Here’s a cute throwaway gag in a Bob Clampett favourite, The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946). The premise is Daffy wants to be Dick Tracy....

Carmen Miranda jokes were out by 1950, I guess, so the nameless cat finds a different use for used fruit than creating a hat in Ventriloquis...

It’s all straightforward. The caricatures to the right are of Warner Bros. animation artists Abe Levitow and Bob Doerfler. They’re dressed ...

What’s your idea of the perfect radio show? The answer for a number of people was Jack Benny. We’re talking about radio in 1935 here. This...

Jay Ward and Bill Scott’s “Fractured Fairy Tales” and their cousin Aesop’s Fables are still great fun to watch, but the idea for the segment...

The American Humane Association may have loved it, but Columbia’s A Boy, a Gun and Birds still has that weird factor that a lot of Screen G...

The scenes in Doggone Tired (1949) alternate between light and dark, so director Tex Avery has to employ a subtle use of colour. At the en...

Critics hated Gilligan’s Island . Don’t take my word for it. Read just about any newspaper column in 1965 about the show. They all pointed ...

Tom’s captured Jerry in Kitty Foiled (1947). Let’s bring in the heart-pounding joke, says Joe Barbera. Jerry tries to shove the heart ba...