Porky's Baseball Broadcast is a 1940 Looney Tunes short directed by Friz Freleng.
Plot
Porky is a baseball broadcaster. The game is Giants vs. Red Sox during the final match of the World Series. The gags consist of an umpire that is blind, a bat boy that is actually a bat, the catcher's right hand turtle, and the Giants' pitcher is actually a giant, resulting in a victory for the team.
A running gag saw a man trying to find his seat. He found his seat at the end but it was behind a post. The man ripped it off in anger at the end.
Caricatures
Availability
Knute Rockne, All American
Porky Pig 101, Disc 4
Streaming
Censorship
In Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Nickelodeon and MeTV airings, the scene where Porky mentions "the scalpers" having a big day, followed by a scene featuring American Indians chasing after baseball patrons with tomahawks was cut (while Porky's actual line was left in on the former three channels, the scene where patrons run from whooping American Indians with tomahawks was cut). Cartoon Network initially aired this short with the "scalpers" joke in both the black and white version and the colorized version. Beginning in 2001, however, the scene was edited and has been that way on the channel and Boomerang ever since.[2]
Notes
- Certain scenes of the ballgame were reused from "Boulevardier from the Bronx", including the base-stretching dachshund, and the fast-talking turtle.
- The "screaming liner" joke was later reused in Freleng's "Baseball Bugs", with slightly different animation.
- MeTV aired a previously unreleased re-restored print of the cartoon on Toon In with Me. This restoration was later made available on WarnerMedia RIDE, with the Native American scene uncut and uncensored.
Gallery
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