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Egghead Rides Again

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Egghead Rides Again
Directed byFred Avery| Carl Iking
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
Starring
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation byPaul Smith, Irvin Spence
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.[1] It was first released to theaters on July 17, 1937.[2] The cartoon marks the first appearance of Egghead, a character who eventually evolved into Elmer Fudd.[3]

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)[4]
  • Streaming - HBO Max (restored)

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 77–79. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  3. ^ Willard, Jim (April 6, 2019). "Elmer Fudd inspired that 'Looney' hat, but what inspired him?". Reporter-Herald. Retrieved June 24, 2019.
  4. ^ McCutcheon, David (September 23, 2008). "Warner's Fourth Crime". IGN. Retrieved June 24, 2019.