Porky & Daffy

Porky & Daffy is a 1938 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert Clampett.
== Plot ==
Porky finds an ad inviting all comers to take on a boxing rooster named The Champ. Porky has trouble waking Daffy up, but eventually does so by clanging a dinner platter over his head. This causes him to immediately go crazy and start warming up for a wrestling match.
Later, at a jam-packed boxing ring, Porky volunteers Daffy to fight the Champ after all the other fighters run off scared. Despite the fact that he blows off Daffy's XXX sacks of flour (which he used to make himself look more muscular) and acts like a lion, Daffy is unfazed and simply retaliates by acting like a lion tamer, driving him back with a chair and whip. After the pelican announcer's long-winded introductions, the fight begins. (Daffy: "Sold to the American Tobacco Company!")
In Round 1, the announcer reminds them "no hitting below the belt", so Daffy raises his shorts to cover all but his head. The Champ then blows his shorts off. Daffy flees, but with a reminder from Porky, gets on his "tricycle", wheeling through midair and soon going so fast that the slower Champ cannot keep up, using the advantage to repeatedly punch him. Once he is out of sight, the announcer and the Champ look around for Daffy, only to discover he has hidden inside the pelican's beak. The Champ beats up the announcer to get to Daffy, finally catching him.
He knocks him out, and Porky is forced to rush back to their home to get the dinner platter and wake him up again before ten-count. Daffy awakens in his frenzy again and begins ferociously attacking the Champ without regard to his situation, ducking all of his blows and eventually knocking him out. The announcer counts to ten, and Daffy wins. Daffy wakes him up by clanging the platter, and he goes into a frenzy much like Daffy did.
== Availability ==
DAFFY DUCK TALES FROM THE DUCKSIDE.jpg|(1992) VHS Daffy Duck: Tales from the Duckside (computer colorized)
LTCE VOL 12 PORKY AND DAFFY.jpg|(1999) VHS Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition Volume 12: Porky and Daffy
lt angels.jpg|(2005) DVD Angels with Dirty Faces (unrestored B&W)
Porky Pig 101 DVD Cover.png|(2017) DVD Porky Pig 101, Disc 3 (B&W)
Angels_with_Dirty_Faces_Blu-Ray.jpg|(2021) Blu-ray Angels with Dirty Faces (restored, B&W)
=== Streaming ===
lt boomerang.jpg|Boomerang App (2018 - ) (computer colorized)
Lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2023) (restored, B&W)
Lt max.jpg|Max (2023 - 2024) (restored, B&W)
== Notes ==
* The idea of an outside power turning someone into a crazy but skilled fighter has been also depicted in several Three Stooges shorts, all involving Curly Howard. The most famous is from "Punch Drunks", when Curly would go fighting mad whenever he heard "Pop Goes the Weasel", and Moe using this to turn him into a boxing champ. A similar idea would be used in "Grips, Grunts and Groans" when the smell of Wild Hyacinth would make Curly able to beat up even professional wrestlers.
* Several animator caricatures can be seen when The Champ is boxing, including Bob Clampett and Ernest Gee.
* The computer colorized version and the HBO Max release uses the 1938-41 Looney Tunes opening music instead of the 1937-38 opening music.
* This film was completed and shipped in June 1938.https://archive.org/details/filmdaily74wids/page/n27/mode/2up?q=Merrie+Melodies
* The original prints of the short bear a unique rendition of the closing theme that sounds more like a heavier, prototypical version of the theme commonly used during the time. This was only known to be preserved in Sunset Productions prints (including the redrawn colorized version) and the print used for Porky Pig 101, as all other releases replace it with the regular 1938-41 closing theme.
== Gallery ==
Porky and Daffy (Computer Colorized).png|Computer colorized title card
17458129 692551667613785 4661216504121707908 n.png|Retraced title card
Extra1234.jpg|Lobby card
Extra2234.jpg|Lobby card
Porkyanddaffy face.jpg|Bob Clampett’s cameo as seen in the colorized version
Porky&DaffyRestored.jpeg|Cropped screenshot of 2020 restoration
== References ==
Category:Daffy Duck Cartoons
Category:Porky Pig Cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Bob Clampett
Category:Shorts
Category:1938
Category:Post-1935 Black & White Looney Tunes
Category:Cartoons animated by Chuck Jones
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Elmer Plummer
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:Boxing Cartoons
Category:Cartoons in the Sunset Productions package