Egghead Rides Again

Egghead Rides Again
Directed by	Tex Avery
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger
Starring	Tex Avery; Mel Blanc; Billy Bletcher; Danny Webb[1];
Music by	Carl W. Stalling
Edited by	Treg Brown
Animation by	Paul Smith; Irvin Spence; Virgil Ross (uncredited)[2]
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	July 17, 1937;
Running time	7 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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]

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.

External links

Egghead Rides Again (1937) on IMDb
Big Cartoon Database article

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[1] Hartley, Steven (24 June 2012). "Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie: 170. Egghead Rides Again (1937)". Likely Looney, Mostly Merrie. Retrieved 14 June 2020.

[2] "Egghead Rides Again (1937) - IMDb". IMDb. Retrieved 11 June 2020.

[Sigall-3] 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.

[4] Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 77–79. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

[inspired-5] Willard, Jim (April 6, 2019). "Elmer Fudd inspired that 'Looney' hat, but what inspired him?". Reporter-Herald. Retrieved June 24, 2019.

[crime-6] McCutcheon, David (September 23, 2008). "Warner's Fourth Crime". IGN. Retrieved June 24, 2019.