Droopy manages to thwart the cattle rancher throughout one of my favourite Tex Avery cartoons, Drag-a-Long Droopy (1954). The bad guy ranch...

Milton Berle was network television’s first huge star. Starting in late 1948, vast sales of TV sets were credited to his Tuesday night show ...

Pluto hasn’t been invented yet, so Mickey pulls out the teeth of his 1929 pooch and opens a can of spaghetti in Mickey’s Choo Choo . Carl S...

Greedy Louie realises he’ll be a millionaire if he bumps off dopey cat Heathcliff in Dough Ray Me-ow , a 1948 cartoon by the Art Davis unit ...

Last week, we reprinted an article about Jack Benny from a weekend newspaper magazine of November 2, 1958. Here’s an indication how popular ...

Walter Lantz finally shut down his cartoon studio in 1972, even though he said at the time there was still international demand for his shor...

Pete Hothead (Jerry Hausner) listens outside the Bendover and Grovel department store where Avery the floorwalker (Jim Backus) is leading em...

What do you do when a duck drills a hole in your rowboat? You cover it up. Of course, it’s not quite that simple in a Tex Avery cartoon. I...

Jackie Gleason may have been known as “The Great One” but he had a moment that wasn’t too great. It was a game show called “You’re in the ...

Bimbo picks up a roast duck and plays it like a guitar, inspired by the pre-human version of Betty Boop in Dizzy Dishes (1930). Bimbo pu...