Tex Avery makes explicit three things in his work: violence, sexuality and the relation between these two essential aspects of the human life.

Except the Disney's world, violence is obviously present in the cartoons of this time, but in a shifted or edulcorated way. The system of opposition between characters, the traditional track races remain soft. The characters of cartoons are immortal, stainless and it is possible of all making them undergo. But Tex Avery is the first who pushes so far this principle. Even if that remains symbolic system, the goal is really to physically destroy the other, and not only to escape by making jokes to him.

The quintessence of this approach must be found in the splendid one and often hated What's Buzzin' Buzzard of 1943. To eat or be eaten? The topic is traditional in the American cartoon but Avery pushes it also far it is possible. Consequently, the two famished buzzards do not see in the other less than the obstacle to be destroyed and it does not matter the cruelty and the sadism of their attempts... Tex Avery said that this cartoon made vomit Fred Quimby each time that it viewed it. It is not really astonishing. In addition to the very particular humour of film, there is a deep intuition about the violence origin.

In their paroxystic way, the five films introducing Screwy Squirrel prolong this set of themes of violence for nothing. I refer you to the analysis of Squirrel. But, curiously, it is a film where the physical violence is far from present which is the true prolongation of What's Buzzin' Buzzard. I want to speak about King Size Canari (1947).

In this famous cartoon, a famished cat catch a mouse. It spares the mouse after this one have indicated the canary as a better meal. Poor prey, which the cat decides to make grow thanks to a bottle of fertilizer. The cartoon show us the competition between each character (the canary call upon a dog, the cat is saved by the mouse) which pass their time to only one thing: to grow bigger more than the other in order to turn over the threat which weighs on them. In the same time it is very funny, strangely intuitive (it does not need there a real violence of the one on the other so that the process aiming to be increasingly larger engages: the fear of the other is sufficient) and, curiously, extremely pessimist.