Tex Avery: The Definitive Screwball Classics Collection Hits Blu-Ray 12/11/2026

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Tex Avery: The Definitive Screwball Classics Collection Hits Blu-Ray 12/11/2026

From the Warner Bros. Home Entertainment press release:

74 Cartoons. Countless Laughs. One Definitive Tex Avery Collection.

For the first time, every Tex Avery cartoon created at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer comes together in Tex Avery: The Definitive Screwball Classics Collection, arriving on Blu-ray™ December 11, 2026

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment today announced Tex Avery: The Definitive Screwball Classics Collection, the most comprehensive home entertainment release ever dedicated to legendary animator Tex Avery. Arriving on Blu-ray™ on December 11, 2026 as part of the Warner Archive Collection, this landmark four-disc set brings together every animated short Avery created during his celebrated tenure at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, presented in their original uncut and uncensored form. The collection will be available from online retailers, including Amazon, GRUV, and other e-tailers.

Widely regarded as one of animation's greatest innovators, Tex Avery revolutionized the cartoon medium with his rapid-fire pacing, surreal visual gags, fourth-wall-breaking humor, and irreverent storytelling. Tex Avery: The Definitive Screwball Classics Collection showcases the complete breadth of Avery's creative brilliance, offering audiences the opportunity to experience these groundbreaking shorts as they were originally intended.

Featuring 74 theatrical shorts presented chronologically from 1942 through 1958, the collection includes Avery's complete M-G-M filmography, along with ten beloved Droopy cartoons directed by fellow Metro filmmakers. From unforgettable sight gags and outrageous transformations to some of the most iconic characters in animation history, this definitive anthology celebrates the enduring legacy of a creator whose influence continues to be felt across generations of animation and comedy. The set is intended for adult collectors.

Animation's Most Iconic Characters

The collection features a lineup of legendary characters that helped define Avery's unmistakable style, including:

• Droopy, the deceptively calm and slow-moving Basset Hound whose deadpan delivery and unlikely victories made him one of animation's most enduring stars.
• The Wolf, the eye-popping, howling embodiment of Avery's exaggerated comedic sensibility, best known for his unforgettable appearances in classics such as Red Hot Riding Hood.
• Red, the glamorous nightclub performer whose presence sparked chaos and comedic mayhem throughout Avery's most celebrated cartoons.
• Screwy Squirrel, the unpredictable fourth-wall-breaking troublemaker created to parody traditional cartoon stars.
• George and Junior, the lovable comedy duo whose mismatched personalities generated endless laughs.
• Spike the Bulldog, the gruff and determined foil whose elaborate schemes often hilariously backfired.

For animation enthusiasts, collectors, and fans of classic comedy, Tex Avery: The Definitive Screwball Classics Collection delivers the ultimate celebration of one of the medium's most inventive and influential creators, preserving a body of work that forever changed the art of animation.

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Tex Avery: The Definitive Screwball Classics Collection includes:

• The collection includes 74 theatrical shorts presented in their original uncut and uncensored form.
• The cartoons are presented chronologically, spanning Avery’s work from 1942 through 1958.
• A collectible 72-page full-color booklet offers an additional look at Avery’s celebrated body of work.
• Archival bonus features offer even more insight into Avery’s work and enduring influence, including:
  
  • Tex Avery: The King of Cartoons
  • Droopy and Friends: A Laugh Back
• The collection also includes three bonus shorts presented in their original release versions:
  
  • The Shooting of Dan McGoo (1945)
  • Wild and Woolfy (1945)
  • Lucky Ducky (1948 )
• Across four Blu-ray™ discs, all 74 cartoons have been meticulously upgraded, with select shorts newly remastered for this collection.

Product:
Blu-ray™
Audio: English
Subtitles: English
Running Time: 611 minutes
Rated: NR
What a fantastic collection from one of cinema's premier animators!  A perfect Christmas gift for fans of his cartoons.

[Barry]

I have the first three! and the fourth volume will be coming out when the complete set is also issued. Warners has been doing a terrific job of restoring these great cartoons and putting them out on Blu-ray.

in case you don’t know, Warners, now owned by CBS/Paramount, got the rights to the MGM cartoons when they bought overTed Turner’s studios. so they own the rights to many MGM cartoons, including Tom and Jerry.

while it’s important to mention his MGM characters,  it is his run of Warner’s characters that are the most famous. He helped create Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd and Daffy Duck. This will sound a bit confusing, but often a character was introduced and then developed over several cartoons. So Elmer and Bugs were introduced as anonymous characters, but with Avery’s help, they developed into the characters that we know.

this is just a coincidence, but I was going to post about these disks and just a couple of weeks, when a couple of new ones come in, including this one.

One important thing that should be discussed. While famously there are 11 cartoons that have been withheld, a polite word for censored, Warner’s  has been restoring many of the cartoons to their original presentations. simply many of the cartoons were racist and sexist. Honestly, they should be released because it shows us what was acceptable in the 1930s and 40s and even the 50s that we would not accept today. 

There is also a wonderful book out on Avery that discusses his cartoons and has wonderful illustrations.