Tex Avery MGM Cartoons - Magical Maestro (1952) REACTION!

[@KevyNova]

Another thing to keep in mind is that Tex Avery said he never made a cartoon for children. Even when he was creating characters like Bugs Bunny at Warner Bros he always had adult audiences in mind.

[@robbiewalker2831]

Well, that’s the thing; back then, Cartoons were viewed by people of all ages, not just kids. The reason for this was because of the Hayes’ Code, which was done to have people self-censor anything from being too racy, which was a fancy word to describe something that’s sexually titillating.

[@FCSchaefer]

It's astounding that Tex Avery could pack so many gags into just seven or eight minutes, and he didn't care who he made fun of, something we have completely lost now.

[@marcoaguilar2394]

I know some of these old cartoons used stereotypes in them but as a Hispanic I was always able to laugh at them because everybody got made fun of. I still laugh at "Speedy Gonzalez" and the two Mexican Crows that Looney Toons had. Hillbillies got made fun of, New York accented characters, "Pepe Le Pew" covered the French lover stereotype. "Porky Pig" stuttered and "Daffy Duck" had a lisp. Laughter disarms hate and prejudice when we all do it. Great work once again! These cartoons make me laugh out loud.

[@TwilightLink77]

Kinda ironic that despite Speedy Gonzalez was a stereotype he was still popular in Mexico.

[@robbieking4070]

@@TwilightLink77 Yeah. When SJW Americans tried to have Speedy banned Mexico was furious and demanded Speedy continue to appear in new Looney Tunes shows.

[@atrain818]

The 2 crows were heckle and Jackle. They were actually magpies. And were not looney toons. Think they were Hannah/barbera

[@mariogarv]

@@atrain818 I´d believe those guys were a creation of Terry cartoons

[@glowworm2]

@@atrain818 Nope, the crows in question were indeed from Looney Tunes from two shorts, "Two Crows from Tacos" and "Crows Feat." Their names were Manuel and Jose and were later recycled into Depatie-Freleng studios Tijuana Toads characters.

[@daw91210]

As a child growing up in the 70’s and 80’s, this has always been my favorite cartoon.

[@CPR2839]

Same for me. As a 90s kid I enjoyed watching these classic cartoons. Was worth losing sleep lol

[@solorgana]

Symphony In Slang is mine

[@NJGuy1973]

@@solorgana If I was an English teacher doing a lesson on idioms, I'd show Symphony In Slang. BTW, I'd like to see a modern version of that, using today's slang.

[@robynsegg]

YES!!!!! 🤣👍

[@dandycrow2821]

The dancer with the fruit hat is the legendary CARMEN MIRANDA, with her own voice! The black ink in the face gag is a parody of Bill Kenny from the Ink Spots. Poochini's voice after being hit by the anvil is a parody of Ink Spots' bass, "Hoppy" Jones (parodying the Ink Spots' "Top & Bottom" format). This is a reflecting and mocking parody and satire of the entertainers and entertainment of the time, not different than Seth MacFarlane's and Matt Groening's, in fact, just like these latter two, everyone from everywhere here is mocked, no bias. A vintage masterpiece of comedy, a hilarious piece of history.

[@nlrjcs5472]

The gag about the underwear as the spoofed Carmen Miranda was singing is in fact based on a well-known (in Hollywood circles especially) embarrassing moment she had a few years earlier. She had finished her scenes on a film for the day, and retired to her dressing room to undress and wind down. But some publicity photographers showed up on the set, and CM was to be in the photos. She got dressed but for whatever reason did not put her panties back on. Some of the pictures were to be staged "action" or "moving" shots to highlight the film's appeal, so she was being lifted and swung around by her co-star. At least one photograph taken very plainly and clearly revealed she had nothing on under her costume dress. This episode became a not-too-well hidden secret and is a part of old Hollywood lore.

[@kylestubbs8867]

4:54 The way these cartoons were made involved a projector, and sometimes a stray hair would fall on the projector and appear on a few concurrent slides shifting around like that. Here, they took a second to acknowledge it.

