Action speed is the greatest surprise of the Squirrel's series, which is helped by an absolutely brilliant animation. In the M.G.M.'s Avery's first films (such Early Bird Dood it, Dumb Hounded or What' S Buzzin' Buzzard), this vibrating rhythm and this perfect animation were obvious. But, with Squirrel, that becomes paroxystic.

The sequence of the confrontations between the squirrel and the dog is made at a dazing speed, worsening if need be were the violence of the gags. So, it is often necessary to defuse this violence by gags making it possible to the witness to take again his breath.

Then, we can see Squirrel and Meathead offering themselves a Coo-Coo Cola's pause, Lenny and the squirrel stopping abruptly their stampede on the siren blow to take their meal or Meathead getting rid well of a second squirrel in surplus, because " it is already well rather complicated with only one... "

There is a extremely significant point in the set of violence themes as Avery treated it in the Squirrel's series : the fundamental identity between the squirrel and the dog. In the first episode, Screwy Squirrel teaches us that it could escape the dog only because there were two squirrels. Meathead acknowledges whereas it had also a twin. The cartoon finishes on the perfect opposite symmetry of the two couples, which end up turning over their forces against Sammy the squirrel. In Happy-Go-Nutty, Squirrel is caught at the beginning for Napoleon. At the end of the cartoon, Meathead declares that it is impossible because Napoleon, it is itself. Lastly, in The Screwy Truant, the dog is contaminated by the measles which had diverted the squirrel of the way for school. The familiar ones of current search on the nature of violence will not be disorientated by such ends.

Screwy Squirrel can thrive only with the violence, real or supposed, of its adversaries, while contaminating them by its one, itself maintained by the other one. This explains the crescendo in animation and sadism, adopted in each movie. This also justifies the Squirrel's death at the end of Lonesome Lenny. It is the love overflow of large Lenny for his buddy, and not a violent act, equal to its temperament, which can destroy the squirrel.