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A farmer is busy with hoeing while his son Porky is ploughing the fields with his horse Dobbin. Hank Horsefly speeds up the process. The farmer and Porky are about to take a turn for the worse as Mr. Viper the Snake comes with a mortgage form ready to evict them unless a sum of rent money is paid.
Daffy, introduced as a "Western-Type Hero" and Porky, introduced as the "Comedy Relief", ride along the desert until they come across the small "Lawless Western Town" of Snake-Bite Center, which is so full of violence that the population sign immediately goes down a number when someone is shot and killed (while the town cemetery's population sign immediately goes up a number); the most recent ...
The duck in this cartoon is often thought to be the same duck that appeared in the Porky Pig cartoons It's an Ill Wind [6] [7] [8] and Porky's Hotel, as well as She Was an Acrobat's Daughter. During the storm sequence, the cartoon's soundtrack music includes a few bars from the second movement of Gioacchino Rossini's William Tell Overture. [9]
Porky sees them approaching, and attempts to awaken the other sleeping soldiers. Among the subsequent gags are: An Indian drinks "fire water" and spits fire, carving an Indian-shaped hole in the front of the fort, then walks through it; a short Indian uses the bow-leg of a taller Indian to shoot arrows; and a soldier shoots over the wall at the ...
Dough for the Do-Do is a 1949 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. [1] The short was released on September 2, 1949, and stars Porky Pig. [2] The short is a remake of Bob Clampett's 1938 cartoon Porky in Wackyland, as well as using footage from his 1943 cartoon Tin Pan Alley Cats.
Daffy cleverly outwits Porky using tricks and distractions, but Porky eventually knocks him unconscious. Feeling guilty, Porky offers sympathy, recognizing Daffy's plight, and allows him to stay in the store, likening their situations as parents to wind-up toy offspring.
Since this cartoon is set in 1492, Porky Pig is the star of the short as Kristopher Kolumbus Jr. himself with a song at the title card. The short begins with the 1492 text zooming and forming smoke with the announcer saying that the astronomers thought "the world was flat as a pancake" with a sign on top, located not too far from Saturn.
The short was released on September 29, 1956, and stars Daffy Duck and Porky Pig. [2] The title is a play on the exclamation, "The deuce, you say!" The cartoon features Daffy Duck as the dim-witted detective Dorlock Homes (a parody of Sherlock Holmes ) and Porky Pig as his sidekick Watkins ( Dr. Watson ), as they attempt to locate and apprehend ...