{"id":58828,"date":"2020-07-07T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T07:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/?p=58828"},"modified":"2020-07-08T08:50:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T15:50:27","slug":"looney-tunes-1940-41-the-last-full-year-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/looney-tunes-1940-41-the-last-full-year-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Looney Tunes 1940-41 &#8211; The Last Full Year of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the 1940-41 season, the world seemed to want comedy and escapism. In a world that was getting more and more tense, this was understandable. Even though the USA was not yet a participant in the war going on in Europe, we had revived conscription, which became the subject of several cartoons from various studios.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Calling-dr-porky600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"455\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Calling-dr-porky600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Calling-dr-porky600-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Calling-dr-porky600-150x114.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>\n<p><strong>Calling Dr. Porky<\/strong> (9\/21\/40) &#8211; Porky is a doctor at New Rightus Hospital, which is being visited by an inebriate, who is himself being visited by three ghostly pink elephants (gray if you count the original black and white presentation). Porky compounds a prescription that cures the inebriate &#8211; but he still can\u2019t shake the rosy pachyderms. Melodies on the track include \u201cJeepers Creepers\u201d played in a minor key.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dIt2SCjXU9U\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/prehistoric-porky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/prehistoric-porky.jpg 612w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/prehistoric-porky-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/prehistoric-porky-150x118.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<p><strong>Prehistoric Porky<\/strong> (10\/12\/40) &#8211; perhaps inspired by Hal Roach\u2019s <em>One Million B.C.<\/em> (1940), this sets a cave version of Porky among the dinosaurs and pterodactyls. After seeing articles in \u201cExpire &#8211; the Magazine For Men\u201d (a takeoff on <em>Esquire<\/em> magazine) about new men\u2019s fashions, Porky decides to go hunting to acquire a new suit. Porky pursues a small leopard, but winds up pursued himself by a black panther &#8211; who ultimately makes Porky an offer: \u201cI can get it for you wholesale!\u201d Songs include \u201cA Hunting We Will Go\u201d, with special material lyrics, \u201cLong Long Ago\u201d, and \u201cThese Are Wonderful Days&#8221; with special lyrics. <\/p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sour-puss-lobby-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sour-puss-lobby-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sour-puss-lobby-600-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/sour-puss-lobby-600-150x83.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>\n<p><strong>The Sour Puss<\/strong> (11\/2\/40) &#8211; Porky reads in the paper it\u2019s the first day of fishing season, and decides to go fishing, sending his cat into ecstatic delight, and causing a canary to commit suicide with possibly the first use of Clampett\u2019s standard line, \u201cWell, now I\u2019ve seen everything.\u201d While on the outing, Porky and the cat meet a \u201cdaffy\u201d flying fish, with a unique vibrato voice. The fish pulls the old \u201cfin in the water\u201d gag to impersonate a shark &#8211; with a real one taking his place when the cat tries to lift it up &#8211; itself lifted from <em>Porky\u2019s Naughty Nephew<\/em>. Songs include \u201cMeow\u201d, \u201cChicken Reel\u201d, \u201cRock a Bye Baby\u201d, and \u201cWhen the Swallows Come Back to Capristrano\u201d, a song introduced in 1939 which became a hit in 1940, inspired by a radio report on St. Joseph\u2019s Day festivities at San Juan Capistrano mission. Recordings include Ceelle Burke for Varsity and Ammor records, Glenn Miller for Bluebird, the Ink Spots on Decca, Gene Krupa on Decca, Guy Lombardo on Decca, Dick Todd on Bluebird, Tony Martin on Decca, both Gene Autry and Jack Leonard on Okeh, and on radio transcription by the King Sisters. The song was revied in 1957 by Pat Boone as the flip side of one his biggest hits (\u201cApril Love\u201d). It became a go-to favorite of Carl Stalling whenever a reference to birds was needed. <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uHCgnzbxAdI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Porkys-hired-hand-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"467\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Porkys-hired-hand-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Porkys-hired-hand-600-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Porkys-hired-hand-600-150x117.