Screwy Squirrel is generally considered the wackiest and outright most antagonistic of the screwball cartoon characters of the 1940s.
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10 Facts About Screwy Squirrel
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The character was not as successful as Avery's Droopy was at this time, and Screwy appeared in only five cartoons: Screwball Squirrel, Happy-Go-Nutty, Big Heel-Watha, The Screwy Truant, and Lonesome Lenny.
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Screwy Squirrel's shorts revolved around him inflicting various forms of torture on Meathead – or another enemy – for seven minutes.
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Screwy Squirrel is seen sniffing around at R K Maroon's Cartoon Studio in the film's beginning.
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Those new cartoons featured the character's name as Screwball—never Screwy Squirrel—and pitted him not against Meathead but against a pair of typical Hanna-Barbera authority figures, a human park attendant named Dweeble and his oafish dog Rumply.
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In 2013, both Meathead and Screwy Squirrel make appearances as residents of "Fairy Land" in Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure retaining most of their traits.
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Screwy Squirrel was voiced by Paul Reubens and Meathead is voiced by John DiMaggio.
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In 2019, Screwy Squirrel makes an appearance as a landlord of an apartment building called Screwy Arms Apartments, in the third season of The Tom and Jerry Show episode called "Double Dog Trouble".
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In Smith's proposed storyline, which was never produced, Screwy Squirrel thinks he is in Hollywood, California, but in reality he is in Hollywood, Alabama.
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Several Screwy Squirrel cartoons were released as bonus features on classic Warner Bros.
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