Batman: The Brave & The Bold Humor

Came across some interesting clips of Warner Bros Animation's current Dark Knight series, Batman: The Brave & The Bold. Seems like the production team have been trying to create some humor stories that are headlined by Batmite, Batman's biggest fan who happens to be a magical imp.
First up is a story parodying the 1970's New Scooby-Doo Movies that teamed up popular TV personalities with the Mystery INC. gang. Set in 'modern' times, the short features Scooby-Doo, Batman & Weird Al Yankovic(?).

Next is a parody of Daffy Duck's classic cartoon "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" with Duck Tracy... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_7vZCb_2ss&feature=related
You can see the writers were trying their best to be funny but the stories themselves fall flat with stiff animation, bad acting and a poor music score. At least they're trying.

The Monkey and the Bear (1972)

The great comic book cartoonist, Howard (Howie) Post, did some great characters for Marvel Comics back in 1972 within the pages of "Li'l Pals: Fun-Filled Animal Antics"!
Howie Post is best known for his work for Harvey Comics, where he had a hand in developing Hot Stuff the Little Devil and Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost. Here are a couple of articles discussing Howie's work.
http://drawn.ca/2005/03/24/the-howie-post/
http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2007/07/howie-post-cartoony-harvey-artist.html
Seems that Melvin Monkey is a greedy, manipulative little character who is always trying to take advantage of his neighbor Boinard Bear. Check out their first adventure here from the first issue of Li'l Pals.

Wonderful World of Benny

Jack Benny pays a visit to Walt Disney asking for a favor. Walt plays the perfect straight man to Jack's comedy wit in this rare clip.

They Want to Laugh

The Warner Brothers and their sister Dot give their opinion about the way cartoons and features should be produced.
I couldn't agree more....

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