Tex Avery and writer Dave Monahan weren’t just parodying film studios with “yes” men and jodhpur-wearing Germanic directors in Daffy Duck in...

Fred Allen can thank Alan Young for the most popular character in Allen’s Alley. Well, he can thank Alan Young’s sponsor. Young, you see, h...

UPA’s The Jaywalker (released May 1956) reminds me of something from the National Film Board of Canada. The jazzy xylophone, the flat-voice...

Screwy Squirrel sprouted multiple heads in a fear take in Screwball Squirrel and Happy-Go-Nutty (1944). So why can’t Gandy Goose in Who’s ...

Television was new and scary for many of the big stars in Hollywood who weren’t contractually banned from the small screen. They were used t...

1961 was the great boom-and-bust year for prime-time animated cartoons. The success of The Flintstones , which had debuted on ABC the previ...

“And I am an actor!” proclaims Daffy Duck in Duck Soup to Nuts . Note the expression of thespian superiority. “I have a contract with W...

Shamus Culhane didn’t worry too much about matching shots at times during his directorial stint at the Walter Lantz studio. Here are a coupl...

Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In was pretty much an overnight success after NBC plopped it into its schedule on Monday, January 22, 1968. The sh...

Tex Avery made a few “don’t-make-noise” cartoons but Deputy Droopy was a little different than the rest because he had two guys trying to a...