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Porky's Poor Fish is a 1940 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert Clampett.

Plot[]

A mouse whistles and walks by, but, unknown to him, a hungry cat is following him. The cat follows the mouse around the fence and attempts to go for him, but the mouse goes through a mousehole, and the cat crashes into bottles, and he taps his fingers in defeat. Later, Porky, the owner of a fish store, and his fish sing about the store to the tune of "Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be?" Soon it is lunchtime, and naturally Porky goes out to lunch. He even puts up a sign to inform the customers. While he's out, the cat walks by and decides to come in and take a fish and eat it for himself, but the fish take notice and plan to attack him. The electric eels inform a turtle in another tank, and the turtle makes like Paul Revere and informs the other fish. The fish do indeed attack him from all sides and in different ways. For instance, the eels shock him, and a mussel clam with the arms of Popeye the Sailor punches the cat. That makes him leave the store in fear, just as Porky returns. After the cat is scared out, the mouse appears. The cat tries to eat it, but the mouse turns monstrous, scaring the cat and shrinking him into a crying kitten as the mouse walks away.

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Notes[]

  • The "Twenty Thousand Leaks Under the Ceiling" book is a play on the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.
  • The scene with the dancing octopus is reused from "Porky's Five & Ten", while the scene with the hatching fish soldiers is reused from similar scenes in "What Price Porky" (chicks) and "Naughty Neighbors" (ducklings).
  • Three sequences from the storyboard got cut from the finished short, which include a view of a mama fish and three little fishes, a "dog fish" and "cat fishes," a dance number from a turtle, and an alternative scene in which the cat tries to steal a fish hiding behind a lobster, but the other fishes find out and the flying fishes attack using light bulbs as bombs.[3]
  • Vitaphone release number: 9372

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References[]

  1. Catalog of Copyright Entries
  2. Scott, Keith (20 September 2022). Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2. BearManor Media. ISBN 979-8887710112. 
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27oI5txLqxg
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1942 Porky's Pastry PiratesWho's Who in the ZooPorky's CafeAny Bonds Today?My Favorite Duck
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1944 Tom Turk and DaffyTick Tock TuckeredSwooner CroonerDuck Soup to NutsSlightly DaffyBrother Brat
1945 Trap Happy PorkyWagon Heels
1946 Baby BottleneckDaffy DoodlesKitty KorneredThe Great Piggy Bank RobberyMouse Menace
1947 One Meat BrawlLittle Orphan Airedale
1948 Daffy Duck Slept HereNothing but the ToothThe Pest That Came to DinnerRiff Raffy DaffyScaredy Cat
1949 Awful OrphanPorky ChopsPaying the PiperDaffy Duck HuntCurtain RazorOften an OrphanDough for the Do-DoBye, Bye Bluebeard
1950 Boobs in the WoodsThe Scarlet PumpernickelAn Egg ScrambleGolden YeggsThe DuckstersDog Collared
1951 The Wearing of the GrinDrip-Along DaffyThe Prize Pest
1952 Thumb FunCracked QuackFool Coverage
1953 Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
1954 Claws for AlarmMy Little Duckaroo
1955 Jumpin' JupiterDime to Retire
1956 Rocket SquadDeduce, 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 24½th Century
1996 Superior Duck
2004 My Generation G...G... Gap
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