It’s a typical Avery string-of-gags outing involving a character trying to sleep, while another character tries to force a third character to make noise to wake him. The third character runs out into the distance to be noisy. It’s similar to the later Deputy Droopy and my favourite late Avery cartoon, The Legend of Rockabye Point for Walter Lantz.
One sequence in Bear involves Cartoon Rule 514: All skunks smell.
“P.U,” says Spike (played by Tex Avery).
And it’s back to the house for the next gag.
Walt Clinton, Mike Lah and Grant Simmons animated this short. Pat McGeehan is the bear and dog pound officer.
The gags are repeated in his other 'quite vss noise' cartoons but his timing & characters' actions/reactions still spell hilarity to me . Thanks for posting.(dja)
ReplyDelete"For whatever reason"??? Winter is when bears hibernate.
ReplyDeleteKevin Wollenweber mentioned the same thing. It didn't even dawn on me. The story would work just as well at any other time of year (Deputy Droopy, eg.). And in a cartoon, a bear can do whatever it wants.
DeleteI think I remember a Tom And Jerry cartoon with them as musketeers that did this sort of "run-out-into-the-distance-to-make-noise" formula as well. Makes me wonder if Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera were taking a few notes from Tex Avery on that one.
ReplyDeleteThey undoubtedly did, after all the heavily wacky, madcap and eccentric antics of these shorts which of course has been their signature staple since the start of the mid 40's is said to be accredited to Tex Avery's arrival at MGM following his departure from Warner Bros.
DeleteYep, Royal Cat-Nap (1958)
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