Tex Avery and his writers (Rich Hogan in this case) used the same sort of gag, usually involving drinking water and then the water flows out of holes in the body.
Ed Love, Preston Blair and Ray Abrams animated this cartoon. Blitz Wolf was the first Avery cartoon released by MGM.
Kind of an edgier variant on the gag involving the Edna May Oliver character from Freleng's "The Hardship of Miles Standish" from 1940, except that Edna May's rear is full of arrows when she does the "You didn't even touch me!" bit.
ReplyDeleteThis is Irv Spence's animation.
ReplyDeleteThis gag was done in live-action too; Benny Hill replicated it in two Western-themed sketches in 1973 ("The Deputy") and 1980 ("Butch Cafferty and the Fundance Kid"). In both those sketches, a deputy is shot full of holes, then takes a drink which sprinkles out of him before he collapses.
ReplyDeleteLike I said, Benny seems to have been an Avery fan to use so many of his gags.