Porky Pig's Feat

Porky Pig's Feat
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Production company	Leon Schlesinger Productions
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	July 17, 1943
Run time	8:39
Starring	Mel Blanc
Producer(s)	Leon Schlesinger
Music composed by	Carl W. Stalling
Animation	Phil Monroe
Director(s)	Frank Tashlin
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Porky Pig's Feat is the one hundred and eighty third Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was released by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on July 17, 1943. It was produced by Leon Schlesinger and directed by Frank Tashlin.

Porky and Daffy try to escape from a hotel, after they are caught by its manager for not paying their bill.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Hotel manager	Mel Blanc
Porky Pig	Mel Blanc
Daffy Duck	Mel Blanc
Bugs Bunny	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Broken Arms Hotel

Production

The short is the first Schlesinger production in which Frank Tashlin served as director, since his five year absence in 1938 for working at Disney and Screen Gems.

Music

The music was composed by Carl W. Stalling.

This marks the first usage of the song "Powerhouse," composed by Raymond Scott, in a Warner Bros. cartoon. The song itself became iconic through its use in over 40 Warner Bros. cartoons, and became associated as an "assembly line" musical theme in most of these.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: July 17, 1943 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a play on "pigs feet" (or pickled pigs' feet), a type of pork that is often salted and cured in a method similar to ham or bacon.
• This marks the first and only appearance of Bugs Bunny in a black-and-white cartoon.
• It is also the last black-and-white cartoon to feature Porky Pig.
• When Porky is imprisoned, he writes "Porky loves Petunia" with an image of two hearts and an arrow. It was the last mention of Petunia Pig in a classic Warner Bros. short.
• This short fell under the public domain due to Warner Bros. failing to renew the copyright in 1971.

Everlasting influence

• The end of the cartoon contains what would later became an out-of-character moment for Daffy, where he calls Bugs Bunny as his "hero." Daffy would later be recast as an egotistical rival to Bugs in the 1950s, more notably in Chuck Jones' "hunting trilogy" of cartoons: Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning, and Duck! Rabbit, Duck!