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(rating: 3.75 stars / 2 reviews)
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Reviews for Little 'Tinker
posted: Nov 16, 2007
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I loved this cartoon, it is so cute and it's funny at the same time;You know,during the begining and the middle of this cartoon, I do feel sorry for the little skunk; nobody loves him (until the end that is). The scenes with The Curdina-Bunny and The Frank Sinatra parody were especially hilarious (who would of thought Frankie was quite a stud back then,and I am sure he wasn't THAT lanky too).

One more thing I would like mention, I am also a hopeless romantic; I mean I love a good romance - neither movie or cartoon; And this short will be prefect for Valentine's Day along with Pepe le Pew cartoons (Pepe's my favorite cartoon character and Valentine's Day is another favorite holiday of mine).

posted: Apr 09, 2006
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This is one of Tex Avery's more normal shorts. Nothing that weird happens. A skunk in an iron lung does a Frank Sinatra impression to a field full of female bunnies who bash themselves over the heads with mallets. Nothing too crazy.

Perhaps B.O. Skunk was Avery's response to Warner's recently debuted Pepe le Pew, but his personality is entirely different. Rather than Pepe's obliviousness to the effect he has on the objects of his desire, B.O. is all to aware that his stench is a turn-off. He's not fixated on one character like Pepe, either. He doesn't care if it's a rabbit, a fox, a raccoon or a squirrel. Unfortunately, though he tries every trick in the book, as soon as his sweethearts get close enough to smell him, it's all of in a big way - until he hits on an idea which works in an unexpected way.

Compared with the frenzied pace of many of Avery's cartoons, this is one is positively coherent, but there are still trademark moments of impossible silliness. The girl bunnies going wild and bashing themselves in the heads with mallets, BTW, is a curious gender role-reversal of the wolf's heated response to Red Hot Riding Hood.

I like this one a lot, though it's not one of his acknowledged classics. A very strong 3. Oh, hell, a 3.5.