Tex Avery made Warner Bros. cartoons the wild, rowdy spectacles they were—partly because he was a wild, rowdy spectacle. Tex Avery is responsible for one of the most iconic cartoon characters ever.

One quick sight gag follows another in Tex Avery’s “The Car of Tomorrow” (1951), his second foray into predicting our future (hint: parking problems solved!).

Tex Avery’s work promoted objectification of, and aggression towards, women by featuring entertaining, buffoonish characters who regularly demeaned the women around them. This was a common formula ...