It might be unfair to call them “stock expressions,” but while watching The Old Grey Hare the other day, I noticed a couple of facial look...

Everyone’s heard them. Back in the ‘60s, they came from speakers of TV sets while the letters ‘N’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ snaked onto the scene at th...

It would seem logical to escape from a mental hospital, you would saw the bars off your cell door. Or you would climb over a gate at the out...

Hot dogs aren’t usually emotional, but they are in the hands of Walt Disney and his gagmen. In the silent short All Wet , Oswald the rabbit...

Westerns giveth and Westerns taketh away. In the late 1930s, Jack Benny rode his Western serial parody, “Buck Bunny Rides Again,” from a se...

There was a period when cartoons reigned supreme in the advertising world. Cartoon characters sold beer and gas and just about everything el...

New York City breaks out into uncontrollable laughter in the Betty Boop cartoon Ha! Ha! Ha! (1934), thanks to animation over live action fi...

Two propeller planes give birth to a jet plane in Little Johnny Jet (1953). How that happened isn’t made clear by writer Heck Allen but we ...