Tex Avery’s Car of Tomorrow (1951) made fun of the step-down Hudson and the wrap-around-window Studebaker; both were joked about on network...

In 1910, humourist Irvin S. Cobb wrote the mother-in-law joke was one of only eight jokes in the world, and all others were derivatives of t...

Warner Bros. had cartoons titled Wacky Blackouts , Wacky Wild Life and The Wacky Worm , so why not a “wacky” cartoon at Screen Gems? Wacky...

T.V. of Tomorrow was no kiddie cartoon. Gags were aimed at sex-starved 1950s suburban men. There’s a television set with a Faye Emerson-esq...

The familiar theme of noise/silence is explored yet again by Tex Avery in his final theatrical cartoon, Sh-h-h-h-h-h (Walter Lantz, 1955). ...

Who'd shoot a soon-to-be-mother duck? Well, either the dog version of George or Junior in Tex Avery's Lucky Ducky (at least someone...

“To clear up the mystery of whether the light stays on or goes off when you close the door of your refrigerator,” says the narrator in The H...