Egghead Rides Again

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Egghead Rides Again
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
  • 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 would 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]

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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.

2020 Restoration

In 2020 this short was restored. This restoration featured fake fade effects on the opening. The beginning scene of Egghead has been replaced with looped animation. The original end title was restored. This restoration was available on HBO Max, sometimes airs on MeTV, and is on the Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 3.

Home media

References

  1. ↑ Scott, Keith (October 3, 2022). Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2. BearManor Media.
  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 June 6, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". www.michaelbarrier.com. Archived from the original on September 1, 2009. Retrieved June 30, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ↑ McCutcheon, David (September 23, 2008). "Warner's Fourth Crime". IGN . Retrieved June 24, 2019.


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