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Picador Porky is a 1937 Looney Tunes short directed by Fred Avery.
Plot
Porky and his two friends are in a Mexican town. It just so happens that this the same day as the annual bull fight. They are told that the winner will get one thousand dollars. They decide that Porky will be a bullfighter, and his two friends will be the bull. When Porky enters the ring he doesn't fight his friends, but a real bull.
Availability
(2017) DVD
Porky Pig 101, Disc 1 (incorrectly uses opening theme from "Porky's Tire Trouble" and wrong closing titles)
Porky Pig 101, Disc 1 (incorrectly uses opening theme from "Porky's Tire Trouble" and wrong closing titles)
Notes
- This is the first cartoon to feature the voice of Mel Blanc. He performs the voices of Porky's friends when they get drunk and several incidental characters.
- Porky would bullfight again three years later in his future cartoon "The Timid Toreador".
- MeTV aired a previously unreleased restored print of this short on Saturday Morning Cartoons.
Quotes
- Drunk Character: Hiccup! La-cockaroacha! La-cucaracha! Hiccup! Play it on the ol' guitar! Hiccup! La-cockarocha! Play it any place ya are! Hiccup! La-cockaroacha! Yippee! Play it on the ol' guitar! Hiccup! La-cockaroacha! Play it wherever ya happen to be! Hiccup! La-cockaroacha! Hiccup! Yahoo! La-cockaroacha! Play it on the ol' guitar! Hiccup! Yippee! Play the old cockaroacha! Hiccup! Play it any place ya are! Hiccup!
Gallery
Title card (restored from MeTV airing)
Lobby card
"It's us!"
"Take it easy, b-b-b-boys. That was c-c-c-close!"
Screenshot of the 2021 restoration from MeTV
Porky's model sheet
