Porky/Sylvester Horror Vacation Trilogy -- Episode One -- A Pig Boy and His Scaredy Cat (featuring Sathurva U and Andrea Hicks)

 

Hello, and welcome to another special post where I tackle the censorship cuts to two or more cartoons that are either remakes or part of a duology or a trilogy...or, at least, that was the original plan.

As you can see, things are different around here. As part of my ongoing quest to make this blog not boring, I decided that I should turn it into a full video. Why? Because I’ve always wanted to do a video series about the censorship of Warner Bros cartoons (and other classic theatrical shorts), but, with YouTube copyright takedowns more stringent than ever, I figure Blogger is my best bet. I can do a trailer for YouTube to bring in more readers (which can be seen here, but I posted an alternate version on the blog), but I go on YouTube to watch videos, not to make them.

But don’t despair: you’ll still get me pointing out hypocrisy in edits. You’ll still get me telling you where to find them uncut and uncensored, if any uncut and uncensored versions currently exist. And, should any entry need a correction or redaction, I can just tack it on to the blogpost with either a new video or a written statement.

EDIT (9/1/25): In said ongoing quest to make my censored cartoons blog more interesting, I decided that, yes, a video is interesting, but what’s more interesting is a podcast.

Thanks to more realistic A.I. audio voices and easier video editing on my end, I created a podcast (combined with my compare/contrast video) for the 1948 Porky/Sylvester Merrie Melodies short, “Scaredy Cat,” part one of the Porky/Sylvester horror vacation trilogy (even though the first one clearly states that Porky and Sylvester are moving into a haunted house as residents and not visiting it as tourists). I came up with Sathurva U. and Andrea Hicks, two classic ‘toonheads (one, from India, the other, a young American girl heavily implied to be white European) who not only see what channels have censored the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, but discuss what makes them special (so…it’s a lot like what I do here now, only I created two A.I. personalities that represent my thoughts on censoring the classic shorts, and turned it into a more popular format).

I’m also breaking up the trilogy post into three parts, so it will be easier to work with (and because I can do it monthly, because that’s when the Elevenlabs credits refresh. I don't want to abandon doing the regular blog posts just yet).

If "Drawn and Quartered" becomes a dedicated podcast (which I feel I should do, since it will put my screenwriting, character development, ability to be informative and entertaining, and dialogue skills to the test), I will create other characters besides Sathurva U and Andrea. Some episodes will have one person; others will have a three or four person roundtable. Consider this episode an experiment and a potential pilot.

So, if you celebrate it in your country, Happy Labor Day, and here’s part one of Sathurva U and Andrea’s look at the Porky/Sylvester horror vacation shorts and how they were edited:

The Boob Tubi

Hey, I got another announcement that I forgot to post:

As of August 15th, the streaming channel Tubi (formerly Tubi TV) has the classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons on them. 

Not all of them, though. The ones with really heavy racial and ethnic stereotypes (including the World War II cartoons, some of the banned Bugs Bunny 12 ["Bushy Hare," Frigid Hare," and "What's Cookin', Doc?" are on Tubi], a lot of the Speedy Gonzales shorts that have him paired with Sylvester the Cat or a stereotypical Mexican enemy [meaning, yes, we have to suffer through the Daffy/Speedy shorts of the mid-to-late 1960s], and The Censored Eleven) aren’t on there, and you can forget about seeing any Bosko or Buddy shorts (though, considering that the Buddy shorts aren't well-liked and the Bosko shorts can be a bit tedious, that's actually a good thing for casual and family viewers), but Tubi has a healthy mix of the Warner Bros shorts you grew up watching (whether on TV, videotape, DVD, or Internet), as well as some you’ve probably never seen before, or haven’t seen in ages. Speaking of problematic WB shorts, all 17 Pepe Le Pew cartoons are included (for anyone besides me who cares about that. I have the Pepe Le Pew Zee Best of Zee Best DVD from the short-lived Looney Tunes Super Stars DVD collection, so, either way, I have what I want, but I know there are people out there who would rather stream than buy DVDs. I say, "Let them share my pain!"). If there are any cuts or alterations noticed in the shorts, I will report it, though that doesn't seem likely that they'd put edited cartoons on there; just ban the ones that may be considered offensive**.

And the best part: Tubi is free, so you can watch Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies without doling out cash each month (HBO Max’s monthly price isn’t that bad, but they did screw up in uploading and taking down a lot of the shorts, and then, one day, in 2025, they disappeared). On top of that, they show the cartoons in threes, just like the days when network TV and some basic cable channels aired three shorts to fill a 30-minute (discounting commercials) slot (I know there were cartoon compilation shows that aired for an hour -- sometimes longer, if it was Cartoon Network’s early 2000s version of The Looney Tunes Show where it wasn’t a sitcom -- but I’m not including that). 

So, if you have the time and Tubi is available in your area, check it out.

