Pied Piper Porky

1939
7m

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Porky Pig plays the role of Pied Piper and pacifies several mice, but one rogue rodent prompts him to unleash a cat, who is hardly a match for the mouse.Porky Pig plays the role of Pied Piper and pacifies several mice, but one rogue rodent prompts him to unleash a cat, who is hardly a match for the mouse.Porky Pig plays the role of Pied Piper and pacifies several mice, but one rogue rodent prompts him to unleash a cat, who is hardly a match for the mouse.

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6.3/10

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Mel Blanc

Porky Pig
(voice)
(uncredited)

Danny Webb

Mouse
(voice)
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Director
- Robert Clampett
Writer
- Ernest Gee
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Trivia
The title refers to the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a legend about the abduction of many children from the town of Hamelin, Germany and used in stories written by the Brothers Grimm and Robert Browning.

Goofs
When the frightened cat jumps on the "old-fashioned mouse trap" box, "fashioned" is spelled "fasioned."

Crazy credits
All rats in this picture are ficticious -- and any resemblance to any one you know is purely co-incidental.

Alternate versions
This cartoon was colorized in 1968 by having every other frame traced over onto a cel. Each redrawn cel was painted in color and then photographed over a colored reproduction of each original background. Needless to say, the animation quality dropped considerably from the original version with this method. The cartoon was colorized again in 1992, this time with a computer adding color to a new print of the original black and white cartoon. This preserved the quality of the original animation.

Connections
Featured in The Bob Clampett Show: Beany Meets the Monstrous Monster/Slap Happy Pappy/Pied Piper Porky (2001)

Soundtracks
Mutiny in the Nursery
(uncredited)
Music by Harry Warren
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer

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7/10

That poor, poor cat!

Like many of their shorts in the 1930s, "Pied Piper Porky" is a black & white cartoon. It's odd, but by the mid to late 30s, Looney Tunes chose to feature it's regular characters in black & white and special, one off characters in color. Perhaps they felt that Porky was so popular that it didn't justify paying the extra cost to use color film stock.

In "Pied Piper Porky", Porky is much like the famous story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin...except that Porky cannot capture one very stubborn mouse. He tries sending a cat to catch the mouse....and that does NOT go well in the least!

Overall, a modestly entertaining cartoon short. Nothing brilliant but enjoyable and worth seeing.