Critics hated Gilligan’s Island . Don’t take my word for it. Read just about any newspaper column in 1965 about the show. They all pointed ...

Tom’s captured Jerry in Kitty Foiled (1947). Let’s bring in the heart-pounding joke, says Joe Barbera. Jerry tries to shove the heart ba...

I’m not a Disney fan. The endless product hype, studio superiority complex and self-love, including the deification of Walt Disney and “prin...

Phil Harris started his career with Jack Benny as just another bandleader and ended it as a unique character that followed him the rest of h...

Cartoon studios were already cutting back operations in the late 1940s. MGM and Warner Bros. closed units, Screen Gems was shut down altoget...

A wild ending of fox vs. ballerina duck greets viewers of the Walter Lantz classical musical The Poet & Peasant (1946). The fox chokes...

Flip the Frog built a robot. Scrappy built a robot. Bosko built a robot. In all cases, they became uncontrollable monsters. Well, you wouldn...