Pick a favourite Bob Clampett cartoon, you ask? Forget it. Impossible. But I’ve always loved “Porky in Wackyland” since I was a kid, especia...

Was there ever an interview where Fred Allen was happy? We’ve posted the handiwork of a number of newspaper columnists here who—rather easi...

It’s kind of funny that someone would interview Paul Terry at the dawn of sound cartoons about the use of sound in animation. Terry didn’t w...

You know the gag in Bugs Bunny cartoons where Yosemite Sam can’t get his horse (or camel, or elephant, or whatever) to stop and pleads with ...

What’s Tex Avery’s most outrageous take in “Northwest Hounded Police”? There’s probably no answer to that one; fans have their own favourite...

It’s an intriguing idea—a brand new series of Laurel and Hardy routines at the dawn of network television. Would it have worked in an era of...

How many reactions can you get from one routine? If you’re Joe Barbera coming up with a story in the glory days of Tom and Jerry, you can ge...

Here’s an animation cycle from “Strong to the Finich,” where youngsters from Olive Oyl’s Health Farm for Children are threatened by two bull...

The Dean Martin Roasts on TV were a direct descendant of the Friars’ Club testimonial of top stars of show business going back over 100 year...

You can count on a sign commenting on a pun in a Tex Avery cartoon, and “Batty Baseball” is no exception. But in addition to being a gag, th...