Ever wonder how Mickey got his high voice? The answer may be in eight consecutive drawings from “Plane Crazy.” Mickey doesn’t actually cr...

Jack Benny disliked the song the world associates with him, “Love in Bloom.” Well, so he said in an interview with the Associated Press in ...

I’ll just go ahead and say it. Clutch Cargo is creepy. I don’t know if it aired on any channels I watched a kid, but it would have been too...

Felix the Cat tells an audience of the hoi-polloi some tall stories about his ancestors in an attempt to join their private social club in P...

“If you take a big bite out of any one thing,” Paul Terry opined in 1970, “that’s plagiarism and you’re a thief. So, we used to have a sayin...

All the years he was hunting wabbits, Elmer Fudd’s voice actor was never identified on screen. Countless kids grew up in the ‘60s and ‘70s t...

“Lucky Ducky” features the great “Technicolor Ends Here” gag, but Tex and writer Rich Hogan fit in a bunch of quick gags during the extended...

“Not ‘The Gezundheit!’” “Not ‘William Tell!’” “Not ‘Roll Out the Barrel!’” You probably have a favourite amongst the penalties inflicted on ...

Running gags are a staple of comedy, but Jack Benny’s writers tried stretching that to running scenarios embracing part or all of a radio se...

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 ...