Love spot gag cartoons? Love stereotypes? Love bad puns? You’ll get your fill of all that in the Columbia/Screen Gems short Wacky Wigwams ...

Half-Pint Pygmy (1948) contains all kinds of impossible characters, such as a camel with a head at either end of its body, or a giraffe wit...

You only needed one hand to count the number of television stars there were 80 years ago. That’s because in 1942, only one station was airin...

Shamus Culhane ends The Loose Nut (1945) with an explosion effect he used in other cartoon. Woody Woodpecker spends the entire cartoon pla...

Porky Pig dreams of marrying Petunia in Porky’s Romance (1937). It’s not so much a dream, but a nightmare where the candy-gorging sow force...

Rochester, the butler, was connected with Jack Benny for so many years. I wondered if Rochester, the city, had a connection with Jack as wel...

Movie critics got sick of fairy tales and lippy animals beating up someone. And they got tired of seeing the same characters they watched ...

If a gag works, use it again. All cartoon studios in the Golden Age, I think, adopted that as a motto. After all, people didn’t binge-watch...