Porky's Baseball Broadcast

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Porky's Baseball Broadcast is a 1940 Looney Tunes short directed by I. Freleng.
== Plot ==
Porky is a baseball broadcaster. The game is Giants vs. Red Sox during the final match of the World Series. The gags consist of an umpire that is blind, a bat boy that is actually a bat, the catcher's right hand turtle, and the Giants' pitcher is actually a giant, resulting in a victory for the team.
A running gag saw a man trying to find his seat. He found his seat at the end but it was behind a post. The man ripped it off in anger at the end.
== Caricatures ==
* Carl Hubbell
* Fiorello LaGuardia
* Babe Ruth
== Availability ==
lt knute.jpg|(2006) DVD Knute Rockne, All American
Porky Pig 101 DVD Cover.png|(2017) DVD Porky Pig 101, Disc 4
=== Streaming ===
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Lt warner bros discovery ride.png|Warner Bros. Discovery RIDE (2021 - 2023) (restored, uncut and uncensored)
== Censorship ==
* In Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Nickelodeon and MeTV airings, the scene where Porky mentions "the scalpers" having a big day, followed by a scene featuring American Indians chasing after baseball patrons with tomahawks was cut (while Porky's actual line was left in on the former three channels, the scene where patrons run from whooping American Indians with tomahawks was cut). Cartoon Network initially aired this short with the "scalpers" joke in both the black and white version and the colorized version. Beginning in 2001, however, the scene was edited and has been that way on the channel and Boomerang ever since.http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-p.aspx The 7 August 2024 MeTV Toons airing surprisingly left this scene intact.
== Notes ==
* Certain scenes of the ballgame were reused from "Boulevardier from the Bronx", including the base-stretching dachshund, and the fast-talking turtle.
* The "screaming liner" joke was later reused in Freleng's "Baseball Bugs", with slightly different animation.
* MeTV aired a previously unreleased restored print of the cartoon on Toon In with Me. This restoration was later made available on Warner Bros. Discovery RIDE, with the Native American scene uncut and uncensored.
* Note that Ben Hardaway's and Cal Dalton's credits are above Isadore Freleng's name in the credits. Hardaway and Dalton were demoted to story man and animator, respectively, upon Freleng's return. While Dalton would continue to animate for Warner through 1947, Hardaway moved to the Walter Lantz studio where he would help Lantz create Woody Woodpecker.
== Gallery ==
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== References ==
Category:1940
Category:Porky Pig Cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng
Category:Hollywood in Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:Post-1935 Black & White Looney Tunes
Category:Baseball Cartoons
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons in the Sunset Productions package
Category:Spot Gag Cartoons
Category:Cartoons that reuse footage from earlier cartoons