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A new podcast about classic cartoon shorts! Hosted by J.D. Hansel. sticktoshorts.com
Elmer Fudd preparing to take a photo of proto-Bugs.
We are now on Instagram at sticktoshorts!
28.07.2025 16:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you enjoyed hearing from @jd11pc.bsky.social on out Marty Feldman episode (and we’re sure you did), don’t forget to check out his podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social, which just wrapped its first season.
04.07.2025 15:08 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0The version on the website is all good now. No telling when the podcatchers will catch up.
30.06.2025 16:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have been made aware of the mysterious audio disappearance and am working to fix it now.
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Daffy Duck asks producer Leon Schlesinger for a contract.
The season finale of Stick to Shorts is out now! Danny Horn returns to talk about Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and a great Friz Freleng cartoon.
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A-ha! I didn’t know how to confirm my suspicion that that was added in a later re-release, but I guess now I do! Thank you so much!
26.06.2025 10:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jerry smiles next to the invisible ink with his lower half and left hand invisible.
New episode! J.D. talks all things Tom and Jerry with Tori Schmidt!
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Somehow it doesn’t have to be intelligible to be really compelling and fun
10.06.2025 00:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Old Hollywood gangster movie actors (James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and George Raft) talk and smoke in the cartoon 'Hollywood Steps Out'.
G! G! Ryan Roe and Anthony Strand return to chat about the caricatures and references in an almost indecipherable Looney Tunes classic, 'Hollywood Steps Out'!
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Stick to Shorts: Show #5 Superman, 1941 Director: Dave Fleischer Studio: Fleischer Studios Accolades: #33 in The 50 Greatest Cartoons; Academy Award nominee. Lois Lane investigates a threatening note from an evil scientist. Superman makes his theatrical debut in this acclaimed (and often emulated) short. Content Warning: flashing lights. Availability*: Public Domain; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection; The Superman Motion Picture Anthology (among other releases of Superman: The Movie); Max Fleischer’s Superman 1941-1943. *Applies to Region 1 only. VHS, LaserDisc, and unofficial releases not included. May be incomplete or outdated. Season One: Cartoonorama - Ep. 5
Stick to Shorts: Show #6 Hollywood Steps Out, 1941 Director: Tex Avery Studio: Warner Bros. Accolades: Included in The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons. Content Warning: wolf-whistling; visual fat joke; smoking. Availability*: Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol. 2; Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection, Vol. 2; Looney Tunes Platinum Collection, Vol. 2; Looney Tunes: Parodies Collection. *Applies to Region 1 only. VHS, LaserDisc, and unofficial releases not included. May be incomplete or outdated. Season One: Cartoonorama - Ep. 6
Stick to Shorts: Show #7 The Invisible Mouse, 1947 Directors: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera Studio: MGM We needed a generic example of a Tom & Jerry cartoon. Somehow we landed on this one. Jerry uses invisible ink to turn invisible. Content Warning: spanking; cartoon violence. Availability*: Tubi (Tom and Jerry Theatricals S01:E24); Tom & Jerry's Greatest Chases, Vol. 2; Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection, Vol. 1; Tom and Jerry Golden Collection, Vol. 1; Tom and Jerry: 85th Anniversary Kids Collection. *Applies to Region 1 only. VHS, LaserDisc, and unofficial releases not included. May be incomplete or outdated. Season One: Cartoonorama - Ep. 7
Stick to Shorts: Show #8 You Ought to Be in Pictures, 1940 Director: Friz Freleng Studio: Warner Bros. Accolades: #34 in The 50 Greatest Cartoons; Included in The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons. In this animation/live-action hybrid, Daffy convinces Porky to leave the cartoon studio behind and try to become a Warner Bros. movie star. Content Warning: smoking. Availability*: Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol. 2; Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection, Vol. 2; Looney Tunes Platinum Collection, Vol. 2; Porky Pig 101. *Applies to Region 1 only. VHS, LaserDisc, and unofficial releases not included. May be incomplete or outdated. Season One: Cartoonorama - Ep. 8
Correction: While we previously listed Hollywood Steps Out as being in the public domain, and it has been included in VHS compilations of public domain cartoons, it turns out this is not true. So you won't find it on YouTube, but you know... it's around.
