Porky Pig's Feat

Porky Pig's Feat is a 1943 Looney Tunes short directed by Frank Tashlin.
== Plot ==
Porky Pig awaits Daffy Duck to hopefully win a bet large enough in a dice game to pay for their bill for Broken Arms Hotel, which they are charged for every luxury, including air and sunshine. However, Daffy rolls snake eyes and ends up losing the game. "Uh oh, snake eyes. Too bad, you is a dead duck, duck!" Without the money to pay the bill, Daffy resorts to stalling the manager in attempt to get out of the hotel for free.
Daffy and Porky's attempts to escape the hotel ends up in catastrophe. Daffy bursts into the room door and into the manager's face and states if he is challenging his integrity. The manager is furious and slaps Daffy with a card. However, Daffy attacks back and slams the manager with a glove with a horseshoe in it. They head to the elevator only for the manager to wind up in the same one as Daffy and Porky and force the duo back into the room. The manager attempts the plow through the door with a metal rod, but Daffy pulls the rug below and the manager falls down a large set of stairs. Quick to recover, the manager tricks Daffy and Porky by pretending he is falling down the stairs.
The manager extends the cost of the bill for the damages done to the hotel and to the injuries of the manager. After a chase, the two enters a room with multiple doors blocking the entrance for the manager. Porky and Daffy uses a rope of towels to exit out the window, but the manager fires a match from the sewage drain to burn Porky and Daffy back into the bathtub. Afterwards, the two makes their final getaway with the rope again and swings it to another building, however the manager finds them one last time, and bars up the windows and doors so Daffy and Porky cannot escape anymore.
Some months or so later, Daffy and Porky, each shackled to a ball-and-chain and imprisoned in their hotel room, are beginning to lose their sanity during a snowstorm. They attempt to call for help from Bugs Bunny, knowing that Bugs could outwit anyone he encounters. However, Bugs is revealed to have attempted the same schemes Daffy did and also ended up captured by the manager. Bugs replies, "Eh, don't work, do they?"
== Caricatures ==
* Eddie "Rochester" Anderson - croupier
* Jerry Colonna - "Ahhh, don't work, do they?"
== Availability ==
DAFFY DUCK TALES FROM THE DUCKSIDE.jpg|(1992) VHS Daffy Duck: Tales from the Duckside (computer colorized)
Gdsfhfdasghgfasgdhbbcxv.jpg|(1993) LaserDisc Ham on Wry: The Porky Pig Laser Collection (computer colorized)
Golden Collection box 3.jpg|(2005) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3, Disc Three (original black and white, with optional audio commentary by Joe Dante)
lt cbopp2.jpg|(2007) DVD Looney Tunes Collection Best of Porky Volume 2
LT Platinum Collection VOL 3 DVD Cover.png|(2014) DVD Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3, Disc Two (same version as Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3)
LTPC Volume 3 Cover.png|(2014) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3, Disc Two (same version as Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3)
Porky Pig 101 DVD Cover.png|(2017) DVD Porky Pig 101, Disc 5 (same version as Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3)
lt cv3.jpg|(2018) DVD Looney Tunes Collection Volume 3
=== Streaming ===
lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2023)
lt max.jpg|Max (2023 - 2024)
== Notes ==
* This is the first Warner Bros cartoon that Frank Tashlin fully directed since his departure in 1938. He would continue working for Warner Bros. until his next departure in 1944. His unit would eventually be taken over by Robert McKimson.
* This is the first appearance in Looney Tunes of Raymond Scott's song "Powerhouse", the iconic "assembly line" musical theme used in many Warner Bros. shorts. It would later be used in bumpers and station ID spots when Cartoon Network started out as a classic cartoon channel (known informally as "The Powerhouse Era").
** The song's first use in a WB cartoon was in the Private Snafu short "Gripes", released two weeks earlier.
* When Daffy and Porky are imprisoned, Porky writes "Porky loves Petunia 💘", making this the last time Petunia Pig is mentioned in a Golden Age Warner Brothers cartoon.