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>\n<p><strong>Porky\u2019s Hired Hand<\/strong> (11\/30\/40) &#8211; Porky hires a real dufus (one Gregory), to watch over his chickens to keep them from being raided by a local fox (\u201cI\u2019m the guy they can\u2019t catch.\u201d) The fox collects a bag full of Porky\u2019s pullets, and tries to dupe the gullable Gregory into letting him make off with them. But a mistaken use of the door to the incubator room instead of the exit puts the fox in a spot that is \u201ctoo hot to handle\u201d, and quickly reduces him to pipsqueak size. (\u201dI\u2019m a ruined man. You\u2019ll hear from my lawyer.\u201d) Songs: \u201cPuddin\u2019 Head Jones\u201d, &#8220;We&#8217;re In The Money&#8221; and \u201cSleep, Baby, Sleep\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aZq9qLhSM7o\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<p><strong>The Timid Toreador<\/strong> (12\/21\/40) &#8211; Porky is a hot tamale vendor &#8211; and boy, are they ever hot. At the local bull ring, Porky is forced to confront \u201cSlapsy Maxie Rosenbull\u201d (another name twist on \u201cRosenbloom\u201d). The bull gets ahold of some of Porky\u2019s tamales, and exlodes &#8211; leaving Porky in a shower of sombreros, and doing his best visual impression of Oliver Hardy (or was it Solomon Swine from <em>Case of the Stuutering Pig<\/em> &#8211; he looks exactly the same). Songs include \u201cLa Cucaracha\u201d (with special lyrics), \u201cIn Caliente\u201d, \u201cMuchacha\u201d, and \u201cThe Gaucho Serenade\u201d , recorded by both Paul Whiteman and Roy Smeck on Decca, both Glenn Miller and Dick Todd on Bluebird, both Eddy Duchin and the Charioteers on Columbia, and in England by Harry Roy on Parlophone, Joe Loss on HMV, and Fud Candrix in Belgium on Telefunken<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o5EofYZ8Ytc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<p><strong>Porky\u2019s Snooze Reel<\/strong> (1\/11\/41) &#8211; Spot gag parody of newsreels (as if we didn\u2019t get enough of these from Fleischer). Songs: \u201cThe Animal Fair\u201d; \u201cWe\u2019re in the Money\u201d; \u201cListen to the Mocking Bird\u201d; \u201cDeep River\u201d, a spiritual recorded by Paul Robeson for Victor; \u201cThe Girl I Left Behind Me\u201d, \u201cSong of the Marines\u201d, \u201cAloha Oe\u201d; and possibly the first use of \u201cTrade Winds\u201d, recorded by Bing Crosby for Decca, and to become another Stalling semi-standard.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vtq06j_zrho\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/The_Haunted_Mouse-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"457\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/The_Haunted_Mouse-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/The_Haunted_Mouse-600-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/The_Haunted_Mouse-600-150x114.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>\n<p><strong>The Haunted Mouse<\/strong> (2\/15\/41) &#8211; A hungry cat decides to go to a restaurant he sees advertised on a desert sign. He doesn\u2019t realize the old restaurant is in the middle of a ghost town, and inhabited by a ghost mouse bent on revenge. The score includes \u201cAin\u2019t We Got Fun\u201d, and possibly the first use by Stalling of \u201cAngel In Disguise\u201d, introduced by Ann Sheridan in the feature \u201cIt All Came True\u201d, and recorded by Dick Todd on Bluebird, Bob Crosby on Decca, Ozzie Nelson for Bluebird, and Horace Heidt for Columbia.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eUA6s8a3e-M\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/joe-glow-firefly-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"506\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/joe-glow-firefly-600.jpg 604w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/joe-glow-firefly-600-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/joe-glow-firefly-600-150x126.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/>\n<p>\n<p><strong>Joe Glow the Firefly<\/strong> (3\/8\/41) &#8211; Another moody Chuck Jones piece using only an original score with no recognizable popular songs. Basically an anatomy lesson, as a small firefly inspects the camp (and person) of a sleeping camper.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Porkys-bear-facts600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"472\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Porkys-bear-facts600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Porkys-bear-facts600-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Porkys-bear-facts600-150x118.