08.06.2025 19:34 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Stick to Shorts: Show #5 Superman, 1941 Director: Dave Fleischer Studio: Fleischer Studios Accolades: #33 in The 50 Greatest Cartoons; Academy Award nominee. Lois Lane investigates a threatening note from an evil scientist. Superman makes his theatrical debut in this acclaimed (and often emulated) short. Content Warning: flashing lights. Availability*: Public Domain; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection; The Superman Motion Picture Anthology (among other releases of Superman: The Movie); Max Fleischer’s Superman 1941-1943. *Applies to Region 1 only. VHS, LaserDisc, and unofficial releases not included. May be incomplete or outdated. Season One: Cartoonorama - Ep. 5
Superman stands on top of a giant machine as it is destroyed in a raging fire
Look! Up in the sky! It's a new episode of Stick to Shorts! Danny Horn from Superheroes Every Day and Joe Hennes from @toughpigs.com fly in to talk about Max Fleischer's Superman!
02.06.2025 20:34 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 3
Stick to Shorts: Show #5 Superman (A.K.A. The Mad Scientist), 1941 Director: Dave Fleischer Studio: Fleischer Studios Accolades: #33 in The 50 Greatest Cartoons; Academy Award nominee. Lois Lane investigates a threatening note from an evil scientist. Superman makes his theatrical debut in this acclaimed (and often emulated) short. Content Warning: flashing lights. Availability*: Public Domain; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection; The Superman Motion Picture Anthology (among other releases of Superman: The Movie); Max Fleischer’s Superman 1941-1943. *Applies to Region 1 only. VHS, LaserDisc, and unofficial releases not included. May be incomplete or outdated. Season One: Cartoonorama - Ep. 5
Stick to Shorts: Show #6 Hollywood Steps Out, 1941 Director: Tex Avery Studio: Warner Bros. Accolades: Included in The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons. Content Warning: wolf-whistling; visual fat joke; smoking. Availability*: Public Domain; Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol. 2; Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection, Vol. 2; Looney Tunes Platinum Collection, Vol. 2; Looney Tunes: Parodies Collection. *Applies to Region 1 only. VHS, LaserDisc, and unofficial releases not included. May be incomplete or outdated. Season One: Cartoonorama - Ep. 6
Stick to Shorts: Show #7 The Invisible Mouse, 1947 Directors: William Hanna and Joseph Barbera Studio: MGM We needed a generic example of a Tom & Jerry cartoon. Somehow we landed on this one. Jerry uses invisible ink to turn invisible. Content Warning: spanking; cartoon violence. Availability*: Tubi (Tom and Jerry Theatricals S01:E24); Tom & Jerry's Greatest Chases, Vol. 2; Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection, Vol. 1; Tom and Jerry Golden Collection, Vol. 1; Tom and Jerry: 85th Anniversary Kids Collection. *Applies to Region 1 only. VHS, LaserDisc, and unofficial releases not included. May be incomplete or outdated. Season One: Cartoonorama - Ep. 7
Stick to Shorts: Show #8 You Ought to Be in Pictures, 1940 Director: Friz Freleng Studio: Warner Bros. Accolades: #34 in The 50 Greatest Cartoons; Included in The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons. In this animation/live-action hybrid, Daffy convinces Porky to leave the cartoon studio behind and try to become a Warner Bros. movie star. Content Warning: smoking. Availability*: Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol. 2; Looney Tunes Platinum Collection, Vol. 2; Porky Pig 101. *Applies to Region 1 only. VHS, LaserDisc, and unofficial releases not included. May be incomplete or outdated. Season One: Cartoonorama - Ep. 8
Here's what's coming up in the second half of this season of Stick to Shorts!
30.05.2025 17:09 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Thanks!
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The Killer is up in the air, arms and legs flailing, as his eyes bulge out of his head in shock at the sight of Droopy. Droopy casually leans against the wall.
Show #4 is out now! This week, we introduce you to the MGM studio and watch our first Tex Avery cartoon!
26.05.2025 13:40 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
Dumb-Hounded, 1943 Director: Tex Avery Studio: MGM Notability: The first appearance of Droopy! An escaped prisoner attempts to evade the world’s most lethargic police bloodhound, which proves to be strangely impossible. (Our podcast’s opening line is respectfully lifted from this short.) Content Warning: attempted suicide. Availability*: Tex Avery’s Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection; Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 1. *Applies to Region 1 only. VHS, LaserDisc, and unofficial releases not included. May be inconclusive or outdated. Stick to Shorts: Show #4 Season One: Cartoonorama - Ep. 4
Superman, 1941 Director: Dave Fleischer Studio: Fleischer Studios Accolades: #33 in The 50 Greatest Cartoons; Academy Award nominee. Lois Lane investigates a threatening note from an evil scientist. Superman makes his theatrical debut in this acclaimed (and often emulated) short. Content Warning: flashing lights. Availability*: Public Domain; Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection; The Superman Motion Picture Anthology (among other releases of Superman: The Movie); Max Fleischer’s Superman 1941-1943. *Applies to Region 1 only. VHS, LaserDisc, and unofficial releases not included. May be incomplete or outdated. Stick to Shorts: Show #5 Season One: Cartoonorama - Ep. 5
Here's what we'll be covering later this month on Stick to Shorts!
