The Case of the Stuttering Pig

The Case of
the Stuttering Pig

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Airdate:
30 October 1937

Series:

Looney Tunes

MPAA Number:	Vitaphone Number:
3666	8051

Runtime:

7 minutes, 46 seconds

Copyright Renewed:

22 October 1965^[1]

Starring:

Porky Pig
Petunia Pig

Crew

Film Editor:

Treg Brown (uncredited)

Musician:

Carl W. Stalling

The Case of the Stuttering Pig is a 1937 Looney Tunes short directed by Frank Tashlin.

Title[]

The title is a play on the 1937 Warner Bros. Perry Mason film The Case of the Stuttering Bishop.

Plot[]

Porky, Petunia, and their brothers Peter, Patrick, Percy, and Portis, are set to inherit a fortune from their rich uncle. However, the kindly Lawyer Goodwill, who is next in line for the fortune, drinks a bottle of Jekyll and Hyde juice and turns into a monster bent on killing Porky and his siblings.

Caricatures[]

Oliver Hardy - Uncle Solomon resembles him.

Availability[]

Streaming[]

Goofs[]

When four of Porky's siblings are shown in the stocks, there are two extra spaces (for Porky and Petunia). Later, when Petunia is kidnapped, there are only 5 spaces, and Petunia looks the exact same as Porky's other siblings.

Notes[]

This cartoon parodies many of the typical horror movie elements of the 1930s, particularly the movies from Universal Studios.
In this short, Petunia Pig appears as Porky Pig's sister rather than his girlfriend, as in her other appearances.
The animation of Porky running up and down the stairs was later reused in "Jeepers Creepers" (1939).
Porky has a brother named "Portis," a reference to the hometown of story writer Melvin Millar.
The fourth wall is broken in this cartoon; the monster tells the audience not to interfere with his plan, particularly antagonizing "the guy in the third row." At the end of the short, when a theater chair gets thrown at the monster, it is revealed that the same "guy in the third row" threw it.
The opening scene was used as the intro for a David Letterman segment, "New Halloween Costumes".

Gallery[]

References[]

↑ Catalog of Copyright Entries
↑ Scott, Keith (20 September 2022). Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2. BearManor Media. ISBN 979-8887710112.

Porky Pig Cartoons
1935	I Haven't Got a Hat • Gold Diggers of '49
1936	Plane Dippy • Alpine Antics • The Phantom Ship • Boom Boom • The Blow Out • Westward Whoa • Fish Tales • Shanghaied Shipmates • Porky's Pet • Porky the Rain-Maker • Porky's Poultry Plant • Porky's Moving Day • Milk and Money • Little Beau Porky • The Village Smithy • Porky in the North Woods
1937	Porky the Wrestler • Porky's Road Race • Picador Porky • Porky's Romance • Porky's Duck Hunt • Porky and Gabby • Porky's Building • Porky's Super Service • Porky's Badtime Story • Porky's Railroad • Get Rich Quick Porky • Porky's Garden • Rover's Rival • The Case of the Stuttering Pig • Porky's Double Trouble • Porky's Hero Agency
1938	Porky's Poppa • Porky at the Crocadero • What Price Porky • Porky's Phoney Express • Porky's Five & Ten • Porky's Hare Hunt • Injun Trouble • Porky the Fireman • Porky's Party • Porky's Spring Planting • Porky & Daffy • Wholly Smoke • Porky in Wackyland • Porky's Naughty Nephew • Porky in Egypt • The Daffy Doc • Porky the Gob
1939	The Lone Stranger and Porky • It's an Ill Wind • Porky's Tire Trouble • Porky's Movie Mystery • Chicken Jitters • Porky and Teabiscuit • Kristopher Kolumbus Jr. • Polar Pals • Scalp Trouble • Old Glory • Porky's Picnic • Wise Quacks • Porky's Hotel • Jeepers Creepers • Naughty Neighbors • Pied Piper Porky • Porky the Giant Killer • The Film Fan
1940	Porky's Last Stand • Africa Squeaks • Ali-Baba Bound • Pilgrim Porky • Slap Happy Pappy • Porky's Poor Fish • You Ought to Be in Pictures • The Chewin' Bruin • Porky's Baseball Broadcast • Patient Porky • Calling Dr. Porky • Prehistoric Porky • The Sour Puss • Porky's Hired Hand • The Timid Toreador
1941	Porky's Snooze Reel • Porky's Bear Facts • Porky's Preview • Porky's Ant • A Coy Decoy • Porky's Prize Pony • Meet John Doughboy • We, the Animals - Squeak! • The Henpecked Duck • Notes to You • Robinson Crusoe Jr. • Porky's Midnight Matinee • Porky's Pooch
1942	Porky's Pastry Pirates • Who's Who in the Zoo • Porky's Cafe • Any Bonds Today? • My Favorite Duck
1943	Confusions of a Nutzy Spy • Yankee Doodle Daffy • Porky Pig's Feat • A Corny Concerto
1944	Tom Turk and Daffy • Tick Tock Tuckered • Swooner Crooner • Duck Soup to Nuts • Slightly Daffy • Brother Brat
1945	Trap Happy Porky • Wagon Heels
1946	Baby Bottleneck • Daffy Doodles • Kitty Kornered • The Great Piggy Bank Robbery • Mouse Menace
1947	One Meat Brawl • Little Orphan Airedale
1948	Daffy Duck Slept Here • Nothing but the Tooth • The Pest That Came to Dinner • Riff Raffy Daffy • Scaredy Cat
1949	Awful Orphan • Porky Chops • Paying the Piper • Daffy Duck Hunt • Curtain Razor • Often an Orphan • Dough for the Do-Do • Bye, Bye Bluebeard
1950	Boobs in the Woods • The Scarlet Pumpernickel • An Egg Scramble • Golden Yeggs • The Ducksters • Dog Collared
1951	The Wearing of the Grin • Drip-Along Daffy • The Prize Pest
1952	Thumb Fun • Cracked Quack • Fool Coverage
1953	Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
1954	Claws for Alarm • My Little Duckaroo
1955	Jumpin' Jupiter • Dime to Retire
1956	Rocket Squad • Deduce, 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

[1] Catalog of Copyright Entries

[2] Scott, Keith (20 September 2022). Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, Vol. 2. BearManor Media. ISBN 979-8887710112.

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