Things we learned from cartoons: billy goats will eat ANYTHING. Clip from "Billy Boy" (1954, directed by Tex Avery) | GoldenAgeCartoons.com

1M views · 13K shares | Just a typical day at work. Clip from Tex Avery's "The Peachy Cobbler" (1950). | GoldenAgeCartoons.com | Facebook

5.9K views · 619 reactions | The legendary Tex Avery constantly lampooned fairy tales, especially Disney's adaptations of them, for his entire career. Disney, in turn, borrowed an idea from Avery: using a narrator for "spot gags" in the Goofy cartoons. It couldn't have been more fitting, then, for the voice of Goofy, Pinto Colvig, to contribute virtually the same voice for a redneck wolf in Avery's MGM classic "Little Rural Riding Hood" (1949). | GoldenAgeCartoons.com | Facebook

One of the biggest "landmark" moments in the history of Warner Bros. cartoons, and arguably all of animation, was Tex Avery's introduction of Daffy Duck. It happened in "Porky's Duck Hunt" (Tex Avery, 1937), and one gag in particular really caught the attention of moviegoers. Audiences had seen corny hunting gags before. They'd seen a character "break the 4th wall". But they'd never seen a character become so frustrated by his foil's antics that he turned directly to the audience and complained

47K views · 773 reactions | Some background for this one: Tex Avery answered the immortal question: "Which way did he go, George?" for the first time in "Of Fox and Hounds" (1940). Avery loved Lon Chaney Jr's performance as Lennie in a 1939 film adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic novel "Of Mice and Men", and turned it into an immortal cartoon trope. Avery himself voices "Willoughby" the hound here. | GoldenAgeCartoons.com | Facebook