It really was superfluous. Eventually, the TV networks figured it out. In those great days of network radio, Andre Baruch would shout “Your...

Yosemite Sam suddenly realises he’s dropping to Earth after Bugs Bunny ejected him from an airplane in Hare Lift (1952). He drops his guns ...

Red Riding Hood, the Wolf and Grandma complain to the narrator of Tex Avery’s Red Hot Riding Hood about Hollywood cartoon studios doing the...

Routines familiar to fans of the Jack Benny TV and radio shows become animated in the Warner Bros. cartoon The Mouse That Jack Built (1959...

George Hill has exactly two existing screen credits at the Warner Bros. cartoon studio. One’s on Mouse Menace , released in late 1946. It wa...

126 years ago, the world gained a 39-year-old. Jack Benny was born. It’s safe to hypothesize that he was one of the most popular comedy fi...

“Illusion of life?” Not in the early Disney cartoon Cannibal Capers . The cannibals, in some scenes, have rubber sticks for arms and legs. T...

In a number of ways, “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” was an odd, disconcerting show. Everyone was just too dysfunctional for my tastes but I ad...

“It’s all done with mirrors,” scoffs Egghead in the final spot gag of Believe It Or Else (1939). Mr. Horace Buzzsaw is ready to put someone...

A few spot gags highlight Target Snafu , a 1944 cartoon where malaria-carrying mosquitos are treated like soldiers enlisting in the war to c...