2008
Aug
BLOGCAA: Articles From A Time When Critics...
Aug 20th
Muttley speaks! An unusually eloquent conversation between...
Aug 17th
ToughPigs.com: Remembering Bernie
Aug 17th
Down With Dagwood!
From pages 82, 83 and 129 of Argosy, “the largest-selling fiction-fact magazine for...
Aug 14th
A picture of Henry Winkler’s London honeymoon from...
Aug 13th
It’s a bit of fun!
— Catchphrases That Somehow...
Aug 13th
Biography of a One-Man Menagerie
A treat from the archives for you today - this is the official biography of Mel Blanc which Warner...
Aug 10th
Let’s go, is it Mand?
— Catchphrases That Somehow...
Aug 8th
The above image was taken from a Grange Hill comic strip...
Aug 7th
Bill Thompson: King Of Wimps
Aug 7th
Not in the way you’re thinking!
— Catchphrases That Somehow...
Aug 7th
"You start by being polite and lying"
It’s hard to remember a time when Robin Williams wasn’t considered a tiresome embarrassment. At...
Aug 6th
Wilco, Mr Brittas!
— Catchphrases That Somehow...
Aug 6th
We Don't Wish To Know That
As you can’t have failed to notice, we’ve been celebrating some failed catchphrases here...
Aug 2nd
Advert from page 48 of Screen International, Saturday the...
Aug 1st
Who The Hell's John Junkin?
From the ‘Bits’ section on page 5 of City Limits, 3rd to 9th of February 1984: One of...
Aug 1st
Jul
My mum will do her raving nana!
— Catchphrases That Somehow...
Jul 30th
Popeye II
You would have thought that after Popeye Hollywood would be trying its utmost to keep Robin Williams...
Jul 29th
Shelley Vision
Previously on this blog we have lamented the career of Shelley Duvall post-Popeye, how she fell into...
Jul 29th
Well ain’t that cute? BUT IT’S WROOOOOONG!!
— Catchphrases That Somehow...
Jul 25th
Not so Dizzy Dame
From Girl About Town, 27/4/1981 Popeye’s Gawky Goil Gone are the days when film stars turned...
Jul 25th
In this context, 'combine' becomes an...
Just to break up the Popeye onslaught a bit, here’s a news item from Starburst no. 26, concerning...
Jul 25th
Very much so.
— Catchphrases That Somehow...
Jul 25th
This one's got legacies!
The feature film Popeye is often regarded as a mass-murderer of a movie, having serially killed the...
Jul 25th
Popeye Animator ID
Jul 25th
Thatcher’s Britain…!
— Catchphrases That Somehow...
Jul 24th
A pretty naturalistic figure
Last Monday (14/7/08) your trusty-yet-slack STTA pals trundled down to the South Bank for the latest...
Jul 24th
Kiss my chuddies, man!
— Catchphrases That Somehow...
Jul 23rd
blogcaa
Jul 23rd
Very nice, very tasteful
— Catchphrases That Somehow...
Jul 21st
The Turkey Has Landed
Talk About The Passion have launched this week’s theme of comics with a poll of the greatest...
Jul 21st
With the news that John Cleese has just recorded...
Jul 21st
Any questions?
— Catchphrases That Somehow...
Jul 17th
What If The Machine That Repairs The...
Interesting thing about the two hit animated films of this Summer: both appear to borrow rather a...
Jul 16th
Oh, nice(!)
— Catchphrases That Somehow...
Jul 16th
Hanna-Barbera is good for your health according to this...
Jul 16th
I was trying to get something matching up to the lyric at...
— Scott Walker on his artistic...
Jul 14th
Genius With No Strings Attached
Most of you will probably have been reading the recent postings of puppet-related articles over on...
Jul 13th
Movillis, Stipenditz, Killotzil
Another unproduced television series based on a comic strip for you today, this time for George...
Jul 10th
By comparison with the stark simplicity of the...
Jul 9th
Chilling teaser ad for When the Wind Blows from the 17th to...
Jul 9th
Strip For Action
Well, the BFI Southbank’s current season of Comic-Book Movies is in full swing, so let’s...
Jul 8th
From page 7 of the RadioTimes, Thursday the 13th of December...
Jul 7th
Unproduced Magazine Of The Day
Here’s one of the biographies from the Contributors page of the first issue of COMEDY...
Jul 6th
Watch
Let’s talk about Manuel and Jose, the Two Crows. This is a 1956 Warner Brothers cartoon...
Jul 6th
Possibly the least appealing advert for anything ever. From...
Jul 4th
In America the press are already hailing it as ‘the...
— Peter Cook on Yellowbeard,...
Jul 4th
Are We Having Fun Yet?
We here at Smarter Than The Average love learning of movies and television productions that were...
Jul 3rd
He’s at it again! After kicking the arm off the...
Jul 2nd
This ridiculous inflatable is currently on display in the...
Jul 1st
Yes, he really did just give a nod to...
The final edition of Footlights at 125: a Retrospective airs tonight at 18:30 on Radio 4. The series...
