Egghead Rides Again
| Egghead Rides Again | |
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| Directed by | Fred Avery |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Starring |
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| 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 |
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 appear in three more cartoons such as, Daffy Duck and Egghead, A-Lad-In Bagdad, and "Count Me Out"both released in 1938, according to David Gerstein (an animation historian) Dave Lee Down Under in his "Evolution of Elmer Fudd and Egghead" history video, and Michael Barrier.[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
- ^ 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.
- ^ Willard, Jim (April 6, 2019). "Elmer Fudd inspired that 'Looney' hat, but what inspired him?". Reporter-Herald. Retrieved June 24, 2019.
- ^ McCutcheon, David (September 23, 2008). "Warner's Fourth Crime". IGN. Retrieved June 24, 2019.
External links
- Egghead Rides Again (1937) at IMDb
- Big Cartoon Database article [1]
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