Screwy Squirrel is pursued by a truant officer.Screwy Squirrel is pursued by a truant officer.Screwy Squirrel is pursued by a truant officer.
Sara Berner
- Little Red Riding Hood
- (uncredited)
Billy Bletcher
- Evil Laughs
- (uncredited)
Pinto Colvig
- Truant Officer Dog
- (uncredited)
- …
William Hanna
- Screams
- (uncredited)
Wally Maher
- Screwy Squirrel
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Pat McGeehan
- Wolf
- (uncredited)
Dick Nelson
- Truant Officer Dog
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe school house is painted blue. There is a sign that says "The Little Red School House", and "Red" is crossed out. Underneath is another sign saying "Technicolor Red has Gone to War". This is a parody of the wartime ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes which said, "Lucky Strike Green has Gone to War" - as the green on the packages was changed to white.
- GoofsWhen Screwy goes to hit the truant officer dog with the kitchen sink, the sink starts out as a double-basin sink with one drain in each basin. When the sink hits the officer dog, the bottom of the sink is plumbed for a single basin with just one drain.
- Quotes
Screwy: [In the middle of a scene, a wolf goes by chasing Little Red Riding Hood; Screwy stops him] Wait a minute, pal. You're in the wrong picture, ain't ya, man?
[Pulls down main title card]
Screwy: See? The Screwy Truant, featuring Screwy Squirrel.
Wolf: Hmm. One of them corny B-pictures, eh?
Screwy: Oh, yeah? Listen, you. If you were my size, I'd bust you right in the nose.
Wolf: Oh, yeah?
[Wolf shrinks down to Screwy's size; Screwy shrinks even smaller and runs away]
- Crazy creditsA few minutes in, the Big Bad Wolf chases Little Red Riding Hood into the frame. Screwy pulls the title cards back down to show them they're in the wrong cartoon.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Toon in with Me: Right Down the Middle (2021)
Featured review
The Screwy Truant is hilarious Tex Avery cartoon from MGM
When I was a kid watching the Tom and Jerry show on weekday afternoons in the late '70s and early '80s, I watched most of the cartoons they aired that was from the '40s including those starring Droopy or Barney Bear. For some reason, however, they never either showed or I never saw any Screwy Squirrel cartoons made during the same time. So The Screwy Truant is the very first one starring this admittedly unappealing, both visually and personality-wise, character I've ever seen. Despite that, I loved the "everything but the kitchen sink" (actually, don't think too much about that one) humor of the entire premise of the title character playing hooky and getting chased by the truant officer with all the fast-paced wackiness you can only expect from the one and only Tex Avery. Absolutely nothing is sacred, certainly not "Little Red Riding Hood" or jokes related to WWII air raid uniforms. So to anyone who loves great animation and great laughs, The Screwy Truant is for you!
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- tavm
- Jun 7, 2007
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- Білченя-прогульник
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- Runtime7 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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