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Trap Happy Porky is a 1945 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Chuck Jones starring Porky Pig, Hubie and Bertie, an early design of Claude Cat and a prototype Hector the Bulldog. In the Chuck Jones' Mouse Chronicles DVD/Blu-ray, the original title were restored to the cartoon, replacing the Blue Ribbon re-issue titles.
Plot
Porky is being disturbed by mice, which is causing him to lose sleep. He hires a cat in order to get rid of the mice, but things don't go as well as he planned - as the cat gets drunk and disturb his sleep.
Trivia
- This is the second appearance of Hubie and Bertie, and their first appearance in the Looney Tunes series. In this cartoon, however, they are depicted as unnamed generic mice, indistinguishable except for fur color. None of them talk in this cartoon, except for one line said by one of them in one scene; "I'm only 3-and-a-1/2 years old". They only appear in the first half of this cartoon.
- This is the only cartoon Hubie and Bertie paired with Porky Pig. This is also the only cartoon where Claude Cat is Porky's pet cat, and the only cartoon where all four aforementioned characters are paired together.
- Unusually in this cartoon, Claude Cat is depicted as a smart and resourceful feline as opposed to the dimwitted and neurotic feline he was in other appearances, and both Hubie and Bertie lose to Claude Cat.
- The Rube Goldberg-esque contraption would be seen again in the 1947 Sylvester and Tweety cartoon Tweetie Pie, where Sylvester uses it to catch Tweety, except that the bait used in bird seed instead of cheese, and unlike the contraption depicted in this cartoon which is successful, the contraption seen in Tweetie Pie fails as it injures Sylvester instead (Co-incidently both Trap Happy Porky and Tweetie Pie were written by Tedd Pierce).
- The mouse that robs the trap Porky sets out quotes Baby Snooks' line, "I'm only three and a half years old". However, as house mice are adults at an age of fifty days and have a short lifespan of two to three years, a three and a half year old mouse would be a geriatric case.
Censorship
- The opening shot, of the sign stating "Uncle Tom's Cabins- Boarders Taken (For All They've Got!)", is deleted on Cartoon Network, Boomerang and The WB!, although it aired uncut on Cartoon Network and Boomerang outside the United States. In the censored version, the cartoon instead opens with a shot of Porky sleeping.
- The scene wherein all of the cats singing "Moonlight Bay" drink some cider was edited out of this cartoon on The WB!
Crew
Directed: Chuck Jones
Story: Tedd Pierce
Animated: Ben Washam
Music: Carl W. Stalling
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