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An Egg Scramble is a 1950 Merrie Melodies short directed by Robert McKimson.
Plot
Miss Prissy, a hen on Porky's farm, has never laid an egg in her life because she finds it "embarrassing". One of her fellow hen friends decides to paint Prissy's name on an egg and place it inside in Prissy's nest. Prissy believes that she laid the egg, and when Porky comes to take it for the market truck, she refuses to let him have it. Porky manages to grab the egg and gives it to the driver of the truck. Prissy is so determined to have "her egg" back that she follows the truck to the city. She finds the egg in the house of a woman named Marsha, grabs it, and flees. Convinced that the police are chasing her, Prissy hides out in a run-down building where an escaped criminal also happens to be hiding. At the end, the hens tell Porky one of them laid the egg, not Prissy. Despite the confession, the egg hatches into a chick that looks like Prissy.
Availability
- (1982) VHS - The Looney Tunes Video Show, Volume 2 (uncensored)
- (2005) DVD - Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3, Disc Three (uncensored)
Censorship
On most TV channels worldwide (including the Italian TV station Mediaset Italia 1, the Polish TV station Canal + Poland, and various Cartoon Network/Boomerang feeds only time airing this short actually had the line intact), a rather innocuous part where Porky says, "I give them the old needle once in a while". was cut.
Notes
- This short marks the first appearance of Miss Prissy.
- This short was later re-released in 1959 as a Blue Ribbon short.
- This is one of the only four post-1948 Looney Tunes shorts which were shown censored with a minor edit on the unrestored TV prints (even on the PAL masters) worldwide regardless of the TV channel. The other three are "Gonzales' Tamales", "Prince Violent" and "Devil's Feud Cake".
