The bulldog is trying to sleep, but the skinny rooster won't shut up crowing,, in this funny, typically gag-packed cartoon from Tex Avery.The elaborate background work and character design of Avery's earlier cartoons has vanished, destroyed by budgets shrinking in the face of post-war inflation and declining movie audiences, but there are just as many gags on display as ever, with a rat-a-tat pacing: set-up,pay-off, and then on to the next set-up.
In this Tex Avery directed cartoon, Spike the dog is trying to get some sleep. However, the super-annoying rooster keeps crowing for practically no reason at all...
Love animation, it was a big part of my life as a child, particularly Disney, Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry, and still love it whether it's film, television or cartoons.Also have much admiration for Tex Avery, an animation genius whose best cartoons are animated masterpieces and some of the best he ever did.
Tex Avery loved sight gags piled on top of one another, coming fast and furiously at the viewer. This short is simply one long string of sight gags in a battle of wits between a dog (usually named Spike, but not to be confused with the Spike found in Tom and Jerry cartoons with some frequency.
