| Egghead Rides Again | |
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| 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 |
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Running time | 7 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
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 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]
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.
