There's a frog named Michigan who holds an enduring place in the history of pop culture. Dive into the 60+ year career of Warner Brothers' Michigan J. Frog.
Sony’s modestly successful family film "Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile" arrives on Blu-ray with a nice transfer, but for classic cartoon buffs, there’s something vaguely familiar to this tale.
Looney Tunes Cartoon Is Not What You Think It Is
Here’s a fun little thing you can try at your next family gathering (sometime in, oh, 2022? ’23?). Get people talking about Looney Tunes. Get ‘em talking about their favorites, about how much they love the meta humor of
Duck Amuck, or the sophisticated satire of
What’s Opera, Doc?, or the trenchant irony of
One Froggy Evening. And when the question comes around to you, you just square your shoulders, look them straight in the eye, and proudly proclaim, “Nothing’s better than…
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Here’s a fun little thing you can try at your next family gathering (sometime in, oh, 2022? ’23?). Get people talking about Looney Tunes. Get ‘em talking about their favorites, about how much they love the meta humor of
Duck Amuck, or the sophisticated satire of
What’s Opera, Doc?, or the trenchant irony of
One Froggy Evening. And when the question comes around to you, you just square your shoulders, look them straight in the eye, and proudly proclaim, “Nothing’s better than
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery.”
You can then relish the silence, one so profound it would be as if you had just said, “You know, the good thing about hitting yourself in the head with a two-by-four is…”