Robinson Crusoe Jr. is a 1941 Looney Tunes short directed by Norman McCabe.
Plot[]
Porky Pig is shipwrecked on an island and lives like Robinson Crusoe and meets a Hottentot which he nicknames Friday. Friday begins to sing a song with Porky and a turtle by singing, "I love coffee, I love tea, I love the java jive and it loves me!" Porky decides to hunt for some animals but comes across more Hottentots. Eventually, Porky flees from the Hottentots with his trusty sidekick, Friday.
Caricatures[]
- Fanny Brice as her character Baby Snooks
- Mischa Auer - "Confidentially, it sinks"
- Kate Smith - "So long, everybody."
- Eddie "Rochester" Anderson - Friday's voice
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Notes[]
- This is the first short to be directed by Norman McCabe by himself. His two previous directed shorts, "The Timid Toreador" and "Porky's Snooze Reel" were also directed by Bob Clampett.
- Although this cartoon was in Nickelodeon's package of shorts, neither the original black and white nor redrawn colorized version aired due to the prominence of a black stereotype.
- A computer colorized version of the cartoon also exists as with all of the other redrawn cartoons, although it neither has aired on American television for the same reason.
- This cartoon entered the public domain in 1969 as Warner Bros.-Seven Arts didn't renew the copyright in time.