Exclamation Mark

The cat in Ventriloquist Cat really hates dogs. He says so — on a wooden fence in his neighbourhood.



What’s odd is the cat makes an exclamation mark. Then he goes back and dots it. But there’s already a dot there.



Maybe he’s doing it to express an air of finality.

Tex Avery’s crew on this is Grant Simmons, Mike Lah and Walt Clinton, with Johnny Johnsen painting the backgrounds and Rich Hogan assisting with the story. The cat’s ventriloquist voice is by Red Coffey, the duck voice in the Tom and Jerry cartoons and, later, Biddy Buddy the duck at Hanna-Barbera.