Friz Freleng and writer Warren Foster beautifully put together a gag in Show Biz Bugs (1957), where Daffy Duck elaborately sets up a traine...

The generic Tex Avery cat swings from a trapeze to try to kill a cuckoo bird in The Cuckoo Clock (1950). He swings over twice and misses. T...

TV specials and concerts occupied the final years of Jack Benny’s life. He kept working right up until cancer stopped him several months bef...

The Eye has been linked with CBS for years and years, but there was a time when people tuning their TV sets didn’t see it. In fact, there wa...

Porky the Rain-maker has a great ending. Porky’s farm animals swallow meteorological pills, which turns them into living versions of the we...

Would you eat a duck that got stripped and then roasted by an airplane propeller? Tom and Jerry would in In The Bag (1932). They never e...

Even as Mickey Mouse was being recognised and praised by the people who hand out the Oscars in 1932, the humanoid mouse had peaked in films....

The Pink Panther has to be the best theatrical cartoon character to come out of the 1960s and his first short, The Pink Phink (1964), dese...