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Porky Pig
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D-de-d-de-d-de-d-de-d-des... talk about Porky Pig here.Porky Pig was the first true star character to be adorned on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies franchisesnote Bosko fans in the back, please sit down, and an icon of animation. This lovable swine has earned recognition for his cute looks, his legendary stutter, and his many escapades with fellow screwball Daffy Duck. He has starred in the second most cartoons in the two franchises, with 159 appearances in the original theatrical cartoons, second only to Bugs Bunny's 168 short lineup and ahead of Daffy Duck's 129 short lineup (although he shared 42 shorts with Daffy).Porky Pig as a character was instrumental in saving the Warner Bros. cartoon studio from going under — by 1935, the studio had been in the doldrums after studio founders Harman and Ising left, taking early star character Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid with them to MGM, leaving them with four things — the names "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies", "That's All, Folks!", and a worthless, hastily cooked up Expy for Bosko, the incredibly bland Buddy. Suffice to say, the studio was in serious need of a kick in the pants, so in an effort to save the studio, Friz Freleng cooked up a batch of Funny Animal characters based on the Our Gang series of shorts, as well as his childhood memories, who all made their debut in the Merrie Melodies cartoon "I Haven't Got A Hat": the troublemaking Beans the Cat, cute little Kitty the Cat, Ham and Ex the twin puppies, Oliver Owl the bookworm, and a pudgy little piglet with an uncontrollable stutter, intended as the sidekick for Beans.While he barely had over a minute of screentime in said short, Porky was an immediate hit with audiences – the first real star character the studio had. However, the studio seemed to think that Beans the Cat was going to be their next big character, so they tried a second cartoon, "Gold Diggers Of '49", with young director Tex Avery at the directing helms, starring Beans and a heavily redesigned Porky as his sidekick. Once again, the pig won out as the next big thing, thus establishing him as the official mascot of the studio, while Beans and the rest of the "Our Gang" -derivative ensemble quickly faded away. He even replaced Bosko's farewell to the audience at the end of the proper Looney Tunes series and immortalized "Th-th-th-th-th-that's all, Folks!". His line remains famous to the 21st century.However, Porky's popularity was not to last—for another star stole his thunder two years later, in one of Porky's most beloved cartoons: "Porky's Duck Hunt". The star in question was a crazy darnfool Daffy Duck.Around the late 30's, Porky would start becoming a more fleshed out character, especially in the hands of Bob Clampett, who made him a more peppy, youthful individual who frequently went on adventures across the world, resulting in some very interesting trips, especially his journey to the home of the fabled Do-Do bird in "Porky in Wackyland". Frank Tashlin would also make several shorts with Porky, portraying him as having an innocent every-man type personality.While Daffy foreshadowed Porky's downfall in popularity, when Bugs Bunny arrived in 1940, it became clear that Porky's days as a major star were coming to an end. Fortunately, he still managed to appear in plenty of his own shorts, and eventually became the tagalong of Daffy Duck, starring in classics like "Robin Hood Daffy" and "Duck Dodgers". He's currently appearing in Looney Tunes Cartoons, so at least he's getting a bit of work.Here's a bit of interesting trivia for you: there are only THREE (or depending on how you feel about "Porky's Hare Hunt" and "Dumb Patrol", five) of the original theatrical cartoons that have starred Porky Pig and Bugs Bunny together – "A Corny Concerto", "Porky Pig's Feat", and Any Bonds Today?.On a side note, Harman and Ising had already cooked up their own pig character in the early 30's as an Expy for their Mickey Mouse wannabe Foxy. This character was called "Piggy", although he was just another non-descript run of the mill Mickey Mouse clone, with nothing in common with Porky.Joe Dougherty (a man with a real stutter) was his original voice. The role was quickly taken over by Mel Blanc, who has said his version of the stutter suggested the grunting of actual pigs. Unlike the rest of his co-stars, who have had various actors voice them depending on the director and producer, Porky has the unparalleled distinction of almost always being voiced by Bob Bergen, and has been for decades. | |
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Hero Antagonist: As Daffy became more and more the star of the series, Porky started to take on this role in their rivalry. This is particularly evident in shorts where he is an authority figure who is just trying to stop Daffy causing trouble (eg. "Daffy Doodles", Riff Raffy Daffy"). Depending on the level of Daffy's lunacy however, there's sometimes a shade of He Who Fights Monsters. | |
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Badass Adorable | |
