Tex Avery's shorts are infamous for Getting Crap Past the Radar (moreso than Bob Clampett, Frank Tashlin, or even Chuck Jones on occasion). The Tex Avery-directed WB cartoons showed shades of this, but his MGM shorts were more notorious for pushing boundaries.
- Perhaps the most infamous example happens in Red Hot Riding Hood. When the wolf first sees Red performing, he jumps and stiffens in the air. Back then, this phallic image was cut in some theaters (and more sexually-charged reactions that were originally planned to be shown had to be cut before the Hays Office could approve the film for release).
- Interestingly enough, the original ending had the wolf marrying Grandma and having children who are half human, half wolf. To the censors, this reminded them way too much of bestiality (on top of that, the wedding wasn't depicted as a happy event; the Wolf was handcuffed to the Grandma, implying that this was forced on him), so the ending was changed in one where the Wolf tells the audience that he'll blow his brains out if he sees another beautiful woman (and does when Red performs on stage again).
- In one scene in "Lucky Ducky", the little duck emerges from his eggshell. He does this dancing and removing each part of his shell one by one, much like a stripper.
- Avery enjoyed this gag, apparently. In "Cross-Country Detours", he has a lizard shedding its skin, rotoscoped after a real-life female stripper. Even funnier is the fact that snakes shed their skin, but lizards don't.
- In "The Shooting of Dan McGoo", the name of the town is Coldernell, Alaska ("colder than Hell").
- Avery would reuse the Coldernell name for the refrigerator seen in 1949's "House of Tomorrow".
- In "The Blitz Wolf", the two little pigs sing to Sergeant Pork: You're in the Army Now,/ You're Not Behind the Plow,/ You're Diggin' a Ditch,/ [pause and motion freeze],/ You're in the Army Now! The pause was inserted to replace the line "You Son of a Bitch", which would be inappropriate for a film at the time. This is much similar to a gag in the Warner Bros. cartoon The Draft Horse on the part where the horse has to read the vision chart, though if you look closely, the "impossible to read" in that short line actually says, "By digging a ditch", not "you son of a bitch".
- Sergeant Pork using a copy of Esquire magazine (which was known for its cheesecake pin-ups at the time of the cartoon's release) to stop the artillery shells from attacking.
- Later when Sergeant Pork is shooting a cannon at Adolf Wolf, the cannon suddenly deflates and goes limp. He feeds it some "Army Vitamin B-1" (a slang reference to Benzedrine, the brand name for amphetamine sulphate that was distributed to Allied soldiers during WWII) and the cannon becomes erect and shoots off cannonballs very quickly.
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. Apparently Tex Avery had a habit of suddenly anthropomorphizing female animals and dialing up their sex appeal.
