Favorite Cartoons

I Wanna Be A Sailor – 1937 – Despite his mother’s protests, a little parrot (Petey) wants to be a sailor like his father. He builds his own boat on the local lake, only to be saved by a duck (Gabby) when a storm sinks the boat. Features his mother singing “I’m-a-Comin’ when running to rescue him.

The Bookworm – 1939 – In a library, a raven is trying to catch a studious bookworm for dinner. To everyone’s shock, including the raven’s, characters from various horror books come to life and chase the bookworm. To aid the bookworm, historical and literary figures come to life from the history and adventure texts and beat back the monsters. The bookworm eventually escapes the raven.

To Spring – 1936 – A group of elves is in charge of adding color back to the landscape for spring. The melting ice turns a clock that awakens a small gnome who sings a song ("Time for Spring") and wakes up many other gnomes. They set to work mining a wide assortment of colors which get crushed and boiled and ultimately sent to the surface in a complex system of pipes. The trees and flowers start to come to life, but old man winter has a storm still up his sleeve. His actions cause chaos underground; the gnomes redouble their efforts. Finally, with the help of one late arrival, they beat back winter.

The Great Piggy Bank Robbery – 1946 -- While reading his favorite comic book, daffy duck accidentally knocks himself unconscious and dreams that he’s “Duck Twacy,” famous detective, trying to solve the “Case of the Missing Piggy Banks.” He even crosses paths with Sherlock Holmes. Porky Pig appears briefly in a non-speaking role as a mustached trolley bus driver whose vehicle bears the prominent destination sign “to Gangster Hideout.” There are more “Gangster Hideout” signs along the way, helpfully pointing him in the right direction. Once there, he meets up with such grotesque criminals as “Pickle Puss,” “Eighty-Eight Teeth,” and “Neon Noodle,” to name a few. Daffy might be over his head in facing this tremendous group of evil villains.

Horton Hatches The Egg – 1942 – The only classic Warner Brothers cartoon adapted from a book -- Horton, a faithful elephant, promises to sit on an egg for Maisie, a lazy, irresponsible bird, while she goes on vacation. Horton’s famous quote is “I meant what I said, and I said what I meant…an elephant’s faithful 100 percent.” Much later, after standing and sitting guard faithfully through rain and snow, Horton and the egg are captured by three hunters and put in a circus. Maisie happens by just as the egg is about to hatch and demands that Horton give it back to her, after he’s done all her work for her. The egg hatches, and it’s a flying elephant, instead of a bird. Horton traipses through the jungle singing a very incorrect version of “the Hut-Sut song,” (A Swedish Serenade) by Horace Heidt. The words are: Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla brawla sooit; Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit. Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla brawla sooit; Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit. In a town in Sweden by a stream so clear and cool; a boy would sit and fish and dream when he should have been in school. Now, he couldn’t read or write a word but happiness he found; In a little song he heard and here’s how it would sound. Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla brawla sooit; Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit. Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla brawla sooit; Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit. Now the Rawlson is a Swedish town, the rillerah is a stream; the brawla is the boy and girl; the Hut-Sut is their dream. Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla brawla sooit; Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit. Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla brawla sooit; Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla sooit. Hear it HERE.

Falling Hare – 1943 – Wartime cartoon –Working at a U.S. Army Airfield under the banner "Victory Through Hare Power," the Master Heckler finally meets his match. While reading a book about gremlins -- tiny creatures who sabotage ("saba-togee," says Bugs) military aircraft -- Bugs Bunny happens upon one such creature, calmly attempting to detonate a blockbuster bomb with a mallet. An unusually gullible Bugs chases the gremlin into a bomber, which, of course, winds up airborne and out of control. The plane finally plummets earthward, giving Bugs the chance to express his mortal fear in a dozen different amusing ways. Fortunately, the plane runs out of gas just inches away from impact. Hear the Gremlin speak.

Russian Rhapsody – 1944 – Wartime cartoon -- Adolf Hitler sends the greatest superman in the Reich (himself) to bomb Moscow. He is beset by gremlins, most of which are caricatures of the Warner Bros. cartoon staff. The gremlins destroy the plane and send Hitler to his doom.

Injun Trouble (later renamed “Wagon Heels”) – 1938 -- Scout Porky leads his wagon train through the territory of that most dreaded of "red-skinned savages," ”Superchief” Injun Joe. Occasionally, he runs into the cross-eyed, gooney-looking pioneer Sloppy Moe, who knows a secret which can save Porky and the wagon train, but "won't tell" until the very last minute.

