Porky the Wrestler

Porky the Wrestler is a 1937 Looney Tunes short directed by Tex Avery.
== Plot ==
Porky is traveling to a wrestling match. He gets a ride from the challenger, but when he gets to the arena, Porky is accidentally mistaken for the challenger, and ends up in the ring. The champ is defeating Porky when Porky crawls out and gets the champ stuck in knots, before swallowing a spectator's pipe and doing a steam locomotive impression, and as he does the arena starts becoming more and more like an actual passenger train.
== Availability ==
Porky Pig 101 DVD Cover.png|(2017) DVD Porky Pig 101, Disc 1 (Incorrectly uses the end title from "Little Beau Porky")
=== Streaming ===
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== Censorship ==
* On Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon airings, there are two abrupt cuts in the music score during the "choo-choo" sequence, as a result of probable edits.http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-p.aspx David Gerstein has noted that the cut footage was excised from prints as early as 1942.http://www.forcesofgeek.com/2013/07/the-10-best-looney-tunes-not-on-dvd.html Mark Kausler noted that in a Guild Films print he viewed, just before the scene where a spectator opens a window shade to see scenery going by, there was the beginning of a musical bit where singers sang the lyrics "She was gone..." before the soundtrack cut off. That was snipped in the Cartoon Network print.http://texaveryatwb.blogspot.com/2013/09/porky-wrestler-minor-but-meaningful.html
== Notes ==
* This short was colorized in 1967 and then again in 1992.
* The redrawn colorized version used the incorrect 1937-1938 font lettering instead of the correct 1936-1937 font lettering.
* Mel Blanc is the voice of the “woo-hoo” noises. His first major appearance in a WB cartoon would not be until “Picador Porky”.
* MeTV aired this short 15 April 2023 on Saturday Moring Cartoons; however, this airing appears unrestored.
* The short was copyrighted on 30 December 1936.Catalog of Copyright Entries
* One of two cartoons of which animator Elmer Wait received screen credit. He died in 1937 and Elmer Fudd was named in his memory.
== Gallery ==
Porky wrestler model.jpg|Model sheet
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== References ==
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Porky Pig Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:1937
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Tex Avery
Category:Post-1935 Black & White Looney Tunes
Category:Wrestling Cartoons
Category:Cartoons animated by Chuck Jones
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