" . . . and I want it BAD!" orders one of the gangsters prone to frequent the "Porky's Last Stand" Honeywagon on the animated Warner Bros. lot. But rodents have stolen all the butchered beef, and the backyard bull doesn't seem to have corporate profits very high on his priorities list. There's no way that P.E.T.A. would have approved this black-and-white cartoon short, since mammal abuse runs rampant. For non-bleeding heart (normal) people, perhaps the funniest scene does not involve a mammal at all. Porky takes an order for two eggs, and reaches through the back of the mobile diner's refrigerator to scoop up a pair of edible orbs from beneath a black hen. He cracks the first open into a hot skillet with no problem. But when he starts to break open the second shell, a fully-formed chick plops directly into the cooking pan, immediately running around in circles, shrieking, "What are you trying to do--give me a hot-foot?!" Before the carnage gets too bad, this chick runs back under Mom, hunkering down for safety (after emerging briefly to display a "Do Not Disturb" sign).
Review of Porky's Last Stand
