I Get a Kick Out of a Kick

Porky Pig dreams of marrying Petunia in Porky’s Romance (1937). It’s not so much a dream, but a nightmare where the candy-gorging sow forces him to sire countless piglets, do all the housework and put up with her abuse (and that of her dog, Fluffnums).

Porky wakes up (the dream was caused by a bump on the head after a suicide attempt) and Petunia is there assuring him she’ll marry him. He looks up and all he can see is a vision of the lazy “wife” getting porked out on candy. That’s his cue to head for the hills.



After a pause in the action, he rushes back to take back his candy and zooms away again, not even bothering to stay on the path.



Oh, yes. Porky’s determined to take care of one final bit of business.



Take that, you @$#&@# dog.



Iris out as Fluffnums yelps in pain.

Joe D'Igalo and Bob Bentley are the credited animators for director Frank Tash(lin). Volney White is uncredited. Mel Blanc can be heard in the cartoon but Joe Dougherty plays Porky for one final time. Shirley Reed is Petunia and it sounds like Billy Bletcher is telling us that “Time munches on.”