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Badass Adorable: Porky's not really the fighting type, but on rare occasions where push comes to shove, he can and will fight back. "Porky's Poultry Plant" is one occasion where Porky not only doesn't cower in fear, but actually takes the initiative to save his hens from a flock of vultures—by chasing them down in an airplane, equipped with machine guns! And he wins. "Little Beau Porky" is another shining hour, where Porky singlehandedly and successfully defends his French Foreign Legion post from Ali Mode and his thieves. "Porky the Gob" has him singlehandedly defending his battleship from an enemy submarine. | |
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A Pig Named "Porkchop" | |
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A Pig Named "Porkchop": He is a very well-known example, as he is Porky Pig. He provides the page image. | |
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Only Sane Man | |
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Only Sane Man: Especially whenever alongside Daffy. | |
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Vocal Evolution | |
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Vocal Evolution: His voice also sounded different in his initial '30s cartoons, where his stutter was more apparent. This is due to the fact that his original voice actor, Joe Dougherty, had an actual stutter problem. Mel Blanc initially replicated Dougherty when he first took the role, though started adding his own comedic pacing by the 40s. Also, Blanc's voice for Porky started out thinner and slightly deeper, before gradually becoming thicker and squeakier by the color cartoons during the early 40s. | |
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Pie-Eyed: In his black-and-white shorts. | |
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The Smart Guy | |
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The Smart Guy: As a secondary character, this is usually his prominent trait. It's especially prominent in his many, many stints as Daffy's sidekick, where he tends to be the smarter, saner member of the duo and thus is exempt from the slapstick. | |
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Early Installment Character-Design Difference | |
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Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Those of you who are used to watching his cartoons of The '40s and The '50s cartoons may be quite surprised to see how different Porky was in his cartoons of The30s cartoons, He was a little kid, as well as morbidly obese in his early appearances. In Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production he is noticeably a bit tubbier, similar to his original design from 1935. This could also apply to the first version of the That's All, Folks! drum ending, where his design is radically different, especially when you compare that version to the newer, streamlined version used from late-1939 to 1946. | |
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Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sensitive Guy to Daffy's Manly Man. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: Porky wound up as this often, especially in his later cartoons. This got toned down as his co-stars started to gain their own luckless streak. He played The Fool when paired with Sylvester and became Daffy Duck's Hyper-Competent Sidekick after the former evolved into a luckless Small Name, Big Ego. In comparison to these two, Porky generally took very few lumps in his later years. Until The Looney Tunes Show and Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production where he reverts to being a Butt Monkey. | |
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Crazy-Prepared: Along with a fishing license and a dog license, he also has a license to sell hair tonic to bald eagles in Omaha, Nebraska and a license to use Daffy Duck as a motor. | |
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That's All, Folks!: Trope Namer Trope Codifier, as Bosko is technically the Trope Namer, since he said the lines first. When Porky first became the star of the Looney Tunes, Joe Dougherty had such a hard time saying Porky's lines that this tag had to be replaced with the words being written onto the screen. When Mel Blanc took over as Porky, he took over saying the lines. | |
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Big Eater: In his early appearances, his appetite was often his defining characteristic. As he was converted into The Straight Man however, this trait mostly vanished from the cartoons. It was still one of Porky's traits in some comic book stories. | |
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Brainy Pig | |
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Brainy Pig: He's often shown to be very intelligent, especially when paired with Daffy Duck. | |
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The Protagonist | |
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The Protagonist: Until Bugs Bunny was arrived in 1940. | |
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Villain of the Week: The early Porky shorts occasionally had one-shot bad guys for Porky to deal with, such as the Streamline Train driver from "Porky's Railroad", the vultures from "Porky's Poultry Plant", Ali Mode from "Little Beau Porky", Sub Zero from "Porky the Gob", and so on. | |
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Species Surname: Just like the other two big stars of the Looney Tunes, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, he follows this theme be being called Porky Pig. | |
