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Wednesday, 19 September 2018

Unexpected TV Goof-ups For Posterity

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Dick Clark Productions made a tidy sum from people loving other people’s mistakes. Clark is not only the man known for hosting American Ban...
Tuesday, 18 September 2018

That's Not Quiet

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Tom is suspicious when he hears growling noises coming from a bulldog that’s he’s drugged in Quiet Please . It turns out to be Jerry imitati...

The Sexy Cow

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If June Foray were with us, she’d be celebrating her 101st birthday today. Alas, she died just before she could turn 100. Let’s celebrate f...
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Monday, 17 September 2018

Cartoon Bambino

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Babe Ruth likely wasn’t impressed with how he was caricatured in the Ub Iwerks’ cartoon Play Ball (1933). He has a pig nose. Ruth did ha...
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Sunday, 16 September 2018

Squared Circle Benny

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There was a knock on Jack Benny when he started his career that his gags weren’t “television”. Some critics seemed to think verbal gags were...
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Saturday, 15 September 2018

The Merriest of Genii

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Max Fleischer took out a patent on the rotoscope in 1915 and within a few years he found a good use for it. The first “Out of the Inkwell” c...
Friday, 14 September 2018

Multiple Screening

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What was one of the great animators of the Walt Disney studio doing in 1950? This: This is Multiple Screening , a live action/animation s...
Thursday, 13 September 2018

Sorry, Wrong Number

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Tom gets hit on by a telephone operator who comes out of his candlestick phone’s earpiece in Trouble , a 1931 effort by the Van Beuren studi...

It's Mae Day

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Forget that “Mary Ann or Ginger” thing. Who would you pick—Betty Boop or Olive Oyl? The best part about that is you’d be picking the same p...
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Wednesday, 12 September 2018

Topping the Toppers

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What happens when the insultee gets the best of the insulter? That question was answered in several columns by comic Joey Adams for Family ...
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