**EDIT: Turns out I was wrong about Tubi uploading edited versions of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (but hey, it'll make for great fodder in my later entries):

• "Believe or Else" (1939/Tex Avery) is still cut to remove the "Berth of a Baby" joke because the scene had two stereotypically black train porters (though other outdated racial and ethnic stereotypes are seen in other shorts. "Ceiling Hero" has the Chinese face airplane scene that Cartoon Network once cut, and "The Sheepish Wolf" has the scene of the Eddie "Rochester" Anderson-sounding black sheep warning the sheepdog of the wolf that was cut from Cartoon Network and Boomerang, but not MeTV).
• The version of "Farm Frolics" (1941/Bob Clampett) on Tubi is the Blue Ribbon reissue that cut a scene where a grasshopper chewing tobacco refuses to do it because the Hays Code had rules against showing spitting.
• The Tubi version of "Hare-Um Scare-Um" (1939/Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton) is the old TV and home media version where the short ends after the Egghead-looking hunter is surrounded by the proto-Bugs Bunny's family after he foolishly tells the rabbit that he can whip him and his entire family.
• "Bugs Bunny Rides Again" (1948/Friz Freleng) is the "I ain't no namby-pamby" version and not "...and I don't mean Mahatma Ghandi," though it'll be a cold day in Hell before that gets an official release. Just enjoy the fact that someone online posted a clip with the original line.
• "The Crackpot Quail" (1941/Tex Avery) on Tubi is the version where the quail repeatedly whistles to keep his top-knot up rather than make a "raspberry"/"Bronx cheer"/"farting noise." That version is available on one of the Tex Avery Blu-rays.
• "Horton Hatches the Egg" (1942/Bob Clampett) on Tubi is the version that doesn't have the Peter Lorre fish shooting himself in the head after saying, "Well, now I've seen everything!", even though there are a few Warner Bros. cartoons on Tubi that have the same gag (or something similar) uncut.

UPDATE: I promised there'd be a full-list of what Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts were currently on Tubi. For comparison's sake, this is the list of all 1000 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts from 1929 to 1969 (including some modern shorts made from the 1970s to the 2000s and beyond, barring the newer shorts done for Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and HBO Max).

And here is a list showing all the WB shorts Tubi has as of this writing (they're set up in threes):

I did try to enhance it so it would read better if readers zoomed in on it (typing all the titles out was getting tedious). The list was from a Twitter/X post about which WB cartoons were uploaded on Tubi. Just go through the original list and see if the Tubi list has your favorites on there. And if you happen to be a fan of the Bosko shorts, the Buddy shorts, the shorts that have racially insensitive content (including The Censored Eleven and "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule"), or some of the random shorts that they left out for seemingly no reason, like "Hobo Gadget Band" and "Hare Trigger" (the first Yosemite Sam vs. Bugs Bunny short), then I'm sorry, they don't have them here. The Private Snafu shorts are on Tubi, but they're not a part of the Looney Tunes block. They have their own block, and those shorts were uploaded years before Tubi acquired the Looney Tunes shorts.

And if your eyesight is truly awful, here's the full list, courtesy of an "extract text from image" website I recently found.

LOONEY TUNES SHORTS ON TUBI

1. Smile, Darn Ya, Smile / Lady Play Your Mandolin / A Great Big Bunch of You

2. The Queen Was in the Parlor / You're Too Careless With Your Kisses! / Young and Healthy

3. I Wish I Had Wings (version with audio intact. HBO Max accidentally showed a version where there were no voices on the track) / Moonlight For Two / Goopy Geer

4. The Organ Grinder / Sittin' on a Backyard Fence / Pettin' in the Park

5. Why Do I Dream These Dreams? / A Cartoonist's Nightmare / Hollywood Capers

6. The Girl at the Ironing Board / The Miller's Daughter / Honeymoon Hotel

7. Pop Goes Your Heart / Those Were Wonderful Days / Shake Your Powder Puff

8. Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name / I Love to Singa / Porky of the Northwoods

9. The Country Boy / Flowers For Madame / Billboard Frolics

10. I Haven't Got a Hat / Little Dutch Plate / The Country Mouse

11. My Green Fedora / The Lady in Red / The Merry Old Soul

12. The Phantom Ship (still with the alleged cut to remove Russia from the POV of Beans' plane) / Bingo Crosbyana / Let It Be Me

13. The Cat Came Back / Porky the Rainmaker / The Fire Alarm

14. Baby Bottleneck / Kitty Kornered / Book Revue

15. The Blow-Out / I Wanna Play House / Fish Tales

16. I'd Love to Take Orders From You / Toytown Hall / Boulevardier From the Bronx

17. When I Yoo Hoo / Don't Look Now / Plane Dippy

18. Porky's Pet / The Village Smithy / Porky's Railroad

19. Porky's Poultry Plant / Alpine Antics / Page Miss Glory

20. At Your Service Madame / Get Rich Quick Porky / Porky the Wrestler

21. The Coo Coo Nut Groove / Little Red Walkin Hood / Pigs Is Pigs

22. She Was an Acrobat's Daughter / The Case of the Stuttering Pig / Porky's Duck Hunt

23. Ain't We Got Fun? / I Only Have Eyes for You / Katnip Kollege

24. Porky and Gabby / The Lyin' Mouse / I Wanna Be a Sailor

25. Streamlined Greta Green / A Sunbonnet Blue (mistakenly titled "The Sunbonnet Blue") / Egghead Rides Again

26. Porky's Super Service / Rover's Rival / Porky's Building

27. Porky's Badtime Story / Porky's Garden / Porky's Hero Agency (mistakenly labeled EP36. Has since been fixed)

28. Dog Daze / Plenty of Money & You / Picador Porky

29. Daffy Duck and Egghead / Daffy Duck in Hollywood / Hamateur Night

30. A Star Is Hatched / The Penguin Parade / The Sneezing Weasel

31. Porky's Hare Hunt / Porky & Daffy / A Feud There Was

32. Cracked Ice / Now That Summer Is Gone / The Night Watchman

33. Porky's Naughty Nephew / Porky's Spring Planting / Hare-Um Scare-Um (old TV version that ends after the hunter is surrounded by rabbits ready to fight him)

