Porky's Pooch

Porky's Pooch
← Previous	Wabbit Twouble
Next →	Hop, Skip and a Chump
Airdate:	27 December 1941
Series:	Looney Tunes
MPAA Number:	7517
Production Number:	LT-1-12
Vitaphone Number:	176
Runtime:	7 minutes, 7 seconds
Starring:	Porky Pig Rover
Crew
Voice Characterizations:	Mel Blanc (uncredited)
Director:	Robert Clampett
Written By:	Warren Foster
Producer:	Leon Schlesinger
Animated By:	I. Ellis John Carey (uncredited) Vive Risto (uncredited) Cal Dalton (uncredited)
Film Editor:	Treg Brown (uncredited)
Musician:	Carl W. Stalling

Porky's Pooch is a 1941 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert Clampett.

Plot

A Scottish dog, Sandy, starves as he asks his friend Rover what he's doing in a car. Rover goes along telling him how he got a master. He goes up to Porky's apartment room while he's taking a bath. He puts on a towel and answers it. Rover walks in and says "Look chum, you ain't got no dog and I ain't got no master! It's official that we should get together!" Porky says as he kicks Rover out, "Sorry, but I don't want a dog!" Rover bangs on the door and Porky gets it. Rover says, "And I'm very affectionate too!" then kisses Porky. Porky walks over to the edge of the floor carrying Rover then drops him down the stairs. He runs back to his room panting along with Rover standing by him. Then Rover flicks Porky's snout and dresses up like Carmen Miranda and sings "Mi Caballero", by M.K. Jerome and Jack Scholl. Porky kicks him out again. Rover walks back in yelling "HEY! I can take a hint, you don't want me! Nobody wants me!" He walks over to the window. "Farewell cruel woild," he says. He pretends to jump. Porky runs over. He looks and sees Rover laying on the edge. He says, "Lose somethin' Bud?" Porky shuts the window while Rover's pretending that he's going to fall. But he actually falls. Porky runs down the stairs and tries to catch him. He misses! He cries "Oh puppy, s-speak to me, oh puppy!" Rover wakes up and says "Gosh! I didn't know ya cared!", then kisses Porky and imitates Lou Costello's catchphrase "I'm a baaad boy!"

Caricatures

• Carmen Miranda
• Lou Costello - "I'm a baaad boy!"

Availability

(2000) VHS
Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition Volume 10: Canine Corps

(2007) DVD
The Bride Came C.O.D.

(2007) DVD
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5, Disc Three

(2007) DVD
Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 5, Disc 2

(2008) DVD
The Great Lie

(2014) DVD
Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volumes 4-5 Repack

(2017) DVD
Porky Pig 101, Disc 5

Streaming

HBO Max (2020 - 2023)

Max (2023 - 2024)

Notes

• The premise was re-worked for Chuck Jones' 1947 short, "Little Orphan Airedale".
• This was one of the few black-and-white cartoons from the Sunset Productions/Guild Films package that Cartoon Network continued to air a redrawn-colorized print regularly. Others included "Wholly Smoke", "Jeepers Creepers", "Porky's Bear Facts", "Fish Tales", "Injun Trouble", "Kristopher Kolumbus Jr.", "Chicken Jitters", "Daffy's Southern Exposure", and "Puss n' Booty".
• This is the last short Bob Clampett directed using his old unit, which would ultimately be inherited by Norm McCabe the same year. Clampett directed shorts using Tex Avery's former unit from this point foreword.
• This cartoon entered the public domain in 1969 as the holder at the time, Warner Bros.-Seven Arts, did not renew the copyright in time.
• Some of the backgrounds in this cartoon are live-action shots of New York City and Los Angeles.
• The hotel in which Porky stays is called Termite Terrace, an informal name for the Warner Bros. cartoon studio coined by Tex Avery's crew.

Gallery

Lobby card

Model sheet