The 1980s had Valley Girl talk. 40 years earlier, there was Judy Foster speak. Judy Foster (played by Louise Erickson, right) was one of t...

An old friend, Linda Glover, has alerted me to what is the most bizarre cartoon I have ever seen. This is a frame from a five-minute comm...

George clamps a washtub over a little flame, then tells Junior to grab the flame when he lifts up the tub (the thought Junior might get burn...

Quite a number of young people in the sex, drugs and rock-and-roll era, I suspect, thought of Jack Benny as old and outdated. Tastes, howeve...

This was going to be a post about Wally Cox’s cartoon career. But it won’t be. You can blame Wally Cox. Somewhere, I thought, Cox might hav...

The Mad Hatter (1948) was the second cartoon by the Walter Lantz studio released by United Artists. Ken O’Brien and Freddie Moore from Dis...

How often did Walt Disney have an “ear take” in one of his cartoons? It isn’t something that would be funny very often, but it’s pulled off...