34. The Daffy Doc / Porky's Poppa / What Price Porky

35. Count Me Out / Cinderella Meets Fella / Love and Curses

36. Porky the Gob / The Mice Will Play / Porky's Five and Ten

37. It's an III Wind / Robin Hood Makes Good / Dangerous Dan McFoo

38. A Day at the Zoo / Porky's Poor Fish / The Sour Puss

39. Prest-O Change-O / The Film Fan / Porky and Teabiscuit

40. Chicken Jitters / Porky the Giant Killer / Naughty Neighbors

41. Bars & Stripes Forever / Pied Piper Porky / Dog Gone Modern

42. Thugs with Dirty Mugs / Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur / Old Glory

43. Polar Pals / Porky's Hotel / Porky's Tire Trouble

44. Snowman's Land / Believe It or Else / Curious Puppy

45. Little Brother Rat / Sniffles and the Bookworm / Naughty but Mice

46. The Good Egg / Gold Rush Daze / Fresh Fish

47. Screwball Football / Aloha Hooey / Pappy's Puppy

48. A Gander at Mother Goose / Tom Thumb in Trouble / Prehistoric Porky

49. The Chewin Bruin / Ceiling Hero / Porky's Baseball Broadcast

50. Little Blabbermouse / Busy Bakers / Cross Country Detours

51. The Egg Collector / Sniffles Takes a Trip / You Ought to Be in Pictures

52. A Wild Hare / Elmer's Candid Camera / Bedtime for Sniffles

53. Patient Porky / The Bear's Tale / The Timid Toreador

54. Calling Dr. Dorky / Good Night Elmer / Stage Fright

55. Holiday Highlights / Wacky Wildlife / Circus Today

56. Of Fox and Hounds / Rhapsody in Rivets / Rookie Revue

57. Elmer's Pet Rabbit / Snow Time for Comedy / Sports Chumpions

58. Porky's Snooze Reel / Porky's Hired Hand / Slap-Happy Pappy

59. The Haunted Mouse / The Henpecked Duck / The Cagey Canary

60. Joe Glow, the Firefly / Notes to You / Porky's Bear Facts

61. Toy Trouble / The Crackpot Quail / The Bug Parade

62. The Trial of Mr. Wolf / Porky's Pooch / Farm Frolics

63. Hollywood Steps Out / Tortoise Beats Hare / The Heckling Hare

64. The Wacky Worm / Saddle Silly / The Cat's Tale

65. Porky's Prize Pony / Wacky Wabbit / Eatin' on the Cuff

66. Wabbit Twouble / The Brave Little Bat/ Sniffles Bells the Cat

67. Hop, Skip, & a Chump / Dog Tired / Daffy's Southern Exposure

68. The Wabbit Who Came to Supper / A Tale of Two Kitties / Case of the Missing Hare

69. Nutty News (title card isn't upside down before correcting itself) / Fox Pop / The Bird Came C.O.D.

70. Hobby Horse-Laffs / The Sheepish Wolf / The Squawkin' Hawk

71. Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid / The Dover Boys / Hold the Lion, Please!

72. The Impatient Patient / Porky's Café / Porky's Pastry Pirates

73. Hare-Brained Hypnotist / Conrad the Sailor / The Hep Cat

74. Ding Dog Daddy / Gopher Goofy / Double Chaser

75. My Favorite Duck / The Draft Horse / Wacky Blackout

76. Tortoise Wins by a Hare / Porky Pig's Feat / The Unbearable Bear

77. The Wise Quacking Duck / To Duck or Not to Duck / Falling Hare

78. Greetings Bait / The Aristo Cat / Puss N' Booty

79. Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk / Hop and Go / I Got Plenty of Mutton

