Picador Porky

Picador Porky is a 1937 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Tex Avery.
==Summary==
Porky and two pals stumble onto a Mexican town on the day of the town's annual bullfight. When they learn the contest winner gets $1,000, Porky and the pals get costumes - Porky a bullfighter, the pals a bull costume. When Porky steps into the ring, he fights not the pals dressed as the bull, but an actual one.
==Plot==
Slumbering peacefully 'neath the warm caresses of the noonday sun lies the sleepy little village of La Rosita. It presents a scene of serene quietude and beauty as its inhabitants enjoy a midday siesta preceding the annual bullfight. "The solitude is broken only by the occasional strains of a soft guitar." Stone broke, Porky and two gringo-dog buddies have hoboed to a Mexican town, apparently on a drinking-binge vacation. They stumble (and we do mean "stumble") across a sign about the annual bullfighting contest; the winner will receive 1,000 pesos. Porky and his two pals decide to cheat their way to the money by renting a bull costume and a matador outfit in order to win the prize. The plan is to substitute two of them in a bull costume for the real thing, with Porky fighting off the phony bull and then splitting the loot. But the old switcheroo takes place instead. In the bullring, it's quite a while before Porky realizes that it's not his friends in disguise, but a real (and very mean) bull whom he's been out there abusing for the audience!
==Trivia==
Mel Blanc definitely can be heard on this film as the drunken bull; this is generally considered his first appearance in a Warner Bros. cartoon.
Colorized in 1992.
Possible reference to marijuana? In the opening scene, the Spanish song appears to have the following lyrics: "...la cucaracha, ya no puede caminar, porque le falta marihuana para fumar," which translates into "...the cockroach, can no longer walk because she is missing marijuana to smoke."
Category:Cartoons
Category:Looney Tunes Cartoons
Category:Porky Pig Cartoons
Category:1937 cartoons
Category:Leon Schlesinger Productions Cartoons
Category:Cartoons directed by Tex Avery
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling