The Pest That Came to Dinner is a 1948 Looney Tunes short directed by Arthur Davis.
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The title is a pun on the 1939 play The Man Who Came to Dinner and its 1942 film adaptation.
Plot[]
Porky's house is under attack by Pierre, the biggest and hungriest termite in the world, and nothing Porky can do will save his house. When he can't exterminate the termite himself, he goes to a shyster called I.M.A. Sureshot from Sureshot Exterminating Co. who offers him a series of unsuccessful methods to remove the termite, such as firing an insecticide squirt gun on the termite, using a vacuum cleaner to suck up the termite, flooding up the baseboards where the termite lives with a water hose, and using a TNT stick. Porky eventually gets fed-up with the constant failures in getting rid of Pierre, and teams up with Pierre to eat up all the furniture in Sureshot Exterminating Co.
Porky and Pierre become good friends, take over Sureshot Exterminating Co., and open their own company called Porky and Pierre Antique Furniture.
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- Along with "You Were Never Duckier" and "Hot Cross Bunny", this short was supposed to be in the pre-1948 cartoon package due to production numbers, being before "Haredevil Hare". As the cartoon was released after July of 1948, the cartoon instead remained in the hands of Warner Bros.
- This is one in a handful of shorts released in 1948 to have the red opening and ending rings.
- This is the last cartoon with the byline "IN TECHNICOLOR". Starting with "Haredevil Hare", Warner started using the byline "Color by TECHNICOLOR".
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- [1] (Restored version over here)