Droopy is part of a pack of English hunting hounds trying unsuccessfully to catch a tricky, tea-drinking fox.
Direction
Avery's timing is surgical; every beat lands.
Writing
Fox's polite savagery is endlessly quotable.
Director
Tex Avery
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bill Thompson based Droopy's voice on a character from radio's 'Fibber McGee and Molly,' creating animation's most lethally calm hero.
Avery's fox hunts mock British aristocracy with gleeful American irreverence—part of MGM's post-war habit of puncturing Old World pretensions.
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