Word Association

There are some pretty clever visualisations, even making old groaner puns funny, in Tex Avery’s Symphony in Slang (released in 1951). And there are some that, well, just don’t work for me.

Tex and gagman Rich Hogan try not one but two word visualisations. They’re the weakest ones in my estimation.



Tom Oreb’s designs really help this cartoon. The “raining cats and dogs” and “cat got your tongue” gags could be cringingly bad but the animals are amusingly drawn so the gags work. I still laugh at the cat even though I know the gag is coming. Why Oreb went to MGM and why he only worked on one cartoon (that anyone knows of) is, perhaps, a mystery. His work is great.