The Hardship of Miles Standish – 1940 -- A fractured version of the story of Miles Standish, his love Priscilla and John Alden.

Beauty and The Beast – 1934 -- A little girl is eating too many snacks when she doesn't realize it is her bedtime. Then the sandman comes out of nowhere and sure enough the girl falls asleep in the blink of an eye. Just then, she had a dream that she ended up in Toyland where she encounters all kinds of fairy tale characters. They sing her a welcome song and then meets a friendly toy soldier for the first time while marching in a Toyland parade. Just then, they open a book called "Beauty and the Beast" and sang the title song from out of the pages, but as soon as they were about to get to the next page, a horrible monstrous beast is about to take her captive, and sure enough, it's an all-out brawl between the girl and the beast. Even a toy airplane can't soothe the savage beast. When she realizes it's all a bad dream, she gets scared, jumps back into bed, but when she covers herself with the blanket, the flap of her pajamas hangs out when she goes back to sleep.

Dog Gone Modern – 1939 – (remade in 1948 as ‘House-Hunting Mice’) – The 1939 version featured two curious puppies who explore an electronic home of the future full of automatic devices. In the 1948 remake, the silly mice (Hubie and Bertie) replaced the puppies, resulting in a funnier version of the tale. In “House-Hunting Mice,” Hubie and Bertie (mice) decide to inspect a "House of Tomorrow." Confronted with a large array of buttons on a master control panel, they first test the automatic record player, which pitches records to a robotic catcher's mitt. Next, an automatic sweeper sweeps cigar ashes. When they press the "Laundry" control, Hubie gets picked up, folded and starched. They try to tackle the cheese dispenser, but the sweeper prevents them from having their snack. They throw a vase out the window, and the sweeper goes after it, coming back to chase the mice. The two drive the sweeper crazy by breaking records and lighting firecrackers, causing the robotic housekeeper to put on his hat and coat and quit. Bert pushes the "Spring Cleaning" button, which unleashes an army of sweepers, and the mice are hung like carpets and beaten by the mechanical sweepers. The house, by the way, was designed by the famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wrong.

Sniffles and the Bookworm – 1939 – Sniffles the mouse takes refuge in a bookshop. He meets a bookworm, who sings and plays with book characters.

What’s Opera, Doc? – 1957 – Song: Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries,” in which Elmer sings “Kill the Wabbit, Kill the Wabbit,” to Wagner’s masterpiece.

Blue Danube – 1939 -- A conductor, in silhouette against sheet music, leads the title tune, which dissolves into a series of placid landscapes. We see a beautiful swan family being followed by an ugly duckling. The duckling eventually rescues the little swans from a desperate buzzard.

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Tortoise Beats Hare – 1941 – First Appearance of Cecil the Turtle – The first of three in the series. Bugs ambles into the credits, and as he reads them out loud, he gets upset and tears them down in anger.

Tortoise Wins By A Hare – 1943 – Second Appearance of Cecil the Turtle, and second race between Cecil and Bugs. Tired of losing to the tortoise, Bugs tries to beat Cecil using a new, modern design. This time, some sneaky costume changes and the rabbit Mafia conspiracy seal Bugs' inevitable doom.

Rabbit Transit – 1947 -- The final rematch, and both parties promise not to cheat…Yeah, Right. Also, the final appearance of Cecil the Turtle.

Rabbit of Seville – 1950 -- Elmer's rabbit hunt invades the Hollywood Bowl, where Bugs takes over the opera at Elmer's expense.

Long-Haired Hare – 1949 -- Bugs' folk music bothers the great opera singer Giovanni Jones, as he tries to rehearse. While Jones wins an early victory against Bugs, it is Bugs who ends up with the upper hand in his performance that night.

Now That Summer Is Gone – 1938 -- While all the other squirrels are diligently gathering nuts for winter, little Johnny Squirrel is gambling for acorns instead of getting them honestly. His wise old grandfather warns him that no good will come of this, but it takes a city slicker of dubious character to outgamble him, take his nuts, and teach him a lesson.

Corny Concerto – 1943 -- At Corny-Gie Hall, Elmer (as Deems Taylor) conducts two cartoons set to music. In "Tales Of The Vienna Woods," Bugs foils hunter Porky and his dog. Bugs, Porky and Porky's dog do a ballet, with Bugs donning drag to appear as a ballerina. The second piece, "The Blue Danube," is a spoof of "The Ugly Duckling," with a baby black duck -- not unlike a juvenile Daffy -- saving the day when the swans are threatened by a goofy buzzard. Elmer describes the music as follows: "Wisten to the wippwing whythms of the woodwinds, as it winds awound and awound-- and comes out here!"

