tex avery blackboard jumble

by Joana Luettgen 10 min read

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After starting with one of his better Droopy outings, 'Blackboard Jumble' is the opposite and doesn't compare to any of Tex Avery's efforts (all of which very good, many even are great to cartoon classics).

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Storyline

A wolf with a Southern accent walks by just as a teacher is getting fed up with his class and walks out. Unfortunately, the class consists of three junior clones of Droopy, who manage to try his patience.

Did you know

The schoolteacher-wolf is depicted as a Confederate sympathizer; he encourages his students to paint a Confederate flag. However, his "theme song," which he whistles several times in the short, is Henry C. Work's "Kingdom Coming" (1862), an anti-Confederate song, celebrating the impending end of slavery in America.

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