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For this wiki's purposes, his cartoons are the first of their medium to recognize tropes and gleefully subvert them: radioland had probably beaten him to [[Happily Ever After]], but visual tropes like the [[Spinning Paper]], the [[Idea Bulb]], the [[Rebus Bubble]] and [[Chained to a Railway]] were still alive and well before Avery's boys at Termite Terrace got their hands on them. "I wanted the audience to know ''I knew'' they were out there," he later said, referring to some of his earliest gags, like animated hairs in the projector or [[Born in the Theatre|silhouetted audience members]] disrupting the action (and occasionally being shot dead).
While Avery's career in theatrical animation began and ended at the [[Walter Lantz]] studio, it's his six years at Warners and twelve-year tenure with MGM that made him a revered figure to animation buffs. His filmography produced several milestones: Tex directed the first Daffy Duck short, "[[Porky's Duck Hunt]]" (1937) and the first "true" [[Bugs Bunny]] cartoon "[[A Wild Hare]]" in 1940, creating with them The [[Karmic Trickster]] and [[Screwy Squirrel|Screwball]] character tropes; his MGM variations of these characters, Droopy
Understudy [[Bob Clampett]] in many ways continued his mentor's work (not surprisingly, to a similar undoing). If Tex modernized the cartoon gag, it was Clampett who modernized the old "squash and stretch" animation techniques, shaping and accelerating them to the limits of abstraction. Clampett directed the first Tweety short, "A Tale of Two Kitties" in 1942.
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'''NOT''' to be confused with ''The Wacky World of Tex Avery'', which was a "[[In Name Only|Homage]]" to the original cartoons. [[Fanon Discontinuity|And the less said about it, the better]]. {{spoiler|Too late for that; ''[[The Wacky World of Tex Avery]]'' has already been said!}}
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== Non-MGM Filmography ==
=== 1930 ===
* The Singing Sap: An [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit]] short. First cartoon where he is credited as an animator.
=== 1933 ===
* Confidence: Another Oswald Rabbit short where he is credited as an animator.
=== 1934 ===
* Chris Columbus Jr.: Mentioned working on the lengty cannon scene, possibly directed it.
=== 1935 ===
* Towne Hall Follies: Directed it, but was uncredited.
* Quail Hunt: Directed it, but was uncredited.
=== 1936 ===
* Golddiggers of '49
* The Blow-Out
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* Porky the Wrestler
=== 1937 ===
* Picador Porky
* I Only Have Eyes For You
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* Little Red Walking Hood
=== 1938 ===
* The Penguin Parade
* The Isle of Pingo Pongo: One of the [[Censored Eleven]].
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* The Mice Will Play
=== 1939 ===
* A Day At The Zoo
* Thugs with Dirty Mugs
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* The Early Worm Gets the Bird
=== 1940 ===
* Cross Country Detours
* The Bear's Tale
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* Holiday Highlights
=== 1941 ===
* The Crackpot Quail
* Haunted Mouse
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* The Cagey Canary
=== 1942 ===
* Aloha Hooey
* Crazy Cruise
== 1942 ("Speaking of Animals" series
* Speaking of Animals Down on the Farm
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* Speaking of Animals In The Zoo
=== 1942-1955: ===
== 1954 ==▼
▲=== 1954 ===
* I'm Cold: Second in the [[Chilly Willy]] series of shorts.
=== 1955 ===
* Crazy Mixed-Up Pup
* The Legend of Rockabye Point. Third Chilly Willy short.
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