My top 30 favorite Tex Avery MGM cartoons

The characters of the traditional fairy tale demand a new approach to the story as a sexy urban comedy with Red as a nightclub singer.

A wolf convict makes his escape, but is pursued by a diminutive Mountie who seems to be everywhere.

The first Texas bad man come running into town a million years B.C.

A close look at the comic misadventures of fishermen and hunters.

Bored with chasing Red Riding Hood, the Wolf decides to go after Cinderella, but her fairy godmother takes a shine to him instead - and has an arsenal of magical powers to help achieve her ends.

Two buzzards suffer from acute food shortage and make up for it by cooking each other, or at least trying to.

George and Junior are two hungry bears wandering along a railroad who try to make a meal out of a not too bright barnyard chicken, making a rooster very jealous in the process.

This starts off as an adaptation of Robert Service's poem 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew', complete with a literal depiction of a man with one foot in the grave, but when Dan McGoo turns out to be Droopy, it turns into another Droopy-versus-the Wolf gagfest.

The Wolf rides into town, terrorises it, kidnaps the girl, and is chased by the outraged townspeople, accompanied by Droopy, who despite introducing himself as "the hero" at the end, in fact barely features in this one - but connoisseurs of Tex Avery wolves will have a field day.

A man is murdered in an isolated mansion, and the detective tries to find out whodunit. But the house he's investigating is decidedly haunted, and he never knows just what's 'round the next corner.

Screwy Squirrel is bought in a pet shop to be the companion of a daft dog so strong that he squeezes his playmates to death.

A cute and very tormented kitten is bullied by an incomparably evil bulldog, who lives to know better after a black cat crosses his path.

A cat is driven up the wall by the inhabitant of the cuckoo clock, so he spends the film trying to catch him.

A mangy cat on the verge of starvation finds a tiny canary and a bottle of 'Jumbo-Gro' fertilizer, which gives him an idea that leads to giant cats, dogs, mice and canaries chasing each other round Lilliputian towns and cities...

The king of the jungle, after a well-spent day terrorising the rest of the animals, is petrified by a mouse...

A screwy squirrel provokes a pedigreed birddog to chase him throughout the picture.

Yet another variation on the Three Little Pigs theme, this time told as WW2 anti-German propaganda (the US had just entered the war), with the wolf as a thinly-disguised Hitler.

In this triangle drama a country chicken chooses between a country rooster and a city rooster.

A series of visual gags about baseball. One running gag has an angry fan screaming "Kill the ump!" Be careful what you wish for.....

George and Junior get a job as dog catchers, but are increasingly frustrated in their attempts to catch one measly little dog.

A Pilgrim ventures out to procure a turkey for the first Thanksgiving.

A black cat explains reason after reason why he cannot stand people, and opts to relocate to the moon. When he does, he finds characters there that make him realize people aren't so bad anyway.

Droopy is an unlikely fox-hound, but the highly civilised (and resourceful) English upper-class fox makes even more unlikely prey...

A bullfight contest between Droopy and The Wolf, staged in the Chili Bowl.

A farmer is initially delighted to get a baby goat, but this soon turns to apprehension when he discovers that it eats literally anything (including, at one point, the animation artwork).