[@robbiewalker2831]

This joke is also an improvement over Tex’s previous time he does the hair gag; the last time he did that joke, an Irishman was singing “When Irish Eyes are Smiling”, and he got irritated that there’s a hair in the film, demanding someone to remove it. Butch in this short was not agitated, but he removed the hair himself.

[@TheAnchorArmsChad]

6:08 I need the singer dancing Hawaiian as a GIF

[@derrickhines4690]

Im a late 70's baby and 44 years old. Classic cartoon. Still makes me laugh to this day.

[@NJGuy1973]

I watched them every afternoon on Channel 11 in New York.

[@bsgambati1]

They can do that to anyone in any age.

[@Alexzander1989]

They don’t make them like this anymore. Damn shame too, these are hilarious

[@Legomicroman]

the bit where he pulled out the hair, is my favorite gag! you often have hairs and dustbits on old animation footage. but the fact that this cartoon acknowledges this out of nowhere and works it into a joke, is brilliant!

[@mariogarv]

It was a good 4th wall break >XD

[@Barber747]

So that's what that was. Now I understand why little lines and dots pop-up constantly in old movies and films made during the heyday era of motion pictures!

[@14mespider9]

This is one of my favorite Tex Avery cartoons.

[@johnstagnari3459]

The bit where the tenor stops to pull the flickering hair from the bottom of the screen caused confusion. When this was originally run in movie houses, the projectionist actually tried to get the "floating hair" out of the projector not knowing it was part of the joke.

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

In other words, it was a precursor to the "hair on screen" prank I've seen floating around the Internet.

[@SailorMoonFriends]

You can also find this cartoon on an old movie called The Belle Of New York in the special features

[@SFAPowerhouse]

This is nothing but pure comic Mayhem provided by the Undisputed king of animation, Tex Avery!! Yeah, some elements of the comedy then maybe seem controversial now, but back then, nothing was off-limits. However, there was no swearing or anything sexual, which makes it even more awesome.

[@oblivious8868]

I think the blackface moment was specifically a shout out to to the Ink Spots, and well as a pun that flew over my head until now. Not a good look today, but at the very least, it was to serve a purpose for the physical comedy.

[@robbiewalker2831]

Totally agree on both accounts. You don't have to like the joke it was made back then, but it can be studied on how comedy changed from then to now.

[@patrickwilson1459]

Yeah they never showed the black face moment when I saw this as a kid.

[@atrain818]

Yeah the ink spots. And when they threw the anvil on him, it was a different artist . Forgot who tho? Absolutely hilarious. The only ppl offended are white liberals

[@charlesgebhart2024]

@ 5:45 was typical of a lot of animators from different studios, but the main difference here is that the two "blackface" stereotypes are actually characterizations of Bill Kenny from the group the ink spots and then bass singer for the group, "Hoppy" Jones respectively Additionally, the ink spots sang the song "If I didn't care".

[@kylestubbs8867]

I’ve heard that it was also a reference to “The Ink Spots”.

[@crcoghill]

i love the bit with the hair stuck in the film reel that he pulls out. it's very clever for the time.

[@eldermillennial8330]

They FINALLY released this, uncut, on DVD? This is my ABSOLUTE Favorite 😍 Tex Avery cartoon, no matter how many times I saw it as a kid, I would die laughing 😝 But I got so furious that i could not find it on DVD, I went as far as to buy a refurbished Laser Disc player and the portion of the Tex Avery collection it was released on in 1990. That was five years ago. So NOW they found their balls enough to release it. The pop culture caricature stereotypes are ACROSS THE BOARD. He was poking EVERYONE, in good fun, equally. There’s the Washington Irving cowboy spoof, for example. Furthermore, Chinese immigrant families continued to dress, locally anyway, traditionally, well into the 1920s, by and large, as Avery would have seen them when he was a kid passing through China Town.

[@FuriousMan226]

Yeah. It’s on Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 2.