80. Hiss & Make Up / Fin'n Catty / Hare Ribbin'

81. A Corny Concerto / Yankee Doodle Daffy / Pigs in a Polka

82. An Itch in Time / Super Rabbit / Wackiki Wabbit

83. What's Cookin' Doc? / Meatless Flyday / From Hand to Mouse

84. The Swooner Crooner / Buckaroo Bugs / Bugs Bunny & the Three Bears

85. Duck Soup to Nuts / Tick Tock Tuckered / Lost and Foundling

86. Hare Force / Stage Door Cartoon / The Stupid Cupid

87. Birdy and the Beast / Little Red Riding Rabbit / Hare Conditioned

88. Booby Hatched / The Old Grey Hare / The Weakly Reporter

89. Hare Do / Frigid Hare / Fast and Furry-Ous

90. The Unruly Hare / Behind the Meatball / Peck Up Your Troubles 

91. Trap Happy Porky / Life With Feathers / A Tale of Two Mice

92. Fresh Airdale / Draftee Daffy / Odor-Able Kitty

93. Hare Tonic / Gruesome Twosome / The Bashful Buzzard 

94. Nasty Quacks / Hollywood Daffy / Walky Talky Hawky 

95. Quentin Quail / A Hare Grows in Manhatten / Slick Hare

96. Hare Remover / Hair-Raising Hare / The Great Piggy Bank Robbery 

97. Hush My Mouse / Roughly Squeaking / Mouse Menace

98. Acrobatty Bunny / Baseball Bugs / Catch as Cats Can

99. The Eager Beaver / Of Thee I Sting / The Mouse-Merized Cat

100. Racketeer Rabbit / Daffy Doodles / Fair and Wormer

101. The Big Snooze / Rhapsody Rabbit / Holiday for Shoestrings 

102. One Meat Brawl / Along Came Daffy / Goofy Gophers 

103. Birth of a Notion / Easter Yeggs / Scent-Imental Over You

104. Rabbit Transit / The Up-Standing Sitter / Crowing Pains

105. Hobo Bobo / What Makes Daffy Duck? / The Pest That Came to Dinner

106. A Pest in the House / Tweetie Pie / Little Orphan Airedale

107. The Foxy Duckling / The Gay Anties / Doggone Cats

108. Gorilla My Dreams / Haredevil Hare / Bugs Bunny Rides Again 

109. Back Alley Oproar / Dough Ray Me-Ow/ Buccanner Bunny

110. Rabbit Punch / Daffy Duck Slept Here / You Were Never Duckier

111. Hop, Look and Listen / Daffy Dilly / Hare Splitter

112. The Shell Shocked Egg / The Rattled Rooster / My Bunny Lies Over the Sea 

113. Hot Cross Bunny / Bone, Sweet Bone / A Hick, a Slick and a Chick

114. Odor of the Day / The Stupor Salesman / Scaredy Cat

115. House-Hunting Mice / The Foghorn Leghorn / The Lion's Busy

116. Kit for Cat / Two Gophers From Texas / What's Brewin' Bruin?

117. Riff Raffy Daffy / The Grey Hounded Hare / Rabbit Hood 

118. Holiday for Drumsticks / Each Dawn I Crow / 8 Ball Bunny 

119. Awful Orphan/ Dough for the Do-Do / The Bee-Deviled Bruin 

120. High Diving Hare / Knights Must Fall / French Rarebit

121. Mouse Mazurka / Hen House Henery / Bad Ol' Putty Tat

122. Often an Orphan/ Daffy Duck Hunt / For Scent-Imental Reasons

123. Swallow the Leader / A Ham in a Role / Porky Chops

124. Bye, Bye Bluebeard / Curtain Razor / Hippety Hopper 

125. Bear Feat / Bowery Bugs / The Windblown Hare 

126. Hurdy-Gurdy Hare / Dog-Gone South/ It's Hummertime 

127. Mutiny on the Bunny / Bushy Hare / Boobs in the Woods 

128. The Scarlet Pumpernickel / HillBilly Hare / The Rabbit of Seville 

129. The Hypo-Chondri Cat / Home Tweet Home / Strife With Father

130. Big House Bunny / Two's a Crowd / Stooge for a Mouse 

131. What's Up, Doc? / Homeless Hare / An Egg Scramble 

132. All Abir-R-R-D / The Ducksters / A Fractured Leghorn

133. Golden Yeggs / His Bitter Half / The Leghorn Blows at Midnight 

134. Pop 'Im Pop! / Canary Row / Bunker Bill Bunny 

135. Hare We Go / Cheese Chasers / Drip-Along Daffy

136. Corn Plastered / Rabbit Every Monday / The Fair Haired Hare

137. Bunny Hugged / Scent-Imental Romeo / Canned Feud 

138. A Bone for a Bone / The Wearing of the Grin / The Prize Pest 

139. Long Haired Hare / Mouse Wreckers / Paying the Piper 

140. A Hound for Trouble / Sleepy-Time Possum / Room and Bird 

141. Rabbit Fire / Lovelorn Leghorn / A Bear for Punishment 

142. His Hare Raising Tale / Early to Bet / A Fox in a Fix 

143. Big Top Bunny / Ballot Box Bunny / Leghorn Swoggled 

144. Tweet Tweet Tweety / Putty Tat Trouble / Tweety's S.O.S. 

145. Who's Kitten Who? / Tree for Two / Hare Lift

146. Operation: Rabbit / Kiddin' the Kitten / Little Red Rodent Hood 

147. Little Beau Pepe / Going! Going! Gosh! / Feed the Kitty 

148. The Hasty Hare / Rabbit Seasoning / Gift Wrapped

149. Oily Hare/ 14 Carrot Rabbit / The Turn-Tale Wolf

150. A Bird in a Guilty Cage / Mouse-Warming / Ain't She Tweet?

151. The Egg-Cited Rooster / Cracked Quack / Water, Water Every Hare

152. The Super Snooper / Beep, Beep / Foxy by Proxy

153. Rabbit's Kin / Terrier Stricken / Sock-a-Doodle Doo

154. Fool Coverage / Thumb Fun / Hoppy-Go-Lucky

155. Snow Business / A Streetcar Named Sylvester / Baby Buggy Bunny

156. A Mouse Divided / Don't Give Up the Sheep / Fowl Weather

157. Kiss Me Cat / Much Ado About Nutting / My Little Duckaroo

158. Duck Amuck / Zipping Along / Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 Century

159. Hare Trimmed / Duck! Rabbit! Duck! / Wild Over You

160. Plop Goes the Weasel / There Auto Be a Law / Punch Trunk

161. Cat-Tails for Two / Forward March Hare / A Peck O' Trouble

162. Of Rice and Hen / Catty Cornered / Easy Peckins

163. Cats A-Weigh! / Bully for Bugs / Upswept Hare 

164. Robot Rabbit / Ant Pasted / Muscle Tussle

165. Captain Hareblower / I Gopher You / Quack Shot

166. Bartholomew Versus the Wheel / Senorella and the Glass Huarache / Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare

