A goat eats the actual cartoon you're watching. Meta before meta was cool.
A deep south farmer is initially delighted to get a baby goat, but this soon turns to apprehension when he discovers that it eats literally anything (including, at one point, the animation artwork).
Direction
Tex Avery's anarchic genius at peak self-awareness.
Director
Tex Avery
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Daws Butler later voiced Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound; this stuttering farmer was early practice.
Avery's 'eat the cartoon' gag influenced everything from Duck Amuck to modern meta-humor—this is where self-aware animation learned to bite.
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