Porky Pig is one of the oldest characters of the Looney Tunes. His original voice actor did, in fact, have a stutter, and was eventually fired due to his inability to control it. Mel Blanc continued to do the voice and stuttering became synonymous with Porky. Typically he struggles with a word only to give up on it and easily replace it a similar but bigger word (which you'd expect would be harder to say). Early Porky and Daffy films cast Porky as a duck hunter, in an attempt to replicate the Bugs and Elmer formula. But Porky really found his niche in later years as a straight man for Daffy. In addition to supporting him in the many film spoofs, he serves as a foil for Daffy's zaniness in a variety of buddy films, where the two of them find themselves in some situation and the diversity of their personalities affect the outcome.

 

Boobs in the Woods 1.2
1948 directed by Robert McKimson
Featuring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig.

Porky is out to try and enjoy the great outdoors, but not if Daffy has anything to do with it. Porky makes every attempt to relax and enjoy nature, and Daffy, from his screwball period does everything he can think of to disrupt Porky.

Trivia

• The title is a reference to the traditional children's tale Babes in the Woods
  

 

Daffy Duck Hunt 1.4
1949 directed by Robert McKimson
Featuring Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, and the Barnyard Dawg

Porky is hunting duck for dinner, and Daffy has fun toying with the pig and his dog. Porky sends his dog to get Daffy, and the dog decides to trick Daffy, crying loudly that Porky will torture him if he doesn't come back with a duck. Daffy agrees to let the dog capture him and carry him back to Porky. They return to Porky's house where Daffy makes every attempt to escape.

Trivia

• Dawg does not use his familiar voice heard in Foghorn Leghorn shorts.
• The Christmas in July gag is used again here, only this time it's April, and as it was in The Wabbit Who Came to Supper, the calendar is wrong. It shows 31 days for the month of April.
• "Duck hunters is the cwaziest peoples!" is a reference to Lew Lehr's catchphrase, "Monkeys is the cwaziest people." Lehr was a comic contributer to Fox Movietone News, which was a news/variety program that ran in theaters.
  

 

Duck Soup to Nuts 2.3
1944 directed by Friz Freleng
Featuring Daffy Duck and Porky Pig

Porky is a hunter looking to shoot Daffy, but Daffy keeps outwitting Porky. This was one of the last of the early shorts to feature Porky hunting Daffy. As things developed (particularly Daffy's transition to something less crazy) the animators focused more on pairing them together as buddies of sorts, albeit one more annoying than the other. They did not follow the same formula with Bugs and Elmer who were never presented as anything but adversaries.

Trivia

• The title of the cartoon refers to the old expression soup to nuts, and at the same time it's an amalgamation of the titles of the Marx Brothers classic Duck Soup and the Three Stooges film Soup to Nuts.
  

 

Porky Pig's Feat 3.3
1943 directed by Frank Tashlin
Featuring Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and a cameo by Bugs Bunny

Porky Pig and Daffy Duck attempt to escape the Broken Arms Hotel manager without paying their bill. After repeated unsuccessful attempts, Porky suggests they call Bugs Bunny for advice.

Trivia

• This is the first short to use Powerhouse (1937), an instrumental musical composition by Raymond Scott, probably best known today as the iconic assembly line music in Warner Bros. cartoons.
• Porky writes "Porky Loves Petunia" amidst the graffiti on the wall before calling Bugs.
• Daffy's character was still in transition when he said, "Bugs Bunny: my hero!" Today it's considered completely out-of-character because Daffy never again had any kind of admiration for Bugs, instead it varies somewhere between toleration to outright adversarial.
• This is one of a few rare instances where Bugs appears in black-and-white.
  

