Cartoons you need to watch

The list in release order, from the earliest shorts onward. Showing 421–440 of 698.

May 1950

Tarts and Flowers

26 May 1950 00:07:00

Little Audrey is baking a cake, and in the manner of her cartoons she falls asleep and dreams herself into the world of the ingredients: Cakeland, a kingdom of pastry where the Gingerbread Man is her guide and Angel Cake its sweet-natured princess.

An Egg Scramble

27 May 1950

An Egg Scramble builds comedy around a strong Warner personality: Bugs' control, Daffy's instability, Porky's patience, Tweety's innocence, Sylvester's appetite, or Foghorn Leghorn's bluster. The plot is usually a trap designed to expose that personality.

Jul 1950

8 Ball Bunny

08 Jul 1950 00:07:00

8 Ball Bunny builds comedy around a strong Warner personality: Bugs' control, Daffy's instability, Porky's patience, Tweety's innocence, Sylvester's appetite, or Foghorn Leghorn's bluster. The plot is usually a trap designed to expose that personality.

Aug 1950

Sep 1950

A Fractured Leghorn

16 Sep 1950

A Fractured Leghorn builds comedy around a strong Warner personality: Bugs' control, Daffy's instability, Porky's patience, Tweety's innocence, Sylvester's appetite, or Foghorn Leghorn's bluster. The plot is usually a trap designed to expose that personality.

Camp Dog

22 Sep 1950 00:07:00

Camp Dog belongs to the crowded postwar theatrical-short market, where studios needed steady releases built from chases, songs, fairy-tale spoofs, animal rivals, or topical settings.

Bunker Hill Bunny

23 Sep 1950 00:07:00

Bunker Hill Bunny builds comedy around a strong Warner personality: Bugs' control, Daffy's instability, Porky's patience, Tweety's innocence, Sylvester's appetite, or Foghorn Leghorn's bluster. The plot is usually a trap designed to expose that personality.

Rabbit of Seville

30 Sep 1950

Rabbit of Seville turns pursuit into performance. Bugs and Elmer do not simply run through a theatre; they reorganize Rossini's music into a complete slapstick structure where every trim, shave, and blow lands on rhythm.

Oct 1950

Bee at the Beach

13 Oct 1950 00:06:00

Bee at the Beach is a compact theatrical cartoon built around a clear comic or musical premise. Its structure reflects the demands of short-subject exhibition: start quickly, escalate cleanly, and leave a memorable final gag or image.

Nov 1950

Gerald McBoing-Boing

04 Nov 1950

Gerald is a little boy who cannot speak in ordinary words. Instead, he communicates entirely through sound effects: whistles, boings, crashes, squeaks, and mechanical blasts.

Apr 1951

Hold the Lion Please

13 Apr 1951

Hold the Lion Please builds comedy around a strong Warner personality: Bugs' control, Daffy's instability, Porky's patience, Tweety's innocence, Sylvester's appetite, or Foghorn Leghorn's bluster. The plot is usually a trap designed to expose that personality.

Jun 1951

Symphony in Slang

16 Jun 1951

Symphony in Slang begins with a simple premise and then lets Tex Avery-style logic push it past ordinary sense. Scale changes, literalized language, impossible timing, or musical sabotage become the real story engine.

Jul 1951

Alice in Wonderland

28 Jul 1951 01:15:00

Bored by her sister's history lesson in an English park, Alice daydreams of a world of nonsense, then sees a White Rabbit in a waistcoat hurrying by, complaining that he is late. She follows him down a rabbit hole and falls into Wonderland.

Sep 1951

Tweety's S.O.S.

22 Sep 1951 00:07:30

Sylvester, rummaging hungrily through dustbins, wanders down to the docks and spots Tweety in his cage through the porthole of a cruise ship. He opens the porthole, Tweety slams it, and Sylvester drops into the water.

Oct 1951

Cat-Choo

12 Oct 1951 00:07:00

Katnip the cat is laid up with a streaming cold, wrapped in a bathrobe and sneezing on the floor, dosing himself from medicine bottles. He consults a book of "Hot tips for colds", which recommends: "Starve a fever and feed a cold.

Nov 1951

Cat Tamale

09 Nov 1951 00:07:00

Detailed plot accounts of this Herman and Katnip short are scarce, and this summary follows the surviving film. The film has a Mexican theme: one mouse, in a sombrero and carrying a guitar and a suitcase marked "Mexico", flies in on the back of a big red-and-white bird.

Rooty Toot Toot

10 Nov 1951 00:07:00

The film retells the old murder ballad "Frankie and Johnny" as a courtroom musical. Frankie is on trial for shooting her lover Johnny, the piano player. The prosecutor sings his case: she shot him "rooty toot toot, right in the snoot".

Dec 1951

Big Top Bunny

01 Dec 1951 00:07:00

Big Top Bunny builds comedy around a strong Warner personality: Bugs' control, Daffy's instability, Porky's patience, Tweety's innocence, Sylvester's appetite, or Foghorn Leghorn's bluster. The plot is usually a trap designed to expose that personality.

Tweet Tweet Tweety

15 Dec 1951

Tweet Tweet Tweety builds comedy around a strong Warner personality: Bugs' control, Daffy's instability, Porky's patience, Tweety's innocence, Sylvester's appetite, or Foghorn Leghorn's bluster. The plot is usually a trap designed to expose that personality.