Andy Panda tries catching a woodpecker by putting salt on his tail in Knock Knock (1940) but is thwarted by the crafty-but-insane bird seve...

Inside gags found their way into Friz Freleng shorts from the mid-‘40s to the mid-‘50s when Paul Julian was responsible for background art. ...

“Fred Allen Forecasts 1937” reads a yellowed newspaper clipping of undermined origin. One of Fred’s prognostications simply states “Jack Ben...

Daily Variety told readers on January 16, 1942 about a cartoon. “Fred Avery will supervise production of ‘Blitz Wolf,’ cartoon subject at M...

It seemed like she was on the fast track in the early 1950s. She left the Rand ad agency in 1952 to be a PR assistant at NBC’s local radio/...

A dog gets crushed by a barrel of...Roman Punch? Well, that’s the name of this 1930 cartoon from Terrytoons. The mashed dog is turned int...

How far back does the “Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup” joke go? There’s a version in the Flip the Frog cartoon The Soup Song (1930). ...