There’s still one area where people who are heard on television don’t get credit on the air—commercials. I’ve watched an awful lot of spots...

The term “It’s Greek to me,” I gather, means “I can’t understand it.” How appropriate it was that one of Gene Deitch’s Tom and Jerry cartoo...

Tex Avery’s characters knew they were in a cartoon. A great example is the “Technicolor Ends Here” gag in Lucky Ducky (MGM, 1948) Here’s a...

Judy Carne had been on Love On a Rooftop . Larry Hovis was on Hogan’s Heroes . Ruth Buzzi had shown up on That Girl . But there were other p...

A cow gets smacked by the Betty Boop Limited in the 1932 cartoon of the same name. It happened twice. We went through the first time in thi...

Bob Clampett’s Looney Tunes short Eatin’ on the Cuff isn’t just about a moth, a bee, a black widow spider and a pianist sing-speaking their...

When Bill Frawley wasn’t drinking, going to the fights or ball game, or grousing on the set of I Love Lucy , he was adding to his income sta...

One of the many jokes on the Jack Benny show involved his mediocre violin playing. But like almost everything about his radio and TV charact...

It sounds like something in a late-‘50s Paramount cartoon—Olive Oyl as the entertainment director of a seaside resort in New Jersey. The car...

Bosko plays some kind of instrument that doesn’t look like a flute, but sounds like one, in Bosko the Sheep-Herder (1933). In fact, it sti...