Hello, my name's Justin the Klu, and I'm here today with Will Sloan. And you're listening to

the Important Cinema Club. And today, we are coming to you live from each other's homes again.

Yes, we're still getting used to this format. I've got Justin here in a tiny screen on the top right of my computer. We tried to do

it not looking at each other, but I realized that the spinach to my pop-eye is to see Justin's

happy face and laughter and joy as I talk. I couldn't do it just hearing his voice. You kept

starting every episode with, uh, and now on this week's Michael and us, and you're like, oh crap, no, I'm sorry.

Luke, I'm sorry. So today, we're talking about Tex Avery, who personally, I think he is the

grandfather of all the cartoon, you know, wacky, zany animal tropes that continue to

persist to this day. What do you think, Will? Listen, folks, have you heard of Bugs Bunny? Because

Tex Avery created him. Well, not single-handedly, but Bugs Bunny, his first cartoon was a wild

hair from 1940, directed by Tex Avery.

Hey, do you guys like Daffy Duck?

Because Tex Avery also gave the world Daffy in the 1937 cartoon, Porky's Duck Hunt.

And hey, when you see a sexy lady, do you ever go, Auga, Auga, and have your eyes pop out of your head and have your tongue

unfurl on the table? Because you're probably thinking of the Texavery Wolf, that iconic

creation from Red Hot Riding Hood. Never. That would be very rude, Will. You're right. That's

very problematic. I'm canceled now. So I think that we need to go back

almost to the beginning of cartoons just to differentiate the TechSavry era and what had come before.

Walt Disney, Max Fleischer, cartoons that, you know, people associate them with like, oh, that's the

classic black and white stuff where Tech Savory comes in in and that's when you get kind of like

fourth wall breaking you get really kind of eyes popping out of skulls this big slapstick

physicality which was his trademark. The thing about Tex Avery that everybody knows about him is that

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