Spinach doesn’t just work on “hu-mings” in the Popeye cartoons. In Strong to the Finich (1934), the sailor demonstrates to the sick-of-eati...

Readers of this blog likely know who this is. Of course, that’s Howard McNear, known to fans of 1960s television as Floyd the Barber. An...

It’s no surprise Dennis Day came across in real life as a family man. He had ten children. Day appeared from obscurity to take over the vo...

Something was missing in a blurb on the radio/TV page of the Los Angeles Daily News of Monday, March 7, 1949. It reported KTLA would now si...

Shamus Culhane takes his time in a hand-bashing scene in Reckless Driver , a Woody Woodpecker cartoon released in 1946. Wally Walrus slowly...

Fred Finchley got a raise. What should he do with that extra money? A TV announcer tells him: “You could spent it on a couple of nights out...

When you hear the name “Monty Hall,” the first thing that will pop into your mind is Let's Make a Deal . Before it went on the air, Hall...

It’s good some attention is being paid to the mid-1930s Warners cartoons so they’re upgraded from laser disc and VHS dubs to something more ...