Fish Tales

Fish Tales is a 1936 Looney Tunes short directed by Jack King.
== Plot ==
Porky Pig is going fishing, but his boat strays off course. He is eventually able to control it and catches several fish, but then falls asleep with the line in the water. While he's asleep, a fish sees Porky's dream and brings him home to his family. Porky manages to escape, but has encounters with other sea creatures. He is saved when he awakens and decides to throw his catch back into the water and leave.
== Caricatures ==
* Mae West
== Availability ==
Porky Pig 101 DVD Cover.png|(2017) DVD Porky Pig 101, Disc 1 (90s audio with wrong opening music cue)
=== Streaming ===
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== Notes ==
* The print Warner Bros. created in the early 90s to use for the computer-colorization mistakenly had the opening music for "Rover's Rival" put over the opening titles for this cartoon.
* Porky Pig speaks only one line in this short.
* At the end of the cartoon, Porky wakes up without his shirt despite the fact he only lost it in the dream when the fish cut it away.
* A picture of a fish on a plate is hanging on the wall with the caption “Uncle Norm”, a reference to musician Norman Spencer and/or animator Norman McCabe.
* The Little Audrey short The Seapreme Court has a very similar plot to this short.
** Likewise similar is Jack King's short "Buddy's Bug Hunt" from the previous year.
== Gallery ==
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== References ==
Category:Porky Pig Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:1936
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Post-1935 Black & White Looney Tunes
Category:Cartoons animated by Don Williams
Category:Cartoons animated by Norman McCabe
Category:Cartoons with music by Norman Spencer
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 in the Sunset Productions package
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Bernard B. Brown