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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

  1. Merrie Melodies "I Haven't Got a Hat"
  2. Looney Tunes "Gold Diggers of '49"
  3. Looney Tunes "Boom BoomPublic domain (unrestored)
  4. Looney Tunes "Alpine Antics"
  5. Looney Tunes "The Blow Out" (unrestored)
  6. Looney Tunes "Westward WhoaPublic domain (unrestored)
  7. Looney Tunes "Plane Dippy" (unrestored)
  8. Looney Tunes "Fish Tales" (unrestored)
  9. Looney Tunes "Shanghaied Shipmates" (unrestored)
  10. Looney Tunes "Porky's Pet" (unrestored)
  11. Looney Tunes "Porky the Rain-Maker" (unrestored)
  12. Looney Tunes "Porky's Poultry Plant"
  13. Looney Tunes "Porky's Moving Day" (unrestored)
  14. Looney Tunes "Milk and Money"
  15. Looney Tunes "Little Beau Porky"
  16. Looney Tunes "The Village Smithy" (unrestored)
  17. Looney Tunes "Porky in the North Woods"
  18. Looney Tunes "Porky the Wrestler" (unrestored)
  19. Looney Tunes "Porky's Road Race"
  20. Looney Tunes "Picador Porky" (unrestored)

Bonus Features

Disc 2

  1. Looney Tunes "Porky's Romance"
  2. Looney Tunes "Porky's Duck Hunt"
  3. Looney Tunes "Porky and Gabby" (unrestored)
  4. Looney Tunes "Porky's Building" (unrestored)
  5. Looney Tunes "Porky's Super Service" (unrestored)
  6. Looney Tunes "Porky's Badtime Story" (unrestored)
  7. Looney Tunes "Porky's RailroadPublic domain
  8. Looney Tunes "Get Rich Quick PorkyPublic domain (unrestored)
  9. Looney Tunes "Porky's GardenPublic domain (unrestored)
  10. Looney Tunes "Rover's Rival" (unrestored)
  11. Looney Tunes "The Case of the Stuttering Pig"
  12. Looney Tunes "Porky's Double Trouble"
  13. Looney Tunes "Porky's Hero Agency" (unrestored)
  14. Looney Tunes "Porky's Poppa"
  15. Looney Tunes "Porky at the Crocadero"
  16. Looney Tunes "What Price Porky"
  17. Looney Tunes "Porky's Phoney Express" (unrestored)
  18. Looney Tunes "Porky's Five & Ten" (unrestored)
  19. Looney Tunes "Porky's Hare Hunt"
  20. Looney Tunes "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

  1. Looney Tunes "Porky the Fireman"
  2. Looney Tunes "Porky's Party"
  3. Looney Tunes "Porky's Spring Planting" (unrestored)
  4. Looney Tunes "Porky & Daffy" (unrestored)
  5. Looney Tunes "Wholly Smoke"
  6. Looney Tunes "Porky in Wackyland"
  7. Looney Tunes "Porky's Naughty Nephew" (unrestored)
  8. Looney Tunes "Porky in Egypt"
  9. Looney Tunes "The Daffy Doc"
  10. Looney Tunes "Porky the Gob" (unrestored)
  11. Looney Tunes "The Lone Stranger and Porky" (unrestored)
  12. Looney Tunes "It's an Ill Wind" (unrestored)
  13. Looney Tunes "Porky's Tire Trouble" (unrestored)
  14. Looney Tunes "Porky's Movie Mystery" (unrestored)
  15. Looney Tunes "Chicken Jitters" (unrestored)
  16. Looney Tunes "Porky and Teabiscuit"
  17. Looney Tunes "Kristopher Kolumbus Jr." (unrestored)
  18. Looney Tunes "Polar Pals"
  19. Looney Tunes "Scalp Trouble" (unrestored)
  20. Merrie Melodies "Old GloryBlue Ribbon

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

  1. Looney Tunes "Porky's Picnic" (unrestored)
  2. Looney Tunes "Wise Quacks"
  3. Looney Tunes "Porky's Hotel" (unrestored)
  4. Looney Tunes "Jeepers Creepers" (unrestored)
  5. Looney Tunes "Naughty Neighbors" (unrestored)
  6. Looney Tunes "Pied Piper Porky" (unrestored)
  7. Looney Tunes "Porky the Giant Killer" (unrestored)
  8. Looney Tunes "The Film Fan"
  9. Looney Tunes "Porky's Last Stand" (unrestored)
  10. Looney Tunes "Africa Squeaks" (unrestored)
  11. Looney Tunes "Ali-Baba BoundPublic domain (unrestored)
  12. Looney Tunes "Pilgrim Porky"
  13. Looney Tunes "Slap Happy Pappy" (unrestored)
  14. Looney Tunes "Porky's Poor Fish"
  15. Looney Tunes "You Ought to Be in Pictures"
  16. Looney Tunes "The Chewin' Bruin" (unrestored)
  17. Looney Tunes "Porky's Baseball Broadcast" (unrestored)
  18. Looney Tunes "Patient Porky" (unrestored)
  19. Looney Tunes "Calling Dr. Porky" (unrestored)
  20. Looney Tunes "Prehistoric Porky"

