Porky's Poppa is a 1938 Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett and Chuck Jones.
Plot
"Old McDonald" plays at Porky Pig's Poppa's farm. It's beast vs. machine when Porky's Poppa's cow stops producing milk and forces him to order an ACME Creamlined Cow.
Caricatures
- Bull Montana - as Bull Bontana
- Tony Labriola - "Oh, yeah."
Availability
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5, Disc 4 (restored)
Porky Pig 101, Disc 2 (restored)
Streaming
Censorship
The Nickelodeon version of this cartoon cuts the part where, as Bessie is "birthing" bottles of milk, one of them turns out to be a bottle of chocolate milk with "I Wish I Was in Dixie" plays in the background and Bessie and Porky bashfully look away (the joke being that Bessie "birthed" a black child and, back when this cartoon was made, a white woman birthing a black child was considered socially taboo).[2] Cartoon Network (both on and off The Bob Clampett Show), Boomerang, and MeTV have aired this uncut.
Notes
- This is the final short where Chuck Jones was an assistant director; eventually he would become an official director after Tashlin's departure later in 1938.
- This is also the final short to use the alternate version of the 1937-38 opening theme of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" since "Porky's Double Trouble".
- During the computer-colorized version, the final two shots are from the redrawn colorzied version.
- Part of this would later be used in Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars.
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