The Wacky World of Tex Avery

I had the misfortune to be involved with the broadcast of this series on a UK TV Channel a few years back. Every minute spent in front of it was painful.

Given the originality & sheer inventiveness that Tex Avery brought to his creations I'm not quite sure how the producers of this 'homage' were able to live with themselves. Poor animation, hackneyed (and distinctly unfunny) jokes, coarseness in place of genuine humour - all these things added together made this probably one of the very worst animation series I've ever had anything to do with. And THAT is saying something, believe ME..

Using Tex Avery's name in conjunction with this rubbish would no doubt have had him spinning in his grave.

I always found this show quite grotesque as a child.

Let's first come to the intro: The characters jump around like crazy, making shrill singing, farting and sniffling noises, and drooling.

The character design is, in my opinion, quite disturbing: almost all of the characters have a really weird bulbous nose, which, due to its color, looks like a tomato, potato or plum. Sagebrush Sid, Tex Avery's opponent, also has two equally strange pointed ears in addition to his red bulbous nose (which, in combination with his rough voice, suggests that he is a heavy alcoholic). And of all people, Einstone (one of two fairly likeable characters in this show - I'll talk about him and the others further down) has the ugliest nose of all: a thick, droopy nose covered in warts and hair. The stupid cavemen that Einstone always has to deal with are shaped like salt or pepper shakers. The worst thing, however, is the character design of Freddy the Fly, who looks like a stereotypical tramp.

The drawing style is average at best.

Now let's get to the content of the show and the behavior of the characters: What bothers me most is that the "good" characters in this show are often much more devious and sadistic than their "evil" counterparts. By that I mean Freddy the Fly, Pompeii Pete, Khannie and Maurice. It has also been occasionally implied that some characters (such as the cavemen in the Einstone segment and Pompeii Pete) are only feigning stupidity to drive their opponents insane or into dangerous/painful situations.

The only likeable characters in this show for me are:

1) Einstone, who, despite being the main character of his segment and one of the few likeable characters in the show, always gets everything while the stupid cavemen who surround him always get nothing.

2) Power Pooch: Although he is a "heroic fool" and I find it a bit odd that he has to chew on a superhero's smelly old shoe to become a superhero, he behaves in a morally exemplary manner, unlike most of the other characters in this show.

Furthermore, the humor in this show is mostly quite crude, obscene, or (in many instances) simply unfunny.

The worst episodes I can remember, in my opinion, are "Breakfast In Bedlam" (Maurice & Mooch), "Dawn of the Dan" (Pompeii Pete) and "Bored of the Flies" (Freddy the Fly).

Since this show at least has two likeable characters (even if their segments may be as bad in content as the rest of the show), I'm giving it two instead of one out of ten stars.

Wacky World is so many humor and cringe.... This show is SUCK!!!

In all honesty, I don't get all of the bad reviews that say this show isn't "Wacky". Because what else is it supposed to be? It's wacky, totally crazy, leaps and bounds in storytelling and just a 20-minute craziness that you first have to design. The fact that Tex Avery was chosen as the namesake seems angry to some here, but it's just a homage. Tex Avery was wacky in its day and nostalgic gold in today, while this cartoon Wacky is 90s and early 2000s style and of course cartoonish too. All in all, you can say that you can definitely have brisk fun here, which gives a really insane insight into the insane possibilities of the world of humor.

Ahhh, Tex Avery. A wonderful animation legend that gave us so many memorable characters such as Bugs Bunny, Screwy Squirrel and of course Droopy and that wolf. He perfected the art of squash and stretch animation and his toons are loved by millions of fans everywhere.

Which was an absolute crying shame when those hacks at DIC (now DHX Media) decided they would rather pee all over his legacy and blatantly use his name and his style of animation for quite possibly the most insulting piece of TV animation ever made.

And they succeeded.

Instead of the wacky humour and delightful mayhem the real Tex Avery gave you, what DIC instead does is shove some appallingly bad plots, quite frankly unoriginal characters, animation that is so tasteless you'll feel sick after watching and the so called "comedy" in your face... hard.

You'll also get a decent cast including Billy West, Cree Summer, Maurice LaMarche, Ian James Corlett and Lee Tockar. They honestly try... they really do but in the end you'll be in tears thinking how these talented voice actors stumbled their way into this mess.

For extra plain cartoon goodness, buy that Droopy DVD set or something. For a massive insult to an animation legend, look no further than The Wacky World Of Tex Avery.

DIC will thank you for it.... and poor old Tex himself will be rolling in his grave.