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I can help you with the second one. It was called The Big Snooze and directed by Bob Clampett. Elmer starts by chasing through a hollow log, but Bugs turns the log so Elmer comes out the other side and almost falls off a cliff. After doing this three times, Elmer announces he's fed up and tears...

Do you know why blondes don't like M&M's? They hate peeling off the shells. Another blonde buys a bag of M&M's, and an hour later returns them to the store. "These are defective! They all say "W"!"

You wanna drive Chuck Norris crazy? Tell him to go to his round house and sit in the corner!

There's a book I'm working on now I've actually started ten years ago. I started with a middle sequence that was dynamite, but it took a long time to write the beginning and end and fill in all the gaps. And each page is illustrated and one drawing in particular was near impossible to nail...

One day a lunatic escaped from the asylum, ran to a house of ill repute, and went to bed with a prostitute. The next day the newspaper headline read: NUT BOLTS AND SCREWS!!!!

Growing up, I loved anything by Roald Dahl. As good as some of the movies based on his stories were, the books are still better: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie and Great Glass Elevator James and the Giant Peach Fantastic Mr. Fox The Magic Finger And anything by Lillian and Russell...

Yes, Bakshi's Mighty Mouse was tremendous. It gives a nod to Paul Terry's classics while giving a modern twist. (Have you seen the notorious "flower sniffing" scene?) Around the same time he also did the animation for the Rolling Stones' "Harlem Shuffle" which gave a young John K. his big break...

I was 18 and in college when American Tail came out, and that movie made me CRY! My heart really bled for Fievel. And at the end seeing him reunited with his family was beautiful. (I'm getting misty-eyed here.) It's ironic that Bluth left Disney over creative and artistic differences, but over...

Well, trouble continues in the Middle East, and we end up paying for it at the pump. But let me take you in the Wayback Machine to when things were really tough... In 1979 (I was only eleven, but depended on my parents to do the driving) gas was the outrageous price of $1.25 a gallon (Say it...

A few others that were fun to watch, even if they didn't teach much: Carmen/singing orange- used to scare the crap out of me, but you could possiby file under "Music Appreciation" There was a Hubley cartoon posted on youtube a few years back called "Jungle Abstracts" that showed a black cat...

Mr. Hooper's death/Sad flower- it's amazing how something so sad can be so beautiful too. I believe in little things, like you and me And just how big little things can be

Duckman was great for keeping the spirit of Frank Zappa alive (and throwing in a few snippets of his best songs)- and son Dweezil as the voice of Ajax!

I'll say this much (and only this much) in favor of Wait Til Your Father Gets Home. Yes, the production values are flimsy, the topical humor has not aged well, and it is painful to watch now. But I was four years old when it premiered in 1972, and it was originally shown in prime-time. There...

You know what D'Snowth, I'm a huge fan of Chuck Jones too. I think it's interesting the paths he and Freleng took when Warner Bros. shut down Termite Terrace in 1963. Friz and his crew joined up with David DePatie and scored an Oscar with the Pink Panther's very first short (The Pink Phink...

Speaking of the 1970's cesspool Hanna-Barbera had become... I think it's tragically ironic that during Tom and Jerry's heyday as theatrical cartoons they managed to pick up 7 Oscars for "Best Animated Short". Then during the sixties Gene Deitch and Chuck Jones get a chance to direct them, each...

The Oddball Couple, anyone?

I agree with that. Sometimes the canned laughter only serves to show how weak the gags are. As someone much wiser than me once said, "You can't polish poop!"

Along with the Ant and the Aardvark, DePatie and Freleng produced another series called the Tijuana Toads. Toro and Pancho usually got to outwit the dim-witted Crazy Legs Crane, but sometimes got foiled by their own stupidity. Like the Ant and the Aardvark, they were originally released in...

I'm so sorry to hear of your loss, and I offer my deepest condolences. It's never easy coping with a loved-one's death, but I'm glad you're reaching out for support. The worst thing to do is keep your feelings bottled up inside. I'll definitely keep you in my prayers, and offer you and your...

I like both, but it depends where you go. Up here, the best General Tso's I found at a little take-out joint called Mandarin Village. And for fried chicken, there's actually a chain called Cluck-U Chicken that has a honey-dipped recipe that puts the Colonel to shame.