Monday 28 February 2022

Drunk On Moonlight Bay

The best drunken fish in cartoons have to be in Porky's Duck Hunt (1937). The nascent version of Daffy Duck takes a back seat as the fish swim through hootch that leaked through a barrel, then get in a boat and sing “On Moonlight Bay.”

We had some frames of this sequence posted quite some time ago, but lets give you some more. The fish are hiccoughing as they sing.



The Billy Bletcher fish slurs a sentence at the audience in between lines of the song, and thrusts his head at us. “Don’t yuzz EVER go away!”



The fish boat floats behind the bullrushes and the song ends. Farewell!



Cut to the next scene. Director Tex Avery and his writing team have Porky add a groaner. “There’s something fishy about that,” he speculates to us, looking at the camera.



Virgil Ross and Bobe Cannon are the credited animators.

2 comments:

  1. Don, I have to tell you, it's tremendously annoying to see a FB post titeled, "Drunk on Moonlight Bay," come to your web site, and find NO video of the cartoon.
    I hate to sound harsh, but I think I speak for most everyone when I say that no one wants to see stills from a great cartoon. We want to see THE CARTOON.
    If for any reason you can't make the cartoon available, you should at least mention that in the FB post...

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  2. If you don't want to see the stills, go elsewhere. This is not a video blog. I don't have time to fix dead links.

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