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The Everyman | |
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The Everyman: In contrast to his prankster co-stars Bugs and Daffy, Porky's an everyday average Joe sort of character. This ultimately came to bite him, as he became increasingly perceived as "the dull one" by comparison. | |
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Casting Gag | |
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Casting Gag: In both Japanese and Mexican Spanish dubs, Porky's respective voice actors (Naoki Tatsuta and Ernesto Lezama) are also the voice of Oolong, another talking pig. | |
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The Comically Serious | |
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The Comically Serious: Specially when he interacts with Daffy. | |
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Later-Installment Weirdness | |
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Later-Installment Weirdness: As his co-stars began to take over the Butt-Monkey role, Porky took on a more passive, hyper competent personality. In "Daffy's Inn Trouble" for example, since Porky has the advantage over Daffy the whole time- the Running Gag of the short is that Daffy keeps bungling his efforts to drive business away from Porky's hotel. Even more so in "Robin Hood Daffy" which is almost a full-on role reversal of their earlier dynamic, with Porky now heckling a luckless and frustrated Daffy. Also, his trademark stutter got toned down severely, with none of the "swapping words" jokes that were featured in many of his '40s shorts. | |
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Vague Age | |
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Vague Age: In his earlier cartoons, Porky's age was all over the place. Some cartoons, including his debut, I Haven't Got A Hat, depict him as a child. In others, he's an adult (in one of which, he even had an adult daughter). Later cartoons seemed to settle on him being an adult. | |
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Motor Mouth | |
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Motor Mouth: In his early cartoons, where his stutter was played up considerably. | |
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Bratty Half-Pint | |
Porky Pig / int_82fc5bdf | comment |
Bratty Half-Pint: Porky's nephew in "Porky's Naughty Nephew". He constantly messes with his uncle for kicks, such as swatting him with a toy shovel (and unwittingly smacking him with a real shovel), pretending to drown in shallow water and then laughing at Porky when he falls for his trick, and then dumping a truckload of sand on top of him. That said, he does help his uncle win a swimming race by tricking him into thinking his toy sailboat is a shark fin and then reveals his charade after he won—or rather, tries to, as it turns out to the horror of both of them that there really was a shark in the water. | |
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Tritagonist | |
Porky Pig / int_8831e97 | comment |
Tritagonist: Ever since Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny showed up. | |
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Police Pig | |
Porky Pig / int_8aa8974b | comment |
Police Pig: Porky is frequently depicted as a police officer in short films. | |
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Porky Pig / int_8cb1a369 | type |
Took a Level in Jerkass | |
Porky Pig / int_8cb1a369 | comment |
Took a Level in Jerkass: In many of his starring roles from The '40s to the early 50s, especially in Chuck Jones and Robert McKimson's shorts, Porky would usually be rather curmudgeonly and sarcastic. He was even prone to acts of extreme violence, including physical abuse, to get whatever he wanted (whether it be his hunting target, peace and civility, or some other goal), yet somehow never crossed the villain territory that Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam were in. Granted how justified he is in this behavior varies, since he was paired with pranksters. | |
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Overshadowed by Awesome | |
Porky Pig / int_8cb259f4 | comment |
Overshadowed by Awesome: By both Bugs and Daffy. | |
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No-Respect Guy | |
Porky Pig / int_90b330ab | comment |
No-Respect Guy: A Running Gag in his cartoons is how little respect just about everybody gives him. | |
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The Finicky One | |
Porky Pig / int_97bfac5f | comment |
The Finicky One: Certain cartoons, particularly in his later years, portray him more like this, as a way to make him funnier but still evoke his original status as The Everyman. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
Porky Pig / int_9bcd82c0 | comment |
Took a Level in Badass: There are rare occasions where Porky will man up and fight his foe toe to toe, even managing to come out on top. "Porky's Poultry Plant" and "Little Beau Porky" are two such examples. | |
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Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal | |
Porky Pig / int_a236dd4c | comment |
Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: He wears an open jacket and a bow tie, but is otherwise naked. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
Porky Pig / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Especially when paired with Daffy. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
Porky Pig / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: In the Porky/Sylvester "horror trinity" of "Scaredy Cat", "Claws For Alarm" and "Jumpin' Jupiter", Porky's status as The Straight Man is amped up to the point that he refuses to believe anything weird or dangerous is going on, slowly Flanderizing into borderline I Reject Your Reality levels by the final instalment. This actually gets increasingly creepier; in "Scaredy Cat", he is forced to admit that Sylvester was right and Sylvester saves him (only to be knocked out by one last mouse whilst Porky's thanking him), but in "Claws for Alarm", he's never clued into the danger but manages to get away safely (The Stinger that some of the killer mice have stowed away with them besides). Finally, in "Jumpin' Jupiter", he winds up getting himself and Sylvester stranded on an alien planet because he never figured out he was being abducted by an alien, even insisting after seeing it face to face it could be nothing more than a "friendly Nava-Joe". | |
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The '40s | |
Porky Pig / int_b5b4798b | comment |
Those of you who are used to watching his cartoons of The '40s and The '50s cartoons may be quite surprised to see how different Porky was in his cartoons of The30s cartoons, He was a little kid, as well as morbidly obese in his early appearances. In Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production he is noticeably a bit tubbier, similar to his original design from 1935. | |
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Porky Pig / int_b6b5ebf4 | type |
TheStraightMan | |
Porky Pig / int_b6b5ebf4 | comment |
The Straight Man: While Porky was the first Warner Bros. character to actually have a distinctive personality, he was concieved and usually portrayed as a meek straight man, which made him a rather inflexible lead character for the directors. They usually had to rely on secondary characters to make his cartoons truly interesting, which eventually led to Porky becoming a secondary character himself once characters like Daffy Duck became the headlining star of the studio. | |
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Porky Pig / int_b8e3f20a | type |
Demoted to Extra | |
Porky Pig / int_b8e3f20a | comment |
Demoted to Extra: As noted above, he was the first big star to emerge from the Warner stable and headlined a number of shorts. Even after Daffy Duck first appeared, he was still a star, but his leading roles began to decrease by 1942. While he had a long successful partnership with Daffy, 1943's "Porky Pig's Feat" was the last short to give him top billing over the duck. Much of his mid-40s and onward work consisted of Porky playing sidekick to zanier characters, with his own series limping to an end in 1951. In The '60s, he only appeared in three more shorts of the classic era (and one of them was just recycled footage from Robin Hood Daffy). Even into the 21st Century, his screentime is severely trumped by the other characters. Animator Mike Fontanelli (who works for Warner Bros.) claims that Porky's current downplaying is a result of an unexplained dislike of the character by many Warner Bros. executives. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
Porky Pig / int_bc00493f | comment |
Precision F-Strike: Says "son of a bitch" after hammering his thumb in a short clip not intended for general audiences. | |
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Weirdness Magnet | |
Porky Pig / int_bcb452a9 | comment |
Weirdness Magnet: Seems to attract all sorts of demented characters, much to his dismay. | |
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Alliterative Name | |
Porky Pig / int_be009bbc | comment |
Alliterative Name: As with many of Warner Bros.' animated characters including Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck. | |
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Inn of No Return | |
Porky Pig / int_c0015c4c | comment |
Inn of No Return: "Claws for Alarm", part of the Porky & Sylvester horror trilogy, involves them visiting a run-down inn that's infested with murderous mice, who try their hardest to kill any visitors. | |
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Irony | |
Porky Pig / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: Despite creating the character, Friz didn't direct many Porky Pig cartoons in his career- the bulk of them were from the early '40s. His last Porky cartoon in the original theatrical shorts was from 1952, even though both Chuck Jones and Robert McKimson used the character into the late '50s and early '60s. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
Porky Pig / int_c33ba0a8 | comment |
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Most of the supporting characters created for Porky, such as Beans the Cat, Gabby Goat, and Petunia Pig, met this fate. Daffy averted this by doing the complete opposite. | |
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Nice Guy | |
Porky Pig / int_c5249b29 | comment |
Nice Guy: Generally, Porky tends to play the kind, even-tempered Straight Man to his fellow toons' wackier personalities. | |
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Shout-Out | |
Porky Pig / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: In "Porky in Egypt", the camel's nervous breakdown was inspired by the film The Lost Patrol. In the same scene, the camel references Rudyard Kipling's poem "Boots". The scene where he's bathing in an oasis mirage has the camel imitate Hugh Herbert's laugh. | |
