The Pest That Came to Dinner

The Pest That Came to Dinner is a 1948 Looney Tunes short directed by Arthur Davis.
== Title ==
The title is a pun on the 1939 play The Man Who Came to Dinner and its 1942 film adaptation.
== Plot ==
Porky's house is under attack by Pierre, the biggest and hungriest termite in the world, and nothing Porky can do will save his house. When he can't exterminate the termite himself, he goes to a shyster called I.M.A. Sureshot from Sureshot Exterminating Co. who offers him a series of unsuccessful methods to remove the termite, such as firing an insecticide squirt gun on the termite, using a vacuum cleaner to suck up the termite, flooding up the baseboards where the termite lives with a water hose, and using a TNT stick. Porky eventually gets fed-up with the constant failures in getting rid of Pierre, and teams up with Pierre to eat up all the furniture in Sureshot Exterminating Co.
Porky and Pierre become good friends, take over Sureshot Exterminating Co., and open their own company called Porky and Pierre Antique Furniture.
== Availability ==
CARTOON CAVALCADE PORKY PIG.jpg|(1988) VHS Porky Pig Tales (Blue Ribbon)
Gdsfhfdasghgfasgdhbbcxv.jpg|(1993) LaserDisc Ham on Wry: The Porky Pig Laser Collection (Blue Ribbon)
CARTOON CAVALCADE PORKY PIG 2.jpg|(1997) VHS Porky Pig Tales Time-Life edition (Blue Ribbon) 
SuperStars Porky.jpg|(2012) DVD Looney Tunes Super Stars' Porky & Friends: Hilarious Ham (original opening restored)
lt ssfm2.jpg|(2017) DVD Looney Tunes Super Stars Family Multi-Feature Vol. 2, Disc 3
=== Streaming ===
lt boomerang.jpg|Boomerang App (2017 - ) (original opening restored)
lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2021) (original opening restored)
== Notes ==
* Along with "You Were Never Duckier" and "Hot Cross Bunny", this short was supposed to be in the pre-1948 cartoon package due to production numbers, being before "Haredevil Hare". As the cartoon was released after July 1948, the cartoon instead remained in the hands of Warner Bros.
* This is one in a handful of shorts released in 1948 to have the red opening and ending rings.
* This is the last cartoon with the byline "IN TECHNICOLOR". Starting with "Haredevil Hare", Warner started using the byline "Color by TECHNICOLOR".
* The dog in this cartoon resembles that of the same dog that antagonizes the Goofy Gophers.
== Gallery ==
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File:The Pest That Came to Dinner (1948) - Furniture.jpg
ThePestThatCameToDinnerLobbyCard.jpg|Lobby card
ThePestThatCameToDinnerLobbyCard2.jpg|Lobby card
Tptctd.jpg|Lobby card sketch
Tptctd2.jpg|Lobby card sketch
Pest dinner model sheet.jpg|Pierre's model sheet
Pest Concept Sheet.jpg|Pierre concept art model sheet
==References==
Category:1948
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Shorts
Category:Porky Pig Cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Arthur Davis
Category:Blue Ribbon reissues
Category:Cartoons written by George Hill
Category:Cartoons animated by Basil Davidovich
Category:Cartoons animated by Bill Melendez
Category:Cartoons animated by Don Williams
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Don Smith
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Philip DeGuard
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 with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer
Category:Re-released cartoons whose original titles are known to exist