Symphony in Slang | Tex Avery Screwball

Symphony in Slang | Tex Avery Screwball | Warner Archive

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Tex Avery Screwball (1951) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #TexAveryScrewball
TEX AVERY SCREWBALL COMEDY CLASSICS-VOLUME ONE
Collection Includes:
Tex Avery Classics
RED HOT RIDING HOOD
WHO KILLED WHO?
WHAT'S BUZZIN BUZZARD?
BATTY BASEBALL
THE HICK CHICK
BAD LUCK BLACKIE
GARDEN GOPHER
THE PEACHY COBBLER
SYMPHONY IN SLANG
Screwy Squirrel
SCREWBALL SQUIRREL
THE SCREWY TRUANT
BIG HEEL-WATHA
LONESOME LENNY
George & Junior
HOUND HUNTERS
RED HOT RANGERS
Droopy
DUMB HOUNDED
WAGS TO RICHES
THE CHUMP CHAMP
DAREDEVIL DROOPY
There were several masters of animation during Hollywood’s golden era. Of the top two geniuses, one created elaborate fairy tales and ornate feature-length fantasias - the other guy was Tex Avery. He just wanted to make you laugh. Having already been integrally involved in the development of Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny for Warner Bros., Avery moved to MGM in 1941 to create a set of comedy masterpieces that defined a new slapstick style for animation, inspiring cartoonists, comedians and filmmakers for decades to come. Avery’s unit at Metro Goldwyn Mayer was all about breaking the fourth wall, shattering expectations and making audiences fall down with laughter. His one-shot masterpieces, including Bad Luck Blackie, Red Hot Riding Hood and Symphony in Slang, have proven themselves pure gold. And continuing characters like Droopy, Screwball Squirrel and George & Junior - not to mention Spike, Red and The Wolf - remain unforgettable comic personas among the top rank of cartoondom. Avery’s cartoons were ahead of their time - and their time has come. Finally committed to Blu-ray™, this first collection of restored Technicolor® shorts feels fresh and new, and is funnier than ever. This set will delight young and old - and will amaze a new generation ready to laugh again. - JERRY BECK, Animation Historian.
Directed By Tex Avery
Starring John Brown
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@wafflekingdor5376 4 жыл бұрын

I love the fact that they interpret the slang literally!

@sha11235 3 жыл бұрын

That's the joke, Mr. Webster gets literal with it.

@melissacooper4282 3 жыл бұрын

Mr. Webster is like an autistic person. Most autistics take things too literally.

@TheNotverysocial 3 жыл бұрын

@@melissacooper4282 Many of these things aren't even slang. The word "it" is a substitute for anything that was most recently mentioned to not get redundant. And whenever the word "like" or "seemed" are used, they are key words. It'll be like finding a needle in a haystack is more accurate than saying you are looking for a needle in a haystack.

@snotloutisagod2956 3 жыл бұрын

@@melissacooper4282 As an autistic person myself, I can understand that.

@littlejohnandbaloo9701 3 жыл бұрын

@@snotloutisagod2956 I usually don't use slang much, but I find it highly interesting to examine it as an autistic person.

@TheNeos07 4 жыл бұрын

I remember seeing this when I was a little kid. Good times.

@alvinjones670 4 жыл бұрын

Right on!

@Rylosalex 4 жыл бұрын

I remember this cartoon, loved it.

@jeffreywilliams8499 4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@JODA93 4 жыл бұрын

Classic

@MikeJones-nz9ki 3 жыл бұрын

Is it true that the Disney Channel series Phineas and Ferb had a little Tex Avery design to the characters and backgrounds?

@frankcortes6852 2 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid, this cartoon used to scared me because of how insane and confusing it was. 😰 Now as a grown up, it’s my favorite Tex Avery cartoon! 🤣

@dalelerette206 Жыл бұрын

I loved this cartoon as a kid. The 1951 'Symphony in Slang' was a pure classic! And I would laugh so hard because I knew even back when I was 7 years old the difference between slang and literal. Polymaths laugh mirthfully at the absurdity of taking the slang literally. But I suspect some damaged souls end up psychopaths since they painfully interpret the slang literally and start doing some weird stuff, much like The Joker! Saint Benedict, pray for us. ♥

@Epoch11 3 ай бұрын

I always thought it was absolutely hilarious. Then again anything Tex Avery made was usually pretty good. And there is a cluster of cartoons that he made in his prime which personally I consider the greatest cartoons ever made.