* This cartoon shows what would become an out-of-character moment for Daffy, as he states, 'Bugs Bunny, my hero!' Later, Daffy would become a rival of Bugs. The "Leon Schlesinger cartoon" Daffy describes here, in which Bugs grabs a hunter's gun and shoots the hunter down, does not conform to any known Bugs Bunny cartoon.
* This is the first Daffy Duck short to be directed by Frank Tashlin.
* There is a short cameo appearance by Bugs Bunny, the character's only appearance in any black and white Looney Tunes.
** This is also the first time Bugs appears in a Frank Tashlin directed cartoon. His first starring role in a Tashlin directed cartoon came two years later with Tashlin's "The Unruly Hare".
** This is technically Bugs Bunny's first proper appearance in the Looney Tunes series. It would not be until "Buckaroo Bugs" that he would get a starring role in a Looney Tunes short.
* This cartoon is the final black and white appearance of Porky Pig, other than the "That's all, Folks!" at the end of "Scrap Happy Daffy" and "Puss n' Booty".
** With Porky being the main character focus of the "Looney Tunes" series since his breakout short in "Gold Diggers of '49", this would be the end of his run with the series as well as of Porky having a prominent role with the studio, eventually being eclipsed by many other characters and becoming a supporter for others like Daffy Duck and later Charlie Dog and Sylvester.
* This cartoon fell into the public domain in 1971 due to Warner Bros. failing to renew the copyright.
* The cartoon was colorized in 1967 and 1990. The 1990 colorization replaces the 1939-46 ending with the 1937-39 Porky drum ending for unknown reasons.
** When the 1990 colorization was aired on Cartoon Network, the opening and ending titles were missing, due to using the The Merrie Melodies Show copy of the 1990 colorization which cuts out the opening and ending titles. Such was not the case when it aired on Nickelodeon, as Nickelodeon aired it with its original opening and closing titles intact.
** On both Daffy Duck: Tales from the Duckside VHS and Ham on Wry: The Porky Pig Laser Collection LaserDisc, the 1990 colorization was presented with both its original opening and closing titles intact. This cartoon is the only black-and-white cartoon presented as a colorized version on LaserDisc.
** The redrawn colorized version used the incorrect 1937-1938 font lettering instead of the correct 1942-1944 font lettering
* This is the first Looney Tunes short to use the in-house production number under the opening titles, instead of the Vitaphone release number. This would become a tradition for both the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series until the studio shut down in 1964.
== Music-Cueshttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036271/soundtrack/ ==
* The Latin Quarter (by Harry Warren)
** Played when the hotel manager is first seen
* Blues in the Night (by Harold Arlen)
** Played when Daffy is walking to his room door in shame
* The Penguin (by Raymond Scott)
** Plays when Daffy is running to the elevator with his and Porky's luggage
* Powerhouse (by Raymond Scott)
** Plays when the hotel manager tries to get in the room and while he's falling down stairs
* Perpetuum Mobile - Johann Strauss II
** Plays when the hotel manager chases Porky and Daffy through multiple room in a Scooby-Doo-esque sequence
** Also plays when the hotel manager opens multiple doors
* Oh! You Beautiful Doll (by Nat Ayer)
** Plays when Daffy see's a pin-up of an arousing women
* Cheyenne (by Egbert Van Alstyne)
** Plays when Porky tosses a rope to another building and Daffy is counting down
* Blues in the Night (by Harold Arlen)
** Played again when Daffy complaining about his imprisonment
* Merrily We Roll Along (by Murray Mencher)
** Played when they reenact a scene of Bugs Bunny and when Daffy calls Bugs
== Gallery ==
PorkyPigFeatCredits.png
Wb22.jpg|Lobby card
Ppf100.jpg|Lobby card
Vlcsnap-2018-05-30-17h28m30s159.png|Computer colorized clip (from Sing-Along Looney Tunes)
Vlcsnap-2018-05-30-17h28m58s981.png|From Sing-Along Looney Tunes
== References ==
Category:1943
Category:Shorts
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Porky Pig Cartoons
Category:Daffy Duck Cartoons
Category:Post-1935 Black & White Looney Tunes
Category:Cartoons that contain excerpts from "Powerhouse"
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons in the Sunset Productions package
Category:Public domain films