Pretty Good

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Egghead Rides Again is the first cartoon to feature Egghead, a character that supposedly evolved into Elmer Fudd. This cartoon was directed by Tex Avery.Egghead is whooping around his hotel room, imitating a cowboy, but the anything-but-lax hotel manager throws him out because he is too distracting. Thus, Egghead seeks for a job. He finds a job listing in the newspaper at the "Bar None Ranch". Perfect!Egghead arrives there in a...rather unusual way. The other cowboys don't show any remorse. They then give him tests. After the initial tests have disastrous results, they assign him to the task of branding a calf.The animation was great, and generally bursting at the seams with expression. The music was also good, with nice usage of then-current music. The jokes were very funny! With Tex Avery around, this cartoon is a big hit! Would recommend, although Egghead might be annoying to some.

. . . that they would NOT vote for that clown Rump even if he were running for Dogcatcher, but Warner Bros.' crack division of prophetic Looney Tuners came up with an even better position for He of The Tiny Hands at the close of this 1930s prognostication, EGGHEAD RIDES AGAIN. "Egghead," of course, was one of many stand-ins the merry melody-makers at Warners had for the greatest challenge to Democracy since the Ancient Greeks invented it. As this story begins, Egghead gets evicted from his $3 per week hotel room for inappropriate behavior (no, he's not a serial finger rapist--where's the humor in that?!--but he IS a serial Pogo Sticker!) Seeing a newspaper classified ad for being the Rich People Party Candidate for President--oops, for being a "Cow Puncher"--Egghead finds his qualifications and skill set as lacking as Donald J. Duck's. However, there is one job for which the Wyoming Ranch Foreman finds Egghead\Rump suitable: Official Collector of B.S.

This was the first of a handful of cartoons featuring "Egghead," a Looney Tunes character that never really caught on. Egghead is tossed out of his big-city apartment for creating too much noise, riding a pogo-stick and pretending he's a cowboy. When he's thrown out on his ear, a newspaper is next to his prone body and he sees an advertisement for a "Good cow puncher - Bar None Ranch, Wahoo, Wyoming."He writes the letter and it arrives via Pony Express. When the cowboys open the thin letter, out pops Egghead (huh?). The cowboys then test him in a few things to see if he can qualify for the job.Overall, despite the fact the main character (Egghead) has an irritating voice and many of the jokes are a bit lame, there was something charming and amusing about the whole thing, enough to recommend watching this. Apparently, Egghead was a forerunner for Elmer Fudd, with the latter doing a lot better in popularity.

For all that this is not my favorite Tex Avery cartoon (Egghead is rather grating in this one), I haven't seen a bad Avery cartoon. This is rather early Avery and most of his signatures haven't been fully realized. The pacing of this one is slower than is typical for Avery, there really isn't a running gag here and there aren't as many sight gags as opposed to verbal gags. More talky than Tex Avery usually gets, but still a decent cartoon. Well worth seeing. Recommended.