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August 09, 1937 –The Looney Tunes short, We, the Animals – Squeak!, directed by Bob Clampett, and starring Pork Pig, was released on this date. “Kansas City Kitty” was the name given to a P-51D Mustang during World War II.

August 08, 1953 – The Looney Tunes short, Bully for Bugs, directed by Chuck Jones, and starring Bugs Bunny, was released on this date. The conception of this cartoon came about when Eddie Selzer, the head of Warner Bros. Cartoons at the time, randomly appeared in the writer’s office to announce that there were toContinue reading “Bully for Bugs premiered”

August 08, 1942 – The Merrie Melodies short, The Squawkin’ Hawk, directed by Chuck Jones, and starring Henery Hawk (in his first appearance,) was released on this date. Henery is known as “Junior” in this short. It is not until Walky Talky Hawky that he is given an actual name.

August 08, 1936 – One of the “Censored 11” banned from T.V. syndication by United Artists in 1968, the Merrie Melodies short, Sunday Go to Meetin’ Time, directed by Friz Freleng, was released on this date. The plot of this cartoon is similar to the earlier Goin’ to Heaven on a Mule and the laterContinue reading “Sunday Go to Meetin’ Time premiered”

August 7, 1971 –The Bee Gees early hit How Can You Mend a Broken Heart? topped the charts on this date. It became their first US #1 hit. This was written during the same afternoon as The Bee Gees‘ previous American hit, Lonely Days in Barry Gibb’s basement flat at Addison Road, Holland Park, London.

August 07, 1954 – The Looney Tunes short, Satan’s Waitin’, directed by Friz Freleng, and starring Tweety Bird and Sylvester the Cat, was released on this date. Some TV broadcasts omits the entire ending, in which Sylvester moves into a bank safe and soon loses his ninth and final life..

August 7, 1948 – … Five dollars for the best duck? You mean I came all the way from Dubuque for a measly five bucks?. Chuck Jones guided Daffy Duck’s personality change from a “screwball” character, to a greedy, self-centered one in You Were Never Duckier which premiered on this date.

August 07, 1937 –The Looney Tunes short, Porky’s Railroad, directed by Frank Tashlin, and starring Pork Pig, was released on this date. The Morse code heard in this cartoon translates as QST QSL ‘LEON SCHLESINGER’ HOLLYWOOD FOR PICTURE OF PORKY‘.

Happy National Root Beer Float Day – also known as the “Black Cow,” the root beer float got its start in Cripple Creek, Colorado, in a mining camp. Frank J. Wisner the owner of Cripple Creek Brewing, gets the credit for inventing the Black Cow in August of 1893. Which means, you know, we getContinue reading “All you need is love (and ice cream).”

A quick check of the calendar : It’s the half way point of summer today and there are 141 days until Christmas