Bonus Features

  • Audio Commentaries:
    • "You Ought to Be in Pictures" by Jerry Beck
  • "Porky's Poor Fish" Storyboard

Disc 5

  1. Looney Tunes "The Sour Puss"
  2. Looney Tunes "Porky's Hired Hand" (unrestored)
  3. Looney Tunes "The Timid ToreadorPublic domain (unrestored)
  4. Looney Tunes "Porky's Snooze Reel" (unrestored)
  5. Looney Tunes "Porky's Bear FactsPublic domain (unrestored)
  6. Looney Tunes "Porky's PreviewPublic domain
  7. Looney Tunes "Porky's AntPublic domain (unrestored)
  8. Looney Tunes "A Coy DecoyPublic domain (unrestored)
  9. Looney Tunes "Porky's Prize PonyPublic domain (unrestored)
  10. Looney Tunes "Meet John DoughboyPublic domain
  11. Looney Tunes "We, the Animals - Squeak!Public domain (unrestored)
  12. Looney Tunes "The Henpecked DuckPublic domain (unrestored)
  13. Looney Tunes "Notes to YouPublic domain (unrestored)
  14. Looney Tunes "Robinson Crusoe Jr.Public domain (unrestored)
  15. Looney Tunes "Porky's Midnight MatineePublic domain (unrestored)
  16. Looney Tunes "Porky's PoochPublic domain
  17. Looney Tunes "Porky's Pastry PiratesPublic domain (unrestored)
  18. Looney Tunes "Who's Who in the ZooPublic domain (unrestored)
  19. Looney Tunes "Porky's CafePublic domain (unrestored)
  20. Looney Tunes "Confusions of a Nutzy SpyPublic domain (unrestored)
  21. Looney Tunes "Porky Pig's FeatPublic domain

Bonus Features

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.

References

Home Media Releases
VHS/LaserDisc
Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection A Salute to Mel Blanc A Salute to Friz Freleng A Salute to Chuck Jones Bugs Bunny's Wacky Adventures Daffy Duck: The Nuttiness Continues... Porky Pig's Screwball Comedies Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote: The Classic Chase Sylvester and Tweety's Crazy Capers Speedy Gonzales' Fast Funnies Elmer Fudd's Comedy Capers Foghorn Leghorn's Fractured Funnies Pepe Le Pew's Skunk Tales
Collections The Looney Tunes Video Show Viddy-Oh! For Kids Cartoon Festivals Cartoon Moviestars Warner Bros. Cartoon Cavalcade The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Authentic and Original Looney Tunes Cartoons Modern Looney Tunes Series Stars of Space Jam Looney Tunes Presents
DVD/Blu-ray
I Love Tweety Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5 Volume 6
Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume 1 Volume 2 Movie Collection (Volume 3) Volume 4 Volume 5 Volume 6 Volume 7 Volume 8
Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl Foghorn Leghorn & Friends: Barnyard Bigmouth Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy Bugs Bunny: Wascally Wabbit Road Runner & Wile E. Coyote: Supergenius Hijinks Pepe Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham Sylvester & Hippety Hopper: Marsupial Mayhem
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3
Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4
Other Releases 4 Classic Cartoons The Best of Looney Tunes (KFC) Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection The Essential Bugs Bunny The Essential Daffy Duck Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection Looney Tunes The Best of Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes: Unleashed Looney Tunes Big Faces Box Set Looney Tunes Showcase: Volume 1 Looney Tunes Center Stage Volume 1 Looney Tunes Center Stage Volume 2 Best of Warner Bros. 50 Cartoon Collection: Looney Tunes Porky Pig 101 Stars of Space Jam Looney Tunes Musical Masterpieces Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes Marvin the Martian Space Tunes Double Feature Looney Tunes: Parodies Collection Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Volume 1 Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Volume 2 Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1970s Volume 2 Looney Tunes Bugs Bunny Golden Carrot Collection Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection
As Extras A Night at the Movies Warner Archive Collection



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