"Let's make some funny pictures"

     My earliest memory of seeing Tex Avery's influenced work is the infamous dialogue between Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck where they are arguing over what season it is and, SPOILER, Elmer Fudd shoots Daffy in the face. To me, Avery's classic style of art is lost in today's "children's" programming. Every time my girlfriend watches the Amazing World of Gumball or I see a promo for Adventure Time I'm like, "the creators had to be high when made this".

     The likes of Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Droopy, and others influenced the generation who are making art now so I just don't understand how today's media could have gotten so antic. But, speaking of antics, Tex Avery was seen as the same way in his day as his piece "Little Red Hot Riding Hood" caused plenty of controversy back then. Today we see the wolf howling at the hot girl as an iconic symbol in pop culture as it has appeared mimicked in other works such as The Mask. Now can I say that today's cartoons will have the same effect in the future? No, not really. Nothing that is on today is really that memorable.

     Call me an old timer, but there's no school like the old school and I'd take Tex Avery's work over a lot of things out there today. There's only a few exceptions that I would want to keep that are out there today. The Legend of Kora and Phineas and Ferb, for example, are two of the best things out there. In hindsight, though, the majority of animators and producers these days are accomplishing for their audience what Avery said all along, "Let's make some funny pictures".