Cartoon X-Ray

This week's pick is the 1948 British toon Old Manor House . Bubble and Squeak take refuge in a dilapidated manor on a dark and stormy night. Colonel Rat, the sole occupant of the manor, takes exception and tries to get them to leave with numerous attacks, inadvertently making them believe the place is haunted.

This week's pick is the 1935 Happy Harmonies toon the Calico Dragon . A little's girls dolls travel through a world made of fabric and undergarments to battle a three-headed dragon.

This week's pick is the darkly humorous 1966 Hungarian cartoon Five Minutes of Murder aka Five Minutes Thrill . It is literally five minutes of people murdering other people sandwiched between and intro and outro and it is great.

This week's pick is the 1949 Columbia Favorite the Magic Fluke . The Fox and the Crow have a successful swing band gig until the Fox gets an offer to lead a symphony orchestra and turns his back on his old friend.

This week's pick is the 1933 Terrytoon Fanny's Wedding Day . Oil Can Harry tries to ruin Fanny's Zilch's wedding day with dastardly tactics.

This week's pick is the 1944 Phantasies toon from Screen Gems called the Case of the Screaming Bishop . Hairlock Combs and his assistant Dr. Gotsum try to solve the mystery of who stole dinosaur bones from the Museum on Unnatural History.

This week's pick is the 1935 Ub Iwerks toon Humpty Dumpty . Humpty Jr. and Easter Egg's date is interrupted by the Bad Egg. Egg on egg violence commences.

This week's pick is the 1954 Disney short Casey Bats Again . Hoping for a son to redeem his name after striking out in the big game, Casey instead fathers a team of daughters that all happen to be fantastic baseball players.

This week's pick is the 1954 Tex Avery toon Billy Boy . Southern Wolf is left to care after a baby billy goat that eats everything-thing-thing-thing...

This week's pick is the 1955 Tom & Jerry cartoon Pecos Pest. Jerry's Uncle Pecos visits in preparation for his tv debut to perform C-c-c-c-c-crambone, plucking a terrified Tom's whiskers every time he breaks a guitar string.

This week's pick is an all-time Chuck Jones classic Looney Tune from 1950 entitled Rabbit of Seville . Elmer Fudd accidentally hunts Bugs Bunny onto a production of the the Barber of Seville. What ensues is some of Jones' best gags and antics with a head massage, Bugs in drag, and a wedding! Bill and Scott also run through some stats about this podcast from the first 50 episodes. Nnnnnext!

This week's pick is the 1953 Terry Toon How to Relax . Dimwit the Dog tries different hobbies to help calm his terrible nerves with often disastrous results, including murder!

This week's pick is the 1930 stop-motion animated nightmare Hearts and Flowers . Two young men vie for the attention and heart of a young lady. Good luck sleeping after this one.

This week's pick is the 1951 Colombia film noir toon Rooty Toot Toot . It is the musical tale of a murder trial by a jealous lover featuring the voice of Thurl Ravenscroft aka Tony the Tiger.

This week's pick is the 1941 Color Rhapsodies toon the Fox and the Grapes . Crow gets Fox to trade him his picnic lunch for some grapes high on a vine. After many difficulties, the fox manages to get to them but discovers they are sour.

This week's pick is the 1961 Paramount Modern Madcapper the Phantom Moustacher . Sir Percival Prunepit has an uncontrollable urge to draw moustaches on everyone and everything and nothing will stand in his way!

This week's pick is the fun and clever 1933 short Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party. As the title says, Betty Boop is throwing a Halloween party and big bully tries to ruin it only to have the party decor come to life to scare him off.

This week's pick is the 1930 Ub Iwerks cartoon the Cuckoo Murder Case . A cuckoo clock bird has been murdered and Flip the Frog is on the case to solve the mystery at a spooky house!

This week's pick is the somewhat unsettling 1936 Fleischer Brothers Color Classic the Cobweb Hotel . A spider tricks flies into staying at his "hotel" only to be trap in webbing until its time to be eaten. Can the flies break free and fight back?

This week's pick is the 1939 Fred (not Tex) Avery directed Merrie Melodies cartoon A Day at the Zoo . Featuring an early version of bad boy Elmer Fudd, this cartoon short features a rapid-fire series of puns, gags, plays on words, and topical references, as a narrator describes the action in succession of anthropomorphic behavior.

This week's pick is the 1948 Woody Woodpecker cartoon Wet Blanket Policy which, unbeknownst to Bill, enraged Scott and Mike. It didn't matter that it was the first toon short to use the famous Woody Woodpecker song or that it was the debut of Buzz Buzzard.

This week's pick is the 1954 Robert McKimson Looney Tune Devil May Hare . Bugs Bunny finds a debuting Tasmanian Devil in his encyclopedia just as the animal threatens to devour him. Antics ensue.

This week's pick is the beautifully rendered 1938 David Fleischer Color Classic Hold It . A neighborhood of house cats unhappily put outside in the cold for the night burst into song and dance, tormenting a dog in the process.

This week's pick is the 1950 Robert McKimson Looney Tune Hillbilly Hare . While vacationing in the Ozark Mountains, Bugs Bunny encounters Curt and Pumpkinhead Martin, two dimwitted hillbillies who are duped by Bugs into a violent square dance.

This week's pick is the bizarre 1931 Les Elton cartoon Monkeydoodle . A poor man's Pluto wears ill-fitting pants and while confusing things happen for about eight minutes.