Porky Pig 101 is a five-disc DVD set containing all 99 black and white Porky Pig cartoons and two of Porky's appearances in the Technicolor Merrie Melodies cartoons that was released by Warner Archive on September 19, 2017.[1]
This set includes cartoons dating from 1935's "I Haven't Got a Hat" to 1943's "Porky Pig's Feat", all presented in original release order.[2] It also includes several bonus features and audio commentary on key cartoons from animation historians Greg Ford, Michael Barrier, Jerry Beck, and Mark Kausler, among others.[3]
Contrary to popular belief, the new-to-DVD titles are not restored, and use television print interpositives.[4] Because of this, some of the titles are missing and some of the opening and ending music as well as the titles are incorrect.[5]
Contents
Disc 1
- "I Haven't Got a Hat"
- "Gold Diggers of '49"
- "Boom Boom" (unrestored)
- "Alpine Antics"
- "The Blow Out" (unrestored)
- "Westward Whoa" (unrestored)
- "Plane Dippy" (unrestored)
- "Fish Tales" (unrestored)
- "Shanghaied Shipmates" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Pet" (unrestored)
- "Porky the Rain-Maker" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Poultry Plant"
- "Porky's Moving Day" (unrestored)
- "Milk and Money"
- "Little Beau Porky"
- "The Village Smithy" (unrestored)
- "Porky in the North Woods"
- "Porky the Wrestler" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Road Race"
- "Picador Porky" (unrestored)
Bonus Features
- Audio Commentaries:
- "I Haven't Got a Hat" by Jerry Beck
- "Porky's Poultry Plant" by Michael Barrier
- "Porky in the North Woods" by Mark Kausler
Disc 2
- "Porky's Romance"
- "Porky's Duck Hunt"
- "Porky and Gabby" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Building" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Super Service" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Badtime Story" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Railroad"
- "Get Rich Quick Porky" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Garden" (unrestored)
- "Rover's Rival" (unrestored)
- "The Case of the Stuttering Pig"
- "Porky's Double Trouble"
- "Porky's Hero Agency" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Poppa"
- "Porky at the Crocadero"
- "What Price Porky"
- "Porky's Phoney Express" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Five & Ten" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Hare Hunt"
- "Injun Trouble" (1938) (unrestored)
Bonus Features
- Audio Commentaries:
- "Porky's Romance" and "The Case of the Stuttering Pig" by Mark Kausler
- "Porky at the Crocadero" by Daniel Goldmark
Disc 3
- "Porky the Fireman"
- "Porky's Party"
- "Porky's Spring Planting" (unrestored)
- "Porky & Daffy" (unrestored)
- "Wholly Smoke"
- "Porky in Wackyland"
- "Porky's Naughty Nephew" (unrestored)
- "Porky in Egypt"
- "The Daffy Doc"
- "Porky the Gob" (unrestored)
- "The Lone Stranger and Porky" (unrestored)
- "It's an Ill Wind" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Tire Trouble" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Movie Mystery" (unrestored)
- "Chicken Jitters" (unrestored)
- "Porky and Teabiscuit"
- "Kristopher Kolumbus Jr." (unrestored)
- "Polar Pals"
- "Scalp Trouble" (unrestored)
- "Old Glory"
Bonus Features
- Audio Commentaries:
- "Porky's Party" by Eddie Fitzgerald and John Kricfalusi
- "Wholly Smoke" by Daniel Goldmark
- "Porky in Wackyland" by Michael Barrier
- "The Daffy Doc" by Mark Kausler
- "Old Glory" by Jerry Beck and Martha Sigall
- "Porky's Party" Storyboard
Disc 4
- "Porky's Picnic" (unrestored)
- "Wise Quacks"
- "Porky's Hotel" (unrestored)
- "Jeepers Creepers" (unrestored)
- "Naughty Neighbors" (unrestored)
- "Pied Piper Porky" (unrestored)
- "Porky the Giant Killer" (unrestored)
- "The Film Fan"
- "Porky's Last Stand" (unrestored)
- "Africa Squeaks" (unrestored)
- "Ali-Baba Bound" (unrestored)
- "Pilgrim Porky"
- "Slap Happy Pappy" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Poor Fish"
- "You Ought to Be in Pictures"
- "The Chewin' Bruin" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Baseball Broadcast" (unrestored)
- "Patient Porky" (unrestored)
- "Calling Dr. Porky" (unrestored)
- "Prehistoric Porky"
Bonus Features
- Audio Commentaries:
- "You Ought to Be in Pictures" by Jerry Beck
- "Porky's Poor Fish" Storyboard
Disc 5
- "The Sour Puss"
- "Porky's Hired Hand" (unrestored)
- "The Timid Toreador" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Snooze Reel" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Bear Facts" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Preview"
- "Porky's Ant" (unrestored)
- "A Coy Decoy" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Prize Pony" (unrestored)
- "Meet John Doughboy"
- "We, the Animals - Squeak!" (unrestored)
- "The Henpecked Duck" (unrestored)
- "Notes to You" (unrestored)
- "Robinson Crusoe Jr." (unrestored)
- "Porky's Midnight Matinee" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Pooch"
- "Porky's Pastry Pirates" (unrestored)
- "Who's Who in the Zoo" (unrestored)
- "Porky's Cafe" (unrestored)
- "Confusions of a Nutzy Spy" (unrestored)
- "Porky Pig's Feat"
Bonus Features
- Audio Commentaries:
- Porky's Breakdowns
Notes
- The DVD box art is loosely based on the 1940-1941 "Porky In Drum" Looney Tunes opening title card, rendered in black-and-white form.
