How to insult an animation legend's legacy in one show...
Despite the series being supposed to pay homage to Tex Avery and his cartoon creations, it is nothing more than an insult rather than a homage to Tex Avery's work, due to its various issues as listed below. Poor grasp of the source material: The show has nothing to do with Tex Avery and, for legal reasons, none of his trademark characters like Bugs Bunny and Droopy Dog are included in this show. There's a character who's a cowboy named after Avery, and that's pretty much it. The title sequence shows the characters repetitively stomping and bouncing on the ground in an extremely hyperactive manner and flipping their lips in tune to the theme song while showing saliva, which is disgusting. This show uses way too many stock sound effects and even uses them at inappropriate times. Billy West and Scott McNeil do poor jobs voicing the titular character and Amanda. Notably, McNeil sounds very annoying and unconvincing as a woman. Most of the character designs are very unappealing and lackluster to look at, especially Tex himself, who has a very creepy smile on his face. There are plenty of racial and annoying stereotypes:Pompeii Pete (while a likable character/decent segment) is an Italian stereotype. Maurice is a Swedish stereotype. Einstone is a German stereotype based obviously on Albert Einstein. Tex Avery (the main character) is just a cliché stereotypical Wild West character. Other offensive stereotypes on this show include Asians, Mexicans, British, Samoans, Jews, and even Native Americans as well. The animation is sub-par and rather cheap-looking, with some unfinished backgrounds and frames missing. There are numerous animation errors. For example, in the opening, the top of Pompeii Pete's helmet disappears. Some of the animation doesn't sync up with the backgrounds properly. The jokes and humor are both very poor and terrible, as they mostly consist of fart jokes, toilet humor, and gross-out humor. Most of the jokes also fall flat or feel awkward due to the stiff and wonky animation. The classic Avery gags are in the show, but they're butchered beyond all belief. In one scene, Tex and Sid try to pull off the gag of pulling out bigger and more absurd weapons, but the way it's telegraphed ruins the pacing when they basically announce what they're going use next. A lot of content is too weird, disturbing, and inappropriate for a kids' show; here are just a few examples. In the first Pompeii Pete segment "The Dis-orderly", Dan the Man fakes a cut and squeezes a ketchup bottle to simulate that he's bleeding, and made it worse by squeezing it very hard all over the other patients. In the same segment, Pompeii himself slices a pizza using a buzzsaw, but the gag was a setup as if he was slicing Dan the Man instead. In the first Maurice and Mooch segment "Breakfast in Bedlam", Maurice cracks an egg open, which isn't half bad. But the previous scene implied he pulled it from his mother. False Advertising: The intro sequence and promo images show Tex riding a horse, but he rides a goat in the show itself instead. This show was obviously made to cash-in on the trend of Golden Age-style shows such as Animaniacs and The Ren & Stimpy Show, which had little to no involvement with Tex Avery or his cartoons, as it was more of a homage to him. A lot of the characters are unfunny, unlikable, and obnoxious. The worst offenders are Amanda Banshee, who is very lazy and short-tempered, and Freddy the Fly, who was always abusive to Amanda. The soundtrack is obnoxious and insufferable, especially the theme song. The theme song is incredibly annoying, obnoxious, and lazy. It even disrespects Jacques Offenbach, as it basically consists of the chorus of his song from Orpheus In The Underworld Can-Can (a.k.a. "Infernal Galop") with the line "Welcome to the Wacky World Of Tex Avery" being repeated over and over again in tune to the music as its lyrics of the theme. There's also barely (if ever) any background music playing in most of the episodes, hence failing to enhance the intended wacky-nutty tone and mood of the show, and instead rendering the cartoons' atmospheres to be very bland and dull. A lot of the characters and segments are pretty unoriginal and ripped off other already existing cartoons or TV shows. Tex Avery is a ripoff of Red Hot Ryder from the 1944 Looney Tunes cartoon "Buckaroo Bugs" (which was, ironically enough, directed by Bob Clampett) and copies a lot from Bugs Bunny. Sagebrush Sid is a lazy clone of the wolf from Tex Avery's Droopy cartoons and usually serves as a stand-in for Yosemite Sam. (from Looney Tunes)Miss Chasity Knott's design is almost plagiarized from Red's design, also from the Droopy cartoons, with the only difference being that she has black hair. Genghis and Pompeii's designs look far too similar to Stimpy from The Ren & Stimpy Show. Pompeii himself looks like the Indian from one of the Screwy Squirrel shorts ("Big Man Watha") and is rumored to be based on Shorty from the original Popeye the Sailor shorts. Dan's