Slap Happy Pappy

Slap Happy Pappy is a 1940 Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett.
== Plot ==
Porky is plowing the fields on his farm. A sign reads, "Miracle Eggs for sale, if it's a good egg it's a miracle egg". A rabbit impersonating Jack Benny (Jack Bunny) looks at the eggs. He is about to smash a black egg, but it breaks and a black bird goes out (doing an impersonation of Rochester).
Eddie Cackler wants a son, but is having no luck. Five eggs hatch and not a single one of them is a boy. A Bing Crosby lookalike happens to be nearby holding a stroller that has babies all of which are boys. The father asks him what his secret is, and he crones to a chick who then lays dozen of eggs, all of whom are boys.
Eddie tries the same thing to his wife, and she has an egg. The two are dancing when Eddie asks if the baby could really be a boy. He then says, "Mmm, could be!"
== Caricatures ==
* Bert Gordon - cow "How do you do?"
* Andy Devine - "Hiya, Buck!"
* Jack Benny - as Jack Bunny
* Eddie "Rochester" Anderson - black chick
* Eddie Cantor - as Eddie Cackler
* Bing Crosby
* Walter Winchell
* Kay Kyser
* Ned Sparks
* Artie Auerbach - as his character Mr Kitzel, "Mm, could be."
== Availability ==
Gfdsgdssgs.jpg|(2008) DVD Brother Orchid
Porky Pig 101 DVD Cover.png|(2017) DVD Porky Pig 101, Disc 4
=== Streaming ===
Lt warner bros discovery ride.png|Warner Bros. Discovery RIDE (2022 - 2022) (restored)
== Censorship ==
* When this cartoon aired in Nickelodeon, the scene in which a young chicken version of Rochester hatches out of the egg and yells to Jack Bunny, "Hold it, boss! Mm-mm, heaven can wait!" before Jack Bunny can crush him with a mallet was cut.http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-s.aspx Surprisingly, Cartoon Network and Boomerang left this scene uncut (both on and off The Bob Clampett Show), as did MeTV.
== Notes ==
* The Kay Kyser chicken's line, "That's right! You're wrong!" is reused from "Africa Squeaks".
* The computer-colorized version, and certain prints of the black-and-white version, have the wrong opening music playing over the opening logos, i.e. the 1936-37 "Porky Signature" theme as heard on "Porky's Badtime Story" and "Porky's Railroad", instead of the correct 1939-41 "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" theme music.
** As the restoration aired on MeTV is sourced from this print, this error persists in the restoration.
* MeTV aired a previously unreleased restored print of the cartoon on Saturday Morning Cartoons and Toon In With Me.
== References ==
Category:1940
Category:Cartoons directed by Bob Clampett
Category:Shorts
Category:Black-and-white cartoons
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Porky Pig Cartoons
Category:Post-1935 Black & White Looney Tunes
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Caricatures of real people
Category:Cartoons in the Sunset Productions package