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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.
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.


==Availability==
==Home media==
*VHS — ''Looney Tunes: The Collector's Edition - Vol. 8: Tex-Book Looney''
*VHS — ''Looney Tunes: The Collector's Edition - Vol. 8: Tex-Book Looney''
*LaserDisc – ''The Golden Age of Looney Tunes - Vol. 3''
*LaserDisc – ''The Golden Age of Looney Tunes - Vol. 3''
*DVD — ''[[Kid Galahad (1937 film)|Kid Galahad]]'' (dubbed version)<ref name= "crime">{{cite news |last=McCutcheon |first=David |url= https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/05/29/warners-fourth-crime |title=Warner's Fourth Crime |work=[[IGN]] |date=September 23, 2008 |accessdate=June 24, 2019}}</ref>
*DVD — ''[[Kid Galahad (1937 film)|Kid Galahad]]'' (dubbed version)<ref name= "crime">{{cite news |last=McCutcheon |first=David |url= https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/05/29/warners-fourth-crime |title=Warner's Fourth Crime |work=[[IGN]] |date=September 23, 2008 |accessdate=June 24, 2019}}</ref>
*Streaming – [[HBO Max]] (restored but taken down)


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 15:15, 19 January 2021

Egghead Rides Again
Directed byFred Avery
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
Starring
Edited byTreg Brown (uncredited)
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation byPaul Smith
Irvin Spence
Virgil Ross (uncredited)
Sid Sutherland (uncredited)[1]
A.C. Gamer (uncredited)
Layouts byGriff Jay (uncredited)
Backgrounds byArt Loomer (uncredited)
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release date
  • July 17, 1937 (1937-07-17)
Running time
7 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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 evolved into Elmer Fudd.[4]

Plot

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

  • 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]

References

  1. ^ a b Hartley, Steven (24 June 2012). "Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie: 170. Egghead Rides Again (1937)". Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 77–79. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  4. ^ Willard, Jim (April 6, 2019). "Elmer Fudd inspired that 'Looney' hat, but what inspired him?". Reporter-Herald. Retrieved June 24, 2019.
  5. ^ McCutcheon, David (September 23, 2008). "Warner's Fourth Crime". IGN. Retrieved June 24, 2019.