Baseball was still America’s pastime in the 1950s. It began in the days when even big cities had vacant lots on which boys could play the ga...

Don’t tell the Disney people there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Either now or in 1932. You wouldn’t think a column in a local newspape...

A sight-gag pun in Real Gone Woody (1954), the cartoon where Woody Woodpecker and Buzz Buzzard are stereotypical ‘50s high schoolers. Woody...

“Because there’s no one who knows his way around outer space like....” Now, Daffy Duck makes his proclamation: “DUCK DODGERS.....IN THE 2...

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on a local actress who made good in its edition of October 21, 1934. A NEW Marc Connelly play, "T...

Sticks for a dam just disappear between frames to reveal a hiding moose in Busy Beavers , a rather lacklustre “Silly Symphony” from 1931. Th...

In a gutsy bit of pacing, Tex Avery pans up the barrel of a rocket launcher for 23 seconds, stopping at this drawing unexpectedly stating th...

Among the almost countless running gags on the Jack Benny radio show was the response “Saint Joe! They loved me there!” when the city of St....

There was an animated woodpecker on TV screens in 1957 who used to invite young viewers to “Meet my boss, Walter Lantz.” The shot would cut ...

The Gene Deitch version of Tom tries to hit Jerry with a mallet in Mouse Into Space (released March 1962). He misses. We get a camera shake...