design has a strong resemblance to Dick Dastardly's design from Wacky Races. The Einstone segments (or more importantly, the name) are an obvious ripoff of The Flintstones. The face of Einstone himself was likely based on Little Miss Muffet from the 1940 Looney Tunes cartoon "A Gander at Mother Goose". Genghis and Khannie are both plagiarized copycats (no pun intended) of Tom and Jerry. Khannie is a ripoff of Andy Panda and is a stand-in (even sharing the same voice actress as) Elmyra Duff from Tiny Toon Adventures. Amanda Banshee looks like a stolen character drawn by Don Martin from the MAD magazine. Freddy the Fly is likely a poor man's version of the gremlin from "Falling Hare". (Also from Looney Tunes)Maurice's design is a ripoff of both Tweety's (again, from Looney Tunes) and Baby Huey's designs. Mooch is basically a copy off of Sylvester the Cat. (yet again, from Looney Tunes)Maurice's father bears a few similarities to Foghorn Leghorn (yet another character from Looney Tunes)Pompeii Pete is just what happens when they bring Shorty from the Famous Studios era of Popeye the Sailor, but speaking terribly in Italian. Power Pooch is an obvious ripoff of Underdog and Superman (design-wise), and Earthworm Jim (personality-wise, with none of the strong humor). Little Buddy can also be seen as a potential clone of Spot from Hong Kong Phooey and Peter Puppy from Earthworm Jim. Ton of spelling errors and typos on the background objects:In the Tex Avery segment "Bottleneck Bear", "Grizzly Bear" is misspelled as "Gbizzly" in one of the signs on a mountain. This happens twice in the Freddy the Fly segment "Flychiatry"; "Judgement Day" is misspelled as "Judement Day", and "November" is misspelled as "Novenber". (Both on the psychiatrist's calendar)Another Freddy the Fly segment, "Tallywho?", has a sentence with a misspelling: "Our guns are loaded and so are we" is misspelled as "Ours guns are loaded and so are we" on a sign. In the Genghis and Khannie segment "The Wrath of Khannie", The sign on Uranus is misspelled as "Upanus", but only once. Most of the animals (especially on the Einstone segments) are usually poorly drawn and somehow have huge proboscis human-like noses, especially with the dinosaurs and saber-toothed cats. A few of the plots are even copied from other shows: a glaring example of this would be the Maurice and Mooch segment "Carnivores Anonymous", where Mooch attends a club to give up his addiction of chicken, being a copy of the Looney Tunes short "Birds Anonymous" (even sharing a much similar name).
Despite the series being supposed to pay homage to Tex Avery and his cartoon creations, it is nothing more than an insult rather than a homage to Tex Avery's work, due to its various issues as listed below. Poor grasp of the source material: The show has nothing to do with Tex Avery and, for legal reasons, none of his trademark characters like Bugs Bunny and Droopy Dog are included in this show. There's a character who's a cowboy named after Avery, and that's pretty much it. The title sequence shows the characters repetitively stomping and bouncing on the ground in an extremely hyperactive manner and flipping their lips in tune to the theme song while showing saliva, which is disgusting. This show uses way too many stock sound effects and even uses them at inappropriate times. Billy West and Scott McNeil do poor jobs voicing the titular character and Amanda. Notably, McNeil sounds very annoying and unconvincing as a woman. Most of the character designs are very unappealing and lackluster to look at, especially Tex himself, who has a very creepy smile on his face. There are plenty of racial and annoying stereotypes:Pompeii Pete (while a likable character/decent segment) is an Italian stereotype. Maurice is a Swedish stereotype. Einstone is a German stereotype based obviously on Albert Einstein. Tex Avery (the main character) is just a cliché stereotypical Wild West character. Other offensive stereotypes on this show include Asians, Mexicans, British, Samoans, Jews, and even Native Americans as well. The animation is sub-par and rather cheap-looking, with some unfinished backgrounds and frames missing. There are numerous animation errors. For example, in the opening, the top of Pompeii Pete's helmet disappears. Some of the animation doesn't sync up with the backgrounds properly. The jokes and humor are both very poor and terrible, as they mostly consist of fart jokes, toilet humor, and gross-out humor. Most of the jokes also fall flat or feel awkward due to the stiff and wonky animation. The classic Avery gags are in the show, but they're butchered beyond all belief. In one scene, Tex and Sid try to pull off the gag of pulling out bigger and more absurd weapons, but the way it's telegraphed ruins the pacing when they basically announce what they're going use next. A lot of content is too weird, disturbing, and inappropriate for a kids' show; here are just a few examples. In the first Pompeii Pete segment "The Dis-orderly", Dan the Man fakes a cut and squeezes a