The Screwy Truant

The Screwy Truant is a 1945 Screwy Squirrel cartoon directed by Tex Avery and released by MGM.[2]

The Screwy Truant
Directed byTex Avery
Produced byFred Quimby (uncredited)
Story byHeck Allen
StarringWally Maher (Screwy Squirrel, uncredited)
Pinto Colvig (Meathead, Screwy laughing, uncredited)
Patrick McGeehan (Wolf, uncredited)[1]
Billy Bletcher (laughing sounds, uncredited)
William Hanna (screaming sounds, uncredited)
Music byScott Bradley
Animation byPreston Blair
Ed Love
Ray Abrams
Layouts byClaude Smith (uncredited)
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
MGM cartoon studio
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • January 13, 1945 (1945-01-13)
Running time
7 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Summary

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.

Cameo

Red 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.

References
  1. ""Hello All You Happy Tax Payers": Tex Avery's Voice Stock Company |". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
  2. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 134–135. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
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