Jul 1st
Meeting Adjourned
So I’ve just finished reading National Lampoon’s Big Book of True Facts - a compilation...
Jul 1st
Jun
Do you recognise the above screengrab? It’s a frame of...
Jun 28th
Listen
L’Araignée, l’AraignéeEst un être bien singulier.Dans sa toile, il...
Jun 25th
When The Simpsons overtook The Flintstones as the...
Jun 25th
Unillustrated
Despite over fifty years writing and performing comedy, there is one routine above all others that...
Jun 24th
George Carlin: 1937 - 2008
From The Hollywood Reporter Comedy Special issue, 25th February 1997: 40 Years Of Comedy George...
Jun 23rd
He Is Dressed In A Tuxedo And Cowboy...
Recent posts on this blog have dealt with the subjects of Groucho Marx, the late Cyd Charisse and...
Jun 20th
"It Must Be Some Symbolism - I Think...
Come the 21st Century and, having previously provided a couple of voices uncredited for the 1998...
Jun 19th
Watch
Cyd Charisse: 1922 - 2008
Jun 18th
I think Rory McGrath might've wrote that...
The first episode of BBC RADIO 4’s Footlights At 125 – A Retrospective airs on Tuesday 17 June, at...
Jun 17th
Listen
Today, today is what the Americans pretend is Father’s Day. So we’re giving you a song....
Jun 15th
Paul Whitehouse & Simon Day at Regents Park 2006: See...
Jun 13th
It’s The Fireworks Talking: Daniel Kitson’s...
Jun 13th
Weltanschauung: Daniel Kitson’s first Regents Park...
Jun 13th
The Arts and How They Was Done: John Ramm (right) gets a dig...
Jun 13th
Galumphing Back... is back.
For some wild and crazy reason, Tumblr removed our post from 9th May, 2008. Possibly because it was...
Jun 11th
Galumphing Back: Footnotes Ahoy!
[1] One famous episode of the Dante-overseen Eerie Indiana (“Reality Takes A Holiday”, U.S. TX:...
Jun 11th
"I hear Lester Freamon's up on a wire."
Jun 11th
Leonardo Dan Van Dinci!
Jun 11th
Riddle Me This
Was the only person to attend both the premieres for Batman Returns and Batman Forever Faye Dunaway?...
Jun 8th
Neil's Last Stand
From page 32 of City Limits, 21st December 1985 to 3rd January 1986: Neil’s last stand ●...
Jun 7th
Spotted this lunchtime outside the Vue Leicester Square -...
Jun 6th
Beetle Juice, Beetle Juice, Beetle...
Rejoice, good readers, because in three months time, after over a decade of being available in a...
Jun 6th
Cannes 2008: La Panoplie Coutre des...
From Libération Extra #9, a supplement which came with issue 8401 of Libération, 10th May 2008, here...
Jun 5th
Cannes 2008: Giggles in Catherine...
One of the perks of being at the Cannes Film Festival and Market are the free periodicals that can...
Jun 4th
Cannes 2008: One Froggy Evening - Looney...
“They’re the crown princes of animation. They’re the international Ambassadors of...
Jun 2nd
May
Harvey Korman: 1927 - 2008
Last Wednesday I was sitting in a deckchair on the Macé Beach in Cannes gazing up at Mel...
May 30th
Cannes 2008: The Animated Century - The...
Last month on this blog we were complaining that there wasn’t a recent documentary about...
May 29th
That terrifying poster for We Are The Champions!?, Cannes...
May 29th
Cannes 2008: Light of Olympia - The...
As I’m sure everyone reading this knows, for two weeks in May of every year Cannes is home to...
May 29th
Cannes 2008: Part Deux
Bonjour again folks. Zon here, at home again having just returned from an exciting and exhausting...
May 25th
“You’ll be using cripples and blind...
As promised almost, ooh, two weeks ago now, here’s the second article STTA managed to dig up in...
May 19th
But Will They Show Pepé Le Pew?
Bonjour folks. Should you happen to find yourself at the Cannes Film Festival this evening but, like...
May 18th
Ren and Stimpy and Pinky and the Brain are back in fashion...
May 12th
Dear Victoria
As part of our ever-expanding archive of materials on that insane Wood and Walters sketch with the...
May 11th
Get Lost!
A letter printed in the Daily Star, Friday 19th March 1982: I WAS disgusted and amazed at the bad...
May 11th
Lily. Illy. Yill. Toby. Boty. Otby.
May 10th
Galumphing Back
Please see our post here.
May 9th
The Woman with 740 Children
Thought you’d read all there was to read about the Woman with 740 Children sketch from...
May 7th
Charlie bloody Catchpole - being crap...
From The Sun, 16th January 1982. Note the reference to Alan Bennett’s Play For Today,...
May 7th
Dish Night
From page 5 of the January 1979 issue of Take One, here’s their regular gossip column....
May 6th
JULIE WALTERS and VICTORIA WOOD as they appeared in...
May 6th
"Miss Wood Needs The Discipline Of A...
From the middle of Hazel Holt’s Reviews column, page 26 of Television Today, 8th January...