Little Johnny Jet – 1953 -- An out-of-work B-29 has problems finding work in modern peacetime aviation. His offspring turns out to be a jet. The baby jet plane steps in to help his bigger prop plane father win the day.

Pigs In A Polka – 1943 -- A spoof of the Three Little Pigs set to Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G Minor. The Big Bad Wolf is able to fool only two of the three pigs.

Popeye Meets Sindbad the Sailor – 1936 – PART 1 – PART 2 - First Popeye in color, and also the first of three long (approximately 18 minutes) adventures. Popeye and Olive Oyl visit the mysterious island of Sindbad and his two-headed giant, lions, dragons and other fabulous creatures of legend. Sindbad boasts that he is the greatest until he hears "Popeye the Sailor" when he asks who's the best. He sends his giant bird, Rokh, to wreck Popeye's boat and capture Olive. Popeye outgrowls Sindbad's lions. Popeye and Sindbad finally fight it out, spinach-style, and Popeye rescues Olive. Song lyrics: “Who’s the most remarkable, extraordinary type of fella? Sindbad the Sailor.”

Popeye Meets Ali Baba And His Forty Thieves – 1937 – Second of the long Popeye episodes. Popeye, Olive and Wimpy crash their airplane in the desert. After a long trek through the desert they arrive in a town which is promptly ransacked by bandit chief Abu Hassan (Bluto) and his forty thieves (Abu's men mumble as they ride and strip everything in sight as they zip by). Olive is pressed into service as a laundress, while Wimpy is tied up and forced to watch Abu Hassan eat. It's Popeye to the rescue, and Abu Hassan proves just as vulnerable to the effects of spinach as are Bluto's other incarnations. Also known as “Popeye Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves.” Song: “Abdul Hassin Is On His Way.”

Popeye Meets Aladdin – 1939 – PART 1 – PART 2 – PART 3 - Olive has a job at Surprise Pictures as a script girl when she dreams up a story of Popeye in the Aladdin tale. Popeye is a poor young man tricked by an evil magician who tries to use him to get the lamp. The plot fails, and Popeye uses the lamp to become a prince and woo the princess of old Persia (played by Olive). The magician tricks the princess into giving him the lamp, and takes her for himself. Even Aladdin/Popeye and the genie of the lamp (who looks and sounds like comedian Lew Lehr) are no match for the wicked villain until spinach defeats his evil power, allowing our hero to marry the princess. In the end, Olive's story is rejected by the movie studio, and the dream ends with Olive in a sea of scripts. Song: “What Can I Do For You?”

Hair-Raising Hare – 1946 -- Bugs is pursued by a hairy, orange, sneaker-wearing monster through the castle of the evil scientist with a voice that sounds like Peter Lorre.

Little Black Sambo – 1935 -- A little boy is warned by his mother about the dangerous tiger: "Watch out for that tiger! He sure do love that dark meat!" Wanting to scare Sambo, the boy's dog Fido paints himself like a tiger. He is discovered by Sambo, and the two play while the real tiger stalks them both. When Sambo sees the tiger, he turns white from fear. Sambo and Fido run home, but the tiger gets in the house. The chase is soon on in earnest. Sambo gets an idea: he puts molasses on the floor. The tiger gets stuck, and Sambo nails his behind with a hot frying pan. The tiger flies high out of the roof with the floorboards on his stuck feet. Fido again tries to scare Sambo and his mother. He bangs on the door with a rock tied to the door, but gets knocked out by the rock as it swings back. Sambo and his mother are relieved and happy. Politically incorrect, but still a classic.

Hiawatha’s Rabbit Hunt – 1941 -- Bugs is reciting passages from "Hiawatha," and realizes that the famous Longfellow poem is about him. A goofy little Hiawatha goes rabbit hunting. As he puts it, "I'm gonna catch me a rabbit and I'm gonna put 'em right in this pot!" Hiawatha catches Bugs, but, needless to say, he is no match for the rabbit, who takes a bath in the soup cauldron. Bugs ends the film by reciting more passages from "Hiawatha." Also politically incorrect, but a classic as well.

Calling Dr. Porky – 1940 -- Porky is a doctor at the "New Rightus Hospital." A drunk dog comes in to take Dr. Porky’s cure, but fails to escape the bunch of winged pink elephants following him.

