Egghead Rides Again
Egghead Rides Again
| 17 July 1937 (USA)
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City dweller Egghead dreams of being a cowboy, but his bouncing around gets him kicked out of his boarding house. He sees an ad for a ranch looking for a cowboy and applies. His tryout includes tests of marksmanship and use of a branding iron, but most of it consist of chasing down and roping a troublesome little calf. He passes the test, but the job isn't exactly what he dreamed of.

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Contentar

Best movie of this year hands down!

MoPoshy

Absolutely brilliant

Kinley

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

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Darin

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

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Lee Eisenberg

As a cartoon, Tex Avery's "Egghead Rides Again" isn't anything spectacular. What's notable about it is that it's the first appearance of Egghead, the character who morphed into a certain dim-witted hunter who kept trying to shoot a certain carrot-chomping rabbit. The plot has Egghead - talking like Daffy Duck - getting kicked out of a boarding house and taking a job on a ranch which proves to be more than he bargained for. Egghead was Warner Bros's first character to appear repeatedly in Merrie Melodies, which in the 1930s were usually reserved for one-time performances while the Looney Tunes series featured their main characters (at the time, it was Porky and Daffy). From the early 1940s onward, this distinction got lost.The cartoon also features the voices of the Sons of the Pioneers, a country group that included a young Roy Rogers. I suspect that in the 21st century, Roy Rogers won't get exalted that much.

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Edgar Allan Pooh

. . . that they would NOT vote for that clown Rump even if he were running for Dogcatcher, but Warner Bros.' crack division of prophetic Looney Tuners came up with an even better position for He of The Tiny Hands at the close of this 1930s prognostication, EGGHEAD RIDES AGAIN. "Egghead," of course, was one of many stand-ins the merry melody-makers at Warners had for the greatest challenge to Democracy since the Ancient Greeks invented it. As this story begins, Egghead gets evicted from his $3 per week hotel room for inappropriate behavior (no, he's not a serial finger rapist--where's the humor in that?!--but he IS a serial Pogo Sticker!) Seeing a newspaper classified ad for being the Rich People Party Candidate for President--oops, for being a "Cow Puncher"--Egghead finds his qualifications and skill set as lacking as Donald J. Duck's. However, there is one job for which the Wyoming Ranch Foreman finds Egghead\Rump suitable: Official Collector of B.S.

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Michael_Elliott

Egghead Rides Again (1937) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Merrie Melodies short has Egghead playing cowboy in his boarding house but getting kicked out for making too much noise. He then heads out west to get a job at the Bar None ranch but first he has to prove he's a real cowboy. This is a mildly entertaining short that is charming enough but never really gets any major laughs. Mel Blanc's work as the voice of Egghead is pretty good and you can hear bits and pieces of Daffy Duck in it. The animation is also quite nice with some great scenery and good visuals. The highlight of the film has to be towards the end when Egghead is trying to rope a baby cow but the cow has his own ideas.

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Robert Reynolds

For all that this is not my favorite Tex Avery cartoon (Egghead is rather grating in this one), I haven't seen a bad Avery cartoon. This is rather early Avery and most of his signatures haven't been fully realized. The pacing of this one is slower than is typical for Avery, there really isn't a running gag here and there aren't as many sight gags as opposed to verbal gags. More talky than Tex Avery usually gets, but still a decent cartoon. Well worth seeing. Recommended.

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