. . . which I assume is the world record for self punishment. It's hard to believe that anyone connected with THE WACKY WORLD OF TEX AVERY viewed ANY of the completed films, since if they had they surely would have offed themselves for being associated with such a travesty against Humanity. Common Decency would find a Legion of Terminators fanning out across the galaxy to eradicate any copies and digital records that something as infuriating as this ever existed in our known Universe. If these atrocious films were reserved for Americans on Death Row, it's unlikely that any of them would continue with their appeals process. WACKY WORLD indubitably is a Fate Worse Than Death.
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Victor Field12 January 2003Tex Avery was one of the true greats of animation; his last work may have been for "The Kwicky Koala Show," but at least he was involved with it. "The Wacky World of Tex Avery" only used his name, and it tried to adopt his style of animation... but they forgot one little thing.
They forgot to make it funny.
The various components were hyperactive, but they weren't exactly amusing; and it wasn't like it was particularly well done animation-wise either. Even the theme music wasn't original. People wanting decent cartoons from France are better off with "Insektors"; for the true wacky world of Tex Avery, see the real cartoons he did and avoid this insult.
Incidentally, DIC is short for Diffusion, Information, Communication. All of which imply intelligence, which is in even shorter supply here than in most of the shows from that company. -
d-millhoff17 February 2011Unwatchable drek.
Creator of such classic characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Screwy Squirrel, and Droopy, Tex Avery was one of the best, and funniest animators of the golden age. These decidedly unfunny, juvenile cartoons are marketed as an homage to Avery's genius, but they are little more than badly-drawn, badly-animated, badly-written and badly-directed insults to his legacy.
Avery apparently left no descendants to protect his name and legacy after his death, allowing them to fall into the public domain and ultimately become appropriated by DIC Entertainment.
If you ever find yourself near Forest lawn Cemetery and hear a rumbling noise, that may be old Tex, rolling in his grave. -
vidstrclrk15 September 2011I don't want to just hate on anything or anyone, but this series is an insult to your intelligence and to Tex Avery. For Les Studios Tex to glom onto his name and then produce the waste of frames that they have is reprehensible. It's almost criminal. I've seen their products reviewed on other websites, and when I happened across some episodes on TV and watched for myself I couldn't have agreed more with the detractors. It isn't even so much about using Tex Avery's name or the blatant ripping off of his style (and poorly done at that), it's that this work isn't funny, it isn't well written, it's not even particularly animated with any originality or innovation. It appears to be a very elaborate, extensive attempt to make some money off of anyone who can't, or doesn't care to, distinguish between the classic Tex Avery cartoons and pale, pale imitations. I would request that the graphic for this page be changed for two reasons: 1) That's the cover to an MGM cassette of authentic Tex Avery cartoons, thus misleading and confusing as to the subject of this page, and 2) It's an insult and injustice to Tex Avery himself and the studio of brilliant talent who worked under him.
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AuntEthel29 August 2006I 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. -
l-6291126 December 2016Ahhh, 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. -
patrickfilbeck22 November 2021In 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.
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daichihideyoshi15 December 2018Wacky World is so many humor and cringe.... This show is SUCK!!!
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Roman_5976 December 2020The Wacky World of Tex Avery is an animated series that will impress anyone who loves humor and adventure. This is a collection of different stories about funny and unusual characters, created in the spirit of classic cartoons by Tex Avery.
The theme music from the animated series is a real find for fans of melodic and memorable compositions. It perfectly conveys the atmosphere of fun and carelessness that reigns in each episode. It sounds fun and provocative, as if inviting the viewer into the wonderful world of Tex Avery.
The animated series consists of different segments in which the characters find themselves in the most incredible and funny situations, each segment has its own style and character, but they are all united by a common quality and originality. The drawing and plot of the animated series is at a high level. They are full of dynamics and originality. The adventures of Tex Avery, Chastity Nott, Sagebrush Sid, Einstone and Pompeii Pete stand out. These characters have their own unique style and character, they are full of energy and ingenuity, they constantly find themselves in funny and ridiculous situations that make the viewer laugh to tears. These characters are the best segments of the series that showcase the talent and imagination of the creators.
