Porky Chops

Porky Chops
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	February 12, 1949
Starring	Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	Edward Selzer
Music composed by	Carl Stalling
Story by	William Scott Lloyd Turner
Animation	Don Williams Emery Hawkins Basil Davidovich J.C. Melendez
Director(s)	Arthur Davis
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Porky Chops is the two hundred and forty-eighth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on February 12, 1949. It was written by William Scott and Lloyd Turner, produced by Edward Selzer and directed by Arthur Davis.

When lumberjack Porky tries to cut down a squirrel's tree, the Brooklyn-accented mammal decides to develop some "stra-tee-gees" to get rid of him.

Memorable quotes

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Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Porky Pig	Mel Blanc
Squirrel	Mel Blanc
Bear	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Forest
      • Squirrel's tree

Objects

• Newspaper

Music

The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.

Crew credits

• Layouts: Don Smith
• Backgrounds: Philip DeGuard

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: February 12, 1949

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun on the pork-themed meat, pork chops.
• This short is one of three non-Bugs Bunny cartoons from 1949 not to get a Blue Ribbon reissue. The others were Holiday for Drumsticks and Curtain Razor.

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • October 28, 2003: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 on DVD.
  • July 21, 2011: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1 on Blu-ray and DVD.