All Roads Lead to Jack Benny

Let’s peer into the Tralfaz question box. There is a Jack Benny connection here, but we have to set things up.

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Sugar Bear

There are people you hear in cartoons all over the place. Then there are others who seem to show up in one animated series and that’s it.

Gerry Matthews was one of them.

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Between a Rock and a Rock

The sheepherder wolf in Drag-a-long Droopy tries over and over to hide behind rocks from Droopy’s sure-shot guns (Droopy’s reading comic books while the guns do all the work)—but to no avail.

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J.L. Will Hear of This

Daffy Duck didn’t talk to an unseen artist for the first time in Duck Amuck, released in 1953.

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Bud Hiestand

It’s safe to say when you think of people who voiced animated cartoons in the Golden Age, Bud Hiestand’s name doesn’t come to mind. There’s a reason.

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Not The Illusion of Life

The Karnival Kid (1929) has a great opening scene where crazy, funny stuff keeps happening.

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Rabbit Take

The snow in the The First Snow (1947) lasts only 24 seconds.

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