Porky in Wackyland

1938
U
7m

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Porky Pig goes on a hunt to catch the surreally elusive last Do-Do bird.Porky Pig goes on a hunt to catch the surreally elusive last Do-Do bird.Porky Pig goes on a hunt to catch the surreally elusive last Do-Do bird.

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7.6/10

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Awards
- 1 win

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Mel Blanc

Porky Pig
(voice)
(uncredited)
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Billy Bletcher

Roaring Goon
(voice)
(uncredited)

Robert Clampett

Vocal Effects
(uncredited)

Bernice Hansen

Squeaky Creature
(uncredited)

Tedd Pierce

Mysterious Citizens
(uncredited)

Shirley Reed

Squeaky Creature
(uncredited)

Danny Webb

Prisoner
(uncredited)

Director
- Robert Clampett
Writer
- Warren Foster
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Trivia
At one point in the pan of the various denizens of Wackyland, a character with large glasses comes out of a pot and says, "Hello, Bobo." This refers to animator Robert Cannon, whose nickname was Bobo and who did wear big glasses. On the pot are the words "Treg's a Foo", refering to sound effects man Treg Brown. (Foo, incidentally, is a nonsense word from the Smokey Stover comic strip, a big influence on this cartoon in terms of humor and visual style.)

Goofs
In the Wackyland sign, the words "It Can Happen Here!!" are underlined (with "Can" being double underlined) on close-up, but are not underlined in long shots.

Quotes
[last lines]
Porky Pig: Oh b-b-boy! I caught the l-last of the D-D-Do-Dos!
The Do-Do: Yes, I'm really the last of the Do-Dos. Ain't I, fellas?
[hundreds of Do-Dos surround Porky]
Other Do-Dos: Yeah, man! Woooooooooo!

Crazy credits
A paper boy walks onto the title card and thrusts the newspaper with Porky in the front page into the camera, covering the entire screen. After enough time for the audience to read the headline, the camera dissolves to Porky in his plane.

Alternate versions
The colorized version is actually censored. The scene where the prisoner behind bars he holds up ends with his complaining. In the original, he's beaten by a jailer. Many characters are cut out, and the ending is completely different.

Connections
Edited into Tin Pan Alley Cats (1943)

Soundtracks
Feelin' High and Happy
(uncredited)
Music by Rube Bloom
Played during the opening credits and at the beginning
Also played when the Do-Do is walking along

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Featured review

10/10

30+ Years Ahead of R. Crumb

Watching this fabulous pre-WWII creation, I was immediately reminded of the American cartoonist R. Crumb. What is interesting is that R. Crumb admitted to taking hallucinogenic drugs to draw his strange comics in the late 1960's. Of course, this cartoon with Porky Pig doesn't include Crumb's sense of pornography (thankfully). Crumb's comics are simply rehash seeing some of the inhabitants of Wackyland. I wonder what the illustrators back then did to create such fantastic off the wall stuff. Sure, there were some obvious inspirations in this cartoon (3 stooges) but just about everything is going insane!

Thoroughly enjoyable and liberating cartoon for 1938! I saw it in color on Cartoonland. I wonder if I saw the colorized version (It was in color...)