Porky's Last Stand is a 1940 Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett.
Plot[]
The top part of Porky's stand pops open to reveal many chickens and chicks (plus one duck) singing together one lovely morning. Inside Porky is busy making pancakes on the giant stove and he sings with them. Daffy is in the middle of cleaning the dishes and he too dances while he works. He then proceeds to throw a bunch of them up into the air and they shatter.
Going to the front of the room, a man asks for a good hamburger and Daffy goes into the back room to get it. Daffy opens up the storage to find the mice have left him a note that reads: "Greetings Gate! You're a wee bit late. Signed the mice." So Daffy panics while trying to contemplate about what to do.
Meanwhile, Porky goes to prepare a cup of coffee for a customer and he takes it to him, then goes to the fridge to get something. He picks up a chicken and takes the eggs beneath it and prepares to cook them. But upon cracking the second one open, he sees a little chick who dances around the skillet due to how hot it is. He then runs back underneath the chicken to hide and puts a "do not disturb" sign on it.
Daffy resumes panicking and trying to find a way to quickly get some hamburger when he sees a creature in the distance and looks to see a tiny and frail little cow before grabbing the nearby mallet and he goes to get some meat. Daffy trails behind it and into the nearby barn and he begins to yank its tail. It's then Daffy sees he really grabbed a big, angry bull. He smiles worriedly and is quick to run back to the restaurant where he meets Porky and tries to tell him about the bull. Porky manages to close the door at the last second and the bull begins to walk away, then forces himself right through the restaurant while chasing Porky.
As the bull goes to turn around, Porky quickly swings down from the branch he came across and he runs back back to the cafe to find Daffy waving a red cloth, trying to get the bulls attention onto him instead. Daffy then moves the red cloth away to reveal Porky hiding. To avoid being hurt, Porky digs a hole into the ground and the bull goes flying into the restaurant.
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Goofs[]
- As the little chick runs about on the pan, the first egg next to it vanishes.
Notes[]
- The song "Start the Day Right" from this cartoon, would be partially sung again by Porky in "Porky's Cafe", heard as an underscore for the title card music of "Dog Gone South", and later sung by Bugs Bunny in "To Hare Is Human".
- Daffy sings a variation of "Plenty of Money and You" entitled "Plenty of Gravy on You" when chasing the calf, which is the same variation used in the 1937 short "Plenty of Money and You".
- The "Greetings Gate" note references a catchphrase of Jerry Colonna.
- This is the first Warner Bros. cartoon to be released in the 1940s.
- This is the second and final cartoon where Daffy appears in his short-lived design from "Wise Quacks"; beginning from "You Ought to Be in Pictures" Daffy's grey face surrounding his eyes is removed.
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References[]
- ↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries 1967
- ↑ (3 October 2022) Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2 (in en). BearManor Media.