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Recently, while recounting some of the greatest old school screen exploits of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, we’ve come across some pretty questionable cartoons. Between Daffy fighting Nazis and Japanese army pilots and Bugs Bunny being chased by a blackface Elmer Fudd, well, we thought we’d seen it all. Apparently not, though, as mental_floss’s listicle [...]

Ahead of a review over at our sister site The L Magazine, we just saw Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and, well, there’s much Nazi-killing going on in that there WWII revenge fantasy. How does it compare to some other cinematic Nazi-murdering sprees? Well, ScreenJunkies sets out to put Inglourious Basterds in context with their listicle [...]

The first zeppelin (named after inventor Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, seriously) took to the skies exactly 109 years ago, and though we’re a little sad they didn’t catch on as well as the airplane, we suppose all the flammable gases and whatnot are a plenty good reason. At any rate, to celebrate that 109th anniversary, [...]

Did you know that beloved Walt Disney character Donald Duck was “born” 75 years ago today? It’s true, apparently, and what better way to celebrate that truly unique quack than with a compilation of aborted, unsuccessful and ill-conceived alternates? For a 75 year-old you look great, Donald, much better than these 12 Creepy Versions of [...]

The beloved Warner Bros. animated water fowl character Daffy Duck made his first appearance 72 years ago, when the short Porky’s Duck Hunt first aired on April 17, 1932. Somehow, in the decades since, his brand of insane, non-squiturial humor has aged terrifically. As proof of his timeless humor, and in celebration of his momentous [...]