Egghead Rides Again is a 1937 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery.[2] It was first released to theaters on July 17, 1937.[3] The cartoon marks the first appearance of Egghead, a character who eventually appear in three more cartoons, "Daffy Duck and Egghead" (produced in 1937 and released in 1938), "A-Lad-In Bagdad" (1938) and "Count Me Out" (1938), both cartoons released in 1938, according to David Gerstein (an animation historian) and Michael Barrier.[4]
| Egghead Rides Again | |
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| Directed by | Fred Avery |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Tex Avery Billy Bletcher Danny Webb Sons of the Pioneers Roy Rogers[1] |
| Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
| Animation by | Paul Smith, Irvin Spence |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 7 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Plot edit
Energetic Egghead is bouncing around, pretending to be a cowboy, until his noise-making gets him kicked out of the boarding house in which he is living by a clerk with a penchant for the minced oath "dad-burnit." While on the street he sees a discarded newspaper advertisement from a ranch in Wyoming, requesting a "cow-puncher." He applies, and, while there, goes through various training exercises, but fails them all. Egghead, having seen his apparent uselessness, begins to leave, but the lead cowboy decides to give him a job: cleaning up after the cows and horses.
Home media edit
- VHS — Looney Tunes: The Collector's Edition - Vol. 8: Tex-Book Looney
- LaserDisc – The Golden Age of Looney Tunes - Vol. 3
- DVD — Kid Galahad (dubbed version)[5]
- Blu-Ray - Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Volume 3
References edit
- ^ Scott, Keith (3 October 2022). Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2. BearManor Media.
- ^ Sigall, Martha (2005). Living Life Inside the Lines: Tales from the Golden Age of Animation. University Press of Mississippi p. 35. ISBN 978-1-5780-6749-7.
- ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 77–79. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ "Archived copy". www.michaelbarrier.com. Archived from the original on 1 September 2009. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ McCutcheon, David (September 23, 2008). "Warner's Fourth Crime". IGN. Retrieved June 24, 2019.
External links edit
- Egghead Rides Again (1937) at IMDb
- Big Cartoon Database article [1]
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