Egghead Rides Again
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{{Infobox film
| name = Egghead Rides Again
| image =
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| director = Fred Avery
| producer = Leon Schlesinger
| starring = Mel Blanc
Tex Avery
Billy Bletcher
Danny Webb
Sons of the Pioneers
Roy Rogers{{cite book |last1=Scott |first1=Keith |title=Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 |date=3 October 2022 |publisher=BearManor Media |language=en}}
| music = Carl W. Stalling
| editing =
| animator = Paul Smith, Irvin Spence
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| distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
| released = {{Film date|1937|07|17}}
| runtime = 7 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
}}
Egghead Rides Again is a 1937 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery.{{cite book|last=Sigall|first=Martha|title=Living Life Inside the Lines: Tales from the Golden Age of Animation|publisher=University Press of Mississippi p. 35|year=2005|isbn=978-1-5780-6749-7}} It was first released to theaters on July 17, 1937.{{cite book|last1=Lenburg|first1=Jeff|title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons|date=1999|publisher=Checkmark Books|isbn=0-8160-3831-7|access-date=6 June 2020|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/76/mode/2up|pages=77–79}} The cartoon marks the first appearance of Egghead, a character who would eventually appear in three more cartoons, "Daffy Duck and Egghead" (produced in 1937 and released in 1938), "A-Lad-In Bagdad" (1938) and "Count Me Out" (1938), both cartoons released in 1938, according to David Gerstein (an animation historian) and Michael Barrier.{{cite web|url=http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Home%20Page/WhatsNewArchivesJune09.htm|title=Archived copy|website=www.michaelbarrier.com|access-date=30 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090901013816/http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Home%20Page/WhatsNewArchivesJune09.htm|archive-date=1 September 2009|url-status=dead}}
Plot
Energetic Egghead is bouncing around, pretending to be a cowboy, until his noise-making gets him kicked out of the boarding house in which he is living by a clerk with a penchant for the minced oath "dad-burnit". While on the street he sees a discarded newspaper advertisement from a ranch in Wyoming, requesting a "cow-puncher". He applies, and, while there, goes through various training exercises, but fails them all. Egghead, having seen his apparent uselessness, begins to leave, but the lead cowboy decides to give him a job: cleaning up after the cows and horses.
2020 Restoration
In 2020 this short was restored. This restoration featured fake fade effects on the opening. The beginning scene of Egghead has been replaced with looped animation. The original end title was restored. This restoration was available on HBO Max, sometimes airs on MeTV, and is on the ''Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 3.
Home media
- VHS — Looney Tunes: The Collector's Edition - Vol. 8: Tex-Book Looney
- LaserDisc — The Golden Age of Looney Tunes - Vol. 3
- DVD — Kid Galahad (dubbed version){{cite news|last=McCutcheon|first=David|url= https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/05/29/warners-fourth-crime|title=Warner's Fourth Crime|work=IGN|date=September 23, 2008|access-date=June 24, 2019}}
- Blu-Ray — Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 3
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|id=0028820|title=Egghead Rides Again (1937)}}
- Big Cartoon Database article [https://archive.today/20130117171648/http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/640-Egghead_Rides_Again.html]
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Category:Merrie Melodies short films
Category:Films directed by Tex Avery
Category:1930s Warner Bros. animated short films
Category:1937 animated short films
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