How To Escape From the Moon

Tex Avery’s nameless black cat (Pat McGeehan using a Durante voice) has had enough of abuse on the Moon and wants to return to the abuse of Earth (specifically, the United States of America) in The Cat That Hated People.



But how to get off the Moon when your space ship that crashed into a heap of metal? It’s easy when you’re in a Tex Avery cartoon. “A body can do just about anything,” said one of his characters when Tex was still at Warners. In this case, the cat pulls down a backdrop of a golf course, sets himself on a tee, yells “Fore!” (to nobody in particular, but that is what one does at a golf course), and swats himself toward Earth.



You can check out frames from the next scenes in this post.

Heck Allen gets a story credit, with Louis Schmidt, Bill Shull, Grant Simmons and Walt Clinton credited as the animators.