Bing Crosby appeared in Paramount features for years. Bingo Crosbyana appeared in one Warner Bros. cartoon. History doesn’t record whether ...

It’s not George Herriman’s Krazy Kat in Honolulu Wiles , a 1930 Columbia cartoon, but it’s a fun cartoon. Not much was expected in a 1930 c...

Bimbo plays a garbage man with a jazz-playing cat in his wagon in Any Rags , a 1932 Talkartoon. The cat’s on a cornet, which he turns into ...

Dick Lane was likely the first big TV celebrity west of the Mississippi, making regular appearances before there were networks. Lane had ap...

Symphony in Slang is an interesting experiment. Tex Avery liked visual puns, so he accepted the challenge of turning them into a seven-minu...

Snafu bypasses the censor to get his secret information to girl-friend Sally Lou in Censored (1944). Naturally, she blabs it out and it rea...

What makes a TV show a success? There’s no one, specific answer. In 1963, one columnist looked at three shows that had been on the air for...

In Chips Off the Old Block (1942), Butch the cat gathers orphan kittens in a vase and runs away with it, trying to hide them from the mistr...

Babbitt hypnotises the Costello mouse into thinking he’s a dog in The Mouse-Merized Cat , then sics him on the housecat keeping watch over t...