[@FuShengAlex]

Forget the PC/Cancel culture!!! Born in 75 I grew up watching these in the 80s Tex Avery will always be a genius to me and I'll never get offended by any of his cartoons!

[@atrain818]

@@FuShengAlex yep. It was on wfld ch 32 in Chicago at least once a week in the 80's. Along with the 3 stooges and woody woodpecker and underdog

[@LTJfan]

Hey! Figaro! (whistles) 😄😄😄😄

[@LoudHouseCritic2018]

Great reaction. This cartoon kills me so much. There should be more cartoons like this one. 6:50

[@PatJK910]

This is one of my favorite cartoons, plus I love the gags in this one they are so funny.🤣

[@hunterbeatbilly9836]

I remembered watching this in the 2000s when boomerang was still good. Was one of my favorite tex Avery cartoon episode ever

[@melissadavis453]

I miss the old boomerang.

[@brycefourn2001]

I remember discovering Boomerang in January 2009. It was one of the last remaining good channels around that time. (Same with Nicktoons Network)

[@AlexanderCalderon-kd6mh]

Another Tex Avery classic! You are awesome! The only person I've seen reacting to these cartoons! Thank you!

[@MrShouttaKun]

Me fascina los tipos de melodias y canciones que se usan en este cortometraje

[@mileswinslow7553]

You should watch "Long-Haired Hare" a Bugs Bunny cartoon. It is about an opera singer that Bugs has annoyed. It's very similar.

[@mikechicago6200]

Man you can't do things like this anymore.!

[@Barber747]

I remember watching this episode with one of my cousins when we were kids growing up in the 90s. We laughed so hard at the Chinaman stereotype!!! As for the blackface gag (as well as in all the other shorts which featured it), we were too young to understand stuff like that and how it was offensive. But nonetheless this was some good stuff!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@ChristianEsquivel84]

The basket one cracked me up! I love that. Priceless! XD

[@lemmythebulldog8812]

One of my favorite cartoon characters I saw on boomerang with my dad, we now adopted a bulldog inspired by Tex Avery’s

[@kevinmiller6380]

At least we have somebody who still appreciates good cartoons. 👌👌👌👌👌👌

[@kiminowak8295]

6:08-6:18 LOL Weird tribal dance of doom xD

[@rshelley7496]

Funniest cartoon ever...best parts are the little kid singing and the Hawaiian dancers 🤣 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@devonpatillo5]

This never gets old….And I watched this when I was a kid back in the late 70’s

[@jonathancruz5932]

5:17 That part cracks me up 😁😆😁😄

[@johnbatts3152]

Best tex Avery cartoon of all time!

[@markschildberg1667]

One of Friz Freleng's greatest cartoons. Music always brought out the best in him. Great story in verse by Warren Foster. And Stan Freberg is the perfect narrator to go with Shorty Rogers' music.

[@abdullahibouraleh6919]

I think you're confusing Three Little Bops with Tex Avery's Magical Maestro.

[@seekingtruth6822]

I grew up in the 70’s & 80’s watching these classic cartoons as well as the majority of kids from my era. I recommend one cartoon titled “Sh-h-h-h-h-h” by Walter Lanrz Now this is a true classic. Enjoy

[@NJGuy1973]

Mr. Twiddle, remember your nerves, you blow up...

[@atrain818]

Is that the one where the psychiatrist sends the guy to the quiet hotel? And In the end he blows up? Hilarious

[@seekingtruth6822]

@@atrain818 that’s the one, what I love the most from this cartoon, is the laughter of his psychiatrist along with his nurse. Gets me rolling every time.

[@atrain818]

@@seekingtruth6822 and they start sliding shit under his door. At one point a pie with a bomb is slid under the door.

[@seekingtruth6822]

@@atrain818 The genius of these cartoonist with their funny and incredible creativeness. This is probably what shaped us and our youthful Lives

[@tylerlawrence1997]

The idea of opera, magic, and comedy work surprising well together.

[@tsntana]

Great review. Looking forward to seeing more reactions.