167. Bell Hoppy / Bugs and Thugs / No Parking Hare

168. Claws for Alarm / Heir-Conditioned / Guided Muscle 

169. Bewitched Bunny / Devil May Hare / Little Boy Boo

170. Satan's Waitin' / Goo Goo Goliath / Wild Wife

171. Stop, Look and Hasten / Feline Frame-Up / Gone Batty 

172. By Word of Mouse / The Cat's Bah / Design for Leaving

173. From A to Z-Z-Z-Z / No Barking / Dog Pounded 

174. Sheep Ahoy / Muzzle Tough / Speedy Gonzales 

175. Pests for Guests / Feather Dusted / Dr. Jerkyl's Hide

176. Stork Naked / This Is a Life? / Sandy Claws

177. Sahara Hare / Roman Legion Hare / Lumber Jerks

178. Ready, Set, Zoom! / Past Perfumance / Two Scents Worth 

179. Hare Brush / The Unexpected Pest / Heaven Scent 

180. Tweety's Circus / Yankee Doodle Bugs / Beanstalk Bunny 

181. Jumpin' Jupiter / The Hole Idea / Dime to Retire 

182. A Kiddie's Kitty / Double or Mutton / Rabbit Rampage 

183. Hyde and Hare / One Froggy Evening / Knight-Mare Hare

184. Red Riding Hoodwinked / Lighthouse Mouse / All Fowled Up

185. The High and the Flighty / The Slap-Hoppy Mouse / Too Hop to Handle 

186. Broomstick Bunny / Barbary Coast Bunny / To Hare Is Human 

187. Rocket Squad / Deduce You Say / Stupor Duck

188. Tree Cornered Tweety / Tweet and Sour/ Rabbitson Crusoe 

189. Raw! Raw! Rooster! / Rocket-bye Baby / Yankee Dood-It

190. Half-Fare Hare / Mixed Master / Tugboat Granny

191. There They Go-Go-Go/A Star Is Bored / Weasel Stop

192. Napoleon Bunny-Part / The Honey-Mousers / Gee Whiz-z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z

193. Drafty, Isn't It? / Tweet Zoo / A Waggily Tale

194. Go Fly a Kit / Ali Baba Bunny / Steal Wool

195. Fox Terror / Ducking the Devil / What's Opera, Doc?

196. Tweety and the Beanstalk / Touche and Go / Scrambled Aches

197. Birds Anonymous / Cheese It, the Cat / Bedevilled Rabbit

198. Zoom and Bored / Show Biz Bugs / Three Little Bops 

199. Greedy for Tweety / Boston Quackie / Piker's Peak

200. Rabbit Romeo / Boyhood Daze / Bugsy and Mugsy

201. Robin Hood Daffy / Hare-Way to the Stars / Feather Bluster 

202. Now Hare This / Pre-Hysterical Hare / To Itch His Own 

203. Dog Tales / A Bird in a Bonnet / Hare-Less Wolf 

204. Knighty Knight Bugs / Cat Feud / Hook, Line, and Stinker 

205. Gopher Broke / Weasel While You Work / Whoa Be-Gone! 

206. Hip Hip - Hurry! / A Pizza Tweety Pie / Don't Axe Me 

207. Baton Bunny / Tweet Dreams / Wild and Woolly Hare 

208. Apes of Wrath / Mouse-Placed Kitten / A Mutt in a Rut 

209. Hot Rod and Reel! / Hare-Abian Nights / Bonanza Bunny 

210. Really Scent / A Witch's Tangled Hare / Backwoods Bunny 

211. Cat's Paw / A Broken Leghorn / People Are Bunny

212. Wild About Hurry / Trick or Tweet? / Tweet and Lovely

213. Unnatural History / Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner / Feather Finger 

214. Crockett-Doodle-Do / Person to Bunny / Dog Gone People 

215. Mouse and Garden / Goldimouse and the Three Cats / High Note 

216. Mice Follies / The Dixie Fryer / Fastest with the Mostest 

217. Hopalong Casualty / Rabbit's Feat / Hyde and Go Tweet 

218. Trip for Tat / Wild Wild World / Ready, Woolen and Able 

219. Lighter Than Hare / From Hare to Heir/Who Scent You?

220. The Abominable Snow Rabbit / Martian Through Georgia / A Sheep in the Deep 

221. A Scent of the Matterhorn / Birds of a Father/Hoppy Daze

222. Rebel Without Claws / Zip 'N Snort / Prince Violent (under its original title. No "Prince Varmint" crap)

223. Compressed Hare / Lickety Splat / D' Fightin' Ones

224. Daffy's Inn Trouble / Nelly's Folly / Strangled Eggs

225. Beep Prepared / The Mouse on 57th Street / The Last Hungry Cat 

226. Wet Hare / Quackodile Tears / Zip Zip Hooray

227. Louvre Come Back to Me / Bill of Hare / Fish and Slips

228. Honey's Money / Good Noose / Mother Was a Rooster

229. The Jet Cage / The Slick Chick / Zoom at the Top

230. Shishkabugs / Nuts and Volts / Norman Normal

231. I Was a Teenage Thumb / The Unmentionables / Woolen Under Where

232. Hare-Breadth Hurry / Devil's Feud Cake / Aqua Duck

233. Mad as a Mars Hare / The Million-Hare / Banty Raids

234. Claws in the Lease / Mexican Cat Dance / Fast Buck Duck

235. Transylvania 6-5000/ To Beep or Not to Beep / Now Hear This

236. Dumb Patrol / Hawaiian Aye Aye / War and Pieces

237. The Iceman Ducketh / False Hare / Freudy Cat

238. Road to Andalay / The Wild Chase / Chaser on the Rocks

239. It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House / Go Go Amigo / Muchos Locos

240. Cats and Bruises / Moby Duck / Just Plane Beep

241. Well Worn Daffy / Tired and Feathered / Chili Corn Corny 

242. Corn on the Cop / Suppressed Duck / Shot and Bothered

243. Rushing Roulette / Tease for Two / Clippety Clobbered

244. Boulder Wham / Highway Runnery / Hairied and Hurried

245. Mexican Mouse-piece / A Squeak in the Deep / Swing Ding Amigo

246. The Solid Tin Coyote / Out and Out Rout / Sugar and Spies

247. A-Haunting We Will Go / The Astroduck / Daffy Rents 

248. A Taste of Catnip / Cool Cat / Go Away Stowaway

249. Daffy's Diner / The Music Mice-Tro / Rodent to Stardom 

250. Speedy Ghost to Town / Merlin the Magic Mouse / Fiesta Fiasco 

251. Skyscraper Caper / Big Game Haunt / Chimp and Zee

252. See Ya Later Gladiator / Flying Circus / Bugged by a Bee

253. 3 Ring Wing-Ding / Feud With a Dude / Hippydrome Tiger

254. Fistic Mystic / Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too! / Shamrock and Roll

255. Freeze Frame / The Fright Before Christmas / Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24th-1/2 Century (the 6:40 theatrical cut, not the 9:26 version as seen on the Daffy Duck Thanks-For-Giving TV special)