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Hyper-Competent Sidekick | |
Porky Pig / int_cdd676a3 | comment |
Hypercompetent Sidekick: To Daffy Duck in some of Chuck Jones' later shorts (somewhat in contrast to his other appearances, especially alongside Sylvester by the same director). | |
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Character Catchphrase | |
Porky Pig / int_d308cbb0 | comment |
Character Catchphrase: "Tha-th-th-tha-th-th...go home, folks." | |
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Vitriolic Best Buds | |
Porky Pig / int_d7fc9fd0 | comment |
Vitriolic Best Buds: With Daffy. When paired, they often antagonize or insult each other. But they have variously been depicted as pals, business partners, co-workers, or roommates. | |
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White Gloves | |
Porky Pig / int_d92701be | comment |
White Gloves: Usually wears these, though there have been occasions where his hands have been bare. | |
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Breakout Character | |
Porky Pig / int_da0eeab5 | comment |
Breakout Character: Porky hardly had any screen time and a small role in "I Haven't Got A Hat", and he was meant to be a sidekick to Beans. However, his likable Straight Man role and distinct voice made it clear who the real star was. | |
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Porky Pig Pronunciation | |
Porky Pig / int_dd2fe8c3 | comment |
Porky Pig Pronunciation: His characteristic and iconic stutter makes him the Trope Namer. | |
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Criminal Doppelgänger | |
Porky Pig / int_e0443d9a | comment |
Criminal Doppelgänger: Killer, in "Porky's Double Trouble". | |
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The Fool | |
Porky Pig / int_e3d2f2 | comment |
The Fool: When paired with Sylvester in Chuck Jones' shorts. The two were paired in three Horror Comedy shorts. In each of them, Porky is completely oblivious to the dangers surrounding them, while a scared Sylvester tries to get them out of the dangerous areas. | |
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Art Evolution | |
Porky Pig / int_e43c66bd | comment |
Art Evolution: By the time Bob Clampett directed the Porky Pig shorts, he was considerably slimmed down from his earlier appearances. | |
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Determinator | |
Porky Pig / int_e567510d | comment |
Determinator: In "Duck Soup To Nuts", he uses a pail to bail out an entire pond in pursuit of Daffy. | |
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Burning with Anger | |
Porky Pig / int_f062453 | comment |
Burning with Anger: In "My Favorite Duck", where he literally ignites into a full-on fireball after being wound up by Daffy too many times. | |
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Shot-for-Shot Remake | |
Porky Pig / int_f25ab7c5 | comment |
Tick Tock Tuckered (LT, Clampett) - Shot For Shot Color Remake of "Porky's Badtime Story", but with Daffy replacing Gabby. Reissued as a Merrie Melodies film. | |
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Running Gag | |
Porky Pig / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag: Anytime he stumb-b-b-b, uh, stumb-b-b-b, er, stumb-b-b-b...has trouble with a word and uses a similar word (or phrase) instead; in many cases, the substitute is a bigger mouthful than what he was originally trying to say. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
Porky Pig / int_fccd06b6 | comment |
Beware the Nice Ones: Generally a nice guy and has a long fuse, but set that temper off, and you better get clear. "The Ducksters" is the clearest example: even before he wins his prize money, Porky is enraged enough to be ready to punch out Daffy when he is threatened and when Porky does win, he immediately buys out the radio company and gets his sweet revenge with all the sadism he suffered now being lashed out in return. Another example occurs in The Looney Tunes Show episode "The Float". Here, Daffy screws Porky out of $375,000 in order to buy a yacht (though the duck told Porky it was for a kidney transplant). A suspicious Bugs Bunny climbs aboard the yacht and asks Daffy how his kidney is feeling. When Daffy reveals that he lied to Porky so he could get the money for the yacht, the eavesdropping, enraged pig proceeds to beat the living tar out of the greedy duck. | |
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Ridiculously Cute Critter | |
Porky Pig / int_fd1f1a63 | comment |
Ridiculously Cute Critter: More so in his early appearances. | |
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Porky Pig / int_fdc4fab4 | type |
Depending on the Writer | |
Porky Pig / int_fdc4fab4 | comment |
Depending on the Writer: Though often placed as The Everyman of the franchise, many shorts placed Porky with some distinctive traits, ranging anywhere from a rather naive and somewhat doormat-ish figure to a neurotic and occasionally violent-tempered fuddy duddy. Both extremes were often provoked by his co-stars. Which persona was used usually depended on how sympathetic the writers wanted them to be in comparison, especially when Porky was paired with Daffy. In the 1930s shorts, Porky Pig appeared variously as a young child or as a grown-up. | |
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