11.05.2025 21:45 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
A giant eyes the little tailor (Mickey Mouse).
Stick to Shorts returns! Artist @komakesthings.bsky.social joins us to talk about an essential Mickey Mouse cartoon: Brave Little Tailor!
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The giant, radiant face of Mickey that appeared at the start of his cartoons.
Mickey leaning on his huge sewing scissors in his cartoon 'Brave Little Tailor' (1938).
Our episode on 'Brave Little Tailor' will likely be delayed by one week.
That gives you more time to watch the documentary we bring up a few times in the episode, 'Mickey: The Story of a Mouse', streaming on Disney+!
Our second episode is out now! ToughPigs’ @durwoodclapper.bsky.social joins J.D. to talk about ‘One Froggy Evening’!
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A great new podcast by J.D. Hansel: Stick to Shorts! It's about classic cartoon shorts that everyone loves and hardly anyone can find these days. The intro ep is thoughtful and hilarious. Can't wait to hear more!
06.04.2025 23:48 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Porky in Wackyland, 1938 Director: Bob Clampett Studio: Warner Bros. Accolades: #8 in The 50 Greatest Cartoons; included in The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons. Porky Pig ventures into the strange world of Wackyland to capture the last of the dodos. Content Warning: racial stereotyping (brief, abstract reference to The Jazz Singer). Availability*: Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Vol. 2; Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Vol. 2; Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Vol. 2; Porky Pig 101. *Applies to Region 1 only. VHS, LaserDisc, and unofficial releases not included. May be inconclusive or outdated. Stick to Shorts: Show #1 Season One: Cartoonorama - Ep. 1
One Froggy Evening, 1955 Director: Chuck Jones Studio: Warner Bros. Accolades: #5 in The 50 Greatest Cartoons; included in The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons. A construction worker finds a frog who turns out to be a talented performer, but it won’t perform for anyone but him. Content Warning: involuntary hospitalization. Availability*: Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Vol. 2; Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Vol. 2; Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Vol. 1; Best of Warner Bros. 50 Cartoon Collection: Looney Tunes; Looney Tunes Musical Masterpieces *Applies to Region 1 only. VHS, LaserDisc, and unofficial releases not included. May be inconclusive or outdated. Stick to Shorts: Show #2 Season One: Cartoonorama - Ep. 2
Brave Little Tailor, 1938 Directors: Burt Gillett (uncredited) and Bill Roberts Studio: Disney Accolades: #26 in The 50 Greatest Cartoons; Academy Award nominee. In this essential Mickey Mouse cartoon, a simple tailor is tasked with slaying a giant to win the hand of Princess Minnie. Content Warning: smoking. Availability*: Disney+ (unrestored); The Sword in the Stone; Mickey Mouse in Living Color; Mickey and the Beanstalk; Celebrating Mickey; Mickey & Minnie: 10 Classic Shorts. *Applies to Region 1 only. VHS, LaserDisc, and unofficial releases not included. May be inconclusive or outdated. Stick to Shorts: Show #3 Season One: Cartoonorama - Ep. 3
Dumb-Hounded, 1943 Director: Tex Avery Studio: MGM Notability: The first appearance of Droopy! An escaped prisoner attempts to evade the world’s most lethargic police bloodhound, which proves to be strangely impossible. (Our podcast’s opening line is respectfully lifted from this short.) Content Warning: attempted suicide. Availability*: Tex Avery’s Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection; Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 1. *Applies to Region 1 only. VHS, LaserDisc, and unofficial releases not included. May be inconclusive or outdated. Stick to Shorts: Show #4 Season One: Cartoonorama - Ep. 4
Here's your guide to our first few episodes!
02.04.2025 12:23 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2Thank you!!
02.04.2025 04:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our introductory episode is out now!
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Michigan J. Frog, in real frog mode, looking gloomy as the construction worker holds him up by the wrists.
Due to totally foreseen circumstances, our premiere has been postponed.
23.03.2025 22:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The release date for our first episode has been moved to Monday. This gives us time to polish our introduction.
In the meantime, grab your Looney Tunes DVDs and revisit the cartoons we'll be covering first: 'Porky in Wackyland' and 'One Froggy Evening'!
Here's the trailer for Stick to Shorts! Our first episode (Porky in Wackyland) drops later this week!
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