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>\n<p><strong>Porky\u2019s Bear Facts<\/strong> (3\/29\/41) &#8211; Another retelling of the \u201cGrasshopper and the Ants\u201d, with industrious Porky in the ant role (singing about the rewards of work), while a neighboring bear and his dog play the grasshoppers (singing a ballad in tribute to doing nothing, worked to the melody of a popular tune, \u201cHeaven Can Wait\u201d, rewritten as \u201cWorking Can Wait\u201d). In Winter, the bear begins to envision his dog as his next dinner &#8211; until the opportunity arises to mooch food from Porky instead &#8211; then go right back to goofing off. Glen Gray recorded \u201cHeaven Can Wait\u201d to reach #9 on the Billboard charts for Decca. It was also covered by Kay Kyser on Brunswick, Tommy Dorsey for Victor, Mitchell Ayres and his Fashions in Music for Vocalion, and in an aircheck by Glenn Miller. It was covered for the Dutch market by Hal Yates and the Het Ramblers Dansorkest on Panachord. Also included , \u201cThe Girl With the Pigtails In Her Hair\u201d (with specialty lyrics for Porky), recorded by Hal Kemp on Victor, Horace Heidt on Columbia, Lawrence Welk on Vocalion, Charlie Barnet on Bluebird, and Bing Crosby on Decca; and \u201cAll This and Heaven Too\u201d, reorded by Tommy Dorsey on Decca with vocal by young Frank Sinatra.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uBSlQgwduC0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Porkys-Ant-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"490\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Porkys-Ant-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Porkys-Ant-600-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Porkys-Ant-600-150x123.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>\n<p><strong>Porky\u2019s Ant<\/strong> (5\/10\/41) &#8211; Porky goes into the jungle in search of a rare Pygmy ant (only worth a mere $150,000.00, as compared to the endless number of zeroes affixed to the cost of the dodo bird hunted previously). Porky and his bearer find their quarry, who lusts after a bone the bearer wears in his topknot (as the ant has obnly a particularly small one). The chase is on, and eventualluy a lion gets involved. The ant fends off the lion, for which Porky and the bearer present the bearer\u2019s bone as a reward. Songs: \u201cCongo\u201d and \u201cSweet Georgia Brown\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SFOPjVn5VxA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Porkys-Preview-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"469\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Porkys-Preview-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Porkys-Preview-600-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Porkys-Preview-600-150x117.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>\n<p><strong>Porky\u2019s Preview<\/strong> (5\/23\/41) &#8211; Porky presents his own animated cartoon, done in stick-figure drawings (no doubt, a great budget cutter for the animators). Gags also come from the audience, including a skunk who only has \u201cone scent\u201d to get in. Music includes \u201cCalifornia, Here I Come\u201d and \u201cSeptember In the Rain\u201d (in the style of Al Jolson in his traditional blackface). <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FlVFqkL4tcE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Coy-Decoy-small-200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"159\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-59278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Coy-Decoy-small-200.jpg 194w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Coy-Decoy-small-200-150x123.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><strong>A Coy Decoy<\/strong> (6\/7\/41) &#8211; Sort of a forerunner to Clampett&#8217;s 1946 masterpiece <em>Book Revue<\/em> &#8211; it&#8217;s midnight in a book shop, with Daffy as the <em>Ugly Duckling<\/em>. The usual chase, with the chaser being <em>The Wolf of Wall Street<\/em>, utilizing a wind-up duck decoy as a lure, for which Daffy goes gaga. At the end, Porky scoffs at the relationship between Daffy and the fecoy &#8211; only to be razzed by one of a quartet of newly-arrived wind-up baby ducklings!. Songs include \u201cIn an Old Dutch Garden\u201d, \u201cRide, Tenderfoot Ride\u201d, Chopin\u2019s \u201cMoonlight Sonata\u201d (used to set the mood in the opening), \u201cThe Old Apple Tree\u201d (with specialty lyrics for Daffy as \u201cI Can\u2019t Get a Long Little Doggie\u201d), \u201cCheyenne\u201d (heard over an often censored \u201cBlack Beauty\u201d gag, lifted from Friz Freleng\u2019s \u201cThe Bookworm\u201d at MGM), \u201cThe Kiss Waltz\u201d (heard over Daffy\u2019s romantic monologue), \u201cWe&#8217;re In the Money\u201d, and \u201cTaps\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FBukMU_-dgA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<p><strong>Porky\u2019s Prize Pony<\/strong> (6\/21\/41) &#8211; Porky works at a stable as both groom and jockey, where he is bedeviled by a persistent horse (a superlatively clumsy nag) who wants to be adopted &#8211; a definite precursor to Jones\u2019 \u201cCharlie Dog\u201d series to come. The horse\u2019s approach to steeplechasing is more prone to barreling through than jumping over, but the horse eventually wins first prize &#8211; though his picture is taken in the winner\u2019s circle with all four hoofs stuck in a bucket. Songs include \u201cThe Old Gray Mare\u201d, and a specialty lyric version of \u201cWe\u2019re In the Money\u201d as Porky sings of his happiness at riding a favorite for a $10,000 purse (until, of course, the wanna-be