I've always noticed that during their first few years, the Looney Tunes cartoons were sort of like the Marx Brothers' movies with the kinds of gags that they pulled. "Porky's Baseball Broadcast" actually features the famously stuttering swine in more of a supporting role, as he narrates a baseball game in which every crazy thing possible happens: American Indians are the scalpers (not PC anymore), one of the players literally stretches, and a ball is truly a screamer.
As far as I can tell, Friz Freleng and the rest of the Termite Terrace crowd - to paraphrase Cyndi Lauper - just wanted to have fun with their work. This one is pretty funny; in fact, if you've seen enough Looney Tunes cartoons, you can probably guess what will happen just by Porky's narration. Some of the gags were later used in "Baseball Bugs".
PS: writer Ben Hardaway drew Bugs Bunny's prototype. Hardaway's nickname was Bugs, and he titled the drawing "Bugs' Bunny". So, they dropped the apostrophe, and the wascawwy wabbit was born.
As far as I can tell, Friz Freleng and the rest of the Termite Terrace crowd - to paraphrase Cyndi Lauper - just wanted to have fun with their work. This one is pretty funny; in fact, if you've seen enough Looney Tunes cartoons, you can probably guess what will happen just by Porky's narration. Some of the gags were later used in "Baseball Bugs".
PS: writer Ben Hardaway drew Bugs Bunny's prototype. Hardaway's nickname was Bugs, and he titled the drawing "Bugs' Bunny". So, they dropped the apostrophe, and the wascawwy wabbit was born.