@AntoineRenaud 25 күн бұрын

I used to watch this as a kid in the late 2000’s. We had videotapes with compilations of Tex episodes. This one I always found a bit confusing because I am french and did not speak english at the time. Funny to remember that I could still understand some of it because the slang is sometimes similar in french.

@sha11235 17 күн бұрын

Didn't scare me.

@frankcortes6852 17 күн бұрын

@@sha11235 Actually, I was exaggerating. It did made me laugh at the time, but I was like… “why is everything happening in such a messed up way? 🤔”. Besides, back then my English wasn’t THAT good. I couldn’t tell that this was a “literal” story. Imagine watching a cartoon like this in a language that you don’t understand! How can you tell the puns or the symbolisms! 😬

@Mrvwcc11 4 жыл бұрын

I love how literal this cartoon is lol 😆

@frankcortes6852 2 жыл бұрын

This is the most literal story I ever heard! 🤣

@dreamguardian8320 Жыл бұрын

Me too.

@Capcoor 9 ай бұрын

That’s the joke.

@ispeakpenguin 9 ай бұрын

@veronicaa.1416I use it to teach about idioms!

@Drixenol86 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine if one of them ordered a Bloody Mary.

@yosefdemby8792 4 жыл бұрын

Or a Black Russian. (Okay, that one's from "The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear".)

@valerieannrumpf4151 4 жыл бұрын

🤣😂

@Angelectric_609 4 жыл бұрын

Drixenol86 *gets out whole ass mirror* I’ll fetch her- I mean one right up

@ValliW 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine if they released *all* the MGM shorts instead of just the Tex Avery ones

@kenhollis6197 4 жыл бұрын

@@GeneralGeorgeS.PattonJr. You can probably find it on Dailymotion.

@chrisvellner3922 4 жыл бұрын

" I was up against IT. … But I carried ON." Where is the rest?

@emiliopolanco8587 4 жыл бұрын

Chris Vellner what’s it mean?

@valerieannrumpf4151 4 жыл бұрын

We want to find out what happened to Mary. Did she have a bunch of little 1s.😂🤣

@emiliopolanco8587 4 жыл бұрын

Valerieann Rumpf oh okay

@PRINCESSROCKYT 4 жыл бұрын

Whassah mattuh? Cat got your tongue?

@ordimystique5925 4 жыл бұрын

@@emiliopolanco8587 the cartoon is cut , the end is missing

@microbusss 4 жыл бұрын

I want ALL of Tex Avery on DVD!!!

@alvinjones670 4 жыл бұрын

ME TOO!!!

@microbusss 4 жыл бұрын

@@alvinjones670 I only have 1 of the 4 volumes on VHS tape & I want them ALL

@microbusss 4 жыл бұрын

yeah its available thru Warner Archive NOW Tex Avery's LAST cartoon is called Sh-h-h-h released by Walter Lantz Productions from Universal Pictures

@hamhockbeans 3 жыл бұрын

Your in luck the Tex Avery Archive Collection is out on DVD volume 1 and 2 on Amazon. Uncut for collectors and not suitable for children.

@microbusss 3 жыл бұрын

@@hamhockbeans I have both now hehe hope theres a 3rd one planned As they forgot 1 Screwy Squirrel episode hehe

@HOODIZM3 4 жыл бұрын

One of the Greatest and Most Original Cartoons of All Time.....

@cartoonbackups 3 жыл бұрын

This cartoon takes everything literally

@dreamguardian8320 Жыл бұрын

A that's the joke in this show🤣

@gabe_s_videos 4 жыл бұрын

Finally! One of my all-time favorite cartoons in HD!

@NellsStuff 2 жыл бұрын

This was on TCM recently, and I actually showed it to my mother. She was in stitches! To this day, I remember parts of it like it was only yesterday when I was sitting on the floor of the living room as a little kid. Especially the cat with the tongue!

@andressantos9130 6 ай бұрын

me too, except it was the bit about him being beside himself. it wasn't until recently i was able to find this cartoon. for a decade i was searching "man beside himself in cartoon" or "cartoon figures of speech literal," stuff like that, but it would never return anything useful. some years ago, i had the tv on for background noise, and when i heard the line, "i was beside myself with anger," i said, "that's the cartoon!" luckily i was able to go back on the tivo or whatever it was -- the thing that lets you pause live television -- to the opening credits, and that was how i learned it was a tex avery cartoon.

@PRETTYTEATikTokTea_Ya 3 жыл бұрын

Loved this cartoon! So unique at showing examples of phrases we use everyday! Lol 😂

@finster1968 2 жыл бұрын

Tex Avery was a genius!! Every time I look up one of my favorite childhood cartoons, his name appears! I always remembered Mary letting her hair down and eating like a horse! 😂.

