Robbing the 5:15

Bugs Bunny screws around with Red Hot Rider just for something to do in the 1944 cartoon Buckaroo Bugs.

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More Than Norton

It shouldn’t be, but it’s still a little surprising to learn Art Carney regularly appeared on radio and television before he was Ed Norton on The Honeymooners.

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The Educational Banana

It’s tough to say who was the most popular cartoon character in the earliest days of network television (that is, the mid to late 1940s), but a case could be made for a singing banana.

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A Date With Jet Screamer, Part 2

Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera evidently wanted to make the Jetsons episode A Date With Jet Screamer a special cartoon. The episode comes to a complete stop for a one-minute, 45-second song.

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