Screwy Squirrel, also known as Screwball Squirrel, is an animated cartoon character created by Tex Avery for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The squirrel made his debut in the 1944 Tex Avery-directed Screwball Squirrel.
Although he technically died at the end of 1946's Lonesome Lenny, he was later revived for the 1993 television series Droopy, Master Detective, produced by Hanna-Barbera. There, his name was always "Screwball Squirrel."
He is a red squirrel with buckteeth and a big black shiny nose. From Big Heel Watha onwards he has a tuft of blonde hair, smaller eyes and one gold tooth.
Bruce W. Smith was developing a series about the character for Warner Bros. in where Screwy thought he was living in Hollywood, California but was really living in Hollywood Alabama. The project never got off the ground.
Today, Warner Bros. owns Turner Entertainment's the pre-May 1986 MGM library, including Screwy Squirrel.
A cartoon rabbit resembling Screwy Squirrel appears in a picture in Lena Hyena's room in the 1988 Disney/Touchstone film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Screwy is mockingly mentioned by one of Eddie Valiant's bar patrons Angelo: "Who's your client, Mr. Detective of the Stars? Chilly Willy, or Screwy Squirrel?" According to the original storyboards of the film, Screwy was originally going to make a physical cameo appearance in that film during the Toontown scene, but was cut.[1] Screwy also made a cameo appearance in 2022 Netflix interactive film Cat Burglar.
Filmography[]
Orignal Shorts[]
- Screwball Squirrel (1944)
- Happy-Go-Nutty (1944)
- Big Heel Watha (1944)
- The Screwy Truant (1945)
- Lonesome Lenny (1946)
Droopy, Master Detective[]
- "How Can We Miss You if You Won't Go Away"
- "Dweeble's Night Out"
- "A Screwball Romance"
- "Everybody Out"
- "Screwball Snowballs"
- "Squirrelicus Obnoxiousness"
- "Pickax Max"
- "Demolition Disorder"
- "A Chip Off the Old Blockhead"
- "Screwball Out West"
- "Dog Breath Dweeble"
- "Commotion on the Ocean"
- "Dweeble's Worst Nightmare"
Tom and Jerry Films[]
- Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure
- Tom and Jerry (2021) (cameo)
The Tom and Jerry Show (2014)[]
Season 3[]
- "Kid Stuff" (cameo)
- "Double Dog Trouble"
- "Ballad Of The Catnip Kid"
Season 4[]
- "Ball of Fire" (cameo)
Season 5[]
- "Sock it to Me"
- "Dry Hard" (cameo)
- "Camelot Cat" (cameo)
List of comics appearances[]
- Our Gang Comics #12–14 (1944) (Dell Comics)
- Tom & Jerry's Winter Carnival #1 (1952), #2 (1953) (Dell)
- Tom & Jerry's Winter Fun #3 (1954), #6 (1957), #7 (1958), #8 (1958) (Dell)
- Tom & Jerry's Summer Fun #1 (1954), #2 (1955) (Dell)
- Tom and Jerry #213 (1962), #231, #232 (1966), #258 (1971)
- Golden Comics Digest #3, #5 (1969), #8 (1970), #18 (1971), #22, #25 (1972), #28 (1973), #41 (1975) (Gold Key Comics)
- Tex Avery's Wolf and Red various issues (1995) (Dark Horse Comics)
- Tex Avery's Screwball Squirrel (1995) (Dark Horse Comics)
- Tex Avery's Droopy various issues (1995) (Dark Horse Comics)
- Comics and Stories various issues (1996) (Dark Horse Comics)
Some earlier comics style the character's name as "Skrewy Squirrel" or "Skrewy the Screwball Squirrel." Additional titles, not listed here, include the character in one-page gag or puzzle features.