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Porky's Garden is a 1937 Looney Tunes short directed by Tex Avery.

Plot[]

An agricultural farm is giving prizes for the person who makes the largest homegrown project. Porky and a rival neighbor both plan to win the agricultural farm prize, Porky with his garden and the neighbor with his chickens. Porky carefully plants a box of seeds, one by one, while the man is busy mixing a bunch of bottles of items together. Porky goes to retrieve something as the man puts the brand new mixture into the feeding bin for his chickens, but when they try it, they spit it out in disgust and seek food elsewhere. Porky grabs his bottle of quick grow, a hair tonic he hopes would work on his garden. To his amazement, it does, but he says nothing of it and heads inside his house.

The neighbor checks out his handy work and comments on it, allowing his chickens to come over and eat all of his fruits and vegetables. A little chick and a bigger chicken fight over a watermelon until it flings the chick away. The chick sadly retreats until it sees a bunch of spinach and decides to munch on it instead. The chick then comes back and punches the mean chicken before finishing the watermelon.

When his garden has almost entirely been eaten, Porky finally notices the chickens and tries to get rid of them. But alas no luck, so he yells at the neighbor to get them back into his yard but the neighbor claims he doesn't know how they got on Porky's property, then pretends to try and make them return. He then leaves while a sad Porky heads to his door, only to find a long vine and follow it to a giant Pumpkin!

When the chickens see it, they aim to grab it, so Porky brushes right through them all, not allowing any of them to make contact with it. He accidentally drops the pumpkin but catches it when he runs through his entire house. He runs straight for the country fair while the man summons his chicken back and leads them there. As the two of them show up, one of the workers is showing off the talent of a pill he has developed. He gives it to his elephant, turning it into a mouse.

As the neighbor leads his fat and fed chickens to the prize area. One of the bottles spills and the chickens eat all of the pills, making them grow twice their size. As he arrives, Porky is being awarded first prize. The judge immediately gives the prize to his neighbor instead. Suddenly the chickens shrink and revert to eggs!

The "iris out" is interrupted by Porky rightfully grabbing the prize money back from his Italian neighbor.

Television[]

  • Sunset Productions (1955-1968)
  • Porky Pig and Friends (1969-1990) redrawn colorized
  • Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon (1988-1999) redrawn colorized until 1991; computer colorized 1992 onward
  • Acme Hour [Cartoon Network] (1999-2003) computer colorized
  • The Bugs and Daffy Show [Cartoon Network] (1999-2004) computer colorized
  • The Porky Pig Show [Boomerang] (2000-2002) computer colorized
  • The Looney Tunes Show [Cartoon Network] (2001-2004) computer colorized
  • Looney Tunes on Boomerang (2003-2005; 2019-present Streaming) computer colorized
  • Toon In with Me [Me TV] (2021-present)

Availability[]

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Notes[]

  • This is the final cartoon to use Porky Signature theme on opening and closing titles.
  • This cartoon entered the public domain in 1965 as Sunset Productions, the copyright holder at the time, failed to renew the copyright in time.
  • When Porky puts down the box of seeds, it seems oddly placed, over-lapping the watering can.
  • The chick eating spinach and then changing is a thinly-veiled Popeye reference.
  • This cartoon's theme is a Looney Tunes theme from 1937, known as Porky Signature theme, but not "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down", which would be first used as the opening theme in "Rover's Rival". However, a few bars of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" are played when the Podunk fair is introduced. This predates the use of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" as the Looney Tunes theme, and is one of the earliest uses of this song in the Warner Brothers cartoons.
  • This is the last cartoon animated by Elmer Wait, who died about two months prior to its release.
    • It is also the last Looney Tune to end with the regular "That's All, Folks!" end card sequence until 1946.
  • MeTV aired a previously unreleased restored print of the cartoon on Toon In with Me.

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References[]

