Mike Maltese revived and revamped the old poker “I’ve got four aces/I’ve got five aces” gag. He changes the numbers to five and six. With bo...

Once upon a time, there was such a thing as a summer replacement programme. It dated its origin in radio, where a star would work 39 weeks a...

Many stars have been immortalised by having their footprints squished into cement on various Walks of Fame. Only one may have had his ear pr...

How can you have an animated cartoon without animators? A twosome named Whinny and Bo almost answered that question. Theatrical cartoons we...

You’ve all seen the extended-eyed, jaw-dropping takes that cartoon characters make, something that was a specialty of Tex Avery. All sorts o...

How can a skeleton have a ghost? Isn’t a skeleton dead already? Ah, it’s pretty easy to ignore stuff like that and just enjoy the fun and cr...

The boy squirrel gathers nuts for winter by playing craps in “Now That Summer is Gone” (1938). The title theme is sung by a female vocal...

There are two things you’ll notice in any newspaper interview with Jimmy Durante—all the quotes are in Durante dialect, and he launches into...

Bobby-soxers love Frankie, whether they’re hens (“Swooner Crooner,” Warner Bros., 1944) or rabbits (“Little 'Tinker,” MGM, 1948). Here’...

Some cartoon fans are stuck in a Land of Childhood TV pining for a time that, frankly, was in one way inferior to today. Back then, an awful...