[@bernardmontgomery1411]

This was also one of my favorite skits..this one and the one where the bear was trying to sleep and was like QUIET QUIET!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@andrewcrane2786]

This is my favorite Episode this cartoon is very funny

[@luistheworldandonderland5264]

0:00 part 1 0:41 part 2 2:40 part 3 4:57

[@bernie472]

One of the funniest cartoons I ever saw as a kid. Still crack up at this today!

[@twist58]

I couldn’t care less about the racial stereotypes in this cartoon short, it’s all just gags to laugh at and they still do to me! I only see the hilarity and never took them into account! 😆😆

[@chrismulwee4911]

That's part of what made the old cartoons fun. Today's cartoons are very dull by comparison.

[@brycefourn2001]

Great reaction! My favorite Tex Avery cartoon :)

[@leonidasjorgedelapazgarcia1729]

Muy buena caricatura saludos desde mexico 👏👏👏👏👏

[@the_Z48F1]

The best this still stands as the funniest cartoon i ever saw, and I'm 51

[@davhuf3496]

Cartoons made fun of everybody, almost no one was was safe from some rib poking.

[@davaotripsters]

3:43 Chinese

[@Mibbitmaker]

I hope you could see the cartoon from a clean source instead of the getting-around-copyright ones on the video. The projector-hair gag (my favorite) was harder to catch on this version.

[@TwilightLink77]

You could see it in the black & white screens.

[@always_trust_all_scientists]

Yo my roots are Jamaican. This is my favorite tex Avery episode of all time. EASY!! HANDS DOWN!!!

[@NJGuy1973]

A Gen Z KZbinr who watches Tex Avery and Tom & Jerry. Here's one Gen-Xer who has hope for the future.

[@jamesslingsby6207]

Please do more Tex Avery cartoons - Because that was good - Thanks

[@renatovicenziofrancesconis4476]

En el 04:32, me encanta - me mata de risa - como cambia a country e invita a todos a bailar. Y mientras lo hace, de pronto se percata de que hay algo extraño y mira sorprendido para la cámara, sin dejar de aplaudir. Saludos!!... Nací el '67 y crecí con estos monitos. Los veíamos en blanco y negro, en Concepción, Chile, allá por 1974 y posteriores.- 😂😂👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎥🎞️📽️📺🥺😊🇨🇱

[@JiminyGlick-vj9tu]

This is one of my favorite cartoons

[@chepepuy]

I remember me and my brother when we were kids back in the 90s, we laughed like crazies with this short back when they aired it in Cartoon Network.

[@clintonmercer2520]

I was dead at the black face one 😂😂😂 funniest cartoon ever right there

[@teentitans0]

Man I still laugh hard at this 💯🤣🤣

[@robertimani857]

Did an impression of the lead singer of the ink spots.

[@RedVynil]

The funnest cartoon ever made, as long as they don't cut the living shit out of it!!

[@rudolphbehrmann2719]

This cartoon may have predated Hawaii's statehood admission by few years. One of my favorites...

[@josealejandroalvaradobotei8584]

Inka divertido video ✌️😁😁🤞🇨🇱😍 abrazo desde Quilpué 🇨🇱

[@BowBow168A]

Magical Maestro was succeeded by The Cat Above And The Mouse Below cuz they did the same opera song

[@christianpeligrinocagadas9781]

Yep another MGM Cartoon this time starring Tom and Jerry.

[@BowBow168A]

@@christianpeligrinocagadas9781 The cat above and the mouse below (Supervised by Chuck Jones in 1964)

[@garethalford682]

The Hawaiian chant gets me because it’s so out of nowhere 🤣

[@shootits48]

It was racist to everyone 🤣 even country people

[@Solomon0424]

Underrated channel

[@virgoseventythree]

Looking up Tex Avery cartoons can't across your channel... I recently played this on FB... Alllllll of it... My Friends and I were cracking uuuuuppppp 🤣🤣😆😆 childhood memories and we have noooo problem with the stereotypes.... We also learned Opera 😆

[@androlibre9661]

That INk Spot bit was Hilarious......and it was SMOOTH....."OOOOOOOooooooooo"

[@d-manthecaptain1382]

Have you seen "The Magic Fluke" starring Fox & Crow by UPA? That one came out before this, and I firmly believe Avery took some inspiration for this one.