Freddy the Fly, Maurice & Mooch, Genghis and Khannie and Power Pooch are segments that are more suitable for a children's audience, but they are also worthy of attention. These are cute and touching stories about friendship and family, about how important it is to be kind and sympathetic. These characters also know how to cheer up with their jokes and antics.
I was introduced to this Wacky World when I was 3-4 years old, and since then it has become one of my favorite animated series. My family and I sometimes review it with pleasure, because it does not lose its relevance and attractiveness. I really regret that the series is no longer released, because it deserves to be continued and recognized. -
devonteloriston-448284 October 2021How to insult an animation legend's legacy in one show...
Despite the series being supposed to pay homage to Tex Avery and his cartoon creations, it is nothing more than an insult rather than a homage to Tex Avery's work, due to its various issues as listed below. Poor grasp of the source material: The show has nothing to do with Tex Avery and, for legal reasons, none of his trademark characters like Bugs Bunny and Droopy Dog are included in this show. There's a character who's a cowboy named after Avery, and that's pretty much it. The title sequence shows the characters repetitively stomping and bouncing on the ground in an extremely hyperactive manner and flipping their lips in tune to the theme song while showing saliva, which is disgusting. This show uses way too many stock sound effects and even uses them at inappropriate times. Billy West and Scott McNeil do poor jobs voicing the titular character and Amanda. Notably, McNeil sounds very annoying and unconvincing as a woman. Most of the character designs are very unappealing and lackluster to look at, especially Tex himself, who has a very creepy smile on his face. There are plenty of racial and annoying stereotypes:Pompeii Pete (while a likable character/decent segment) is an Italian stereotype. Maurice is a Swedish stereotype. Einstone is a German stereotype based obviously on Albert Einstein. Tex Avery (the main character) is just a cliché stereotypical Wild West character. Other offensive stereotypes on this show include Asians, Mexicans, British, Samoans, Jews, and even Native Americans as well. The animation is sub-par and rather cheap-looking, with some unfinished backgrounds and frames missing. There are numerous animation errors. For example, in the opening, the top of Pompeii Pete's helmet disappears. Some of the animation doesn't sync up with the backgrounds properly. The jokes and humor are both very poor and terrible, as they mostly consist of fart jokes, toilet humor, and gross-out humor. Most of the jokes also fall flat or feel awkward due to the stiff and wonky animation. The classic Avery gags are in the show, but they're butchered beyond all belief. In one scene, Tex and Sid try to pull off the gag of pulling out bigger and more absurd weapons, but the way it's telegraphed ruins the pacing when they basically announce what they're going use next. A lot of content is too weird, disturbing, and inappropriate for a kids' show; here are just a few examples. In the first Pompeii Pete segment "The Dis-orderly", Dan the Man fakes a cut and squeezes a ketchup bottle to simulate that he's bleeding, and made it worse by squeezing it very hard all over the other patients. In the same segment, Pompeii himself slices a pizza using a buzzsaw, but the gag was a setup as if he was slicing Dan the Man instead. In the first Maurice and Mooch segment "Breakfast in Bedlam", Maurice cracks an egg open, which isn't half bad. But the previous scene implied he pulled it from his mother. False Advertising: The intro sequence and promo images show Tex riding a horse, but he rides a goat in the show itself instead. This show was obviously made to cash-in on the trend of Golden Age-style shows such as Animaniacs and The Ren & Stimpy Show, which had little to no involvement with Tex Avery or his cartoons, as it was more of a homage to him. A lot of the characters are unfunny, unlikable, and obnoxious. The worst offenders are Amanda