated cartoons during the Golden age of American animation and produced his most significant work while employed by the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. He created the characters of Daffy Duck in Porky's Duck Hunt (1937), Elmer Fudd in Egghead Rides Again (1937), Bugs Bunny in A Wild Hare (1940), Cecil Turtle in Tortoise Beats Hare (1941), Droopy in Dumb-Hounded (1943), Screwy Squirrel in Screwball Squirrel (1944), George and Junior in Henpecked Hoboes (1946), Spike/Butch the bulldog (Tex Avery's version) in Bad Luck Blackie (1949), and Smedley Dog in I'm Cold (1954).
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After a flight together, Bud and Ann crash-land and spend a night in a deserted cabin, leading to the realization that Ann must seek a divorce. When Speed discovers them, he apparently agrees to the new circumstances and surprisingly offers to design a new aerial stunt for Bud and himself that will have two aircraft colliding "head-on", with both of the pilots bailing out before the impact. Before the stunt takes place, another pilot who is usually inebriated, "Screwy" Edwards (Cliff Edwards), reveals that Speed has deliberately cut his rival's parachute and is planning an aerial murder. Ace takes off and crashes into Speed, sacrificing his life to save his brother.
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Each of the three shorts focused on a common theme. Most shorts came from Warner Bros., MGM, Universal, Paramount, Pat Sullivan, and Otto Mesmer (the latter studio provided the Popeye cartoons and the Felix The Cat cartoons only; these were in Turner's hands by this point), but during the show's first season Cartoon Alley featured shorts from the Gaumont Film Company. Many recognizable characters have been featured in at least one episode such as Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, Popeye, Felix The Cat, Porky Pig, Andy Panda, Tom and Jerry, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, Barney Bear, Spike, George and Junior, and others not so famous such as Goopy Geer and The Captain and the Kids.
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Sam emerges tottering, banged and bruised, to a comical instrumental of "Rally 'Round the Flag", and a gag occurs where Bugs affects the stereotyped voice of an African-American train porter, and has the dazed Sam convinced he's supposed to disembark the train, piling him up with luggage; Sam even hands Bugs a silver coin as a tip, and Bugs says, "Thank you, suh!" As Sam steps off the moving train, the mail-drop hook grabs him and temporarily whisks him off the train. Bugs thinks he has vanquished Sam, and yells, "So long, screwy, see ya in Saint Louie!" a line that will be echoed in Wild and Woolly Hare and A Feather in His Hare. But Sam gets back on board somehow.
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The misuse of wooden mallets in the workplace became a classic gag in the Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera, Nickelodeon, Disney, and MGM cartoons, including some more recent 3D animations. Characters like Roger Rabbit, Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, Tom and Jerry and Screwy Squirrel made use of mallets as part of their arsenal in the Golden Age of animation. On the British daytime shows TV-AM and GMTV, and in the spinoff children's shows hosted by Timmy Mallet, a game was played called "Mallet's Mallet" where a participant had to associate words in a certain time period. Failing contestants were hit on the head by Mallet, using a soft pink and yellow mallet with black "Mallet's Mallet" writing on both sides.
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Wellman argued publicly with him in defense of his directorial control, telling Wayne: "Look, you come back here behind the camera and do my job, and you're going to be just as ridiculous doing it as I would be going out there with that screwy voice of yours and that fairy walk and being Duke Wayne." Despite the initial issues on set, the two otherwise had a positive relationship and worked together on later films including Track of the Cat and Blood Alley. Aircraft feature prominently in The High and the Mighty, including two unusual aviation events: the U.S. Coast Guard's short-lived use of the B-17/PB-1G "Dumbo" rescue aircraft along with a brief launch clip of experiments with the U.S. Navy JB-2 version of the V-1 (an early kind of cruise missile) at an atomic missile test site. The postwar use of piston- engine aircraft in oceanic flights was a key element of the film which required the use of a then-modern airliner.
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