More Inside Warners Gags

I get a kick out of seeing references no one in the theatre is supposed to get in Warner Bros. cartoons. There are a few in the opening of Half-Fare Hare, a rather dull outing from the Bob McKimson unit and released in 1956.



The cartoon’s layout artist is Robert C. Gribbroek. The first railway car belongs to the R.C. & G. Railway. It’s nice to know Bob serves outer space. I don’t think that’s part of his phone number. In 1956 it was HO 5-3688.



Don Foster not only lettered the title cards at Warner Bros., he was in fruit business it seems.



This rail car refers to animator Russ Dyson, who also got screen credit at the beginning, with George Grandpre, Ted Bonnicksen and Keith Darling.



The Gribbroek Pacific Lines own this rail car. That is not a zip code you see. It had not been invented yet.



Again, we get a reference to Don Foster, via initials. I don’t know if there was a FL phone exchange in Los Angeles at the time.

This is another cartoon where writer Tedd Pierce obsesses about The Honeymooners. Kramden and Norton are turned into hoboes in this short, both voiced by Daws Butler (Daws’ phone number in the 1956 directory was Crestview 6-9260). Dick Thomas is the background artist.