Someone asked a while ago why I haven’t mentioned the Burns and Allen show on the blog, considering I’ve mentioned George Burns a number of ...

Ben Hardaway was really a hit-and-miss writer at the Walter Lantz studio, sometimes within one cartoon. Here’s a miss from “The Screwdrive...

“Shuffle Off to Buffalo” wasn’t exactly being played on radio stations when I was a kid in the ‘60s. I learned about it by hearing it on car...

Occasionally, friends of Jack Benny would get letters in character from him, complaining they listened to Fred Allen and so on. One of them ...

You couldn’t miss the name “Mel Blanc” in the credits of Warner Bros. cartoons. That’s because, for years, he was the only voice actor under...

Tex Avery pulls off another huge eye take in “Droopy’s Double Trouble” (released 1951). Spike sees Droopy and his twin brother Drippy. His ...

Some familiar gags adorn the first Warner Bros. cartoon, “Sinkin’ in the Bathtub” (1930). It shouldn’t be a surprise because the artists who...

The opinion that Stereotypes = Racism is debated today, but it’s a discussion that’s certainly not something new. And it’s not something whi...

You want quirky, pointless cartoons? Then you want Van Beuren! Sure, the studio’s animation in 1930 wasn’t much more polished than it was in...

Andy Panda tries to capture Woody Woodpecker by putting salt on his tail in the bird’s debut cartoon “Knock Knock” (1940). The woodpecker th...