@Ani8900 10 ай бұрын

That's why he was given the title king of cartoons

@stephenholloway6893 9 ай бұрын

Give some credit to Rich Hogan for the writing of the short

@lennylenn4009 4 жыл бұрын

Ran into this cartoon when i was in high school 1981 an it's STILL my favorite in 2020!

@MaskedMan66 3 жыл бұрын

The voice actor in this is John Brown, who played Jim Gillis and Digby O'Dell on the radio sitcom "The Life of Riley."

@markloveless1001 2 жыл бұрын

Bravo! I didn't realize until I heard Digger talk, and thought, wow, he was Noah Webster too! He did all the voices on this most Tex Avery-ish of Tex Avery cartoons.

@MaskedMan66 2 жыл бұрын

@@markloveless1001 Yup! I didn't catch on until I saw this on T.V. recently, and when I heard Webster say, "Proceed," I knew it was Digger! Then I realized that the voice he used for the hipster was the same he used as Al in "My Friend Irma."

@VinnySmiles01 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve been looking everywhere for this for years.. This was one of my favorites as a kid.

@KorianderBullard 4 жыл бұрын

This looks amazing! I need this set!

@beautatum6360 4 жыл бұрын

Seeing this cartoon remastered this nicely is something I didn't no I needed until now.

@richsackett3423 10 ай бұрын

It would've been better if they didn't cut the ending off. Some remastering.

@davaotripsters 4 жыл бұрын

Just like the Tom and Jerry Golden Collection remastered but in 4K scans.

@davidl5452 4 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking about this one the other day. I loved it as a kid, and was wondering how much of it my kids would get if they watched it.

@davidlafleche1142 4 жыл бұрын

Best gag ever: The "wolf" swallows Droopy's TV. In the next scene, Droopy is watching TV again, and says, "Now don't ask us how we got the television set back!"

@melissacooper4282 3 жыл бұрын

I had to Google up some of the terms but otherwise I was understanding what he was saying.

@jayskywalker5049 3 жыл бұрын

Its HILARIOUS

@cboyles 2 жыл бұрын

I saw this when I was a kid and it stuck with me all these years. Occasionally, I’ve looked for it, but had no idea what to search for. Today I found it! I’m so happy :0)

@keiroty7187 Жыл бұрын

Now we need a short in gen z slang

@lupemonroy7887 14 күн бұрын

No cap😂

@SagooBoy 4 жыл бұрын

I know they are the 2nd hand prints, but I’m so glad they finally released this set!

@yosefdemby8792 4 жыл бұрын

About time they honored him too!

@alyssajones4368 4 жыл бұрын

One of my absolute favorite Tex Avery cartoons.

@Asher_Tye 4 жыл бұрын

One of my absolute favorites.

@bigmassive69 3 жыл бұрын

I remember being a child in the 70s watching this cartoon and laughing my head off (😉).

@JrGoonior 3 жыл бұрын

Ditto!

@MrTruckerf 2 жыл бұрын

Laughing your head off? There's another idiom for ol' Tex to depict!

@bigmassive69 2 жыл бұрын

@@MrTruckerf Exactly. LOL

@headninjadog8120 3 жыл бұрын

I haven’t thought about this episode since i saw it as a kid in the 80s. I’m a kid again. Thanks 🙏🏻

@arcturusflare9266 11 ай бұрын

When I was a kid, I saw the French version many time and, surprinsingly, they adapted the jokes really well

@tsakhumth7792 10 ай бұрын

I want the full version 😭

@Epoch11 3 ай бұрын

Why show half a cartoon I agree

@Luke17d 3 жыл бұрын

I remember when they had this episode on tv. It was great! Don’t let the flame die out

@kestrelraptorial689 2 жыл бұрын

This was my first time ever seeing this cartoon. I literally almost died laughing!

@fishchrome1332 4 жыл бұрын

I love these cartoons, and they look amazing in high definition!

@unknownyuserishy8335 3 жыл бұрын

It looks like modern and new!

@allisons3663 11 ай бұрын

This is my favorite cartoon of all time. I watched Tom & Jerry all the time and I would get so excited when this came on!

@alejandrocoll5967 3 жыл бұрын

i looked for this cartoon for a long time , i didnt knew its name and i just found it , ive seen it four times already and shared it .I love it!

