Max Fleischer’s wonderful little cartoons of the silent era straddled the real and unreal worlds. On one hand, Max and his studio, and even ...

Bugs Bunny was Carmen Miranda in Slick Hare (1947). Daffy Duck was Carmen Miranda in Yankee Doodle Daffy (1943). But before both of them w...

Is there a pun I’m missing, or is this an inside gag? In The Air Race (produced in 1933), Willie Whopper points to a list of entrants. Som...

How many stars would, basically, turn over half of their show to someone who audiences barely knew and let him loose? Jack Benny did. On...

In Tex Avery’s 1949 cartoon Wags To Riches , Spike reads over a Will leaving everything to him if something should happen to Droopy, and the...

A librarian is shocked to see books floating in mid-air in Destination Earth (1956) and promptly faints. But, no, it’s simply Mars’ fir...

One of the great ground-breaking characters of radio was Phil Harris. When he arrived on the Jack Benny show in 1936, the writers complete...

Cartoon commercials sold all kinds of things. They even sold commercials themselves. No doubt you’ve been on sites that have fuzzy or murky...

Musical notes from a saxophone turn into geese (that sound like ducks) in Pencil Mania , a fun 1932 Tom and Jerry cartoon from the Van Beure...

Mike Maltese tossed a great baking gag into Rabbit Hood (1949), where Bugs goes to the time and trouble of quickly baking a cake just so th...