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Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

In today's episode, we're going back to the land before time (the silent era) to talk about the beginnings of cartoons!

Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Our second season has begun! Anthony Strand returns for a look at vaudeville's influence on classic cartoons! sticktoshorts.com/podcast/show...

Daffy Duck yells at Bugs Bunny during their stage act.

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Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Here is your guide to the first episodes of our upcoming season!

Stick to Shorts
Season Two: Building Character - Part 1
Episode Guide A
#1 Introduction II: The Vaudeville Legacy
Show Biz Bugs
Friz Freleng, Warner Bros., 1957
#2 Gertie the Dinosaur
Winsor McCay, 1914
#3 Trolley Troubles
Walt Disney, Disney, 1927
#4 Steamboat Willie
Walt Disney & Ub Iwerks, Disney, 1928
#5 Rabbit of Seville
Chuck Jones, Warner Bros., 1950

Episode Guide B
#6 The Skeleton Dance
Walt Disney, Disney, 1929
#7 Minnie the Moocher
Dave Fleischer, Fleischer, 1932
#8 Three Little Pigs
Burt Gillett, Disney, 1933
#9 Playful Pluto
Burt Gillett, Disney, 1934
#10 Feed the Kitty
Chuck Jones, Warner Bros., 1952
Additional cartoons in Season 2 to be announced at a later date.

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Show Biz Bugs, 1957
Director: Friz Freleng
Studio: Warner Bros.
Accolades: Included in The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons.
While performing in a variety show, Daffy attempts to upstage Bugs.
Content Warning: self-immolation.
Availability*: Tubi (S04:E05); Golden Collection, Vol. 2; Spotlight Collection, Vol. 2; The Essential Bugs Bunny; Platinum Collection, Vol. 2; Best of Warner Bros. 50 Cartoon Collection: Looney Tunes; Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection; Cats Don’t Dance (Blu-Ray).
*Applies to Region 1 only. VHS, LaserDisc, and unofficial releases not included. May be incomplete or outdated.
Season Two: Building Character - Ep. 1

Stick to Shorts: Show #10
Gertie the Dinosaur, 1914
Director: Winsor McCay
Accolades: #6 in The 50 Greatest Cartoons; selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Originally performed as a stage act, animator Winsor McCay presents a dinosaur that obeys his every command… when she wants to.
Content Warning: smoking.
Availability: Public Domain.
(For an abridged recreation of the original vaudeville act, seek out the Disneyland episode “The Story of the Animated Drawing” on Disney+ or the DVD Behind the Scenes at the Walt Disney Studios.)
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Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Season 2 begins January 26th wherever podcasts are streamed!

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Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The cartoons step into the spotlight on January 26th! (Oswald illustration by @toonheadsfanatic.bsky.social)

Oswald the Rabbit in the outfit from 'Show Biz Bugs' carrying a reel of film on stage. The film cels have different cartoon characters. Signs say: "Stick to Shorts: Season 2: Building Character. From Vaudeville to Pigs and from Mickey to Bugs. Premieres January 26th."

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Will Sloan @willsloanesq.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

We turn now to live footage of heaven

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Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Season 1 of our little show is now on YouTube! Get ready for Season 2, coming early next year!

A playlist on YouTube listing episodes of the podcast Stick to Shorts

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keelin @keelin12ft.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

The muse and the masterpiece.

Looney tunes version of Peter Lorre- basically a sleepy creepy looking little guy with purple heavily lidded and bagged eyes looking off wistfully

My pumpkin painted like the looney tunes version of Peter Lorre. It’s a small white pumpkin with sleepy creepy eyes ringed with purple and a toothy smile

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Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

This December, at long last, ALL of the Hanna-Barbera era MGM Tom & Jerry cartoons are coming to Blu-Ray, looking their very best! We’re thrilled that the Warner Archive is not only releasing all the shorts uncensored, but is also contextualizing them with lots of bonus material.

Cover of the Warner Archive Blu-Ray set "Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology: 1940 to 1958"

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Muppeturgy @muppeturgy.com · 04/07/2025

If 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.

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Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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. sticktoshorts.com/podcast/you-...

Daffy Duck asks producer Leon Schlesinger for a contract.

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Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

New episode! J.D. talks all things Tom and Jerry with Tori Schmidt! sticktoshorts.com/podcast/the-...

Jerry smiles next to the invisible ink with his lower half and left hand invisible.

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Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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'! sticktoshorts.com/podcast/holl...

Old Hollywood gangster movie actors (James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and George Raft) talk and smoke in the cartoon 'Hollywood Steps Out'.

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Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

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.

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.
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Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

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!

Superman stands on top of a giant machine as it is destroyed in a raging fire

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Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Here's what's coming up in the second half of this season of Stick to Shorts!

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

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Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Show #4 is out now! This week, we introduce you to the MGM studio and watch our first Tex Avery cartoon!

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.

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Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Here's what we'll be covering later this month on Stick to Shorts!

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

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Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Stick to Shorts returns! Artist @komakesthings.bsky.social joins us to talk about an essential Mickey Mouse cartoon: Brave Little Tailor! sticktoshorts.com/podcast/brav...

A giant eyes the little tailor (Mickey Mouse).

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Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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+!

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).

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Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Our second episode is out now! ToughPigs’ @durwoodclapper.bsky.social joins J.D. to talk about ‘One Froggy Evening’! sticktoshorts.com/podcast/one-...

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Danny Horn @dannyhorn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

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!

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Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Due to totally foreseen circumstances, our premiere has been postponed.

Michigan J. Frog, in real frog mode, looking gloomy as the construction worker holds him up by the wrists.

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Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The 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'!

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Stick to Shorts: A Classic Cartoons Podcast @sticktoshorts.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Here's the trailer for Stick to Shorts! Our first episode (Porky in Wackyland) drops later this week!

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