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1* AccidentalInnuendo: "Bend over, Junior."
2* AwardSnub: Despite making some of the most acclaimed shorts of the 40's, Tex never won an Oscar for any of his cartoons, and was lucky to be nominated twice--in contrast to the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' series winning ''seven'' Oscars and several nominations during this same time. This was notable enough to where an entire article was written about it on ''Blog/CartoonBrew''. Fortunately, Avery's films got a better reward later on--five of his films occupy ''The 50 Greatest Cartoons'' list (with four more as runner-ups) and one of his films even got inducted into the UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry.
3* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: MGM's generous budgets and Tex Avery's wild, expressive style meshed together very well, producing some of the most lavishly animated cartoons in the history of animation.
4* FandomRivalry: As mentioned on the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}'' pages, Warner's use of the MGM library splits the difference between Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera fans that don't otherwise see eye to eye. In this case, when the official disc release finally came, they chose to directly base it around Tex Avery and his productions rather than MGM. Although there was some dust-up connected to this over Warner Archive's decision to give this Blu-Ray ten months in advance over the DVD counterpart. Where it seemed many of the Looney Tunes fans having switched over to Blu-Ray with many of the Hanna-Barbera fans flooding Warner Archive's media asking where was the DVD. Which forced Warner Archive to break their otherwise code of not revealing the unspoken expectation the DVD would come later. Given the second volume was then announced to be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on the same day it appears a lesson was learned.
5* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Similar to the popularity of WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker in Brazil, the cartoons of Tex Avery are so popular in France that there were even French postage stamps made for his 100th birthday in 2008.
6* IAmNotShazam: The wolf is Wolfie, not Tex Avery, as it is the name of the creator.
7* SongAssociation: For many people, the American Civil War song "Kingdom Coming" (or "The Year of Jubilo") has been associated entirely (and only) with the Southern Wolf for being his CharacterSignatureSong.
8* ValuesDissonance: Many shorts contain a liberal amount of {{blackface}} (usually as the punchline to an AshFace gag) and other racial minorities such as Native Americans and Asians, as well as plenty of sexist or womanizing jokes (the "women's vehicles" sequence in "Car of Tomorrow" being particularly wince-inducing in retrospect). They tend to range from "awkward" to "only tolerable if you're forgiving of the time period." The most egregious example is probably "Half-Pint Pygmy" which includes some of the finest SurrealHumor ever committed to animation but has fallen into obscurity due to its titular LivingMacGuffin being a horrendously racist stereotype. The uncut ''Droopy'' DVD set and Tex Avery Screwball Classics series of Blu-Rays even have a preface acknowledging this.
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