Ruff and Reddy, Hanna-Barbera's answer to Crusader Rabbit, had many long adventures that are almost feature-length if put together. Seeing that they were serialized episodes, there's a lot of repetitive recaps at the start of each episode. With this in mind, I've listed every other episode of an Irish adventure the cat and dog were involved with, in honor of the pending St. Patrick's Day:

Part 1: Long Gone Leprechaun:
https://youtu.be/KiCY0v8zjPo

Part 2: Bungle in Banshee Castle:
https://youtu.be/YFdp9-RhRGc

Part 3: Too Soon the Goon:
https://youtu.be/d8oEo5b9Bck

Part 4: Mr. Small Meets Mr. Tall in the Hall
https://youtu.be/bH2455huN5w

Part 5: A Scary Chase Through a Spooky Place:
https://youtu.be/1GVpuZFHphk

Part 6: Gold Room Doom:
https://youtu.be/bOlUx2nPugw

And if you want to know just how it all ends, here's the spoiler-free link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgDm41lLU_0

No, not that kind of naughtiness -- it's Schoolhouse Rock showing how to multiply by 9.

https://youtu.be/fsMPO3chgAo

I wonder if they still show these to young kids going to school today?

Classic Woody is a bit less obnoxious here than usual, considering his antagonist has evil designs on him:

https://youtu.be/vTRwiuzJTFQ

The taxidermist cat was voiced by a very subdued Hans Conried.

Soaky was a brand of bubble bath with the gimmick that it came in collectible bottles shaped like famous cartoon characters. Since these characters came from all sorts of different studios, this resulted in some unusual pairings:

Here's Donald Duck and a naked Porky Pig in the same commercial:

https://youtu.be/Ezrsywf38KU

Even more strange is this one featuring a team-up of Superman and Tennessee Tuxedo with a Richie Rich lookalike subbing as the Soaky Kid:

https://youtu.be/NgzxdSTHrEs

And here's the weirdest (and funniest, in my opinion) duo of all -- Dick Tracy vs Musky Muskrat!

https://youtu.be/tZDT-Eos7lo

Happy Valentine's Day:

https://youtu.be/JhNUarEShGE

An early color Warner Bros. cartoon dealing with a dicey subject; namely, fur farming:

https://youtu.be/w1ss0uc8pNQ

Though I do have a bit of a problem with the ending. It would have made more sense if the fox had been telling his story to two other foxes, not to two crows.

A somewhat surreal short in which the Panther matches wits with an unusual adversary:

https://youtu.be/Akj43UIAq8U

I'm wondering whether this cartoon didn't inspire the Sesame Street 30 dot sequences where there's one dot who keeps changing color just to mess up the show...

Funny animals visit an amusement park in this Famous studios Screen Song:

https://youtu.be/sKsknzNoRd8

Always thought the ending of this belonged in another cartoon, though...

What if Mickey and Minnie had been foxes instead of mice? They probably would have looked something like this:

https://youtu.be/31oW1K-25e4

"Foxy" was a short-lived Warner Bros. character obviously intended to capitalize on the success of the famous rodent. As this was the final cartoon of Foxy's career, one has to wonder if they were literally killing him off at the end of it...

Yet another Fox and Crow animated theatrical short by UPA:

https://youtu.be/sZKvMBa4OHw

Watching this always makes me think of St. Augustine, Fla, since that's where the real Ponce De Leon traveled in search of the fabled Fountain of Youth. It's also where Mike and I used to go for our anniversary each year close to around this time, back when we lived in Florida.

Ever wondered what would happen if somebody actually gave ALL the gifts mentioned in "The 12 Days of Christmas" to the same person on each day from Dec. 25 to Jan. 5? You're about to find out...

Part 1:
https://youtu.be/lRijElQVlVk

Part 2:
https://youtu.be/O9X-BmEWi7Q

Though not animated, this film was designed by famed British cartoonist Ronald Searle.

Happy Forthcoming New Year!

You didn't think I'd let Christmas go by without featuring a Muppet video, did you?

https://youtu.be/3FqgYPWRDFs



Merry Christmas, everyone. Schlafe in himmlischer Ruh.

