tadpole-596-918256 Review of Porky's Poor Fish

Porky's Poor Fish (1940)

"Oh boy! When it comes to eating . . . "

[6/10 · 6 September 2016]

" . . . I'm a little pig," the swinish Porky tells viewers as he departs the screen halfway through this animated short, which can be found labeled as PORKY'S POOR FISH STORYBOARD REEL in the "From the Vault" section of the "Special Features" on Disc 4, Volume 4 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection. We learn in the "Deleted Sequences" section appended to POOR FISH that catfish, dogfish, a turtle, and a crab all were axed from the final version of this Looney Tune (probably for use in some sort of gumbo dish). With all the creatures of the sea collaborating here to keep a cat from consuming a defenseless minnow, Warner Bros. seems to be anticipating the battle to save the World's Whales and Dolphins from Japan's Death Culture. (This recalls the scene from Oz in which the Wicked Witch of the West fails to electrocute Dorothy, so she orders Dot's dog Toto to be drowned in the river; Japan lost its quest for Asian Domination in World War Two, so it turned on Humanity's friendly Sea Mammal Friends and said "At least we can wipe you out!"). Japanese "scientists" outdo the Holocaust, Evolution, and Climate Change Deniers by alleging that that Star Trek flick that documents their assassination of the World's Last Whale is a Hoax. The only way that Porky Pig, with an assist from Captain James T. Kirk, can save our Mammals of the Seas it to Take the Pledge to only drive vehicles made by America's Big Two car companies.