Friday 14 October 2022

Two in One Animals

Tex Avery and gagman Heck Allen try out an impossible gag in Half-Pint Pygmy (1948). During a seemingly endless chase, George and Junior run after the aforementioned African, who tries to escape up a giraffe’s neck.



The gag is the giraffe has two ends and no heads.



Tex evidently liked the gag so much, he pulled a variation in the next sequence. The three run on top of a camel (to the music of “The Campbells Are Coming”). The scene reveals the camel has two heads but no ends.



A camel-y take.



Louie Schmitt, Bill Shull, Grant Simmons and Walt Clinton are the credited animators.

4 comments:

  1. Not this one's biggest fan.

    I had written about it recently: https://buddyscartoons.blogspot.com/p/the-censored-four.html

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  2. Blah blah blah, racist, blah blah blah.

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  3. Well, at least, we know where the Roger Rabbit octopus came from!!!!

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