Porky and Teabiscuit

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Porky accidentally buys an old horse at an auction and must enter him in a race to recoup his loss.Porky accidentally buys an old horse at an auction and must enter him in a race to recoup his loss.Porky accidentally buys an old horse at an auction and must enter him in a race to recoup his loss.

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Mel Blanc

Porky Pig
(voice)
(uncredited)
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Pinto Colvig

Teabiscuit
(uncredited)
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Earle Hodgins

Auctioneer
(uncredited)

Joe Twerp

Race Commentator
(voice)
(uncredited)

Directors
- Cal Dalton
- Ben Hardaway
Writer
- Melvin Millar
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Trivia
The horse's name, Teabiscuit, is a play on that of Seabiscuit, a real-life thoroughbred racehorse, ungainly and mistreated in his early life, who was rehabilitated by an empathetic trainer and, by the time of this cartoon, had gone on to become a racing champion and a sentimental favorite of the American public. The cartoon's story is an affectionate screwball parody and celebration of Seabiscuit's rise to fame.

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 Toon in with Me: Pocket Mail (2024)

Soundtracks
She Was an Acrobat's Daughter
(uncredited)
Music by Harry Ruby
Played during the auction

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3/10

Picks up towards the end but largely feels like a pedestrian cartoon aimed squarely at children

Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton's 'Porky and Teabiscuit' is an utterly pedestrian cartoon which, after Bob Clampett's barrage of amazing Porky Pig cartoons the previous year, seems like a step backwards. Casting Porky in his original role as a child, the clichéd plot unfolds slowly and uninterestingly as we follow Porky on an errand for his father which results in him being conned out of eleven dollars in exchange for a dishevelled old nag of a racehorse. Porky must enter a steeple chase to win back the money. The cartoon only picks up pace when the race begins and by then the cartoon is nearly over. It's far too little, too late and 'Porky and Teabiscuit' emerges as a misfire that seems unsure whether to go for cuteness or gags and ends up skimping on both. Unlike the majority of the Warner Bros. catalogue which is noticeably adult orientated, 'Porky and Teabiscuit' feels like a short made specifically for children and easily entertained children at that!