Celebrating 70 Years of Porky Pig

[musicradio77]

Bossradio93, for those of you who like Looney Tunes, Wednesday, March 9th will be 70 years since Porky Pig made his first cartoon called "I Haven't Got a Hat". The character was created in 1935 by Friz Freling. The character got the idea was using the one of the character reference from Disney's "The Three Little Pigs" which was from the Silly Symphony series. To get the information, here is a descripton of a character from Looney Tunes on TV site:

Friz Freleng created Porky Pig, Warner Brothers' first major cartoon character, for "I Haven't Got a Hat" in 1935, a Merrie Melodie in which Porky was a porcine version of Chubby of the Our Gang comedies. Freleng's fellow animation directors Tex Avery, Robert Clampett, and Frank Tashlin refined Porky, giving to him a more appealing look, and Mel Blanc replaced Joe Dougherty as the provider of Porky's stuttering voice. Porky's particular speech impediment distinguished him from all other cartoon characters in the 1930s and 1940s, rendering him lovably vulnerable as the modest, put-upon hero of many cartoons pairing him with hustlers like "moocher" Daffy Duck or the pushy, master-seeking Charlie Dog. Porky's fractured statement of "That's All, Folks!" ended most of the Warner Brothers cartoons through the late 1930s and early 1940s. Porky's cartoon presence diminished in the 1950s while most of the other Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters were in their prime. During this period, he was usually a sidekick to a bumbling Daffy Duck in such Chuck Jones-directed cartoon shorts as "Drip-Along Daffy" (1951), with Daffy as a "Western-type hero" and Porky as "comedy relief", "Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century" (1953), Daffy's outing as an outer space adventurer and Porky as an "eager, young space cadet", "Deduce You Say" (1956), with Porky as "Watkins" to Daffy's "Dorlock Homes", and "Robin Hood Daffy" (1958), in which Daffy is a Robin Hood pretender and Porky a laughing Friar Tuck. Porky's other appearances through the post-1948 period were as the blase master of a timid Sylvester Cat, while the traveling pair encounter a murderous-mouse-infested house, a haunted hotel, and an abducting buzzard from Jupiter, and Porky was also director Robert McKimson's character of choice in pairings with an annoying Daffy Duck.

I using this Porky Pig birthday avatar for this week. Next week, I will have my normal avatar. Happy 70th birthday, Porky Pig!!!!


"That's all, folks!"

[gilligan fanatic]

wow 70 years already it seems like last year that Looney Tunes was still on Cartoon Network and they were celebrating Porkys 65th birthday with a marathon. I can't belive that was five years ago.

[musicradio77]

March 24th will be Sylvester's 60th birthday. Will have more on that if I can get a special Looney Tunes birthday avatar in two weeks.