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BUMP I also need to add Rev Chaney and Tom Ray ("I Only Have Eyes for You") to the list of possible animators on this. The music score for this cartoon was finished in August 1937. I would believe the animation for this cartoon was completed between February and May 1937, by which time Avery's...

Thank you. But still, would you happen to know the approximate dates for them? ~Ben

Links to those two, please? Thank you, Ben

Thank you! ~Ben

How many of you here remember when, on select days, Chuck E. Cheese along with Jasper T. Jowls, Mr. Munch and Pasqually would appear as special guests on Ramblin' Rod's show and sing songs to those kids having their birthdays? My question is this: did they first begin doing this in 1983, the...

I wonder if The Ramblin' Rod Cartoon Show included The New Yogi Bear Show in its 1988-89 season lineup? ~Ben

Chris, You're welcome. ~Ben

Hi Chris, The actual name of the song used for KPTV's Bugs & Friends theme is "Piggie Woogie" by The Zeet Band, released on their 1970 album Moogie Woogie (the song was even released as a B-side single!). Hence, the instrument used is a Moog modular synthesizer -- same as what was played by...

Again, because of the video game crash of '83, which ate into not only Chuck E. Cheese's budget but also into Nolan Bushnell's own, that he then resigned from the company. At the time he first established Kadabrascope Animation, he seemed overoptimistic in hoping for bigger money days; he had...

For those of you who have an itching to see what could've been on KGW 8 in the Christmas of '83, here it is... The Christmas That Almost Wasn't, featuring Chuck E. Cheese and his Pizza Time Theatre gang! Again, most of the special is only available frame-by-frame due to the fact that NBC chose...

Chris, I fixed it. I meant to say this was about the AC locations in Portland, at 5136 SE Woodstock Blvd., 3420 SE Hawthorne Blvd. and 8111 SE Foster Rd., as those three became Arby's restaurants by 1994. There are indeed a few ACs left in other parts of Oregon that are still in business to...

Hi Peter, I found this 1992 Ramblin' Rod episode... it contains a rerun of the October 11, 1990 episode of The Merrie Melodies Show Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends! This episode is among a handful not to have a "Hip Clip" before the third and final segment (in this case, 1939's "Jeepers...

Peter, I am hoping some of those episodes have survived in tape-trading. ~Ben

Peter, The other thing I wanted to mention about Chuck E. Cheese's sponsorship for The Ramblin' Rod (Cartoon) Show, was that it had come at a rather inauspicious time for the pizza chain since 1983 was the same year that it had lost millions thanks to the video game crash that effectively...

Here is a December 1983 episode, with the CEC sponsor tag at the end. Again, there are so many of these to sift through before it is confirmed what the first episode was that had the CEC sponsor tag. I would hint it was the September 12, 1983 episode, which started the 1983-84 broadcast...