Porky's Tire Trouble (1939) User Reviews

That's one determined dog!

[planktonrules · 6/10 · 3 January 2022]

Despite the color picture now posted with this cartoon, "Porky's Tire Trouble" is a black & white cartoon. Some of these old black & white Looney Tunes cartoons have been colorized...and that's why I assume the picture is color.

When the story begins, Porky's brought his dog to work at the tire factory. Unfortunately, there's a sign on the door saying 'No Dogs'....which is odd since Porky's a pig and the boss (Billy Bleycher) is a walrus. Not unexpectedly, the dog gets loose and gets into a LOT of trouble.

This is a decent enough short but the gimmick with the dog becoming rubberized seemed a bit dopey. Otherwise, enjoyable and well animated.

Tire trouble with Porky

[TheLittleSongbird · 7/10 · 9 January 2018]

Love animation, it was a big part of my life as a child, particularly Disney, Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry, and still love it whether it's film, television or cartoons.

'Porky's Tire Trouble' is enjoyable and well-made, but Bob Clampett has done stronger cartoons than this, which demonstrates what made his visual and humour style as distinctive as it was but not to the truly hilarious and imaginative effect his best work did. He directs very solidly, everything looks good and is engaging but the wild outrageousness has been stronger elsewhere. Porky is as ever likeable, but he is somewhat bland and has little to do.

The story is predictable and also very basic.

However, everything goes at a lively pace with momentum seldom lost. Flat Foot Flookey steals the show here, he is given the funnier, more inventive and meatiest material and not only is his facial expressions the standouts of the animation he is also incredibly funny. It's hard not to forget the portrayal of the caricatures.

Mel Blanc is outstanding as always however. He always was the infinitely more preferable voice for Porky, Joe Dougherty never clicked with me, and he proves it here. Blanc shows an unequalled versatility and ability to bring an individual personality to every one of his multiple characters in a vast majority of his work, there is no wonder why he was in such high demand as a voice actor. Billy Bletcher is great too, hard not to recognise his voice, the distinctive one that it is.

Animation is excellent, it's fluid in movement, crisp in shading and very meticulous in detail. Flat Foot Flookey's expressions are especially well done. Ever the master, Carl Stalling's music is typically superb. It is as always lushly orchestrated, full of lively energy and characterful in rhythm, not only adding to the action but also enhancing it.

In conclusion, good but not great. 7/10 Bethany Cox

Once again Warner Bros. courageously crusades in favor of Universal Union Rights . . .

[oscaralbert · 7/10 · 19 April 2017]

. . . at a time when American Union Freedom Fighters were being literally and savagely neutered (that is, sexually mutilated) in the back seats of cars driven by the goons of Corrupt Job-Killing Capitalist Corporate Thugs (read more about the story of the original Braveheart, Joe Hill, in novelist John Dos Passos' AMER!CA Trilogy). Warner Bros. makes it perfectly obvious even before Porky Pig enters his workplace that "Snappy Rubber Co." is a NON-UNION shop, as Porky expresses his fear of being "canned" or pink-slipped over frivolous employment "infractions," without any Union Due Process or intercession on the part of his Committeeman. When Porky enters his shop, it's woefully understaffed. Porky is expected to perform the work of 12 men. Worse yet, ALL of the many machines he runs totally lack Safety Guards, as required for decades by America's Union-demanded OSHA Rules (now once again endangered by the Deplorable and Illegitimate Red Commie KGB Putin\Rump Administration). Warner concludes PORKY'S TIRE TROUBLE by showing his abusive boss totally drilled through and through, suffering the poetic justice of a clearly fatal injury produced by one of the Death Trap Management Machines he superintends. With PORKY'S TIRE TROUBLE, Warner Bros. again argues that Universal Unionism is an aspect of American Religion that is REQUIRED for our Public Safety--NOT some outdated frivolous optional thing. With Putin\Rump Hell-Bent upon destroying the last remnants of the American Middle Class, it reminds We True Blue Loyal Normal Patriotic Average Real Citizens to once more begin checking for Our Union Labels of Humanity!

Porky's Tire Trouble is another funny Porky Pig cartoon by Bob Clampett

[tavm · 8/10 · 30 July 2008]

Just found this on Thad's Animation Blog. This was another Bob Clampett cartoon starring Porky Pig. In this one, it's Porky's dog, Flat Foot Flookey, that gets the lion's share of the laughs especially after following his master to his job at the Snappy Rubber Co. and falling into a vat of rubberized solution that causes his face to morph into various celebrities (including Edward G. Robinson and Clark Gable). The dog also gets into a scrape with Porky's boss who loudly declares, "I hate dogs!" which scares a hot dog to get out of his bun! That last incident I mentioned was the funniest thing in the cartoon! So on that note, I highly recommend Porky's Tire Trouble.

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[Op_Prime · 20 May 2000]

Another short I did not really like. Some stuff is predictable and Porky is really not that funny in this one. The only really funny one is Flat Foot Flookey, Porky's dog. He's like the stupid side kick always doing something silly. That really helps this short.