@hafirenggayuda 4 жыл бұрын

This is one of my favorite shorts, how nostalgic

@Gazing-09 2 жыл бұрын

That is one of my favorite Tex Avery episode! 😂

@Bryuk91 2 жыл бұрын

Omg 😂 yes this was one of my absolute favorites as a kid.

@AlanFregtman 4 жыл бұрын

Literal goose bumps! 🤣

@jasminnemcdonald94A 4 жыл бұрын

Goose honks

@sirhighroller9036 3 жыл бұрын

Do geese get people bumps

@deanbr6ndo70 3 жыл бұрын

I've been after this for forty years.it must have been 1980 since I last saw it.unbelievable.thanks

@alvinjones670 4 жыл бұрын

HILARIOUS AN ENJOYABLE WATCH!!! THANKS FOR THE UPLOAD!!!

@billcashman5900 4 жыл бұрын

Instant buy for me! Been waiting so long for these gems in high definition!

@randallmiller8238 Жыл бұрын

Love Tex Avory's humor, got my wife into his cartoons now👍

@ZbergFan 3 жыл бұрын

Moscow Mule! I didn’t know that was an old drink!

@jayskywalker5049 3 жыл бұрын

I just saw this for the first time in my life this is HILARIOUS OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Elementa2006 4 жыл бұрын

God, I remember watching this short once on Tv when I was a kid growing up in Egypt so it feels very nostalgic to revisit it

@lydiaglover1762 26 күн бұрын

One of my absolute FAVORITES!!

@primebeef3938 3 жыл бұрын

This is pure gold straight from my childhood. I feel bad for the kids today that don’t have these gems in their lives.

@JustWasted3HoursHere 9 ай бұрын

It's blasphemy to not put the whole cartoon on here!

@EyeBDaMD 4 ай бұрын

I have been searching for this one forever. All i could remember was "so i carried on"😂

@ccffire6666 Жыл бұрын

A pure classic and MGM comedy cartoon madness LOL. I remember it well. Me and my friends watch this cartoon and always discussed it laughing hysterically not knowing that there was a interesting radio and movie history of this one character. Years later I would find out by sheer chance listening to old time radio and listening to an episode with alan reed AKA the voice of Fred Flintstone. Hearing him talk laughing thinking this is cool. And then a very familiar voice started talking and it was that person that played in that cartoon the character that is The voice. Did my research with with this and found out he was frequently on the Damon Runyon theater show as a character called Broadway. And if you listen to it and literally think like when the couch which character was in the heavens and Webster literally translated in his mind. They were literally making fun of the Damon Runyon show and that one cartoon because if you think about everything we talked about in all those episodes it definitely is funnier than it sounds in a way ridiculous LOL.

@waverider227 Жыл бұрын

My favorite Tex Avery Cartoon of them all too hilarious!😆😆😂😂🤣🤣🤣

@v.a.993 Жыл бұрын

I have been looking for this on KZfaq since forever! Thank you!!!!

@garthdavis3778 4 жыл бұрын

“What’s cooking?” How’s tricks?” Does anyone say those anymore?

@Gypsygeekfreak17 4 жыл бұрын

Slang comes and go doc

@shady596x4 4 жыл бұрын

Garth Davis depends honestly

@austinmorrison6953 4 жыл бұрын

Garth Davis some do

@travisreed1730 4 жыл бұрын

I always liked "How's tricks."

@edwardgaines6561 4 жыл бұрын

Hipsters still do, by Golly!

@GeorgeMaster-xg7lg 2 ай бұрын

This is one of my favorites.

@antonydrossos5719 Жыл бұрын

I still remember this from my childhood. Still funny af! Side note: the late, great, MF DOOM sampled this for his track, "Strange Ways", on his album, "Madvillain".

@Synapsidofficial Ай бұрын

The quality of this remaster is amazing. It looks like this animation could have been made yesterday.

@stevistarfyre3227 4 жыл бұрын

This was funny as hell as a kid and still is..these cartoons never get old old..or I never tire of them.I haven't seen this in years and it's still funny

@ValliW 4 жыл бұрын

Release *ALL* the MGM shorts! Not just the Tex Avery ones!

@jzsunsite 3 жыл бұрын

I thought this logo gave us nightmares in the future.

@fromthesidelines 4 жыл бұрын

Featuring the voices of John Brown (for the "hipster", he used his "Thorny" voice from radio's "ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET"- and a bit of "Broadway" from "THE DAMON RUNYON THEATER").

