The Return of Wile E. Coyote, Genius August 19th, 2010 @ 5:03 am PST
Oh, man! I don’t know how I am just now getting news that Warner Brothers is releasing new Looney Tunes cartoons. I freaking love Wile E. Coyote. I remember screaming at the television, “NO! NO! NO! That’s NOT GOING TO WORK!” I remember holding my head in my hands when that son of a bitch […]
#FridayFive: Simpsons Characters June 18th, 2010 @ 8:24 am PST
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#FridayFive: Villains April 9th, 2010 @ 7:43 am PST
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Snow Sharks January 9th, 2010 @ 6:00 am PST
Calvin and Hobbes wasn’t in the Sunday funnies when I was young enough to be reading the Sunday funnies, so I sort of missed that whole boat. Every now and then I’d see a strip, though, and I always thought it was a great comic. (The “snow sharks” one was my favorite.) Someone gave me […]
Happy Birthday, Moose and Squirrel! November 19th, 2009 @ 2:35 pm PST
Fifty years ago [today], a squirrel wearing an old-school aviator’s hat and goggles came flying across the screen followed by a goofy moose, launching arguably the greatest cartoon in television history. Moose and Squirrel are now old enough for AARP memberships. Yet their warped and wonderful brand of humor, written and performed so that kids […]
Why the Original “Star Trek” Still Matters May 13th, 2009 @ 7:14 am PST
Listen: I was never a huge Trek fan. I was always Star Wars all the way. After school my sister and I watched cartoons — Tom & Jerry, Bugs Bunny, Superfriends — and then, because we were usually with my grandparents, the standard early 80s grandparent shows: Happy Days, Barney Miller, Alice, and M*A*S*H. It […]
#FridayFive: Favorite Cartoon Characters May 8th, 2009 @ 9:15 am PST
Read the Friday Five …Tim October 28th, 2008 @ 9:38 am PST
If you’re not watching HBO’s The Life & Times of Tim, you are missing the funniest show on TV right now. It’s a combination of Family Guy and Seinfeld, with a bit of The Office added to make it uncomfortable. And like The Royal Tenenbaums you need to pay attention to all the details that […]
Bugs Bunny, Greatest Baseball Player Ever May 14th, 2008 @ 5:48 am PST
We are then introduced to the shabby state of both the grounds keeping and of stadium security at the Polo Grounds, as we see an angry rabbit (Bugs Bunny, RHP/UT) is able to heckle the visiting team from left field, where he has dug a fairly substantial hole, and is enjoying a carrot-dog and (it […]
All the Baseball Games Are Lost March 3rd, 2008 @ 1:32 pm PST
“All the loves in the strip are unrequited; all the baseball games are lost; all the test scores are D-minuses; the Great Pumpkin never comes; and the football is always pulled away.” — Charles Schultz on Peanuts from Caterina
