Movie caricatures abound in Mickey’s Gala Premier (1933), where they all come to see the mouse’s newest cartoon make its cinematic debut at...

I suspect you never got a chance to hear Jack Benny give his violin concerts for charity. The various newspaper clippings that have been pos...

Who hasn’t seen A Charlie Brown Christmas ? It was the first Peanuts TV special in 1965. Within a week of it airing, CBS announced it would ...

There are some lovely gesticulations from Pierre, the termite that destroys Porky Pig’s furniture in The Pest That Came to Dinner . Note the...

There’s some shape shifting but not a lot that’s interesting in the Betty Boop cartoon Chess Nuts (1932). Two chess piece kings turn into B...

Quick—name the announcer on “Peter Arno’s Whoops Sisters.” The correct answer is Harry Von Zell. The “Whoops Sisters” wasn’t quite the hig...

Tom Morrison basically rips off Tex Avery’s Droopy in Pride of the Yard (1954) where Percival Sleuthhound is everywhere no matter where tw...

The bulldog in Bad Luck Blackie swallows the little kitten. And then swallows him again. Yes, the gag is impossible. That’s what makes it f...

Jack Benny didn’t start out on radio as a 39-year-old cheapskate who drove a Maxwell. Benny’s character was built, block by block, over a pe...

I’ll say it up front. Max the 2000 Year Old Mouse stinks. Yes, I realise there will be some who will howl in anger because they watched ...