256. Spaced Out Bunny / Daffy Flies North / The Chocolate Chase

257. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny / The Yolks on You / The Duxorcist

258. Snow Excuse / Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol / Soup or Sonic

259. The Night of the Living Duck / Box Office Bunny / Blooper Bunny

260. Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers / Chariots of Fur / Carrotblanca

261. Horton Hatches the Egg / Superior Duck / From Hare to Eternity / Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas

262. Whizzard of Ow/ My Generation G...G...Gap / Cock-a-Doodle-Duel / Museum Scream / Duck Dodgers in Attack of the Drones

Trailer of Tears (YouTube, Me, and Everyone Else We Know)

Hurray! It’s another one of my brief announcement posts that have nothing to do with going over cartoon cuts.

This one is a blog trailer I made for YouTube (hey, if they can make book trailers, then blog ones can be made too) about “Drawn and Quartered,” set to The Bugs Bunny Show’s famous “This Is It” theme song. I’m sticking it on here because I can’t trust YouTube not to take it down for copyright, whether or not it deserves it (if it does get taken down, then I have a safe second home for it here). Plus, I think I can trust the few readers I have here to find a way to download the video (or share the blog page) and pass it along to others so they can see the blog too (make it “go viral”).

Here’s the video. Enjoy and tell everyone you know about it. 

More entries will come soon. I’m currently working on the special episode about the Porky/Sylvester horror vacation cartoons that Chuck Jones directed in 1948, 1954, and 1955.

EDIT: I had to replace the video with one that wasn't obviously made for YouTube. Instead of the "Click on the link in the description" ending, it just says to visit the website. That's the only change made to it.

September in the Rain (No Plot? Plenty of Problems!)

 

Director: Friz Freleng (credited as “I. Freleng”)

Summary: Your typical “midnight in the store” cartoon. This one is in a grocery store on a rainy night where the products and their label mascots come to life and do bits and musical numbers (some of which are recycled from other shorts, since Freleng did do that). It’s short, it’s sweet, it’s played straight, and while not that many people like it, I think it’s fine for what it is.

The Channel(s): TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and on DVD.

Part(s) Edited: All the black caricatures are cut from this short, though the 1995 Turner dubbed version at least left in the Al Jolson “Dream of Wheat” (Cream of Wheat) mascot serenading the Aunt Emma (Aunt Jemima, now known as “Pearl Milling,” which yeah, does sound like the name of a U.S. Southern black woman and “Aunt Jemima” could have been her nickname when she became known for her pancakes or what her white slave owners called her) mascot with the title song. I’ve never seen that version; I’ve seen the version where every black caricature is cut and the cartoon, which already has a 5-minute, 47-second runtime, now runs at 3 minutes and 32 seconds (or 4 minutes and 36 seconds, if it’s the version where the Al Jolson/Aunt Emma part was left in, but not the performance of “Nagasaki” at the end).

What Grinds My Gears About the Edit: On the one hand, the cartoon was just a collection of musical numbers and light comedy bits, so complaining about how the edits ruined the cartoon is kinda stupid on my end (not as stupid as making an already short cartoon shorter, but that’s neither here nor there). On the other hand, it’s obvious that parts are cut because of the jump in music.

Video Comparison: Instead of doing one video showing the uncut vs. cut scenes, I’m showing the actual cartoon vs. the common edited version (Cartoon Network, Boomerang, TBS, TNT, and on DVD) and the 1995 Turner dubbed version (which probably aired on Cartoon Network, TBS, and TNT back in the 1990s, though it could have been made for unnamed syndication and some home media releases):

Uncut Version:

Edited Version #1 (version where all black caricatures are cut)

Edited Version #2 (version where the Al Jolson/Aunt Emma part is uncut, but the ending isn't):

Availability Uncut: Yeah, about the only place this is available uncut is The Golden Age of Looney Tunes laser disc (volume 4, side 10). The DVD version of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie, Carefree, has an edited version, though I don’t know which one (the one where all the black caricatures are cut or the one where at least the Al Jolson/Aunt Emma scene was uncut). It hasn’t been on television since…I wanna say, the early 2000s (last seen on Cartoon Network) because, even with the parts cut, it’s just filler. Be glad that the uncut laser disc version can be found on sites like archive.org.

‘Til next time…

Porky's Hero Agency (No Re-Guard for Consistency)

 

Director: Bob Clampett (credited as “Robert Clampett”); Chuck Jones (credited as “Charles Jones” for animation)

Summary: Porky (depicted here as a child character) reads some Greek myths before bed and dreams that he runs a “Hero for Hire” agency who runs afoul of a man-hungry Medusa (the gorgon who turns men to stone with her cursed gaze) who works as a photographer and collects her rock-hard victims to use as statues.

The Channel(s): Cartoon Network (barring The Bob Clampett Show), Boomerang, MeTV, and MeTV Toons (surprisingly, not Nickelodeon)

Part(s) Edited: Two small parts for the same reason: The guard pulling Porky through the barred door window and putting him in line to be Medusa’s next victim, and the guard telling Porky that he’s next, with Porky backing away and imagining himself as a piggy bank. The alleged reason: either the guard is an outdated caricature of a black man or he's in blackface. I’m leaning hard towards the caricature claim, because there’s nothing that says that the guard is a white guy in questionable race make-up.

What Grinds My Gears About the Edit: We’ll get to the “why this grinds my gears [if it ever did]” bit shortly. I just want to bring up this:

I don’t understand why the price for a “fair maiden” rescue is lower than one for slaying dragons (which I don’t even think was part of Greek mythology. Yeah, they had the hydra, which was a dragon-like creature with three heads, but not the kind of dragon you hear about in fairy tales and epic, medieval fantasies that try to be like J.R.R. Tolkein with varying degrees of success and failure) or a daring last-minute rescue (and why change the price from $25 to 3 for $10)? Are damsels (or maidens) in distress so common that you can get them for cheap?

And let’s see how much all those prices would be in 2025:

The $50.00 (in 1937 money) dragon slaying would be $1,120 today (this also applies to the “genuine Egyptian pyramid” that Medusa makes out of a group of men in a human pyramid), which, yeah, pricey, but is worth it, give how difficult slaying a dragon is. From the stories I’ve heard and seen, it’s a one-man operation and only the bravest and most valiant definitely need to be paid that for the work done. The $12 per dozen in 1937 would come to $268.00 today, which might not seem much, but if you slayed more than ten dozen, you could clean up ($268 x 120 [ten dozen] = $32,160).

Fifty cents (in 1937 money) for a “fair maiden/damsel in distress” rescue is $11.20 today. I…guess that’s an improvement, but it seems like there’s no good money in rescuing maidens and damsels, despite that that’s one of the best parts about myths, legends, pulp stories, and most action and fantasy movies and TV shows. You want women to be safe, don’t you? On the other hand, with the large amount of “fair maiden/damsel in distress” rescues priced at $11.20 in today’s money, you could clean up a decent amount. It’s not going to be on the same level as ten or more dozen dragons slain, but it’s still a good amount.

The old price for “thrilling, last-minute rescues” was $25 a pop in 1937. In today’s money, that’s $560.00. Not bad, but a bit too rich for most people’s blood, that will no doubt spill because they can’t afford it. The new price where it’s three rescues for $10.00 (1937 money) would be $224.00, which, yeah, is a better deal. I just hope Porky(karkus) has a good installment plan, especially for the dragon slaying.

The old man statue labeled an “antique” that’s priced at $60 billion in 1937 money would be around $1.34 trillion in 2025. You read that right: trillion. So saying that you’re worth more dead than alive isn’t just an expression.

The “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil” statue that was $3.00 in 1937 is $67.20 today, though I thought it would be priced higher, since Three Stooges memorabilia would be more popular, especially if it’s the original trio of Moe, Larry, and Curly.

Okay, the math and economics lesson is over for the day. Time for some film editing and criticism:

The first time the guard was cut looked painfully obvious, as there’s a jump in the audio track (at least from what I remember from seeing on Cartoon Network. I have vague memories of seeing it on Nickelodeon, but from what I could tell, the guard’s two appearances weren’t censored). Second edit…can’t really complain about it because of how seamless it is. It’s not on the edit approximation video, but the second edit was supposed to go from Medusa creating the Egyptian pyramid from a human pyramid to Porky walking in disguised as the Dick Powell statue, which Medusa immediately falls for.

Video Comparison:

Availability Uncut: For a mid Porky cartoon that was mostly shown on television (at least in my youth), this actually does have some good home media releases. In 1992, it was released (as a computer-colorized edition, which I assume is the copy that aired on such channels as Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and Nickelodeon when they turned Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon into a daytime show) on the VHS “Porky Pig: Days of Swine and Roses” as part of the Authentic and Original Looney Tunes Cartoons VHS collection (yeah, that title sounds very much like something from a gray market video distributor, where most, if not all, the cartoons are public domain -- at best. At worst, it sounds like a video collection series from Wish or Temu, but, in order to actually be like those, “Looney Tunes” has to be misspelled as “Loney Toons”). Two years later, “Porky’s Hero Agency” was released on the laser disc called “Wince upon a Time: Foolhardy Fairy Tales and Looney Legends” (a collection of Warner Bros cartoons that spoof fairy tales and mythical stories). Seven years after that, the short appeared on volume 9 of this British Looney Tunes video collection called, “The Looney Tunes Special Bumper Collection.” Today, the cartoon can be found, uncut, uncensored, and in its original black and white either as a special feature on the DVD version of the movie Marked Woman, starring Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart, or, if you’d rather buy cartoon compilation DVDs instead of old movies with the cartoon shorts that ran concurrent with them in theaters as special features, the Porky Pig 101 DVD set.

‘Til next time…

The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos (Not Kid-ding Around)

 

Director: Frank Tashlin

Summary: Forest animals (a lot of which are caricatures of singers, actors, and radio personalities of the time) participate in the Woodland Community Swing Variety Show on radio station KUKU.

The Channel(s): Cartoon Network

Part(s) Edited: During the performance of the title song, there’s a sequence where we pan across a row of animal-based caricatures of celebrities that were popular at the time of the cartoon’s release in theaters. When Cartoon Network aired this in the 1990s, they shortened the pan to remove the appearance of the blackfaced Al Jolson caricature named “Al Goatson: The Singing Kid” (“kid” as in “baby goat,” not “human child,” though, from what I’ve seen and experienced personally, one tends to act like the other).