Banshee, who is very lazy and short-tempered, and Freddy the Fly, who was always abusive to Amanda. The soundtrack is obnoxious and insufferable, especially the theme song. The theme song is incredibly annoying, obnoxious, and lazy. It even disrespects Jacques Offenbach, as it basically consists of the chorus of his song from Orpheus In The Underworld Can-Can (a.k.a. "Infernal Galop") with the line "Welcome to the Wacky World Of Tex Avery" being repeated over and over again in tune to the music as its lyrics of the theme. There's also barely (if ever) any background music playing in most of the episodes, hence failing to enhance the intended wacky-nutty tone and mood of the show, and instead rendering the cartoons' atmospheres to be very bland and dull. A lot of the characters and segments are pretty unoriginal and ripped off other already existing cartoons or TV shows. Tex Avery is a ripoff of Red Hot Ryder from the 1944 Looney Tunes cartoon "Buckaroo Bugs" (which was, ironically enough, directed by Bob Clampett) and copies a lot from Bugs Bunny. Sagebrush Sid is a lazy clone of the wolf from Tex Avery's Droopy cartoons and usually serves as a stand-in for Yosemite Sam. (from Looney Tunes)Miss Chasity Knott's design is almost plagiarized from Red's design, also from the Droopy cartoons, with the only difference being that she has black hair. Genghis and Pompeii's designs look far too similar to Stimpy from The Ren & Stimpy Show. Pompeii himself looks like the Indian from one of the Screwy Squirrel shorts ("Big Man Watha") and is rumored to be based on Shorty from the original Popeye the Sailor shorts. Dan's design has a strong resemblance to Dick Dastardly's design from Wacky Races. The Einstone segments (or more importantly, the name) are an obvious ripoff of The Flintstones. The face of Einstone himself was likely based on Little Miss Muffet from the 1940 Looney Tunes cartoon "A Gander at Mother Goose". Genghis and Khannie are both plagiarized copycats (no pun intended) of Tom and Jerry. Khannie is a ripoff of Andy Panda and is a stand-in (even sharing the same voice actress as) Elmyra Duff from Tiny Toon Adventures. Amanda Banshee looks like a stolen character drawn by Don Martin from the MAD magazine. Freddy the Fly is likely a poor man's version of the gremlin from "Falling Hare". (Also from Looney Tunes)Maurice's design is a ripoff of both Tweety's (again, from Looney Tunes) and Baby Huey's designs. Mooch is basically a copy off of Sylvester the Cat. (yet again, from Looney Tunes)Maurice's father bears a few similarities to Foghorn Leghorn (yet another character from Looney Tunes)Pompeii Pete is just what happens when they bring Shorty from the Famous Studios era of Popeye the Sailor, but speaking terribly in Italian. Power Pooch is an obvious ripoff of Underdog and Superman (design-wise), and Earthworm Jim (personality-wise, with none of the strong humor). Little Buddy can also be seen as a potential clone of Spot from Hong Kong Phooey and Peter Puppy from Earthworm Jim. Ton of spelling errors and typos on the background objects:In the Tex Avery segment "Bottleneck Bear", "Grizzly Bear" is misspelled as "Gbizzly" in one of the signs on a mountain. This happens twice in the Freddy the Fly segment "Flychiatry"; "Judgement Day" is misspelled as "Judement Day", and "November" is misspelled as "Novenber". (Both on the psychiatrist's calendar)Another Freddy the Fly segment, "Tallywho?", has a sentence with a misspelling: "Our guns are loaded and so are we" is misspelled as "Ours guns are loaded and so are we" on a sign. In the Genghis and Khannie segment "The Wrath of Khannie", The sign on Uranus is misspelled as "Upanus", but only once. Most of the animals (especially on the Einstone segments) are usually poorly drawn and somehow have huge proboscis human-like noses, especially with the dinosaurs and saber-toothed cats. A few of the plots are even copied from other shows: a glaring example of this would be the Maurice and Mooch segment "Carnivores Anonymous", where Mooch attends a club to give up his addiction of chicken, being a copy of the Looney Tunes short "Birds Anonymous" (even sharing a much similar name).