Trivia

He was accidentally blinded in his left eye by Charles Hastings during a rubber-band propelled paper clip fight at Walter Lantz Productions, striking his left eye. Because of this, he had no depth perception.

According to biographer, Joe Adamson, when Tex was working on the cartoon A Wild Hare (1940) (It is his first official Bugs Bunny cartoon, as designed today.), they were looking for something for the rabbit to say when Elmer Fudd pointed his gun at the rabbit's head, Tex, off of the top of his head, quickly suggested, "How about 'What's up doc?'" He used "doc" on many of his earlier cartoons, especially at Walter Lantz studio before this, but nobody seemed to notice. "Doc" was an expression used at North Dallas High School, which Tex attended, by Tex and many other students.

In addition to his role of a prolific supervising animation director, he also added his voice to several cartoons. Samples: Santa Claus in Who Killed Who? (1943) and lending his distinctive hysterical laugh to the bulldog in Bad Luck Blackie (1949) and just before leaving Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon Studios, he was the voice of the shorter of two attempting thieves, in Deputy Droopy (1955), that he and Michael Lah co-directed, together.

Tex Avery and Michael Lah co-directed Avery's last two cartoons at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, after Avery decided to return to Walter Lantz, where his career started. They are Deputy Droopy (1955) and Cellbound (1955).

Though he created Screwy Squirrel, he grew to hate the character enough to have him die after only five appearances, with no intention of ever working on him again. When a former animator sent him mail suggesting doing just this with some potential images to use, Avery threw the pictures out.

He has directed one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Magical Maestro (1952).

The recurring characters Avery created at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Cartoon Studios were Droopy, Wolf & Red, Screwy Squirrel and George & Junior.

At the time of his death in 1980 he was developing a character called Cave Mouse for a new Flintstones series.