Pieces of Spike

Daredevil Droopy is a compilation of gags that you can probably figure out how they’re going to end, at least if you’ve seen enough Tex Avery cartoons. Avery and gagman Rich Hogan even re-use the “Timmmm-br” gag as their topper. Evidently it was the strongest gag they could come up with.

Here’s one of Avery’s old favourites—the bad guy being sliced into pieces and collapsing. It starts off with Spike cutting the tightrope Droopy is on. You pretty much know what’s going to happen. The bad guy is always victimised by the law of gravity. The good guy is not.



Spike’s panicking until he looks below.



Any Avery fan can guess what’ll happen. The scene ends with one of Avery’s eye blinks.



Avery came up with several of these competition cartoons, The Chump Champ, Droopy’s Good Deed and this short, which was officially released in 1951 but played at the Loew’s State and Egyptian theatres with Pagan Love Song on December 29, 1950. It was supposed to be remade in Cinemascope, but the cartoon studio shut down. Instead, the Academy Ratio version was re-released in 1958.