- While all the cartoons in this DVD set are all uncut, uncensored, and presented in their original format (color or black-and-white depending on the cartoon), there are a few minor flaws on the presentations. This is mostly a result of the new-to-DVD shorts using unrestored prints.
- Both "Porky the Wrestler" and "Porky's Movie Mystery" retain their abrupt cuts that were thought to be from television, but are most likely edits done before the shorts were theatrically released.
- Despite "Patient Porky" having already been fully restored and remastered on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5 DVD set, the short featured in this DVD set is an unrestored print.
- Disc 5 had the largest number of public domain cartoons, at 26. Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6 DVD has the second most number of public domain cartoons, at 14.
Goofs
- There are incorrect music cues in the following shorts:
- "Fish Tales" (Incorrectly use the the 1939-1940 variant of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" with the opening theme from "Rover's Rival".)
- "Westward Whoa" (Incorrectly use the the 1939-1940 variant of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down".)
- "Porky the Wrestler" (Incorrectly uses the closing titles from "Little Beau Porky" spliced onto the cartoon.)
- "Picador Porky" (Incorrectly uses the opening theme from "Porky's Tire Trouble" and a different closing theme taken from another cartoon.)
- "Get Rich Quick Porky" (Incorrectly uses the opening theme from "Confusions of a Nutzy Spy" and a different closing theme taken from another cartoon.)
- "Porky’s Garden" (Incorrectly uses the opening theme from "Porky's Tire Trouble".)
- "The Lone Stranger and Porky" (Incorrectly uses the opening theme from "Porky's Tire Trouble".)
- "Chicken Jitters" (Incorrectly uses the opening theme from "Porky's Tire Trouble".)
- "Naughty Neighbors" (Incorrectly uses the opening theme from "Porky's Tire Trouble" played twice.)
- "Porky the Giant Killer" (Incorrectly uses the opening theme from "Porky's Tire Trouble".)
- "Calling Dr. Porky" (Incorrectly uses the opening theme from "Porky's Tire Trouble".)
- "Porky’s Hired Hand" (Incorrectly uses the opening theme from "Porky's Tire Trouble".)
- "Porky's Ant" (Incorrectly uses the 1937 "Porky Signature" theme from "Porky's Railroad".)
- "Porky's Prize Pony" (Incorrectly uses the 1937 "Porky Signature" theme from "Porky's Railroad".)
- "Notes to You" (Incorrectly uses the 1937 "Porky Signature" theme from "Porky's Railroad".)
- "Robinson Crusoe Jr." (Incorrectly uses the 1937 "Porky Signature" theme from "Porky's Railroad".)
- "Porky's Midnight Matinee" (Incorrectly uses the 1937 "Porky Signature" theme from "Porky's Railroad".)
- "Porky's Cafe" (Incorrectly uses the 1937 "Porky Signature" theme from "Porky's Railroad".)
- "Confusions of a Nutzy Spy" (Closes with the the 1936-1937 Looney Tunes closing title with the 1937-1938 ending theme playing over it, with Porky's signature line "T-t-t-that's all Folks!" being cut out. Note: Porky's signature line is uncut on Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6, Disc 2)
- Other errors:
- Near the very end of "Shanghaied Shipmates", where the crew is whipping the villain swimming in the ocean, there are two noticeable glitches on the frames where random squares are on the screen for unknown reasons.
- "Porky and Gabby" has two splices, the first being literally a jump splice from the credits to action, and the second near the end of the closing titles.
- "Porky's Cafe" has one splice shown after the opening of the cartoon.
- Several cartoons have the zooming-in of the WB opening shield cut-off (as well as a small part of the opening music cue), such as "Porky and Daffy".
- Several cartoons are slightly cropped at the edges, such as "It's an Ill Wind", where, on the title card, the edges of the quote marks being slightly cut off on the title of the cartoon.