adoptee horse accidentally spikes the favorite\u2019s water with horse liniment &#8211; 125% alcohol). <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-lSKx1Swm4U\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<p><strong>Meet John Doughboy<\/strong> (7\/5\/41) &#8211; Spot gags on military life, with Porky appearing in only one shot. Otherwise, it\u2019s formatted as another newsreel spoof on preparedness for war &#8211; and one of the first cartoons to spoof \u201cCitizen Kane\u201d as \u201cCitizen Sugar Kane\u201d, stating that our open door policy is responsible for the draft. Also spoofs a Pall Mall slogan of the day &#8211; \u201cMine\u2019s longer than yours\u201d. Mostly patriotic tunes, including \u201cAmerica\u201d, \u201cColumbia, the Gem of the Ocean\u201d, and \u201cYou\u2019re In the Army Now\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8lWH8SpQHYc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<p><strong>We, the Animals, Squeak<\/strong> (8\/2\/41) &#8211; A spoof of \u201cWe the People\u201d, a radio show in which ordinary people told extraordinary stories. Our narrator is one \u201cKansas City Kitty\u201d &#8211; playing on the titles of two songs which were not under Warner\u2019s owership &#8211; \u201cKitty From Kansas City\u201d, introduced by Rudy Vallee, and \u201cKansas City Kitty\u201d, recorded by Noble Sissle for HMV Billy Murray for Victor, and Coon-Sanders Orchestra for Victor. The film includes some material I\u2019m surprised passed the Hayes Office, including a reversal of order of pages in a family albim, showing the arrival of baby kitten Patrick before the photo of Kitty\u2019s wedding! Adter a harrowing tale of kidnapping and blackmail, Kitty routes a flock of evil rats &#8211; at least in her story. But when Porky presents her with a mouse as a prize for her story, she reverts to the form of the \u201caverage\u201d housewife, climbing atop a stool and attempting to shoo the fearsome creature away. Most notable new song is \u201cPlaymates\u201d, a Saxey Dowell novelty that looked like it would be as successful as his \u201cThree Little Fishies\u201d of two years earlier. The song was most notably recorded by Kay Kyser on Columbia (and would become the title of one of his RKO pictures), and also covered by Ray Herbeck on Vocalion, Mitchell Ayres on Bluebird, with a second version in the Bluebird country series by Riley Puckett, Dick Robertson on Decca, and Hal Kemp on Victor (featuring the composer on sax). The song was found to be an infringement on the song \u201cMy Own Iola\u201d, a psuedo-Hawaiian number written around 1907 by Percy Wenrich.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RUmw-U1M7uA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<hr style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #000000; height: 2px; border: none;\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/henpecked-duck-daffy-porky-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"467\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/henpecked-duck-daffy-porky-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/henpecked-duck-daffy-porky-600-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/henpecked-duck-daffy-porky-600-150x117.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\n<p>\n<p><strong>The Henpecked Duck<\/strong> (8\/30\/41) &#8211; Porky as judge in the \u201ccourt of Inhuman Relations\u201d, where four words are heard more than any other &#8211; \u201cI want a divorce!\u201d. The case of Duck vs. Duck pits Daffy against the missus, for losing their offspring egg through a negligent bit of ledgerdemain, causing it to disappear. This film has been reviewed on this site previously in the \u201cHoly Matrimony! And a &#8220;Stack of Storks&#8221; columns on the <em>Animation Trails<\/em> series. One of the first Clampett cartoons to make heavy use of the \u201cBeoowoop\u201d vocal effect whenever the disappearing trick takes place. Songs include the Bridal Chorus from <em>Lohengrin<\/em>, \u201cOver the Waves\u201d, and \u201cOld Black Joe\u201d (in a particularly dragging arrangement to mirror Daffy\u2019s dejected mood). <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RZOcFuDdOww\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<p><strong>Next Time<\/strong>: <em>Merrie Melodies<\/em> 1940-41: There\u2019s a New Star in Hollywood Tonight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The background music in the Looney Tunes during the 1940-41 season, at a time when the world seemed to want comedy &#8211; and escapism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":59268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1762],"tags":[215,69,139,51],"class_list":["post-58828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-needle-drop-notes","tag-daffy-duck","tag-leon-schlesinger","tag-porky-pig","tag-warner-bros-cartoons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59317,"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58828\/revisions\/59317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartoonresearch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}