Both the series and the titular character were named after Tex Avery, an animator who is known for his work at Warner Bros., MGM and Walter Lantz Productions. The creator describes the show as "homage to the brilliant, hilarious and groundbreaking animator Tex Avery and the wonderful squash-and-stretch cartoons of his era". The series was first broadcast on French channel M6 on September 3, 1997, and later debuted in syndication in the United States on September 29, ending after one season on November 30 the same year, and then the f**kery of Tex Avery was released and redubbed in Streamline in 1999. In the following years since it debuted, The Wacky Wild World of Tex Avery's F**kery has been panned as an "insult" to the cartoonist’s legacy, and was only a minimal hit in international territories where Tex Avery’s actual works were lesser known.
