Porky in Wackyland

Plot synopsis:
A newspaper shows Porky traveling to Africa to hunt the rare dodo bird, worth four sextillion dollars. Porky uses his airplane to go to Dark Africa, then Darker Africa, and finally lands in Darkest Africa. When Porky lands, a sign tells him that he's in Wackyland ("Population: 100 nuts and a squirrel"), while a voice booms out "It can happen here!" Porky tiptoes along the ground in his airplane and he is greeted by a roaring beast, who suddenly becomes effeminate and dances away into the forest.
He watches as the sun is lifted above the horizon by a tower of stacked creatures. Nearby, another creature rises out of a tall flower, playing "The William Tell Overture", using his nose as a flute. The creature launches into a wild drum solo, plays a tiny piano, and plays its nose like a horn, which brings out many strange, weird, and oafish creatures, including a rabbit dangling in midair from a swing that seems to be threaded through its own ears, a small creature wearing large boots that encourages the rabbit to swing faster, a peacock with a fantail of cards, an upside-down creature walking with giant bare feet in his hands, a goofy looking creature wearing large glasses in a small pot, a little creature wearing oversized female mannequin legs, and an angry criminal imprisoned behind a free-floating barred window that he holds in his hands while a small policeman on a wheel appears and hits him on the head with a large stick. As Porky tries to find the do-do, he is distracted by a duck singing "Mammy!", a horn-headed creature, a conjoined cat and dog hybrid creature spinning around like a tornado while they fight, and a 3 headed stooge whose heads argue and fight amongst themselves.
Finally, the Dodo appears. Porky tries to catch it, but it plays tricks on him. The dodo pulls out a pencil and draws a door in mid-air, and instead of opening it and running through, reaches down and lifts up the bottom edge of the door like a curtain, darts underneath and lets it snap back into place for Porky to bump into. At another point, the do-do appears on the Warner Bros. shield logo and slingshots Porky into the ground. Porky is defeated when the dodo pulls a wall of bricks in the picture and lets him crash into it. At the end of the film, Porky triumphs when he disguises himself as a bearded paperboy, shouting "Extra! Extra! Porky captures Dodo!", before hitting the bird with a mallet. Porky loudly proclaims to the audience that he has captured the last dodo. The dodo mockingly replies, "Yes, I'm really the last of the dodos. Ain't I, fellas?". A multitude of dodos appear, all yelling out, "Yeah, man!". They and the Dodo all howl, which allows him to escape and stand on Porky's head.

Tags: psychedelic

Review:
This cartoon is an early pinnacle of animation insanity, the prototypical Warner Brothers short.
A blitzkrieg of jokes, puns, and free-wheeling mayhem, WB-style cartoons sometimes equaled, but never surpassed, "Porky in Wackyland".
For these, and many other, reasons, "Porky in Wackyland" is the blueprint for the best of WB cartoons, as well as a signpost to various late-20th Century highbrow/lowbrow aesthetics..
This black-and-white early Looney Tunes cartoon looks different, sounds different...and is terrific.We read in the "The Globe" that Porky is off on a rare do-do bird hunt, trying to get a bird that is nearly extinct and worth billions of dollars.
He flies off to "darkest Africa" and winds up in "Wackyland" where the population is "100 nuts and a squirrel" and the sign that says that audibly speaks to Porky saying "It can happen here!!!!"With that, we start seeing some really bizarre things regarding the scenery, the characters who inhabit this place and the weird things that happen.
It looked a cross between a Salvardor Dali painting and Alice In Wonderful.Porky is then led to "the last of the do-do birds" and this a one strange bird, who fits right into Wackyland.
This is great stuff, a real visual treat and a cartoon you could enjoy over and over just trying to catch all of the sight gags and great drawings in here.
In 1937 Robert Clampett was promoted to director and one year later he created his first, true classic cartoon of the many that he would direct for Warner Bros.
studio: Porky in Wackyland.
Along with Tex Avery and Frank Tashlin, Clampett was instrumental in creating the Warner style.
It was also the first of Clampett's many cartoons to use hallucinatory, surrealistic images; others would include The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, The Big Snooze and Tin Pan Alley Cats (which re-used animation from Porky in Wackyland.) Wackyland was later remade in color as Dough for the Do-Do by Friz Freleng..
"Porky in Wackyland" is a true milestone in animation.
The plot is simple, Porky Pig is searching for the last Do-Do bird.
