Egghead Rides Again

Egghead Rides Again is a 1937 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery.^[2] It was first released to theaters on July 17, 1937.^[3] 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.^[4]

Egghead Rides Again
Directed by	Fred Avery
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger
Starring	Mel Blanc Tex Avery Billy Bletcher Danny Webb Sons of the Pioneers Roy Rogers[1]
Music by	Carl W. Stalling
Animation by	Paul Smith, Irvin Spence
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	July 17, 1937 (1937-07-17)
Running time	7 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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)^[5]
• Blu-Ray — Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 3