Things we learned from cartoons: billy goats will eat ANYTHING. Clip from "Billy Boy" (1954, directed by Tex Avery) | GoldenAgeCartoons.com

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

DYK: "Deputy Droopy" (1955) was one of Tex Avery's final cartoons for MGM. | Boomerang

Tex Avery Screwball Warner Archive Red Hot Riding Hood Red Hot Riding Hood is an animated cartoon short subject, directed by Tex Avery and released with the movie Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case on May 8, 1943, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1994, it was voted number 7 of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field, making it the highest ranked MGM cartoon on the list. It is one of Avery's most popular cartoons, inspiring several of his own "sequel" shorts as well as influen