Dime to Retire

Dime to Retire
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	September 3, 1955
Starring	Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	Edward Selzer
Music composed by	Milt Franklyn
Story by	Sid Marcus
Animation	Robert McKimson Keith Darling
Director(s)	Robert McKimson
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Dime to Retire is a three hundred and fiftieth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on September 3, 1955. It was written by Sid Marcus, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Robert McKimson.

Porky Pig, trying to find a vacant hotel to spend the night in, makes a stay at Daffy's hotel. However, he soon find out that the hotel is rigged with expensive extermination service fees.

Memorable quotes

Daffy: A little traveling music, please...

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Porky Pig	Mel Blanc
Daffy Duck	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • • Daffy's hotel

Oragnizations

• Acme
• Acme Blasting Powder Co.

Objects

• Celery
• Acme Blasting Powder

Vehicles

• Porky's jalopy

Music

The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.

Crew credits

• Layouts: Robert Givens
• Backgrounds: Richard H. Thomas

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: September 3, 1955 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun on the phrase "time to retire."
• Although Porky no longer has any solo cartoons and is less popular than Daffy Duck at the time, this is the first cartoon since Porky Pig's Feat (1943) to bill Porky's name above Daffy's name in the titles.
• Director Robert McKimson animated most of the cartoon himself, although Keith Darling animated certain scenes of the film at points. McKimson also did most of the animation work for two other cartoons, The Hole Idea and Too Hop to Handle, with the former cartoon entirely animated by McKimson himself without any involvement by Darling.
• In real life, lions are known to prey on wild pigs, so it actually makes sense for the lion to attempt to devour Porky, even though the latter is a human-like anthropomorphic domestic pig.

Errors

• For some reason, the production number shown on the opening rings is sourced from Bunker Hill Bunny (#1133) by mistake, instead of showing #1333.
• When this short was released on the Looney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl DVD, it was cropped down to a widescreen format. While it was restored to fullscreen on certain streaming platforms, it has not been re-released on home video as of yet.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • Looney Tunes Super Stars' Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl