Something Old, Nothing New

This is episode # 6 of season 4, and it's a sequel of sorts to the previous episode (it starts with Herb in the hospital after the event...

Here's another song from Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg's score for Jamaica , this one involving not the late Ricardo Montalban but th...

I'd heard, as had other people, that there were interviews done for the Tiny Toons DVDs that weren't used on the first set -- yet t...

In this episode (episode 5 of season 4), written by Dan Gunzelman (who also directed), Herb secretly goes to the hospital for heart tests, w...

Just to do a less negative follow-up to my previous post: Because I can't predict what movies will become classics -- though it's ea...

Sorry for the absence of posts lately. This isn't exactly a full-fledged post either, but: after the Oscar nominations are announced, wi...

I was glad to see this song, from the 1954 Joe Pasternak production Athena , finally get uploaded to YouTube. It's sung by Debbie Reynol...

Not a strong episode, but the backstory is fairly interesting. The episode has Johnny meeting his first ex-wife ( Ruth Silveira ) and her ob...

The second and final season of Freakazoid! will finally get a DVD release on April 21 , on the same day as the second half of Tiny Toons s...

This is eerie. I sat down intending to post a song from the musical Jamaica, "The Monkey In the Mango Tree," sung by Ricardo Mont...

One thing about Warner Brothers cartoon packages on Teletoon Retro is that they provide kind of a historical overview of how cartoons have b...

I mentioned elsewhere that Paramount's DVD release of Duckman seasons 3 and 4 contains more music cuts than the first set. Here are the...

The other night I watched Comanche Station , the last of the Boetticher/Scott movies and one of the best even though (or perhaps because) it...

I was thinking about Green Acres the other day, mostly to be P.O.'d that the last three seasons seem to be stuck in DVD limbo, and I go...

No matter what year the strip is from (why doesn't the Peanuts website print the dates of the comics? I guess this is 1961), you can de...

TCM showed 1964's For Those Who Think Young today as part of a festival of teen-surf movies from the '60s. This was United Artists...

When there's a fight between the two most fearsome old ladies in the Hills (either the Ozark or Beverly variety), everyone gets out of t...

Since Eartha Kitt died on Christmas day, most of the initial reports are focusing on "Santa Baby." That certainly wasn't the b...

Here's an "issue" episode that does work. It was the last episode of the third season, written at the height of entertainment-...

Has anybody ever traced the history of human characters in short cartoons? I specifically mean the use of humans as supporting characters in...