Meet John Doughboy

Meet John Doughboy is a 1941 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert Clampett.
== Title ==
The title is a play on the 1941 movie Meet John Doe.
== Plot ==
Draftee Porky shows America's Defense Effort, a war newsreel full of military secrets, to rally American public support for the war's production of tanks, planes, and big guns. It promotes the draft while slamming anti-draft politics. It mentions British Spitfire aircraft but also the importance of American design improvements to it. A driver in blackface speaks in a stereotyped manner. The United States mainland is threatened with direct attack. Several 1941 newspaper headlines include one about a strike at the Ford Motor Company's plant in Dearborn, Michigan.
== Caricatures ==
* Jack Benny
* Eddie "Rochester" Anderson
== Television ==
* Sunset Productions (1955–1968)
* Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon (1988–1989)
* The Bugs and Daffy Show [Cartoon Network] (1997–1999)
* The Bob Clampett Show [Cartoon Network] (2000–2005, colorized)
== Availability ==
lt maltese dvd.jpg|(2000) DVD The Maltese Falcon
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6.jpg|(2008) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6, Disc Two (restored)
lt maltese blu.jpg|(2010) Blu-ray The Maltese Falcon (as part of Warner Night at the Movies in unrestored SD)
Porky Pig 101 DVD Cover.png|(2017) DVD Porky Pig 101, Disc 5 (restored)
== Censorship ==
* While this short rarely aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang due to the wartime themes and ethnic stereotypes, it did air uncut in The Bob Clampett Show Season 2, Episode 22. On the rare times it aired in other Looney Tunes installment shows like Bugs and Daffy, The Acme Hour, or Late Night Black and White, the scene of Rochester driving Jack Benny on a military jeep was cut. It has since been removed from rotation, and the cartoon itself now seldom airs on television.
== Notes ==
* This short fell into the public domain in 1969 when Warner Bros.-Seven Arts failed to renew the copyright in time.
== References ==
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Porky Pig Cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Bob Clampett
Category:Shorts
Category:1941
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:Post-1935 Black & White Looney Tunes
Category:Cartoons written by Warren Foster
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Robert C. Bruce
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 produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons in the Sunset Productions package
Category:Public domain films
Category:Spot Gag Cartoons