Popeye and his trusty spinach (he eats the can, too) polish off some marauding Indians in I Yam What I Yam (1933). But wait! The chief come...

“I know!” said one of the writers at Harman-Ising, “Let’s do a musical cartoon featuring a pile of little characters where a big bad guy com...

What jokes do comedians find funny? Parade magazine milked that question for years. Parade was a weekend newspaper magazine supplement. O...

The Jay Ward studios had some ideas that never got off the ground and others which took some time before they finally appeared on TV screens...

A wolf vanquished by Scrappy, Oopy, a goat and hot coals bays in defeat on a hill outside the goat’s home in The Wolf at the Door (1932). ...

Rudy Vallee revealed in the February, 1932 edition of Radio Digest that composer Herman (Do-Do) Hupfeld promised he could introduce his new...

Phyllis Diller is a fraud. How many times can it be said? Well, twice by United Press International in stories by two different columnists...

One of the great things about the Fleischer cartoons of the 1920s and early ‘30s is characters would morph into something else. Their shapes...

Today’s version of this ancient gag comes from Flip the Frog’s 1931 cartoon Laughing Gas . Flip is a dentist who, instead of using ether to...