A Tale of Two Kitties – 1942 -- Two alley cats, Babbitt and Catstello, decide to make a meal out of Orson (“Tweety”) as he sleeps in his nest atop a telephone pole. The gullible (and loud) Catstello is repeatedly gulled into trying to "get the bird," earning a variety of thrashings from the casually murderous little canary. Catstello finally resorts to an air strike (with a pair of wooden boards for wings), but it's wartime, and Orson has the cat blasted out of the sky by anti-aircraft guns.

I Love To Singa – 1936 – The Owls are happy with their three classically musical kids but dismayed at their fourth one, who won’t stop singing the Jazz, and who drives his classical music professor father, Dr. Fritz Owl, crazy. A parody of the Al Jolson role in the classic 1927 WB movie “The Jazz Singer” (recall that this is a story about the son of a cantor who turns his back on his family profession and becomes a jazz singer). “Owl Jolson’s” parents kick him out. He goes on the Jack Bunny radio show and his mother walks in. He quickly reverts from “I Love to Sing-a” to “Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes.” After realizing his talents, the family is finally reunited. Song: “I love to Sing-a, ‘bout the Moon-a and the June-a and the Spring-a.” Here’s the “I Love To Sing-a” .mp3. The words are as follows:

I love to sing-a
about the moon-a
and the June-a
and the spring-a,
 
I love to sing-a
'bout the sky of blue-a,
or a tea for two-a,
anything-a with a swing-a
to an I love you-a,
 
I love-a to, I love-a to sing,
 
I was born a sing-in' fool-a,
La-de-da,
Major Bowes is gonna get me,
Got thru Yale,
with Boola Boola,
La-de-da,
Ole microphone's got me!
 
I love to sing-a
I love to wake up with the South-a
in my mouth-a,
and wave the flag-a,
 
With a cheer for Uncle Sammy
and another for my mammy,
I love to sing!

Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur – 1939 -- A prehistoric Jack Benny, Casper Caveman, wakes up and sets off in search of breakfast accompanied by his pet brontosaurus, Fido. He spots Daffy swimming in a pond and tries to nail him with a slingshot, but Daffy escapes the rock by posing as a traffic cop and blowing a traffic whistle. Realizing its mistake, the rock comes back after Daffy, but instead hits Fido; the stunned dinosaur dances ballet for a while before passing out. Casper next tries to club a likeness of Daffy painted on a rock, which gives him a case of tremors. The caveman tries to jump in the pond after Daffy, but is stopped by a "No Swimming" sign. Daffy sets up an array of signage directing Casper and Fido toward a duck dinner -- "the most delicious duck ever." The duck in question turns out to be 50 feet tall (a huge balloon, inflated by Daffy). Daffy hands Casper a knife, and when he sinks it into the inflatable duck, it explodes, sending caveman, duck and dinosaur up to heaven. "Hmm, maybe that wasn't such a hot idea after all," muses Daffy on his cloud.

Caveman Inki – 1950 -- Inki and his little dinosaur go hunting for food. While hunting, a mountain splits open to reveal a mynah bird with a hopping walk. Inki follows the bird, but then Inki is pursued by a sabre-tooth lion for his top knot. The lion and Inki chase each other around running into a caveman who is trying to cook a meal (a recurring gag) and eventually involve a dinosaur, who tries to catch the mynah bird, but gets tied up by the mynah bird. The cooking caveman finally catches Inki and the lion (to stop them from ruining his meal), but the mynah bird ends up eating all his stew. Politically incorrect cartoon.

Pop ‘Im Pop – 1950 -- While telling Junior about his battles with giant mice, Hippety Hopper (a baby kangaroo) shows up and now Sylvester must prove himself. First appearance of Sylvester Jr.

The Abominable Snow Rabbit – 1961 -- Bugs and Daffy tunnel to Nepal, where they meet Hugo. Hugo wants to hug them and pet them and hold them and squeeze them and name them George. First appearance of Hugo, the Abominable Snowman.

Foney Fables – 1942 -- Various narrated gags about famous fairy tales, including "Sleeping Beauty," (the prince quietly slips into the room, approaches the dreaming princess and shouts, "Wake up! Wake up, ya lazy good for nuthin!"); "Tom Thumb," (a big gooney Tom is asked how he got that way -- with Vitamin B-1); "The Ant and the Grasshopper," (when asked why he's not working, the grasshopper shows his War Bonds); "Jack and the Beanstalk," (a two-headed giant chases Jack, but has to rest because "He's been sick!"); Cinderella"; "The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing," ("The 5th Columnist of his day" preys on unsuspecting sheep, until he encounters another in disguise); “The Goose Who Laid the Golden Egg,” (a goose who lays aluminum eggs for war production); “Old Mother Hubbard” (she shows her poor dog she has none, until the pooch opens the cupboard himself and exposes the double-crossing food hoarder); “This Little Piggy” is sung to a little baby who complains; “Aladdin and His Lamp” (Aladdin sings "I Dream of Genie with the Light Brown Hair," then a picket sign arises from the lamp, stating, "Genie on Strike!” There's a running gag about the boy who cried wolf. The boy is warned by the narrator throughout the cartoon to stop. The films ends with his cries of "Wolf!" and laughter -- coming from a well-fed wolf seen picking his teeth.

