The Screwy Truant

The Screwy Truant
Screwy Squirrel series
Directed by Tex Avery
Produced by Fred Quimby
Joseph Barbera (uncredited)
Story by Heck Allen
Voices by Wally Maher (uncredited)
Tex Avery (uncredited)
Billy Bletcher (uncredited)
William Hanna (uncredited)
Music by Scott Bradley
Animation by Preston Blair
Ed Love
Ray Abrams
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date(s) January 13, 1945
Color process Technicolor
Running time 7 minutes
Language English

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

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.

Cameo

Red Riding Hood and, "Wolfie" (from Swing Shift Cinderella) made a cameo appearance. In the middle of the cartoon the two interrupt 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 was in the wrong animated short. 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.

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