Egghead Rides Again
Egghead Rides Again is a 1937 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery.[3] It was first released to theaters on July 17, 1937.[4] The cartoon marks the first appearance of Egghead, a character who eventually evolved into Elmer Fudd.[5]
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Directed by | Tex Avery |
Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
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Music by | Carl W. Stalling |
Edited by | Treg Brown |
Animation by | Paul Smith Irvin Spence Virgil Ross (uncredited)[2] |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 7 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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.
Availability
- 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[6]
References
- Hartley, Steven (24 June 2012). "Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie: 170. Egghead Rides Again (1937)". Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie. Retrieved 14 June 2020.
- "Egghead Rides Again (1937) - IMDb". IMDb. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
- 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.