Porky's Tire Trouble

Porky's Tire Trouble is a 1939 Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett.
== Plot ==
Porky works at the Snappy Rubber Company. His dog, Flat Foot Flookey, sneaks out of his doghouse and waltz on his way to Porky's job, despite the company not allowing dogs. Once Porky notices that Flookey has walked all the way to his workplace, Porky tells him to not come in lest he wants to get fired and ties his tail to a car. This does not stop Flookey from trying to get into the workplace, as he manages to dig himself inside the business.
Porky's boss, a walrus, exclaims that Porky must immediately get to work. The tire company produces tires by pulling out rubber from rubber trees, having the crane chew up the rubber, and then spat out onto a large waffle iron which produces the tires. As Porky is stacking tires, Flookey comes inside, still carrying the car with his tail. Porky notices Flookey, but the dog runs off released from the car and causes a mess over the factory, including falling into vat of rubberizing solution where the dog plays around with his face and forms his head of several caricatures. Eventually, he gets stuck in a funneled bottle and is launched into a staircase, forming his body into the shape of the steps.
As Porky's boss tries to store the tires, he walks over the dog's staircase body, but does not realize there is no floor past the top and falls. Angered that Porky has let a dog in the workplace, the boss tries to throw out the dog of the workplace. However, all attempts result in the dog bouncing back at the walrus from hitting a tree, and the final attempt where he lightly releases the dog then quickly close the front door also backfires, knocking the boss into the waffle iron. The walrus escapes the iron to reveal that his body is now tire-shaped, much to his dismay.
== Caricatures ==
* Edward G. Robinson
* Edna May Oliver
* Clark Gable
* Hugh Hebert
== Availability ==
Porky Pig 101 DVD Cover.png|(2017) DVD Porky Pig 101, Disc 3
=== Streaming ===
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== Notes ==
* The name of Porky's dog, Flat Foot Flookey, is a reference to the popular 1938 jazz song "Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)".
* Another character called Flatfoot Flookie appears in a Detective Daffy story by Gold Key Comics, but he was a fictional human sleuth and not a dog as in this short.
* On the fence next to Porky's house, there is a poster for “Ice Foolies also Looney Tunes”.
* The opening theme of this short was incorrectly used over the openings of a few black-and-white Porky shorts on the Porky Pig 101 DVD release, such as "Chicken Jitters" and "Calling Dr. Porky", due to audio issues with their interpositives.
== Gallery ==
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PorkysTireTroubleLobbyCard.jpg|Lobby card
== References ==
Category:Porky Pig Cartoons
Category:1939
Category:Cartoons directed by Bob Clampett
Category:Shorts
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Post-1935 Black & White Looney Tunes
Category:Cartoons written by Warren Foster
Category:Cartoons animated by Norman McCabe
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:Caricatures of real people
Category:Caricature of Hugh Herbert
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons in the Sunset Productions package