Little 'Tinker

Little 'Tinker
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Released:	May 15, 1948 Reissue: May 14, 1955
Runtime:	7 min. 15 sec.
Series:	One-shot
MPAA Number:	12425
Production Number:	164
Copyright Renewed:	May 9, 1975
Starring:	B.O. Skunk
Crew
Voice Characterizations:	Bill Roberts (uncredited) Walter Craig (uncredited) Dick Nelson (uncredited) Sara Berner (uncredited) Lillian Randolph (uncredited) William Hanna (uncredited)
Director:	Tex Avery
Written By:	Heck Allen (uncredited)
Producer:	Fred Quimby William Hanna (co-producer) (uncredited)
Animated By:	William Shull Grant Simmons Walter Clinton Robert Bentley
Character Design:	Louie Schmitt (uncredited)
Layout Artist:	Louie Schmitt (uncredited)
Background Artist:	John Didrik Johnsen (uncredited)
Film Editor:	Fred MacAlpin (uncredited)
Musician:	Scott Bradley

Little 'Tinker is a 1948 cartoon directed by Tex Avery.

Plot

B.O. Skunk tries desperately to win the love of a girl, any girl, and goes to such lengths as imitating Frank Sinatra. He succeeds at first, but then fails horribly because of his odor but eventually falls in love with a fellow skunk.

Trivia

• Clips of the cartoon were featured in 12 Monkeys and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.
• This cartoon is essentially the complete opposite of the Wolf and Red cartoons, as it's about females going crazy over a male instead of vice versa.
• This cartoon is a parody of some of the Disney movies that came out at the time, specifically Bambi.
• The ugly female rabbit that comes after B.O. has the same fur/skin color as Bugs Bunny.
• The working title was "Smellbound".
• The used title is a dialect of "Little Stinker".

Censorship

• On Cartoon Network and Boomerang (latter TV only; the gag is retained on the streaming service), a gag during the scene where B.O. Skunk, disguised as Frank Sinatra, is singing to a crowd of female bunnies is now edited. As two doe rabbits pop out of the ground shouting "Frankie!", removed is the appearance of a black female bunny who says "Love dat man!". All broadcasts of this cartoon prior to January 2001 left this scene untouched.
• On TBS, the scene of B.O. Skunk almost drinking poison in an attempt to commit suicide was removed.

Availability

• (1988) VHS - Tex Avery's Screwball Classics
• (1990) LaserDisc - Tex Avery's Screwball Classics
• (1993) LaserDisc - The Compleat Tex Avery, Side 4
• (2004) DVD - The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
• (2019) Streaming - Boomerang (uncut)
• (2021) Blu-ray - Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 3 (restored; Warner Bros.)

Gallery

Model sheet 1

Model sheet 2

Little 'Tinker rechristening on a Lincoln Nebraska State Journal, Sept 22, 1946.

Avery adding color to the title character while Quimby oversees his work. This publicity photo appeared in the St. Albans Daily Messanger on July 5, 1947.

External links

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