  1. ā†‘ http://likelylooneymostlymerrie.blogspot.com/2012/07/177-porkys-garden-1937.html
  2. ā†‘ (3 October 2022) Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 (in en). BearManor Media, page 55. 
Porky Pig Cartoons
1935 I Haven't Got a Hat ā€¢ Gold Diggers of '49
1936 Plane Dippy ā€¢ Alpine Antics ā€¢ The Phantom Ship ā€¢ Boom Boom ā€¢ The Blow Out ā€¢ Westward Whoa ā€¢ Fish Tales ā€¢ Shanghaied Shipmates ā€¢ Porky's Pet ā€¢ Porky the Rain-Maker ā€¢ Porky's Poultry Plant ā€¢ Porky's Moving Day ā€¢ Milk and Money ā€¢ Little Beau Porky ā€¢ The Village Smithy ā€¢ Porky in the North Woods ā€¢ Boulevardier from the Bronx
1937 Porky the Wrestler ā€¢ Porky's Road Race ā€¢ Picador Porky ā€¢ Porky's Romance ā€¢ Porky's Duck Hunt ā€¢ Porky and Gabby ā€¢ Porky's Building ā€¢ Porky's Super Service ā€¢ Porky's Badtime Story ā€¢ Porky's Railroad ā€¢ Get Rich Quick Porky ā€¢ Porky's Garden ā€¢ Rover's Rival ā€¢ The Case of the Stuttering Pig ā€¢ Porky's Double Trouble ā€¢ Porky's Hero Agency
1938 Porky's Poppa ā€¢ Porky at the Crocadero ā€¢ What Price Porky ā€¢ Porky's Phoney Express ā€¢ Porky's Five & Ten ā€¢ Porky's Hare Hunt ā€¢ Injun Trouble ā€¢ Porky the Fireman ā€¢ Porky's Party ā€¢ Porky's Spring Planting ā€¢ Porky & Daffy ā€¢ Wholly Smoke ā€¢ Porky in Wackyland ā€¢ Porky's Naughty Nephew ā€¢ Porky in Egypt ā€¢ The Daffy Doc ā€¢ Porky the Gob
1939 The Lone Stranger and Porky ā€¢ It's an Ill Wind ā€¢ Porky's Tire Trouble ā€¢ Porky's Movie Mystery ā€¢ Chicken Jitters ā€¢ Porky and Teabiscuit ā€¢ Kristopher Kolumbus Jr. ā€¢ Polar Pals ā€¢ Scalp Trouble ā€¢ Old Glory ā€¢ Porky's Picnic ā€¢ Wise Quacks ā€¢ Porky's Hotel ā€¢ Jeepers Creepers ā€¢ Naughty Neighbors ā€¢ Pied Piper Porky ā€¢ Porky the Giant Killer ā€¢ The Film Fan
1940 Porky's Last Stand ā€¢ Africa Squeaks ā€¢ Ali-Baba Bound ā€¢ Pilgrim Porky ā€¢ Slap Happy Pappy ā€¢ Porky's Poor Fish ā€¢ You Ought to Be in Pictures ā€¢ The Chewin' Bruin ā€¢ Porky's Baseball Broadcast ā€¢ Patient Porky ā€¢ Calling Dr. Porky ā€¢ Prehistoric Porky ā€¢ The Sour Puss ā€¢ Porky's Hired Hand ā€¢ The Timid Toreador
1941 Porky's Snooze Reel ā€¢ Porky's Bear Facts ā€¢ Porky's Preview ā€¢ Porky's Ant ā€¢ A Coy Decoy ā€¢ Porky's Prize Pony ā€¢ Meet John Doughboy ā€¢ We, the Animals - Squeak! ā€¢ The Henpecked Duck ā€¢ Notes to You ā€¢ Robinson Crusoe Jr. ā€¢ Porky's Midnight Matinee ā€¢ Porky's Pooch
1942 Porky's Pastry Pirates ā€¢ Who's Who in the Zoo ā€¢ Porky's Cafe ā€¢ Any Bonds Today? ā€¢ My Favorite Duck
1943 Confusions of a Nutzy Spy ā€¢ Yankee Doodle Daffy ā€¢ Porky Pig's Feat ā€¢ A Corny Concerto
1944 Tom Turk and Daffy ā€¢ Tick Tock Tuckered ā€¢ Swooner Crooner ā€¢ Duck Soup to Nuts ā€¢ Slightly Daffy ā€¢ Brother Brat
1945 Trap Happy Porky ā€¢ Wagon Heels
1946 Baby Bottleneck ā€¢ Daffy Doodles ā€¢ Kitty Kornered ā€¢ The Great Piggy Bank Robbery ā€¢ Mouse Menace
1947 One Meat Brawl ā€¢ Little Orphan Airedale
1948 Daffy Duck Slept Here ā€¢ Nothing but the Tooth ā€¢ The Pest That Came to Dinner ā€¢ Riff Raffy Daffy ā€¢ Scaredy Cat
1949 Awful Orphan ā€¢ Porky Chops ā€¢ Paying the Piper ā€¢ Daffy Duck Hunt ā€¢ Curtain Razor ā€¢ Often an Orphan ā€¢ Dough for the Do-Do ā€¢ Bye, Bye Bluebeard
1950 Boobs in the Woods ā€¢ The Scarlet Pumpernickel ā€¢ An Egg Scramble ā€¢ Golden Yeggs ā€¢ The Ducksters ā€¢ Dog Collared
1951 The Wearing of the Grin ā€¢ Drip-Along Daffy ā€¢ The Prize Pest
1952 Thumb Fun ā€¢ Cracked Quack ā€¢ Fool Coverage
1953 Duck Dodgers in the 24Ā½th Century
1954 Claws for Alarm ā€¢ My Little Duckaroo
1955 Jumpin' Jupiter ā€¢ Dime to Retire
1956 Rocket Squad ā€¢ Deduce, You Say
1957 Boston Quackie
1958 Robin Hood Daffy
1959 China Jones
1961 Daffy's Inn Trouble
1965 Corn on the Cop
1966 Mucho Locos
1980 Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24Ā½th Century
1996 Superior Duck
2004 My Generation G...G... Gap
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