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Porky's Tire Trouble is a 1939 Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett.

Plot[]

Porky works at the Snappy Rubber Company. His dog, Flat Foot Flookey, sneaks out of his doghouse and waltz on his way to Porky's job, despite the company not allowing dogs. Once Porky notices that Flookey has walked all the way to his workplace, Porky tells him to not come in lest he wants to get fired and ties his tail to a car. This does not stop Flookey from trying to get into the workplace, as he manages to dig himself inside the business.

Porky's boss, a walrus, exclaims that Porky must immediately get to work. The tire company produces tires by pulling out rubber from rubber trees, having the crane chew up the rubber, and then spat out onto a large waffle iron which produces the tires. As Porky is stacking tires, Flookey comes inside, still carrying the car with his tail. Porky notices Flookey, but the dog runs off released from the car and causes a mess over the factory, including falling into vat of rubberizing solution where the dog plays around with his face and forms his head of several caricatures. Eventually, he gets stuck in a funneled bottle and is launched into a staircase, forming his body into the shape of the steps.

As Porky's boss tries to store the tires, he walks over the dog's staircase body, but does not realize there is no floor past the top and falls. Angered that Porky has let a dog in the workplace, the boss tries to throw out the dog of the workplace. However, all attempts result in the dog bouncing back at the walrus from hitting a tree, and the final attempt where he lightly releases the dog then quickly close the front door also backfires, knocking the boss into the waffle iron. The walrus escapes the iron to reveal that his body is now tire-shaped, much to his dismay.

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  • The name of Porky's dog, Flat Foot Flookey, is a reference to the popular 1938 jazz song "Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)".
  • Another character called Flatfoot Flookie appears in a Detective Daffy story by Gold Key Comics, but he was a fictional human sleuth and not a dog as in this short.
  • On the fence next to Porky's house, there is a poster for “Ice Foolies also Looney Tunes”.
  • The opening theme of this short was incorrectly used over the openings of a few black-and-white Porky shorts on the Porky Pig 101 DVD release, such as "Chicken Jitters" and "Calling Dr. Porky", due to audio issues with their interpositives.

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Porky Pig Cartoons
1935 I Haven't Got a HatGold Diggers of '49
1936 Plane DippyAlpine AnticsThe Phantom ShipBoom BoomThe Blow OutWestward WhoaFish TalesShanghaied ShipmatesPorky's PetPorky the Rain-MakerPorky's Poultry PlantPorky's Moving DayMilk and MoneyLittle Beau PorkyThe Village SmithyPorky in the North Woods
1937 Porky the WrestlerPorky's Road RacePicador PorkyPorky's RomancePorky's Duck HuntPorky and GabbyPorky's BuildingPorky's Super ServicePorky's Badtime StoryPorky's RailroadGet Rich Quick PorkyPorky's GardenRover's RivalThe Case of the Stuttering PigPorky's Double TroublePorky's Hero Agency
1938 Porky's PoppaPorky at the CrocaderoWhat Price PorkyPorky's Phoney ExpressPorky's Five & TenPorky's Hare HuntInjun TroublePorky the FiremanPorky's PartyPorky's Spring PlantingPorky & DaffyWholly SmokePorky in WackylandPorky's Naughty NephewPorky in EgyptThe Daffy DocPorky the Gob
1939 The Lone Stranger and PorkyIt's an Ill WindPorky's Tire TroublePorky's Movie MysteryChicken JittersPorky and TeabiscuitKristopher Kolumbus Jr.Polar PalsScalp TroubleOld GloryPorky's PicnicWise QuacksPorky's HotelJeepers CreepersNaughty NeighborsPied Piper PorkyPorky the Giant KillerThe Film Fan
1940 Porky's Last StandAfrica SqueaksAli-Baba BoundPilgrim PorkySlap Happy PappyPorky's Poor FishYou Ought to Be in PicturesThe Chewin' BruinPorky's Baseball BroadcastPatient PorkyCalling Dr. PorkyPrehistoric PorkyThe Sour PussPorky's Hired HandThe Timid Toreador
1941 Porky's Snooze ReelPorky's Bear FactsPorky's PreviewPorky's AntA Coy DecoyPorky's Prize PonyMeet John DoughboyWe, the Animals - Squeak!The Henpecked DuckNotes to YouRobinson Crusoe Jr.Porky's Midnight MatineePorky's Pooch
1942 Porky's Pastry PiratesWho's Who in the ZooPorky's CafeAny Bonds Today?My Favorite Duck
1943 Confusions of a Nutzy SpyYankee Doodle DaffyPorky Pig's FeatA Corny Concerto
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
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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