What Price Porky

What Price Porky
Title card
Directed byRobert Clampett
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
StarringMel Blanc
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation byChuck Jones
Bob Cannon
Color processBlack-and-white
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Productions
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • February 26, 1938 (1938-02-26)
Running time
7 min
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

What Price Porky is a 1938 American animated comedy short film directed by Robert Clampett.[1] The cartoon was released on February 26, 1938.[2] It is the 98th film in the Looney Tunes series, the 36th cartoon to feature Porky Pig and the third cartoon to star Daffy Duck.[3][4]

Plot

Porky Pig wakes up one day to feed his chickens, only for his corn to be stolen by numerous black ducks led by Daffy Duck. Daffy writes a letter that insults the chickens while Porky tries to negotiate peacefully. The chickens and ducks go to war on each other.

The chickens use feed to lure newbornborn chicks and more chicken to the frontline while the ducks prepare their army, navy and air force. The chicks use a hen as cover and shoot an overconfident duck. An airship fashioned with a sausage is eaten by a duck while the chick in it parachutes to safety. Daffy pretends to be the Easter Bunny and deploys eggs with newborn ducklings which assault an oblivious Porky.

At night, a cigar-smoking duckling launches a smokescreen on the chicken's side, allowing the ducks to advance. As the smokescreen prematurely fades, the ducks manage to deceive the chickens by doing a dance routine, earning cheers before the ducks assault them. The ducks launch fresh eggs with newborn ducklings who accidentally land on and hit their peers. Porky physically moves a hole he is in to evade bombings. A duck steps on a landmine, which sends him flying to a pole on a tree, only to be killed by a bombing and turned into roast duck. Porky seals the hole shut after a warhead falls in and manages to turn the tide with a machine gun improvised from a wringer washer and a bag of corn, trapping Daffy and the other ducks. Porky attempts to taunt Daffy by having the chickens eat corn in front of him, but Daffy retaliates by sending ducklings to steal them instead.

Home media

What Price Porky is available on the DVD release of The Dawn Patrol, Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5, Disc 4[5] and Porky Pig 101, Disc 2.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 68. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  2. ↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 70–72. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  3. ↑ Parten, James (March 17, 2020). "Looney Tunes 1937-38: Steady As She Goes". Cartoon Research. Retrieved July 5, 2026.
  4. ↑ Roquet, Mark (2007). "Toward Absurdity: Warner Bros. Animation During the Depression" (PDF). Seven Hills School: 13.
  5. ↑ Lambert, David (August 5, 2007). "The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour - Complete Disc-by-Disc Details of Golden Collection Vol. 5 Cartoons, Extras". TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on February 8, 2009. Retrieved August 14, 2026.
  6. ↑ Beck, Jerry (August 16, 2017). "Warner Archive Announces "Porky Pig 101" DVD Collection". Animation Scoop. Retrieved July 16, 2026.
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