Let's Try Sex, Tex

Disguises play a role in Tex Avery’s Hound Hunters. Toward the end of the cartoon, dog catchers George and Junior dress up as a cat. Earlier in the cartoon, George disguises himself as a female dog to attract a little dog (with a head twice the size of its body).

Naturally, “female” in cartoon means “breasts.” Scott Bradley (I suspect to his annoyance) has “Frankie and Johnny” in the background during this scene.



Naturally, the plan fails as a bulldog enters the picture.

Heck Allen helped Tex with the gags.

Keith Scott has discovered Dick Nelson is George and the dumb Junior is played by Avery himself. Preston Blair, Walt Clinton, Ed Love and Ray Abrams are the animators with background art by an uncredited Johnny Johnsen.

Irv Spence’s model sheets for this cartoon are dated April 13, 1945. Boxoffice magazine announced (at the time) the cartoon was released almost two years later, April 12, 1947. But as Jerry Beck has mentioned, theatres could show cartoons as soon as the local exchange received them. To the right is an ad from April 3rd revealing Hound Hunters opening in a Pittsburgh theatre (you’ll have to click on it to view the little box in the right-hand bottom corner).