She's a Dog...Or Is She?

Tex Avery’s “Wags to Riches” has a juxtaposition scene by Mike Lah where Spike shows opposing attributes listed by an executor (voiced by Pat McGeehan) as qualifications to inherit his late master’s estate. He’s clean-minded. But with an eye for beauty.





Lest you think there’s interspecies lust going on here, here’s Johnny Johnsen’s background drawing. The babe has a dog face that you don’t see when Spike is in the scene.



Late word: Thad Komorowski passed on a note that he doesn’t see a dog face. Upon closer inspection, he’s probably right and it’s just heavy makeup on the left eye instead of an oval black dog-nose. Oh, well, the sequence is funny anyway.

Grant Simmons, Walt Clinton and Bobe Cannon also animated this cartoon.