Picador Porky

Picador Porky
Picador Porky
	Title card
Directed by	Fred Avery
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger
Starring	Joe Dougherty; Mel Blanc
Music by	Carl W. Stalling
Animation by	Charles Jones; Sid Sutherland
Color process	Black and white
Production; company	Leon Schlesinger Productions
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Productions; The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	February 27, 1937;
Running time	7 min
Country	United States
Language	English

Picador Porky is a 1937 American animated comedy short film directed by Fred Avery.^[1] The short was released on February 27, 1937. It is the 82nd film in the Looney Tunes series, the twentieth cartoon to feature Porky Pig, as well as the first to feature voice lines by Mel Blanc, who would eventually replace Joe Dougherty in voicing Porky, as well as become the series' main voice actor until its retirement in 1969.^[2]^[3]

Plot

An intertitle describes Mexico to be a calm and sleepy place, only to show the actual Mexico's loud and chaotic lifestyle. Porky Pig and two friends enter and find a bullfight with an award of 1000 pesos. They conspire to join by having Porky fight his friends in a bull costume. As they enter, they find a bull who is immediately smitten with the costume. The two men find a bottle of liquor and drink it, fascinated by its taste, but then drunkenly sneak away.

Porky is made to fight the actual bull from earlier, which is used to replace the missing "bull". Not realizing the difference, he hides the bull in his red cloth before summoning him to the audience's cheers. Porky then tricks the bull with plungers, which are removed except for one, which slips on the bull's nose; when it is removed, the bull's nose is stretched to his embarrassment.

Porky only realizes the mistake when his friends emerge and sing drunkenly. During break time, Porky drinks water and spits while the bull mistakes a funnel for a telephone. Porky exploits a safety zone to no avail. His two friends conspire to beat up the bull behind a wall and emerge instead, surrendering and allowing Porky to win easily as the audience does not notice the difference. As Porky wins the money, he is somehow horrified into giving the money to the bull, much to its confusion.

Home media

Picador Porky is available on disc 1 of the Porky Pig 101 DVD set.^[4]

References

↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 52. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
↑ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 124–126. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
↑ Parten, James (February 18, 2020). "Looney Tunes 1936–37: We've Got Ourselves a Star… Let's Get Another". Cartoon Research. Retrieved June 23, 2026.
↑ Beck, Jerry (August 16, 2017). "Warner Archive Announces "Porky Pig 101" DVD Collection". Animation Scoop. Retrieved July 16, 2026.

[Beck-1] Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 52. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.

[2] Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 124–126. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved June 6, 2020.

[3] Parten, James (February 18, 2020). "Looney Tunes 1936–37: We've Got Ourselves a Star… Let's Get Another". Cartoon Research. Retrieved June 23, 2026.

[4] Beck, Jerry (August 16, 2017). "Warner Archive Announces "Porky Pig 101" DVD Collection". Animation Scoop. Retrieved July 16, 2026.

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