Woody Woodpecker is a crazy, reckless driver in The Screwdriver (1941). Some of the gags that prove it are weak, but this is one of the bet...

Warped gags seems to have abounded at every cartoon studio just after sound came in. The funny thing was the gags didn’t involve sound. They...

“It was just pure, solid, truthful humor, and I think that explains why it lasted so long.” That’s how Audrey Meadows summed up the enduring...

The theme song for The Roadrunner Show , which aired starting in 1966 on CBS, always bugged me. For one thing, it didn’t fit the sound of th...

Such is the power of the past that one’s career can begin to flourish 20 years after it ended. That’s what happened to Noel Neill. She play...

Gags within gags in a sequence of Doggone Tired , a 1949 Tex Avery cartoon about a rabbit trying to keep a hunting dog awake so he’ll be too...

To hear the fan magazines talk, Jack Benny lived a pretty unexciting life. Sure, he had huge house parties with the stars milling about. Sur...

If it weren’t for Herb Klynn, we might only know the Chipmunks today as novelty characters in an old gimmick record heard around Christmas t...

Furious movement highlights the MGM cartoon The Wayward Pups (1937). There are perspective drawings, too (it is a Harman-Ising cartoon, aft...