Comparisons of theatrical cartoons and TV cartoons are quite unfair, and I’ve tried to avoid making them on my two animation blogs. It’s ind...

Through the 1930s, directors of Merrie Melodies were forced to spotlight a Warner Bros.-owned song in a cartoon. I can’t help but wonder if ...

What’s the best turkey dinner cartoon without the word “yams” in it? This is all very subjective, but my answer is Holiday For Drumsticks ...

Even when she wasn’t an adult, it seems Connie Francis was an adult. In mid-1954, Francis was 16 and appearing on ABC’s Saturday night Star...

Andy Panda’s dad tries to blow up a pesky, unnamed woodpecker with sex in Knock Knock (1940). His bait: a time bomb inside a mechanical fem...

The witch in the Fractured Fairy Tales version of “Hansel and Gretel” has only one power. She can turn boys into aardvarks. She agrees to c...

Normally, these Sunday Theatre posts involve a short film. We’re switching it up this time because a) I haven’t written nearly enough abou...

Perhaps it was the vaudevillian in him, but Jack Benny always liked being on stage. Yes, there was an audience in front of him in the rad...

The eyes rolled again. Young me boo-ed at the television screen. I had just finished watching Mr. Magoo misread a sign and mistake somethin...