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Porky's Hero Agency

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Porky's Hero Agency is a 1937 Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones.

Plot[]

Porky is reading the story of the gorgon, a Greek myth about a woman who turned everyone she looked at into stone. His mother tells him it's time to go to bed. While he's asleep, he dreams of being a Greek hero known as Porkykarkus. In this version, the Gorgon runs a photo studio, and Porky is able to save by sneaking in and grabbing her life-restoring needle just before he wakes up.

Caricatures[]

  • Bill Comstock - The Gorgon is a parody of his character Lizzie Tish on Al Pearce's radio show.
  • Al Pearce's salesman character Elmer Blurt is a statue used as a doorstop
  • The Three Stooges make a cameo. When turned to stone, they resemble the famous "three wise monkeys" sculpture.
  • Dick Powell - as the Dick A. Powello statue

Availability[]

Streaming[]

Censorship[]

  • Versions shown on Cartoon Network (barring The Bob Clampett Show), Boomerang, and MeTV/MeTV Toons, cut all the scenes featuring the Gorgon's bodyguard (the guard pulling Porky in and forcing him in line and the guard telling Porky that he is next, with Porky fearfully picturing himself as a piggy bank) due to fears that the guard either looks like he is in blackface or is a stereotypical depiction of a black person. Unusually, these scenes were not cut when the short aired on Nickelodeon.[4]

Notes[]

  • This is one of the few times Porky is depicted as a child.
  • The name "Porkykarkus" is a parody of Parkyakarkus, a Greek stereotype who was the stage persona of comedian Harry Einstein.
  • The Emperor Jones is a 1920 Eugene O'Neill play and its 1933 film adaptation.
  • The Emperor's "fireside chat" is a nod to Franklin D. Roosevelt's weekly radio addresses.
  • The "bring-em-back-alive" needle is a pun on hunter Frank Buck's best-selling novel Bring 'Em Back Alive.
  • Bob Clampett and members of his animation unit (Chuck Jones, Lu Guarnier, Robert "Bobe" Cannon, John Carey and Ernest Gee), appear as statues placed together to form a human picket fence.
  • Porky gives the broken Venus de Milo statue a set of Popeye arms. The first few bars of Popeye's theme song are heard on the soundtrack.
  • Porky brings to life a Greek temple labeled "Shirley", a reference to child star Shirley Temple.
  • Carl Stalling's name is misspelled as Carl W. Stallings in the opening.
  • MeTV aired a previously unreleased restored print of the cartoon on Saturday Morning Cartoons.

Gallery[]

References[]

  1. ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries
  2. ↑ (3 October 2022) Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 (in en). BearManor Media, page 57. 
  3. ↑ https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/animator-breakdown-porkys-hero-agency-1937/
  4. ↑ https://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-p
Porky Pig Cartoons
1935 I Haven't Got a Hat • Gold Diggers of '49
1936 Plane Dippy • Alpine Antics • Boom Boom • The Blow Out • Westward Whoa • Fish Tales • Shanghaied Shipmates • Porky's Pet • Porky the Rain-Maker • Porky's Poultry Plant • Porky's Moving Day • Milk and Money • Little Beau Porky • The Village Smithy • Porky in the North Woods
1937 Porky the Wrestler • Porky's Road Race • Picador Porky • Porky's Romance • Porky's Duck Hunt • Porky and Gabby • Porky's Building • Porky's Super Service • Porky's Badtime Story • Porky's Railroad • Get Rich Quick Porky • Porky's Garden • Rover's Rival • The Case of the Stuttering Pig • Porky's Double Trouble • Porky's Hero Agency
1938 Porky's Poppa • Porky at the Crocadero • What Price Porky • Porky's Phoney Express • Porky's Five & Ten • Porky's Hare Hunt • Injun Trouble • Porky the Fireman • Porky's Party • Porky's Spring Planting • Porky & Daffy • Wholly Smoke • Porky in Wackyland • Porky's Naughty Nephew • Porky in Egypt • The Daffy Doc • Porky the Gob
1939 The Lone Stranger and Porky • It's an Ill Wind • Porky's Tire Trouble • Porky's Movie Mystery • Chicken Jitters • Porky and Teabiscuit • Kristopher Kolumbus Jr. • Polar Pals • Scalp Trouble • Old Glory • Porky's Picnic • Wise Quacks • Porky's Hotel • Jeepers Creepers • Naughty Neighbors • Pied Piper Porky • Porky the Giant Killer • The Film Fan
1940 Porky's Last Stand • Africa Squeaks • Ali-Baba Bound • Pilgrim Porky • Slap Happy Pappy • Porky's Poor Fish • You Ought to Be in Pictures • The Chewin' Bruin • Porky's Baseball Broadcast • Patient Porky • Calling Dr. Porky • Prehistoric Porky • The Sour Puss • Porky's Hired Hand • The Timid Toreador
1941 Porky's Snooze Reel • Porky's Bear Facts • Porky's Preview • Porky's Ant • A Coy Decoy • Porky's Prize Pony • Meet John Doughboy • We, the Animals - Squeak! • The Henpecked Duck • Notes to You • Robinson Crusoe Jr. • Porky's Midnight Matinee • Porky's Pooch
1942 Porky's Pastry Pirates • Who's Who in the Zoo • Porky's Cafe • Any Bonds Today? • My Favorite Duck
1943 Confusions of a Nutzy Spy • Yankee Doodle Daffy • Porky Pig's Feat • A Corny Concerto
1944 Tom Turk and Daffy • Tick Tock Tuckered • Swooner Crooner • Duck Soup to Nuts • Slightly Daffy • Brother Brat
1945 Trap Happy Porky • Wagon Heels
1946 Baby Bottleneck • Daffy Doodles • Kitty Kornered • The Great Piggy Bank Robbery • Mouse Menace
1947 One Meat Brawl • Little Orphan Airedale
1948 Daffy Duck Slept Here • Nothing but the Tooth • The Pest That Came to Dinner • Riff Raffy Daffy • Scaredy Cat
1949 Awful Orphan • Porky Chops • Paying the Piper • Daffy Duck Hunt • Curtain Razor • Often an Orphan • Dough for the Do-Do • Bye, Bye Bluebeard
1950 Boobs in the Woods • The Scarlet Pumpernickel • An Egg Scramble • Golden Yeggs • The Ducksters • Dog Collared
1951 The Wearing of the Grin • Drip-Along Daffy • The Prize Pest
1952 Thumb Fun • Cracked Quack • Fool Coverage
1953 Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
1954 Claws for Alarm • My Little Duckaroo
1955 Jumpin' Jupiter • Dime to Retire
1956 Rocket Squad • Deduce, You Say
1957 Boston Quackie
1958 Robin Hood Daffy
1959 China Jones
1961 Daffy's Inn Trouble
1964 Dumb Patrol
1965 Corn on the Cop
1966 Mucho Locos
1980 Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century
1996 Superior Duck
2004 My Generation G...G... Gap
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