Cartoon X-Ray

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.

This week's pick is Tex Avery's final theatrical cartoon short SH-H-H-H-H-H! from 1955. A mild-mannered man whose nerves are shot from incessant noise is sent to an exclusive, silent retreat with hilarious results.

This week's pick is the 1952 Robert McKimson Looney Tune the Super Snooper. Daffy Duck stars as Detective Duck Drake trying to solve a case whilst getting shot in the face and a piano dropped on him.

This week's pick is the 1950 cartoon Gerald McBoing Boing, based on the story by Dr. Suess. Young Gerald McLoy can't say any words. He can only communicate by making unusual sound effects. Nya! Nya!

This week's pick is the spooky 1948 Chuck Jones toon Scaredy Cat. Porky and Sylvester spend the night in an old dark house where a cult of killer mice try to eliminate them both. Sylvester tries warning Porky, but he is convinced that Sylvester is a coward.

This week's pick is the 1942 Chuck Jones cartoon the Dover Boys at Pimento University. Three fun-loving, morally upright brothers from Pimento University save their fiancée from their fiendish archenemy, the green-skinned Dan Backslide.

This week's pick is the 1939 Color Classic the Fresh Vegetable Mystery. Potato cops dish out police brutality against other living food in an effort to find out who kidnapped a family of carrots.

This week's pick is the 1950 Tex Avery toon the Chump Champ. Gorgeous Gorillawitz tries to cheat his way to victory in a series of sporting events against Droopy with disastrous results.

This week's pick is the 1950 Tom & Jerry short Saturday Evening Puss. Tom has his buddies over for a tongue-wagging, raucous good time, much to the chagrin of Jerry, who is trying to sleep.

This week's pick is the 1934 Ub Iwerks toon Hell's Fire. Willie Whopper and his dog visit Hell, where they meet Satan, Cerberus, and some of the infamous members of the damned.

This week's pick is the 1933 Fleischer Studios cartoon Snow White. Betty Boop is scorned and attacked by an evil queen for being the fairest in the land. Featuring an awesome dancing ghost scene!

This week's pick is the 1966 Pink Panther cartoon the Pink Blueprint. Pink changes the designs for a house to his own pinkprints and fights with the builder to make sure they are built.

This week's pick is the 1950 Tom & Jerry short Texas Tom. According to IMDB, Toots arrives at the ranch where Tom is tormenting Jerry, and Tom puts on all his best moves, though Jerry does his best to sabotage Tom..

This week's pick is the 1960 Chuck Jones classic High Note. A baton-toting conductor note tries to direct his fellow notes in performing the Blue Danube, but a drunken note disrupts the proceedings.

This week's pick is the 1935 Ub Iwerk's directed Balloon Land from the ComiColor Cartoon series. The Pincushion Man terrorizes and murders balloon people!

This week's pick is the 1948 Friz Freling Looney Tune Buccaneer Bunny. Antics occur after bugs Bunny messes with Yosemite Sam's buried treasure. We also learn about the Spanish Main and what keelhauling is.

This week's pick is the 1949 Tex Avery short the House of Tomorrow which satirizes the newest innovations in household technology with a flair for violence against mother-in-laws.

This week's pick is the odd 1940 Colombia/Screen Gems toon the Mad Hatter. What starts as a day in the life of a woman turns into crazy people in cages making hats!