Another Soyuzmultfilm Russian animated featurette. While not a Christmas story per se, this tale does seem to take place from late fall to early spring:

https://youtu.be/oDbLk7xMS2Y

Sadly, YouTube took down the English-subtitled version, for while much of the plot is self-explanatory, it's always more fun to know just exactly what all the characters are saying (or singing, as the case may be).

A rarely-shown curio of a Holiday special from 1981 based on the comic strip B.C. by Johnny Hart:

Part 1:
https://youtu.be/8L6ZaSi5RvI

The voices of Peter and Wiley are the comedy team of Bob and Ray.

Part 2:
https://youtu.be/00du5MEeDSU

Of course, the whole concept of cavemen celebrating Christmas is a paradox that I'm sure both Hart and the creators of the animated special were well aware of, but it was (mostly) played for laughs, after all. And they weren't the only ones...

Donald has a job as a gift-wrapper in a department store. Think he'll keep it for very long?

https://youtu.be/ApCVv_OQdh0

This vid is a reminder that I still have gift-wrapping of my own to do...

A long-time public-domain Holiday cartoon that dates back to 1948:

https://youtu.be/BDEO_1OwlH4

This is almost a scene-for-scene remake of a 1942 MGM short called "Chips off the Old Block" -- the only real differences being that the main character in the latter is a cat instead of a dog, and it isn't Christmas in this one:

https://youtu.be/vXwXBVDpWrc

This is an English dubbing of a classic German animated short:

https://youtu.be/TxPOR8KBO0o

As is often the case with English dubs of foreign films, there is a lot of extraneous dialog added that was not part of the original work. If you'd prefer to see this with its German soundtrack, it can be viewed here.

From a British animated production of Wind in the Willows:

Part 1:

https://youtu.be/jaOLLujEX-c

Part 2:

https://youtu.be/aDGOc_Xaxac

Looks like I'll be posting a video journal each day until Christmas now, if I want to get to the 12th vid by Dec. 25.

https://youtu.be/n5YygJkLfNI

Whenever I think I've seen every Christmas-themed theatrical cartoon ever made, I discover one that I've missed, such as this 1937 Columbia short. It was possibly inspired by Warner Bros. "The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives" or by the less Holiday-themed Fleischer Bros. Somewhere in Dreamland that preceded it in 1936.

Everybody's heard of Cookie Monster, but did you know that there used to be a Cookie Bear? He made frequent appearances on the old Andy Williams variety shows of the sixties. Here's the cookie-loving bruin in one of Andy's Christmas specials.

https://youtu.be/ic416RB5Nxw

Andy plays Scrooge -- and yes, that's Jimmy Durante as Scrooge's conscience. I remember watching this sketch on TV when it was first run back in December of 1969. I was amazed at how much of it I could recall, over 40 years later!

Chilly Willy, the cute-but-usually-obnoxious little penguin redeems himself somewhat in this cartoon:

https://youtu.be/aWQm5iim4ns

Woody Woodpecker's cameo becomes even funnier if you are aware that Mel Blanc once actually sued Walter Lantz over Woody's laugh.

Gumby has had several Christmas adventures, and here's another one of them:

https://youtu.be/yLci5Lp_vt8

I always feel sorry for the poor wolf, though...

It's getting harder to find enough videos to do an "Advent Calendar" for all 24 days, so this year I'm only doing half as many -- the 12 Vids of Christmas, as it were.

This first one is more of an autumn-to-winter video than a holiday one (there'll be plenty of those later):

https://youtu.be/9lqkEM9bJPI

The crow in the opening sequence would later star in his own cartoons as "Buzzy the Funny Crow."

Thanksgiving is about done as I type this, but I couldn't let the holiday go by without a trip to Bullwinkle's Corner:

https://youtu.be/XxIaUoPL3Hs

Animation by Gerald Baldwin.

Hope everyone had a good and tasty Thanksgiving!

This short, written and designed by Maurice Sendak, used to air on Sesame Street back in the day. Jim Henson does the voice of Bumble:

https://youtu.be/E2TVYdQU3-I

Tomorrow (Nov. 23) I will be celebrating my own birthday, hopefully without the nine swilling swine...