Is it just me, or does squeaky clean Sammy Squirrel, who thinks this cartoon is going to be about him and his happy little friends, represent Walt Disney, or at least his cartoons? The salty Screwball takes him behind a tree and beats the daylights out of him, then provokes a dog named Meathead and beats him repeatedly too, all while being chased all over the place. There's a particular anarchy here and while Screwy lacks the charm of similarly characters (e.g. Bugs Bunny), I liked how the characters break the 4th wall and the alienation techniques Tex Avery used, e.g. The chase skipping when the record player begins to skip, or Screwy peeling back the image at a corner to see what he's going to be up to next. The gag with Meathead's entire face peeling off with flypaper was pretty amusing too. Not my favorite character, but worth seeing.
Review of Screwball Squirrel