@farpointgamingdirect 4 жыл бұрын

He also played Digby "Digger" O'Dell, the friendly undertaker on The Life of Riley

@fromthesidelines 4 жыл бұрын

He certainly did.

@trueheart8739 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to see the full episode.

@giovannigonzales5152 2 жыл бұрын

Me 2🙂👍🏻

@alyssajones4368 Жыл бұрын

This cartoon is hilarious. One of my all tine Tex Avery faves.

@ladyrachel13 3 жыл бұрын

I loved this cartoon when I was a kid. 😄😍

@mrh6431 2 ай бұрын

I love that cartoon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Every minute!!!!!!!!!

@bunnbbabyboyy546 2 жыл бұрын

This was my favorite cartoon ever....I haven't seen it in 48 years......

@EFCLARK 10 ай бұрын

I remember this! Wow I haven't seen this since the 70's...too bad the rest isn't there

@Wolfmanluv 7 ай бұрын

I always loved this one

@mrUpravljac 11 ай бұрын

I saw this cartoon 15 minutes ago and it is my favourite cartoon ever since.

@Sarika38 10 ай бұрын

This is one of my favorites! I also LOVE puns!!😂😁

@GothGuy885 8 ай бұрын

LOL I remember seeing this cartoon when I was a kid, and laughing and laughing 🤣

@SilentWintersKnight 3 жыл бұрын

I remember this .I used to love these cartoons where everything was so literal

@lizafootfor5471 4 жыл бұрын

Such unique humor 😁

@geocross237 Жыл бұрын

Oh man I remember watching this as a kid. Even then this cartoon absolutely killed me. Metaphorically speaking. 🤣

@Auron12786 Ай бұрын

This and the “Of Tomorrow” series are my favorite Tex Avery shorts

@Jojojo995 10 ай бұрын

These are the best cartoons in all time! All kids should be watching these cartoons. The cartoons from today are not good

@808pdb 9 ай бұрын

Yeah except for the fact that several cartoons from this time (not including this one) didn't age well

@johnnyteague3407 2 жыл бұрын

This is my second most favorite cartoon behind hillbilly hare.

@travisreed1730 3 жыл бұрын

1:11 I JUST CAUGHT it's the dictionary guy... that's funny.

@Jmorris3265 25 күн бұрын

The fact that some of this slang is no longer in use, or even legible, is a testament to how old animation has now become as an art form.

@lucasfv1357 10 ай бұрын

OH MAN YES! I've always wanted to see this one again

@davidmoore535 4 жыл бұрын

I just love Rhapsody in Rivets!!

@LooneyCartoonMan 4 жыл бұрын

You are referencing the wrong short from wrong animation studio.

@2013venjix Жыл бұрын

THIS.... IS A CLASSIC!!!! Tex Avery's BEST work!!!!

@elli_lovesmusic 14 күн бұрын

Remember watching this when I was younger, now every time I think of "paint the town red" I visual this!

@CriswellSpeaks 4 жыл бұрын

Compare the character of Anger here to the character in "Inside Out".

@shoh1149 4 жыл бұрын

James Scharnott hi Frank Zappa

@BeeHatGuy 3 жыл бұрын

But I'm scared. You do it for me

@PhoenixHealing 4 жыл бұрын

I have been trying to find this one but I had no idea what the title was!!! 😍😍

@2percent153 3 жыл бұрын

I can't believe you cut this short like that. I gotta find the whole cartoon. :(

@jayskywalker5049 3 жыл бұрын

YES!!!!!

@madamerican7135 10 ай бұрын

One of my favorite cartoons.

@clintgolub1751 2 жыл бұрын

I hadn’t seen this since the late 90’s when Cartoon Network used to play classic shorts in the evenings; thank god for the awesome power of google & KZfaq for letting me revisit this again. I think this is actually a pretty educational short about commonplace vernacular for like an English class.

@MarcColten-us2pl 8 ай бұрын

This was terrific. Unfortunately it was cut short, but it was still fun

@vpvpvp6968 5 ай бұрын

2:03- I think THAT anger character should have been the Emotion character from the Inside Out film. XD

@mj-je8ok 2 жыл бұрын

I've always loved this one. I think watching this as a kid sparked my love of idiomatic language.

@hollywoodguy70 2 жыл бұрын

Same here. This and Airplane! made me wish we lived in a literal world like that.. as long as I'd be in on the joke ;)

@NJGuy1973 2 жыл бұрын

@@hollywoodguy70 I'll bet the Zucker brothers were partially inspired by this. You ever see "Woodpecker From Mars" with Woody? There's a joke in there that definitely got borrowed by them.