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The Pest That Came to Dinner is a 1948 Looney Tunes short directed by Arthur Davis.
Plot
Porky's house is under attack by Pierre, the biggest and hungriest termite in the world, and nothing Porky can do will save his house. When he can't exterminate the termite himself, he goes to a shyster called I.M.A. Sureshot from Sureshot Exterminating Co. who offers him a series of unsuccessful methods to remove the termite, such as firing an insecticide squirt gun on the termite, using a vacuum cleaner to suck up the termite, flooding up the baseboards where the termite lives with a water hose, and finally using a TNT stick. Porky eventually gets fed-up with the constant failures in getting rid of Pierre, and teams up with Pierre to eat up all the furniture in Sureshot Exterminating Co.
Porky and Pierre become good friends, take over Sureshot Exterminating Co., and open their own company called Porky and Pierre Antique Furniture.
Gallery
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- (1993) LaserDisc - Ham on Wry: The Porky Pig Laser Collection (Blue Ribbon)
- (2012) DVD - Looney Tunes Super Stars' Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham (original opening restored)
Notes
- This short was supposed to be in the pre-1948 cartoon package due to production numbers, being before "Haredevil Hare", but since the cartoon was released after July of 1948, the cartoon somehow remained in the hands of Warner Bros.
- This is one of the handful shorts to have the red opening and endings rings made in 1948.
- Daffy Duck is mentioned in this cartoon.
External Links
- [1] (Restored version over here)