In Wackyland anything can happen...that's what animation is all about if you ask me.
"Porky in Wackyland" represents many crazy dreams, and many wonderful drawings.
Over sixty years later, this cartoon short stands out as one of the greatest achievements in this medium.
Bob Clampett, given the complete freedom that producer Leon Schlesinger let him have, spun out some of the weirdest and wackiest ever made.We start out with a typical beginning for that era, Porky Pig is flying to Darkest Africa to find the last Do-Do, worth billions.
Some of the humor are stock Bob Clampett jokes that are repeated in others of his cartoons, but he was always best with visual humor, when he let the animation be the star of the show..
This is almost too wacky - but as long as you remember this Looney Tunes cartoon is supposed to be wacky it can be funny in places.
I say this because some of the wackiness in "Porky in Wackyland" seems very silly and almost disturbing, but as long as you see the funny side of it, it is perfectly fine.
If you do not like anything that is remotely crazy, wacky or silly, then this will be an utter nightmare for you (if you happen to be being forced to watch it, otherwise, you ought to stop watching IMMEDIATELY).I enjoyed this episode for its craziness, Porky, the Dodo, the animation and some of the jokes included.
I will have to watch this episode a great deal of times before I remember all of the jokes and you probably will have to as well (unless you did not like it).This episode starts with a newspaper article about Porky going to hunt the last dodo.
He goes to darkest Africa (the portrayal of this is not a comfortable one for me, which is odd), to a place "where anything can happen".
After this - most things do happen...I recommend this to people who like old Looney Tunes, Porky and wackiness.
Enjoy "Porky in Wackyland"!
Of course, this cartoon with Porky Pig doesn't include Crumb's sense of pornography (thankfully).
Porky Pig goes on a hunt to catch the surreally elusive last Do-Do bird.This cartoon has been credited as the 8th best cartoon ever made.
I am not going to get into the minutia of deciding if it is better or worse than 8th, but it absolutely needs to be on that list, because it takes such a simple thing and makes it so strange.The way I saw this was side by side with "Dough for the Do-Do".
Porky in Wackyland is a surreal if silly cartoon short that has been described as Daliesque but I guess the animators were surely on the funny baccy to come up with such a far out cartoon.In darkest Africa Porky Pig sets out to catch the the mythical Do-Do bird a plot point not lost on the makers of Pixar's Up!When he arrives he encounters all sorts of tomfoolery such as the sun coming up in the form of a human pyramid, a two headed dog fighting for itself and a three headed figure beast in the form of The Three Stooges before he starts the search for the Do-Do bird.When we do finally see the bird we can only presume he got a script and mannerisms normally preserved for Bugs Bunny.
The Definitive, Quintessential Looney Tunes Short..
I'm not quite sure how I first came across this, but I think I might have first seen it at least as a clip in which Porky encounters the Dodo (now known as Yoyo Dodo, as he would be named over three quarters of a century later in the video game, Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal).
Or I might have actually seen the whole thing when Looney Tunes used to be aired on Nickelodeon.
cartoons, Looney Tune or Merrie Melody, but also the best from representing the Golden Age of American Animation.
and out of any Golden Era American cartoons in general.This may be just one of, if not the Looniest Looney Tune ever made, because of how fast-paced it can get for one, that defines it and is what at the quintessence.
Yoyo Dodo is one of the Looniest Looney Tune characters who is reminiscent of the very early Daffy Duck, but a lesser, underused one as well and one of my favorites.
It's also ironic that whereas Wackyland is located somewhere in the vicinity of the Sudan in Africa here, it's instead within Acme Acres in Tiny Toons.
Porky heading to a bizarre place in Africa where he encounters the bizarre denizens while searching for Yoyo before attempting the catch him for a large bounty.
Despite rubber hose animation soon becoming less common and dropped in favor of the more realistic approach around the time this came out, it still has the former kind of animation such as when Yoyo stretches his neck as he gets back all up in Porky's face.
Coyote failing to capture the Road Runner, Porky fails the catch Yoyo when he actually does towards the end.
For as long as I had been watching Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies growing up, I've known of the name Robert "Bob" Clampett among others for the longest reading the opening credits in each of the shorts I saw, but at the time, I didn't know anything about differences in the various directors' styles or who did what in what way, or what distinguishes them from one another.
The surrealism sums up everything about this side of Looney Tunes's humor in a nutshell.
