CNN, cartoons and Ilhan Omar…all are covering the truth? Yes, we’re dealing with Twilight Zone material! More from And We Know.
Covid Biden’s criminal talk. Who is this clown and why does he insist upon talking down to Americans, as if he was some kind of king? Also, JustInformed Talk introduces us to a new HBO documentary on the Q movement, featuring JustInformed Talk, among other key sites.
What if right wingers wanted to be monetized. Explore a magical alternate reality where facts DO care about your feelings! More from FreedomToons.
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A calm and collected call to action. From FreedomToons.
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Hey kids (of all ages), it’s Saturday Morning Cartoon time again!
Although Egghead and Elmer Fudd have been treated as distinct characters in relatively recent ‘toons and comics, here we have more evidence that Elmer originally evolved out of Egghead. In his first fully-recognizable appearance, complete with the iconic Arthur Q. Bryan voice (previously used for the title character in DANGEROUS DAN MCFOO), Elmer is still wearing Egghead’s signature stiff-collar, green, baggy, outdated suit and hat. That, along with the fact that Egghead was actually identified as “Elmer Fudd” on-screen in one earlier picture, and on lobby posters for another, makes it a lock that Elmer and Egghead were indeed the same character…
Or does it?!
Turns out that a case can be made that the baggy-suit guy used as a running gag in cartoons mostly featuring other characters and elements was never Egghead at all, but ‘Elmer’ from the start. Unlike the wide-eyed, verbose, central-player who looked a bit like him and was also created by Tex Avery, he was never explicitly named as Egghead.
If this is the case, it’s a modern error to depict the derby-hatted, proto-Elmer as Egghead, when that was a different character from cartoons of the same period.
In any event, the Egghead and Elmer characters sort of merged in today’s picture to create the Elmer Fudd we all know. He looks like the running-gag proto-Elmer drawn in greater detail, but he is the central star of the cartoon like Egghead.
With Chuck Jones largely taking-over the character from Avery, the new Elmer gets rather a gentle introduction as a would-be amateur nature photographer. Until he gets unprovoked harassment from a certain rabbit, who is only about midway through his own evolution from the little white bunny that messed-up PORKY’S HARE HUNT a couple years earlier into Elmer’s legendary arch-rival: Bugs Bunny.
From early 1940, here’s ELMER’S CANDID CAMERA. More from the OldHorseman.
Democrats will do what it takes to hold every single U.S. Republican President responsible for past transgressions in office. Who will be next? More from Tiberius Maximus.
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Join the Debunkers as they return after a year-long hiatus to explain to Carlos Maza how incorrect he is once again! More from FreedomToons.
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Imagine Anthony Fauci with a fan attached to his head, debating whether masks work or not. Or how about Jen Psaki with her head circling around and around. Joe Biden is sputtering, as usual.
Face it. We’re living Looney Tunes now that the Democrats have run the Jolly Roger up the flagpole. The United Spot drops in on these buccaneers!
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We launch a new series today: Presenting a vintage cartoon every Saturday morning, just like in the good old days, before the dingbats took over the belfry! We open with a 1938 classic: Warner Brothers’ A Feud There Was, revisiting the celebrated hillbilly feuds in the Appalachian Mountains. There are McCoys here, only they aren’t battling the Hatfields, but the Weavers.
Elmer Fudd is trying, valiantly but unsuccessfully, to bring peace to the mountaintops. The great Tex Avery directed. Mel Blanc does many of the vocals, although that’s the Sons of the Pioneers as the uncredited singing group led by none other than Roy Rogers! More from the OldHorseman.
Here is one of the early appearances by Daffy Duck in a Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies cartoon from 1938. Besides Daffy Duck 1.0, we also meet his nemesis — Egghead — who would later evolve into Elmer Fudd. It’s a little bit talky, but there’s lots of great sight gags, plus a scene-stealing turtle who stretches ambidexterity into multiple new dimensions. Tex Avery directs. More from the OldHorseman.