Elmer’s Candid Camera – 1940 -- Elmer heads into the woods to photograph wildlife. In no time, he encounters a wise-guy rabbit who makes things harder than Elmer’s book explained that it would. First official appearance of Elmer Fudd in his familiar character, although the name "Elmer Fudd" had been applied to the Egghead character in earlier cartoons.

Old Grey Hare – 1944 -- Elmer Fudd is sitting by a tree crying because he can't catch that wabbit, Bugs Bunny. The voice of God tells Elmer to "try, try again." But how long will it take? The voice tells Elmer to look far into the future, "past 1950, 1970, 80, 90...up to 2000 A.D." An old, wrinkled Fudd picks up a newspaper: "Smellovision Replaces Television." Instead of a rifle, he has a "Buck Rogers Lightning–Quick Rabbit Killer." An old, bearded Bugs Bunny pops up, asking, "What's up, Prune Face?" and chokes the elder Fudd. Elmer shoots his ray gun and knocks Bugs out. Bugs performs a classic death scene, taking out a photo album of memories. The two reminisce about their very first meeting as babies. A cute little baby Elmer finds little Bugsy Bunny drinking carrot juice in a bottle, which he smashes over Fudd's head. Elmer chases baby Bugs; they take a nap and resume the chase. Bugs hides behind a tree. As Elmer sneaks around it, the bunny razzes him with a tuba. Elmer pulls out his baby carriage racer, but Bugs, pretending to be a traffic cop, pulls him over. When little Elmer gets wise, Bugs shouts in his face, "You ain't just whistling Dixie!" Back to the future, the old Bugs starts to dig his own grave. He bids his friend goodbye, they both cry, and, before you know it, Bugs has tricked Fudd into the grave (Bugs says, "So long, Methuselah!" as he shovels dirt over his old foe). Buried alive, Elmer is just glad to be rid of that rabbit. Bugs hands Elmer a farewell gift, a bomb which explodes after the fadeout, shaking the "That's All, Folks!" end logo.

Bugs Bunny Gets The Boid – 1942 – Beaky the Buzzard’s mom sends her boys out for dinner. She tells Beaky to bring home a rabbit, and finds Bugs. In his "death scene" in the desert, Bugs feels a carrot through his supposed rib cage.

A Feud There Was – 1938 -- In the mountains, a bunch of stereotypical hillbillies are having a feud. Maw's coffeepot is shot full of holes so she can pour five cups at once. An old-timer gets his beard shot off, says, "The old grey hair just ain't what she used to be," and when it doesn't get a laugh, says, "Well, it sounded funny in rehearsal." The hillbillies blast their enemies on screen and off. "Are there any Weavers in the audience?" they ask. But their big enemy is Egghead, who rides up on a motorcycle which says, "Elmer Fudd, Peacemaker." All of the feuders fight Egghead, who wins -- only to be shot by that Weaver in the audience.

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Naughty, But Mice - In this episode, Sniffles goes to a pharmacy to get medicine for his cold. He encounters a friendly electric razor and both become drunk from the cold medicine. Sniffles and the razor hum and sing the song, “How Dry I Am.” When Sniffles gets in trouble (pursued by a cat), the razor comes to the rescue.

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One Cab’s Family – Similar to “Little Johnny Jet,” but with a taxicab.

Bedtime for Sniffles – Sniffles tries to stay awake to see Santa Claus.

Thru the Mirror – Mickey Mouse experiences another world on the other side of the mirror.

Popeye in Goonland – Popeye encounters Alice the Goon.

Popeye and ‘Lil Swee’ Pea – Popeye has baby troubles when he takes Swee’ Pea to the zoo.

Old Salt Tale – Popeye encounters the Sea Hag.

Popeye Presents Eugene the Jeep – Eugene’s first appearance.

Robin Hood Makes Good – Squirrels play Robin Hood.

The Wabbit Who Came To Supper – Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd Classic.

Wagner’s Ring Cycle, as told by the great Anna Russell – PART 1 – PART 2 – PART 3

Early Bugs Bunny Photo