happy 88th birthday to porky pig!
march 2nd, 1935, i haven't got a hat first appeared in theaters. this marks the first every appearance of the magnificent character porky pig. the short was directed by friz freleng and featured the first appearance of many lesser looney tunes characters, including beans the cat, oliver owl, ham and ex, and little kitty. in this short, porky pig is featured reciting the poem paul revere's ride for a class talent show.
fun facts about porky pig!
porky pig was originally voiced by joe dougherty, who had an actual stutter. friz freleng hired him for this reason. this is why the stutter porky has at first seems more genuine than when mel blanc voices porky. the part was recast and given to mel blanc in 1937 because it became too expensive to keep doing retakes of dougherty's lines and recording sessions took hours.
the first cartoon mel blanc voices porky in is porky's duck hunt (1937), which also happens to be the first appearance of daffy duck.
mel blanc continued dougherty's stutter, but tried to make it reminiscent of the noises of actual pigs. when mel blanc took over looney tunes also began the gag where porky would struggle to say a word and then replace it with another word, which he would say in perfect clarity.
porky was originally intended to be a child, beginning in his first cartoon and represented in cartoons like porky's poppa (1938). in 1939, bob clampett (one of the best directors to ever work on looney tunes) permanently made porky a young adult.
porky wears pants in exactly three cartoons: porky's badtime story (1937), tick rock tuckered (1944) (a remake of porky's badtime story), and brother brat (1944).
porky pig's most common pairings were with gabby goat, daffy duck, petunia pig, sylvester, and charlie dog.
rover's rival (1937) by bob clampett was the first looney tunes cartoon to not only feature the merry-go-round broken down, the theme song for looney tunes, but also feature the end card with porky pig bursting through the looney tunes drum saying "that's all folks!" this end card was used till 1946, although i don't know which specific cartoon was the last cartoon that featured it.
porky's original design featured him having a large snout and a fat body. he was later redesigned to be smaller, but his face remained similar. this is the design you can see in the first edition of his end card. his design was changed to the porky we all know and love after that, which you can see in the second edition of his end card. his final and most popular design was created by bob clampett. in new looney tunes (2015), they reverted back to his original design, which luckily didn't affect any other designs of him.
porky mentors hampton pig in tiny toons adventures (1990). his descendent in loonatics unleashed (2005) is pinkster pig.
the rap sequence in space jam: a new legacy is the worst thing to happen to porky pig in the history of looney tunes (this obviously isn't a fact but am i wrong?)
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