# What Tex Avery cartoon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tex-avery-cartoon/829490 "2019-02-13T19:13:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tex-avery-cartoon/829490/1 "2019-02-13T19:13:47Z")
I’m drawing a blank on this one: a cat keeps saying “meow meow”. Keeps repeating those two words. I can’t remember why. Yes, I know it’s not a lot to go on 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tex-avery-cartoon/829490/2 "2019-02-13T19:16:44Z")
[Is this it?](https://vimeo.com/257263694) ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tex-avery-cartoon/829490/3 "2019-02-13T19:19:47Z")
> [@AngelSoft](#): > > [Is this it?](https://vimeo.com/257263694) That’s it! Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tex-avery-cartoon/829490/4 "2019-02-13T21:19:45Z")
God that’s a great cartoon. I go back and watch that one every once in a while just to enjoy the Avery zaniness. A few months ago my son was watching a bunch of Avery cartoons, laughing, and at one point he said “Man, they don’t like the mother-in-law, do they?” ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tex-avery-cartoon/829490/5 "2019-02-14T02:25:52Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > God that’s a great cartoon. I go back and watch that one every once in a while just to enjoy the Avery zaniness. A few months ago my son was watching a bunch of Avery cartoons, laughing, and at one point he said “Man, they don’t like the mother-in-law, do they?” What cartoon was he watching? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tex-avery-cartoon/829490/6 "2019-02-14T19:02:29Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > What cartoon was he watching? Possibly one of Avery’s “of tomorrow” quartet (The House/Car/T.V./Farm). As I recall, they’d depict a series of futuristicky gadgets with the last being a gag version “for the mother-in-law”, typically incorporating a guillotine or bear trap or pack of alligators or whatnot. ---
**Author:** ![Reindeer\_Flotilla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reindeer_flotilla/32/3024_2.png) [@Reindeer\_Flotilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reindeer_Flotilla)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tex-avery-cartoon/829490/7 "2019-02-14T19:55:01Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Possibly one of Avery’s “of tomorrow” quartet (The House/Car/T.V./Farm). As I recall, they’d depict a series of futuristicky gadgets with the last being a gag version “for the mother-in-law”, typically incorporating a guillotine or bear trap or pack of alligators or whatnot. For the car one, the mother-in-law rides in an isolated bubble that’s ~15 feet behind the family. The site-gag is the interior of the car is huge and they list the multiple rows of seat occupants (“…the wife, the kids, the pets…”) as they pan back, finishing with a long sweep way behind the car showing the barely-attached final compartment and adding “…and the mother-in-law”. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-tex-avery-cartoon/829490/8 "2019-02-22T16:31:06Z")
A tiny little bump, because I remembered something amusing. There was a documentary "The Making Of…: about _Who Framed Roger Rabbit?_ and I recall one of the men interviewed saying they tried to hit the right mix of styles, between Disney’s beautifully-rendered artwork, Warner Brothers’ rapid-fire sarcasm, and Tex Avery’s dynamite-down-your-pants mayhem. Since then, no better descriptor of Tex Avery’s style has ever occurred to me.