Big takes weren’t the only thing in Tex Avery’s visual animation arsenal. He liked visual puns. Sometimes he’d make fun of his own puns. Oth...

Back in the network radio days, word when around that Jack Benny was dependent on his writers. Jack joked about it. Harry Conn actually beli...

A number of the great Warner Bros. cartoon directors lived beyond the period where the only word in animation was “Disney” into a time of be...

Little Shep throws fits at the end of Bone Sweet Bone after being told by a paleontologist professor that the bone he retrieved wasn’t a va...

There are scenes with very quick movement in The Mouse Comes to Dinner , released by MGM in May 1945. In this one, Tom gulps down a glass ...

The world got way too much of Robert Q. Lewis. At least, Lewis thought people thought so. Lewis seemed to be everywhere in the 1950s. He h...

They were re-issued as “A Columbia Favorite.” Whose favourite, I’m not quite sure. Dog, Cat and Canary must have been someone’s favourite...

Tex Avery tried a split screen gag in 1939 in Thugs With Dirty Mugs , and did it again the following year in Cross Country Detours . Narrat...