The Screwy Truant

The Screwy Truant
Directed by	Tex Avery
Story by	Heck Allen
Produced by	Fred Quimby (uncredited)
Starring	Wally 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 by	Scott Bradley
Animation by	Preston Blair Ed Love Ray Abrams
Layouts by	Claude Smith (uncredited)
Color process	Technicolor
Production company	MGM cartoon studio
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	January 13, 1945 (1945-01-13)
Running time	7 minutes
Language	English

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

Summary[]

The cartoon centers around an adolescent version of Screwy Squirrel, who skips school to go fishing, which causes truant officer Meathead Dog (here seen with a different color palette but otherwise the same) 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[]

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

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