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Screwball "Screwy" Squirrel is a character, an anthropomorphic squirrel created by Tex Avery for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, generally considered the wackiest of the screwball cartoon characters of the 1940s, which included Warner Bros.'s Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, Disney's Aracuan Bird, Terrytoons's Heckle and Jeckle, DePatie-Freleng's The Pink Panther, Famous Studios' Blackie The Lamb and Walter Lantz's Woody Woodpecker. He's even inspired by Yoyo Dodo from the Looney Tunes cartoon "Porky in Wackyland".
In Tom and Jerry's Giant Adventure, he was voiced by the late Paul Reubens.
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The character was notable for being brash and erratic, and is considered by some to be annoying with few sympathetic personality characteristics such as Bugs Bunny's nobility, wisecracking "Karmic Trickster" persona or Daffy Duck's wacky and zany pathos. ( as perfected by Bob Clampett and Tex himself. ) Most of his cartoons revolve around him inflicting various forms of torture on his enemy (usually Meathead Dog, voiced by Dick Nelson) for seven minutes. In The Screwy Truant, Screwy hits a dog across the head with everything he can find in a trunk labeled "Assorted Swell Stuff to Hit Dog on Head". When he finishes, the dog remarks, "Gee whiz! He hit me with everything but the kitchen sink!" Screwy responds with, "Well, don't want to disappoint you, chum," then pulls out that very item and bashes him over the head with it.