There’s a problem starting a football game in Bosko the Drawback (1932). The timekeeper’s gun doesn’t have a bullet. It has an egg. The egg...

Before we get to the lacklustre Beau Bosko , let me grumble about the worse-than-lacklustre copies of many of the Bosko cartoons that circul...

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...

There should be a drinking game where you glug down something every time someone in a Bosko cartoon says “Ain’t that cute?” In The Tree’s K...

Spaghetti-limbed characters didn’t quite go out with the early 1930s. UPA used them on Gerald McBoing Boing and other cartoon shorts 20 yea...

Hugh Harman’s Peace on Earth (1939) goes back and forth from extremely realistic artwork to fuzzy little cartoon animals with cartoon-y voi...

Question: In Bosko’s Holiday , why is the dog licking a tire? Answer: To set up a gag. The dog bites the tire and blows up like a balloon...