Publicity departments churned out all kinds of material in the days of yore. In radio, networks or agencies or producers would bash out cop...

Animated commercials in the 1950s are loads of fun. They have great designs, good writing and excellent voice acting. And they provided jobs...

Smear in-betweens show up in three scenes of the Bugs Bunny cartoon Hare Splitter , directed by Friz Freleng. In the first scene, Bugs and ...

Pink and Blue Blues starts off with Mr. Magoo mistaking a fish bowl for a television and a fish for Esther Williams, and spends the remaind...

Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In burst forth onto the scene at the start of 1968 and made stars of the regular cast members. Well, almost all o...

There should be a drinking game where you glug down something every time someone in a Bosko cartoon says “Ain’t that cute?” In The Tree’s K...

Tex Avery marries the old “skunks always smell in cartoons” idea with the gag about Frank Sinatra being incredibly thin but attracting bobby...

Do comedians have happy lives? The public Jack Benny said “yes.” At least in 1952. Later in life, Benny admitted he had his emotional ups ...

In the mid-1930s, when theatrical animation on the West Coast had reached the point where studios needed professional actors to voice their ...

The Lonesome Mouse (1943) is an unusual cartoon in some ways. In the early years of the series, Tom and Jerry battle each other, but when t...