 

A Pest in the House 5.1
1947 directed by Chuck Jones
Featuring Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd

The film is notable for featuring an in-between interpretation of Daffy. He is not necessarily the zany, impish interpretation used famously by Tex Avery and Bob Clampett, nor is he the greedy, self-centered version that Chuck Jones later popularized in the 1950s. The cartoon starts with a brief narration describing a labor shortage that compels employers to hire anybody or anything. Daffy is a hotel bellboy and Elmer is the manager. A customer demands peace and quiet, and threatens violence against Elmer if disturbed. Daffy does things in the name of keeping things quiet but they actually keep the man awake. Every time the increasingly irritated man trudges to Elmer's station, he hits Elmer in the face.

Trivia

• The title is a reference to a 1944 film called A Guest in the House.
• This short was followed up in 1948 by Daffy Duck Slept Here, where again Daffy doesn't let a hotel patron sleep, but in this case the patron is Porky Pig.
• Every time the irritated man trudges to Elmer's station Pop Goes the Weasel plays in the underscore, and at the moment where the song would say pop, he hits Elmer in the face.
• The version that aired on TV edited out the part where the man is kept awake by a drunk man in the next room singing "How Dry I Am" and Daffy tells the man that he'll muzzle that inebriated canary only to drink up with the drunk man and sing along.
  

 

Daffy Duck Slept Here 3.3
1948 directed by Robert McKimson
Featuring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck

This is essentially a sequel to 1947's A Pest in the House, which also features Daffy disturbing a hotel patron's sleep. Porky is looking all over the big city for a hotel room, but due to a convention there are no vacancies. He finally secures a room that he will have to share with another gentleman. His roommate, Daffy, is rude, loud, and drunk.

Trivia

• The title is a play on the cliché, George Washington slept here, which was also the title of a film released around the same time.
• Daffy's line "Train leaving on Track 5 for Anaheim, Azusa and Cuc—amonga!" is a famous Mel Blanc joke announcement from the Jack Benny radio and TV shows where he also worked.
  

 

To Duck or Not to Duck 6.1
1943 directed by Chuck Jones
Featuring Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd

Elmer Fudd is hunting ducks with his dog Laramore. He shoots Daffy Duck from the sky. Daffy says he wouldn't be so tough without his hunting equipment and challenges Elmer to a fair fight. Elmer is led to a boxing ring surrounded by many duck spectators, where the odds are very much against him.

Trivia

• The title is a reference to William Shakespeare's Hamlet and a reference to the act of ducking punches.
• At the beginning of the film Morning Mood from Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt suite is heard in the background score.
• Daffy challenges Elmer to a fight under Marquess of Queensberry rules, which is a code of generally accepted rules for boxing.
• This is the earliest released color Looney Tunes to fall into the public domain as well as have its original opening and closing titles survive intact.

Earworms

• There'll be none of THIS! Or THIS! And none of THIS!
  

 

Baby Bottleneck 2.3
1945 directed by Robert Clampett
Featuring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck

The cartoon opens with an overworked stork getting drunk in the Stork Klub. There is an emergency situation in which inexperienced workers take the babies to their wrong parents. To clear up the confusion, Porky Pig is brought in to manage the factory, with Daffy Duck as his assistant.

Trivia

• The drunken stork, which is a caricature of Jimmy Durante, was edited out for TV broadcasts.
• In the conveyor belt scene, note the use of Powerhouse (1937), an instrumental musical composition by Raymond Scott, probably best known today as the iconic assembly line music in Warner Bros. cartoons, played while Daffy mans the phones (making quick references to Bing Crosby, Eddie Cantor and the Dionne Quintuplets).
• John Kricfalusi, creator of Ren and Stimpy, calls this cartoon a major influence, particularly due to its manic pace and very unusual animation of Daffy and Porky.
• There is an abrupt cut that occurs when a baby alligator is about to suckle a mother pigs teat. Unlike other edits, this is not a post release edit. The short was released exactly as it's seen here. Apparently, the censors nixed the mother pig's line before release. She's about to say, "Aha, Aha, Aha, don't touch that dial," referring to her nipple.