Thursday 12 March 2020

Face the Flea

How do you show facial expressions when you don’t have a face?

That’s no problem in What Price Fleadom, where Tex Avery pulls out the old face/flypaper gag. Homer the flea substitutes a flypaper for a towel as a bulldog dries off. The bulldog loses his face instead.

Avery handles the expressions with emotion lines, head movement and Scott Bradley’s stabs on the soundtrack.



There’s no story credit on this cartoon. Pinto Colvig provides the voice for a mongrel, so maybe he pitched in. This may have been during one of those periods after Fred Quimby fired Heck Allen.

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