ketchup bottle to simulate that he's bleeding, and made it worse by squeezing it very hard all over the other patients. In the same segment, Pompeii himself slices a pizza using a buzzsaw, but the gag was a setup as if he was slicing Dan the Man instead. In the first Maurice and Mooch segment "Breakfast in Bedlam", Maurice cracks an egg open, which isn't half bad. But the previous scene implied he pulled it from his mother. False Advertising: The intro sequence and promo images show Tex riding a horse, but he rides a goat in the show itself instead. This show was obviously made to cash-in on the trend of Golden Age-style shows such as Animaniacs and The Ren & Stimpy Show, which had little to no involvement with Tex Avery or his cartoons, as it was more of a homage to him. A lot of the characters are unfunny, unlikable, and obnoxious. The worst offenders are Amanda Banshee, who is very lazy and short-tempered, and Freddy the Fly, who was always abusive to Amanda. The soundtrack is obnoxious and insufferable, especially the theme song. The theme song is incredibly annoying, obnoxious, and lazy. It even disrespects Jacques Offenbach, as it basically consists of the chorus of his song from Orpheus In The Underworld Can-Can (a.k.a. "Infernal Galop") with the line "Welcome to the Wacky World Of Tex Avery" being repeated over and over again in tune to the music as its lyrics of the theme. There's also barely (if ever) any background music playing in most of the episodes, hence failing to enhance the intended wacky-nutty tone and mood of the show, and instead rendering the cartoons' atmospheres to be very bland and dull. A lot of the characters and segments are pretty unoriginal and ripped off other already existing cartoons or TV shows. Tex Avery is a ripoff of Red Hot Ryder from the 1944 Looney Tunes cartoon "Buckaroo Bugs" (which was, ironically enough, directed by Bob Clampett) and copies a lot from Bugs Bunny. Sagebrush Sid is a lazy clone of the wolf from Tex Avery's Droopy cartoons and usually serves as a stand-in for Yosemite Sam. (from Looney Tunes)Miss Chasity Knott's design is almost plagiarized from Red's design, also from the Droopy cartoons, with the only difference being that she has black hair. Genghis and Pompeii's designs look far too similar to Stimpy from The Ren & Stimpy Show. Pompeii himself looks like the Indian from one of the Screwy Squirrel shorts ("Big Man Watha") and is rumored to be based on Shorty from the original Popeye the Sailor shorts. Dan's design has a strong resemblance to Dick Dastardly's design from Wacky Races. The Einstone segments (or more importantly, the name) are an obvious ripoff of The Flintstones. The face of Einstone himself was likely based on Little Miss Muffet from the 1940 Looney Tunes cartoon "A Gander at Mother Goose". Genghis and Khannie are both plagiarized copycats (no pun intended) of Tom and Jerry. Khannie is a ripoff of Andy Panda and is a stand-in (even sharing the same voice actress as) Elmyra Duff from Tiny Toon Adventures. Amanda Banshee looks like a stolen character drawn by Don Martin from the MAD magazine. Freddy the Fly is likely a poor man's version of the gremlin from "Falling Hare". (Also from Looney Tunes)Maurice's design is a ripoff of both Tweety's (again, from Looney Tunes) and Baby Huey's designs. Mooch is basically a copy off of Sylvester the Cat. (yet again, from Looney Tunes)Maurice's father bears a few similarities to Foghorn Leghorn (yet another character from Looney Tunes)Pompeii Pete is just what happens when they bring Shorty from the Famous Studios era of Popeye the Sailor, but speaking terribly in Italian. Power Pooch is an obvious ripoff of Underdog and Superman (design-wise), and Earthworm Jim (personality-wise, with none of the strong humor). Little Buddy can also be seen as a potential clone of Spot from Hong Kong Phooey and Peter Puppy from Earthworm Jim. Ton of spelling errors and typos on the background objects:In the Tex Avery segment "Bottleneck Bear", "Grizzly Bear" is misspelled as "Gbizzly" in one of the signs on a mountain. This happens twice in the Freddy the Fly segment "Flychiatry"; "Judgement Day" is misspelled as "Judement Day", and "November" is misspelled as "Novenber". (Both on the psychiatrist's calendar)Another Freddy the Fly segment, "Tallywho?", has a sentence with a misspelling: "Our guns are loaded and so are we" is misspelled as "Ours guns are loaded and so are we" on a sign. In the Genghis and Khannie segment "The Wrath of Khannie", The sign on Uranus is misspelled as "Upanus", but only once. Most of the animals (especially on the Einstone segments) are usually poorly drawn and somehow have huge proboscis human-like noses, especially with the dinosaurs and saber-toothed cats. A few of the plots are even copied from other shows: a glaring example of this would be the Maurice and Mooch segment "Carnivores Anonymous", where Mooch attends a club to give up his addiction of chicken, being a copy of the Looney Tunes short "Birds Anonymous" (even sharing a much similar name).