In 1960 he began a six-year association with Paramount's cartoon subsidiary Famous Studios, providing the voices for thirteen animated shorts, starting with "Scouting for Trouble". He also wrote the stories for most of them, including a seven-film series about two characters named Swifty and Shorty whom he used to recreate a number of his routines, such as "Panhandling on Madison Avenue" and "Fix That Clock" (both 1964). Ultimately, however, defining changes in the financing and distribution of mass-produced short subjects, meant that neither Eddie Lawrence nor another creative talent at the studio, Ralph Bakshi could stave off the demise of the theatrical cartoon, as Famous Studios closed its doors in 1967. Eddie Lawrence's final gift for the studio was the Swifty and Shorty vehicle, "Les Boys", released in January 1966. In 1994, he appeared in two episodes of "Garfield and Friends" as The Feline Philosopher, a parody of the Old Philosopher. Lawrence recorded his dialogue for "Garfield and Friends" at one of the studios where he recorded for Paramount.