What Grinds My Gears About the Edit: Like the previous entry, this doesn’t “grind my gears,” but it does make me question some things. Namely, “Why would Cartoon Network just cut the Al Jolson goat when you also had Fats Swallow, the bird/toad(?) caricature of Fats Waller, who was black and often caricatured on such Warner Bros. shorts as ‘Clean Pastures’ and ‘Tin Pan Alley Cats’? Wouldn’t it make more sense to just cut the entire pan across the celebrity animals, as cutting in the middle of a panning shot is jarring and will make even first-time viewers realize that something’s gone?”

On top of that, I had the good fortune not to see this edited. It was uncut on an early 2000s showing of The Acme Hour (a cartoon block that aired for one hour on weekdays and two hours on weekends that mixed Warner Bros cartoons with Fleischer Popeye shorts and both MGM cartoons [Tom and Jerry and the shorts directed by Tex Avery when he was fired from Termite Terrace] and had bumpers that showed POV shots of what it’s like to be on the business end of classic cartoon slapstick, such as getting hit in the face with a wooden plank, having a piano and an anvil fall on your head, skating on rocket-powered rollerskates, etc), but, sadly, only once. After that, the short was phased out and replaced with other cartoons. The Looney Tunes Fandom Wiki is where I heard that it was edited. While I do want to take that website’s word for it, I can’t really believe them 100% unless I have evidence like, say, a video clip of the cut scene, complete with Cartoon Network’s station identification bug. 

Since we don’t have one, I’ll just do an approximation edit.

Video Comparison: Hot, fresh, and rife with commentary from me. Not much, but it’s a start:

Availability Uncut: This one isn’t as widely available as it should be (should it be, though?). It was on the Golden Age of Looney Tunes laser disc (volume 4, side five) and its most recent appearance is on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection, volume three (disc two, which features Warner Bros cartoons with celebrity caricatures and pop culture references of the day. Anyone who tells you The Simpsons and Family Guy are the only cartoons that are stuffed with pop culture references and celebrity caricatures hasn’t seen a Looney Tunes cartoon beyond what they remember, either vividly or vaguely, from childhood. It’s lousy with it, and Internet forums, wikis, and comments sections will be happy to guide you on what you missed…assuming you can put up with petty arguments and misinformation).

‘Til next time…

Rover's Rival (Washed-Up Antiques Roadshow)

 

Director: Bob Clampett (credited as “Robert Clampett.” Sounds oddly proper for someone like him. Like calling Will Forte “Orville Willis Forte IV”), with Chuck Jones (credited as “Charles Jones”) as an uncredited co-director (though he is credited for animation).

Summary: Porky literally tries to teach his old dog new tricks, but a smart aleck puppy keeps trolling him.

Fun Facts: This is the first cartoon to use “The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down” as the Looney Tunes theme song (Merrie Melodies’ theme is “Merrily We Roll Along,” for those who use both interchangeably) and the first to use the ending card where Porky bursts out of the drum and stutters, “Th-Th-Th-That’s All, Folks!” (there’s a short-lived Bugs Bunny variant where Bugs bursts out of the drum, snacks on a carrot, and says, “And dat’s de end!” Kinda wished they did variations with other characters, like how the end of Tiny Toon Adventures had the characters close out the cartoon, like Gogo Dodo saying, “It’s been surreal!” and turning the TV off with a remote, Plucky saying, “Parting is such sweet sorrow,” or Dizzy Devil saying “Show over” and eating the rainbow-colored concentric circles until his eyes are the only things left. There’s a YouTube compilation of this, naturally).

The Channel(s): Nickelodeon (possibly)

Part(s) Edited: Nickelodeon’s redrawn-colorized version (according to the old Censored Cartoons Page and the Looney Tunes Fandom Wiki) muffled out the young pup calling Porky’s dog an “old  antique” after the old dog slams his head into a washtub that’s hanging on the wall outside Porky’s house.

What Grinds My Gears About the Edit: Not so much “grind my gears” as “make me ask a lot of questions about the veracity of the claim.” Editing a cartoon to remove a kid character insult an elderly character seems out of character for Nickelodeon (especially in the 1990s, when the whole aesthetic of that channel made kids and teenagers believe that they had the power and reasonable adult figures were old-fashioned and out-of-touch), so what was the point of this edit? I wouldn’t put it past the censors of that channel to show some hypocrisy (the syndicated/acquired shows can’t have any ageism and adult-bashing from kids, but the homegrown shows Nickelodeon made can). Then again, what if it wasn’t a censorship cut? What if the sound quality was so bad that the audio just strategically cut out on that part and fixing it was either a) impossible, or b) not cost-effective. Or what if the viewers couldn’t understand the pup’s dialogue and thought it was muffled or muted?

Video Comparison: I’m not going to do my usual “compare/contrast” or “edit approximation” video this go-around. What I am going to do is upload both the original black and white version and the redrawn-colorized version and let you, the reader/viewer, decide if any audio censorship was done. From where I stand, there was no editing, but if anyone has any evidence that says otherwise (f.eg, a video of when this short aired on Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon with the edit actually there for all to here), then please come up and testify.

Black and White version:

Redrawn-Colorized version:

Availability Uncut: It was already uncut (allegedly) when aired on television, but, if you want the black and white version where the audio is high-quality, then look no further than the Porky Pig 101 DVD (disc two)…and I mean that literally, because that’s the only physical media release it has. It was available on Boomerang’s streaming channel and HBO Max (back when it was first called HBO Max and then when it was just Max. Now it’s back to HBO Max), but was dropped between 2024 and 2025 (this year).

‘Til next time…