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

78 years ago today, these two met for the first time. "A Wild Hare" (1940, directed by Tex Avery) was released and is considered the first official Bugs Bunny cartoon. Bugs also says "What's up, doc?" for the very first time in the clip below. | GoldenAgeCartoons.com

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

For this scene in "Cross Country Detours" (Tex Avery, 1940), the Warner Bros. animators had a lizard "shed its skin", and the joke was to have it do a "striptease". To make it as convincing as possible, they actually brought in a live (human) model to strip for them, (which they greatly enjoyed), and filmed it. They rotoscoped the footage, retracing the model's movements. Avery used it again for a similar gag in another film, and the raw footage of the model also made an appearance in one of the