May 6th
Apr
Advert for Twyman Films, from page 11 of the October 1976...
Apr 30th
I have a tattoo on my most private part of Mickey and Minnie...
— Janet Jackson
Apr 29th
Shows We Wish Were Still On Television
From page 23 of the Times Educational Supplement, Friday 19th August 1988: CARTOON CLASSICS...
Apr 29th
Baby Aches
From page 31 of the TV Times, 16th to 22nd January 1982: Victoria’s wail of an ideaSaid Victoria...
Apr 24th
It Takes Two To Skidoo...
It’s just been announced that Skidoo will be screening as one of the Curzon Soho’s...
Apr 22nd
Alvin and the Chipmunks making an in-store appearance at...
Apr 15th
A Fake Giant Among Real Pygmies
Friz On Film, the documentary created especially for volume four of The Looney Tunes Golden...
Apr 13th
Dartman's World Of Wonder
Apr 10th
Everyone knows about Fellini, but it’s less well-known...
Apr 10th
From the sublime to the ridiculous: in addition to the...
Apr 6th
"Those Pundits Who Insisted That The...
One of the pleasant things about researching a blog like this is the amount of other fascinating...
Apr 5th
Mar
You Dirty Rat
Page 3 of the Times, Thursday 25th August 1983: Big time beckons Roland Rat By David...
Mar 29th
As a follow-up to yesterday’s piece about the missing...
Mar 28th
Whither Wally Weazle?
Here’s a revelation for you - the rediscovery of a long-lost Muppet. From the Sun, Saturday...
Mar 27th
"Oh, Mr Lowe! I'm Such A Fan!"
Presented at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, on Wednesday the 29th of March 1989, The 61st...
Mar 18th
Advert announcing production on what would eventually be...
Mar 14th
Press ad for the first season of The Simpsons from page 61...
Mar 13th
Just received this image in an email from Panda Security....
Mar 12th
It Pays To Be In Talkies
At www.the-numbers.com, there is a list of the ‘All Time Top 100 Stars at the Box...
Mar 4th
"I've Got It! We Can Retitle The...
In issue 258 of British satirical magazine Private Eye, dated Friday 5th November 1971, there are...
Mar 2nd
Feb
Move Over, Mickey!
From the Daily Mail, Saturday 30th January 1982: MOVE OVER, MICKEY! MICKEY MOUSE and Donald Duck...
Feb 26th
Piece about ordering promotional buttons from the US...
Feb 22nd
Humour: My Sixth Sense by Walt Disney
From Films and Filming Vol. 7 No. 5, February 1961: Humour: My Sixth SenseBy WALT DISNEY Few people...
Feb 21st
Page 9 of The Hollywood Reporter, Friday 10th April 1987.
Feb 16th
Good Grief, Look Who's In Movies
From page 10 of Premiere magazine (no, not that Premiere magazine - a short-lived British...
Feb 16th
Trade ad for Universal Studio’s Musical Miniatures...
Feb 15th
Steve Gerber
Steve Gerber has passed away. Through illness, he continued with his blog, which you can read at...
Feb 13th
The Guinness Commercials of Pete and...
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore made a series of advertisements for Guinness’s new...
Feb 12th
Trade ad to announce the upcoming press promotion of the...
Feb 11th
From page 15 of Channels magazine, November 1987. The...
Feb 10th
Daffy Dittys: The Lady Said No, Choo...
From the Motion Picture Herald, 11th May 1946: THE LADY SAID NO (UA)Daffy Ditties The young hero of...
Feb 9th
This was in the 7th February 2008 issue of London Lite. Have...
Feb 8th
Northwest Hounded Police trade ad, August 1946.
Feb 8th
Daffy Dittys: The Cross Eyed Bull and...
From the Motion Picture Herald, 4th November 1944: THE CROSS-EYED BULL (UA)Daffy Dittys Larry Morey...
Feb 8th
Daffy Dittys: New-Type Cartoons From...
From page 18 of Today’s Cinema, 7th March 1945: New-Type Cartoons From United FIRST of a new...
Feb 6th
Starting off our collation of press clippings on the Daffy...
Feb 6th
This picture originally appeared on page 47 of the...
Feb 6th
A Salute to the Marilyn Munsters
Ask anybody who the most interesting character in The Munsters was and you’d be unlikely to...
Feb 6th
A Night of A Night in Casablanca
Two articles from the Manager’s Round Table section of the Motion Picture Herald, 10th August...
Feb 5th
Press advertisment to promote the Interstate chain of...
Feb 5th
Daffy Dittys
John Sutherland and Larry Morey, who had been highly successful writers and producers at Disney,...
Feb 5th
Wallace Wood's Official Shit List
Wallace Wood, unarguably one of the world’s greatest ever comic book artists, used to have two...
Feb 4th
Animex International Festival of Animation &...
Feb 4th
We've Been Waiting Since February 1973...
Hagar the Horrible was first published twenty-five years ago today according to the Arf Lovers blog,...
Feb 4th
Mickey Mouse competition poster, spotted in Tesco’s...
Feb 3rd
In & Out of the Inkwell