Droopy is a sheep herder in this Tex Avery cartoon, opposed to the Wolf, who is a cattle rancher, of course.
All of which is an excuse, in typical Tex Avery fashion, to drop a whole bunch of gags on the reader's head. There's one typically elegant series of gags about the Wolf mounting his horse, which is played through three iterations, and the third one uses three attempts to make its point.
Avery was reportedly not fond of cartoon series, which is why he killed off Screwy Squirrel so early. Why then, make all those Droopy cartoons? Pressure from the front office doubtless had a hand, and their popularity garnered him autonomy. I suspect that the reason he disliked series is that once you've used up the best gags, you still have to keep on producing them. Happily, Tex had a million of them.
All of which is an excuse, in typical Tex Avery fashion, to drop a whole bunch of gags on the reader's head. There's one typically elegant series of gags about the Wolf mounting his horse, which is played through three iterations, and the third one uses three attempts to make its point.
Avery was reportedly not fond of cartoon series, which is why he killed off Screwy Squirrel so early. Why then, make all those Droopy cartoons? Pressure from the front office doubtless had a hand, and their popularity garnered him autonomy. I suspect that the reason he disliked series is that once you've used up the best gags, you still have to keep on producing them. Happily, Tex had a million of them.