As Porky searches for the Do Do, he encounters creatures defying reality and situations that are unexplainable.
Once again, we have an animator whose random concepts and dream world's, along with some really interesting sound, set the table for the future.
As I understand it, "Porky in Wackyland" was the first of three cartoons in which Porky Pig goes thither*, followed by "Tin Pan Alley Cats" and "Dough for the Do-Do" (which was almost a shot-for-shot remake of this one).
But no matter what specifically we know about the cartoon's history, it's great to see just how outlandish the animators were willing to get.
Anyway, this is definitely a classic cartoon.
the first TRUE Clampett Cartoon.
This 21 minute documentary on the work of Bob Clampett can be seen on Disc 3 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2.
This is great stuff and i loved watching every second of it.
This short has Porky hunting for the last of the Do-Do Birds.
short with wild and random things happening every second.
One of Porky's best..
Bob Clampett's famous black and white classic 'Porky in Wackyland' is a glorious glimpse into the mad mind of Clampett allowed to run riot.
His trademark energy and ability to stuff a cartoon full to the brim with content are both apparent from the outset as a newsboy invades the cartoon's credits to inform us that Porky Pig is attempting to capture the last Dodo bird.
Porky tracks the bird to Wackyland and from the moment his plane begins to tiptoe across the border of Wackyland all bets are off!
We are treated to a feast of bizarre, logic defying gags as we are introduced to the inhabitants of Wackyland through a long panning shot which contains literally dozens of jokes.
These wild, quickfire gags give way to the main plot after a couple of minutes and so begins one of the greatest cartoon chases of all time as Porky tries in vain to capture the nutty Dodo who constantly defies logic in order to evade and humiliate him.
'Porky in Wackyland' is an extremely influential and exceptionally bonkers cartoon that will appeal to anyone with a love of the surreal and the anarchic.
It was later pointlessly remade in colour by Friz Freleng as "Dough for the Dodo", an emasculated take on the original which lacked the essential ingredient: Clampett himself..
Still one of Porky's best cartoons.
I am a huge fan of Looney Tunes, and I do like Porky Pig. Porky in Wackyland is not only one of Porky's best cartoons but one of Bob Clampett's masterpieces.
The story is very well paced and interesting, and the dialogue and gags are wonderfully funny and surreal, not to mention wacky.
Porky is great here with great dialogue and personality and he even gets to ride a really sweet little plane, the dodo is the cutest cartoon dodo I've seen and they wouldn't be extinct possibly if they had the intelligence and skills that this dodo had.
In conclusion, a brilliant cartoon and one of Porky and Clampett's best.
10/10 Bethany Cox. Whenever I think of Clampett, I think of "Wackyland" (SPOILERS).
Robert Clampett is known for the surreal elements of his shorts (like the silkworm in "Porky's Birthday" who does his stuff when Porky says "Sew", but as Porky makes conversation with his friends in the party, havoc reaks with the silkworm as Porky stutters the word "So", with Silkworm thinking Porky said "Sew").
He is among my favorite Looney Tunes/Merry Melodies directors (him, Chuck Jones, and the best, Tex Avery).
The Tiny Toons character Gogo is based on the Dodo in "Wackyland".
In this surreal and original short, Porky goes to Darkest Africa (going past Dark and Darker Africa) to hunt the remaining Dodo bird.
Porky then comes to a surreal place called Wackyland, where "It Can Happen Here", where the Dodo resides (population: "100 Nuts And A Squirrel").
Porky goes across strange people and things in Wackyland, like people who make the sun rise in the morning, a man who makes jazz sound with his body, and a 3-headed person whose heads resemble Larry, Curly, and Moe. Then he comes across a man who knows all, and as Porky asks where is Dodo, he says "Thattaway" with arrows pointing at different directions,, and the man's sign forms a hall leading to the Dodo.
The Dodo uses surreal ways to escape, like drawing a door using a magic pencil and riding on the WB logo and firing a slingshot at Porky.
Ten, Porky uses his wit to catch Dodo, and I like the ending.
As Porky finally catches the Dodo, Dodo says "I'm the last of the dodoes...
Bob Clampett's masterpiece.
1938 was a peak year for screwball comedy, and "Porky in Wackyland" definitely fits that genre.
This black-and-white Porky Pig cartoon was directed by Bob Clampett, who, according to some cartoon buffs, put the word "looney" in Looney Tunes, and I agree.
