Theatrical cartoons are dying, said all kinds of people in the movie business starting in the late ‘40s, but they changed a bit before that ...

The end gag of “We Aim To Please” (1934) sees Popeye’s spinach-fueled punch turn Bluto into a baloney. Willard Bowsky and Dave Tendlar re...

The Southern Wolf tries to get rid of the insatiably-hungry Billy Boy by putting him on a horse and sending him on his way. Billy eats the h...

The word “failure” was never associated with the brief, Conan O’Brien version of the Tonight Show . Pundits and fans were, instead, chirping...

Bugs Bunny portraits a native stereotype as he tricks Yosemite Sam to (once again) fall off a diving board in High Diving Hare . Bugs has lo...

Who else but the writers of Rocky and Bullwinkle would make fun of the Cold War, over-budget movies and TV commercials at the same time? Bo...

Not enough do we talk about cartoons in the silent film era on this blog. The best ones—Felix the Cat and Max Fleischer’s Ko-Ko—still stand ...

Ah, if there had only been a third and a twentieth Jack Benny farewell TV special, as a columnist for Newsday once hoped. It was not to be,...

Imagine having something old and unwanted sitting around the house and suddenly discovering people will pay good money for it. No, this has ...