[@steampunker7]

It...hasn't aged well in a few places. Personally I don't think any real malice was intended and curiously the "black face" bit was apparently kind of shout out to the Ink Spots, a popular African American group at the time. Make of that what you will. But yeah, watching it now requires some explaining of context and standards of the time. With all that said though the physical humor never gets old and one thing that always amuses me about about those old cartoons is how many of us were introduced to classical music and opera through them. Kind of funny to think something so "low brow" was actually giving us a kind of musical education and we never realized it till we were older. Glad you enjoyed it though and hope you find others that make you laugh. Pound for pound Tex Avery was kind of a maestro himself when it came to animation and his style and wit was both easily recognized and rarely boring. :)

[@mikechicago6200]

Will you do more cartoon reactions?

[@InikaChungKPS]

Yes I will be this week 😊

[@Blackwing2040]

I didn't know the name of this cartoon for the longest time, thanks for doing a reaction to this. The black face I never knew happened or the Chinese stereotype

[@marclewis5505]

Nice reaction to this cartoon Inika. I used to have this one on tape when I was a kid.

[@stuardcontrerasovalle9035]

Thanks for the video, sorry I live in Guatemala and I would like to buy DVDs of Tex Avery cartoons, how can I do it?

[@raishonstanley1313]

This cartoon was so funny 😂 when I saw this as a kid and it still funny today

[@Wolfmanluv]

I love this cartoon, i always laugh whenever it was on tv

[@jeffbrehove2614]

This short is a national treasure!

[@LoudHouseCritic2018]

6:09 you got such a cute laugh

[@KW-gb9cd]

I'd like to see you do a reaction video of "I Love to Singa." It's an all-time classic cartoon, but nobody's doing a reaction video of it.

[@garethalford682]

I love Tex Avery cartoons some of the funniest best cartoons ever made

[@aaronking7326]

Saw this on tv the other day....but the Jolson segment was cut out

[@tannerlion1994]

This song played before Tom and Jerry's The Cat Above and the Mouse Below song

[@theevn7]

Classic

[@AaronJohnson-mo8rf]

this cartoon is crazy there is so many jokes i like the oh my darling clemintine bit i believe the hanna barbera character huckleberrry hound likes that song

[@yinyangboy1138]

The karma xD

[@patrickwilson1459]

I never saw the Chinese look or even the black face when I was a kid, but this was a great cartoon.

[@atulhassan6010]

Where i can find this Episode?

[@erainmartinez8175]

Revenge! 2:03

[@sandigaming334]

I'm so so so funny hahaahaha Hoo haa hoo haa 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@andreking7138]

Did you recognize Carmen Miranda?

[@ДмитрийИванов-л9ц4й]

5:39 I came here for this

[@Alexzander1989]

Oh the things they got away with back in those days 😅 Still funny regardless 😂

[@ae86takumi]

5:03 my favorite 😂

[@NJGuy1973]

Oh, I got three words for you: Symphony In Slang. Edit: if you had a Patreon, I'd pay to have it done.

[@sharleneyapril3917]

can i get the full link..cant find it in full cartoon..tq

[@jaelinsmith5207]

I like seeing this episode of Tex Avery Cartoons

[@robynsegg]

Actually, that moment when Poochini was in Blackface was supposed to be a parody of 40s - 50s doowop group "The Inkspots"... Get it? Ink... Spots.

[@RustyDodd]

i got in trouble on the daycare bus on the way to kindergarten for imitating the asian character and melody

[@1718HULK]

That's a classic cartoon I love it, Tex Avery made fun of everybody!

[@jasonervoes1326]

Funny cartoon episode

[@clintonmercer2520]

The bunny rabbits singing the harmony as polynesians