"Porky in Wackyland" displays Clampett at perhaps his most quintessential; he stops at absolutely NOTHING in order to create a wacky, silly, anything-for-a-laugh cartoon.
In search of a rare Do-Do bird worth a pile of jack, Porky flies into an extremely bizarre world, appropriately named Wackyland, and encounters all kinds of screwball characters & crazy situations!
My favorite moments from "Porky in Wackyland" include the following (if you haven't yet seen this classic cartoon, don't read any further).
As Porky flies toward Wackyland, it's really nice to see him cheerfully greet the audience and display for everyone a photograph of the Do-Do he seeks.
During Porky's difficulty in capturing the bird, it hides behind a zooming Warner Bros.
And amidst all the kooky characters that Porky meets are a three-headed monster of the Three Stooges (one of my favorite comedy teams) and a small character who buds out of a flower and, after using his nose as a flute, suddenly bangs away on a drumset and tinkers on a very miniature piano.Without a doubt, "Porky in Wackyland" is a cartoon in which director Bob Clampett was not afraid to try anything, no matter how silly, in order to get a laugh.
And because we have the benefit of this cartoon being on DVD (Disc 3 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 2), it may be helpful to freeze-frame certain moments of the cartoon in order to clearly see all of the various inhabitants of Wackyland..
issued PORKY IN WACKYLAND as their long-term forecast for America's Future if the U.S. Id, historically referred to as the "Confederate States," but more inclusively dubbed as Today's "Red States," ever gained the Upper Hand in a Presidential Election Year (as Adolph the Looney Tuner had in the Deutschland of 1934).
sniffed out a day when a third of America would be totally Looney Tunes in Wackyland!.
This is a 7-minute black-and-white cartoon from 1938, shortly before World War II.
It features Mel Blanc, possibly the most prolific man in animation, maybe even movie, history and Billy Bletcher who also worked on a whole lot of films as voice actors.
The director is Robert Clampett who also worked on many more Porky cartoons back then.
After all, Porky won't get his bird.
Yet, he meets all kinds of strange and fantastic creatures on the Black Continent, even a few White ones, and also a very early version of CatDog. However, to me there were hardly no funny scenes in these 7 minutes.
Occasionally, there is some wit and humor, but it's just not enough compared to the best cartoons of that era.
Porky pig's looking for the last do-do, and his search leads him to wackyland, where "it can happen here!".
I'm a big fan of cartoons and Warner bros.
is the best among the old classic studios and Bob Clampett is my favorite director from that studio.
The endless imagination that's in his cartoons are amazing and "wackyland" is his signature cartoon.
I love the layouts and backgrounds, that's work of great surrealism, on the level of Picasco and Salvador Dali.
His cartoons are so free of inhibition and a lot of great humor comes out of it.
I love the monster who suddenly turns gay, the rabbit who swings in the air, the three stooges monster and then there's the do-do and I love the stuff he does, he creates a pencil, draws a door in the air, lifts the door up like it's rubber, goes underneath it, then appears in a floating window that is connected to the door, but porky falls through the window!
And it has the best ending of any cartoon!
Porky finally gets the do-do but 50 other do-dos come to confirm he's the last do-do!
While Porky in Wackyland was the original, I sort of like Dough for the Do-Do better.
Having now watched Porky in Wackyland on YouTube months after seeing it's almost shot-for-shot identical remake, Dough for the Do-Do, on the first Looney Tunes Collection DVD, I have to admit: I sort of liked the remake better.
There are two main reasons for this: the later color version had the "rubber band" sequence that was the most hilarious part of that version and it ended with Porky taking "the last of the Do-Dos" with him with the hundreds of other similar creatures saying "Yep, he got the last of the Do-Dos" and dancing their crazy dance after Porky left.
Here, Porky just stays put as he gets astonished seeing all the other birds surround him suddenly as they say their line and that "band" (with Mel Blanc's unique "instrumentation") is nowhere to be found here.
That said, Bob Clampett deserves all the credit for doing such a surreal cartoon not long after becoming a "supervisor" (director) for Leon Schlesinger.
And there were some gags that were deleted from the remake that added some enjoyment here like the prisoner saying, "Let me out!" constantly while just holding some bars in open space then getting beat up by a guard!
There's another gag in the beginning of a fearsome creature about to scare Porky who just says "Boo" real quiet when he confronts the pig.
With all that being said, if you haven't seen Dough for the Do-Do, I definitely recommend Porky in Wackyland.