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(More customer reviews)I'll be honest... I bought this tape in order to get to the Tex Avery episodes!
This tape has 3 Tex Avery toons; "Screwball Squirrel", "Little Rural Riding Hood", & "King Size Canary". These toons are pure gold!
The remaining flicks... "Unwelcome Guest" (a Barney Bear toon), "The Lonesome Stranger" (a sort of downtrodden Lone Ranger), "The Captain's Christmas", and "The Blue Danube" (an MGM FANTASIA-type short) are something I endured to get to Tex's work. To be fair, I am NOT a Barney Bear fan, and I was not familiar with the Captain character. The Lone Ranger parody was kind of fun, but I have seen too many of the Daffy Duck send ups recently to fully enjoy this one. The animated rendition of The Blue Danube was very well done considering the budget these guys were working in... technically impressive for the time period.
I offer one more word of advice on this subject... not all of these toons will appear on Cartoon Network due to the presentation of the subject matter. I have seen many Warner Bros cartoons edited for modern viewing audiences (read censored), so it is a joy to collect a copy as unedited as possible to appreciate the original form of the film.
For an actual recap of the individual episodes, I would heartily endorse checking the Internet Movie Database for your own benefit.
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