Porky's Poor Fish

Porky's Poor Fish is a 1940 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert Clampett.
== Plot ==
A mouse whistles and walks by, but, unknown to him, a hungry cat is following him. The cat follows the mouse around the fence and attempts to go for him, but the mouse goes through a mousehole, and the cat crashes into bottles, and he taps his fingers in defeat. Later, Porky, the owner of a fish store, and his fish sing about the store to the tune of "Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be?" Soon it is lunchtime, and naturally Porky goes out to lunch. He even puts up a sign to inform the customers. While he's out, the cat walks by and decides to come in and take a fish and eat it for himself, but the fish take notice and plan to attack him. The electric eels inform a turtle in another tank, and the turtle makes like Paul Revere and informs the other fish. The fish do indeed attack him from all sides and in different ways. For instance, the eels shock him, and a mussel clam with the arms of Popeye the Sailor punches the cat. That makes him leave the store in fear, just as Porky returns. After the cat is scared out, the mouse appears. The cat tries to eat it, but the mouse turns monstrous, scaring the cat and shrinking him into a crying kitten as the mouse walks away.
== Caricatures ==
* Paul Revere - as a turtle.
== Availability ==
lt sea hawk dvd.jpg|(2005) DVD The Sea Hawk
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LTSC4.jpg|(2006) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 4 Disc 2
lt cas5.jpg|(2007) DVD Looney Tunes Collection All Stars Volume 5
lt spotlight df2.jpg|(2014) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volumes 4-5 Repack
Porky Pig 101 DVD Cover.png|(2017) DVD Porky Pig 101, Disc 4 (restored)
lt sea hawk blu.jpg|(2018) Blu-ray The Sea Hawk
=== Streaming ===
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== Notes ==
* The "Twenty Thousand Leaks Under the Ceiling" book is a play on the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.
* The scene with the dancing octopus is reused from "Porky's Five & Ten", while the scene with the hatching fish soldiers is reused from similar scenes in "What Price Porky" (chicks) and "Naughty Neighbors" (ducklings).
* Three sequences from the storyboard got cut from the finished short, which include a view of a mama fish and three little fishes, a "dog fish" and "cat fishes," a dance number from a turtle, and an alternative scene in which the cat tries to steal a fish hiding behind a lobster, but the other fishes find out and the flying fishes attack using light bulbs as bombs.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27oI5txLqxg
== Gallery ==
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== References ==
Category:1940
Category:Porky Pig Cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Bob Clampett
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:Post-1935 Black & White Looney Tunes
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons animated by Dave Hoffman
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons in the Sunset Productions package
Category:Spot Gag Cartoons