If you hear the name "Jeepers Creepers", then you will maybe think of a lot of things, but this Warner Bros cartoon from 1939 is most certainly not one of these. That's fine though as the quality wasn't too convincing here. But first things first: At almost 9 minutes, it was slightly longer than the usually were back in the day and this one will soon have its 80th anniversary. Porky is the protagonist here, the closest WB had to an Everyday Joe, so the scary dangerous profession of a police officer may not be the best thing for him, especially if it comes down to investigating an actually haunted house. It's a fairly clean-cut film. Porky gets his introduction. Ghost gets his introduction and afterward we see the pranks pulled on Porky by the ghost. In the end, Porky just cannot get away fast enough. Speaking of that final scene, I'm sure some liberals will scream RACISM when seeing this slightly politically incorrect shot of the ghost, but I found it refreshing. Sadly, it was maybe the only moment I kinda liked with the exception of the bagel/doughnut scene early on. Overall, it is a bit unusual to see a black-and-white film (in the original) by Warner Bros as their cartoons were usually full of color during that time already. But I also don't think that color would have saved the mediocre plot and comedy here. Not recommended.

. . . (most often We Citizens of the (Then) Far Future) of our upcoming Calamities, Catastrophes, Cataclysms, and Apocalypti, when one of Warner's shorts or features spotlights a ghost among its main characters, we can surmise that Warner's prolific Prophets of Doom are working overtime to caution as about at least one prospective Dire Strait we'll soon be facing. Because JEEPERS CREEPERS only has TWO on-screen critters with speaking parts (not counting the frogs), we're treated to a scenario in which 50% of the cast is DEAD. This white specter is first shown smoking a cigar (and dunking his smoke rings into a cup of coffee!). Does this mean JEEPERS CREEPERS is a simple polemic against Big Tobacco? I think not. It's easy to overlook an earlier bit in which lightning fries the roaster weather vane atop the Haunted House into a cooked roast. Warner is telling us that America's goose will be toast IF we ever allow a traitorous minority to install Red Commie KGB Chief Vlad "The Mad Russian" Putin's puppet Rump into our White House. Just this morning on CNN Congresswoman Wasserman-Schultz of Florida estimated as least six million of our most loyal, patriotic, True Blue citizens--including many war heroes--will be rubbed out, liquidated, erased, slain, and murdered due to Putin's Rump Care bill passed yesterday (May the Force be With You, 2017). If memory serves, this is how many Jews Hitler burned up during the Holocaust. Perhaps Warner is forecasting with JEEPERS CREEPERS that we should expect a Rumpocaust Memorial to be erected on our National Mall 75 years from now.

Here is another Porky Pig cartoon great for Halloween. This one is directed by Bob Clampett, and I remember watching the edited, colorized version on TV as a little kid. But from watching the original black-&-white version online as an animation-loving adult, I found it much better then the crappy edited version for TV.In this short, Porky is a police officer ordered to investigate strange goings-on at a old, run-down, deserted house. But the house is actually haunted, and a fun loving ghost (voiced by Disney regular Pinto Colvig) plays a series of pranks on the unsuspecting pig. And then Porky gets finally scared and ran out of the house.There is one scene I liked the was kind of recycled from the short "The Case of The Stuttering Pig". It was when a scared Porky ran up the stairs like a flash, and then jump right into the ghost's arms stuttering "I just saw a..." Overall I love this short.

No collection of old time cartoons would be complete without this one. If I were going to select my all-time favorite Warner Brother Loony Tunes cartoon, it would be a tie between this nutty ghost story and the nuttier "Porky in Wackyland" (1939) aka "Dough for the Do-Do". I first saw these as a small kid at the age of 4 or 5 and have been a fan of these old cartoons on into adulthood. The ones created in the 1930s and 1940s have always been the best.Anyway, this nutty ghost story holds your attention from beginning to end. Imagine sitting in a police cruiser (Porky is an policeman in this one.) and being told to "investigate strange noises in an old, abandoned house. And to be careful - THERE MIGHT BE GHOSTS!!!!". Porky stops for a minute and thinks to himself "Did he say ghosts?" And the radio responds "Yes - you know those white things that go "BRAHH AH AH AHHH!". Great fun.At the house there is a rambunctious, but overall seemingly harmless ghost with the voice of the great Pinto Colvig and a bizarre sense of humor (I can relate to that) that enjoys scaring people. And he does a great job on Porky once he arrives. (I won't reveal everything here.) And the disembodied "walking shoe" prank is hysterical. (I would love to a pull a gag like that.) Great fun throughout.10/10 Dan Basinger