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Pigs Is Pigs (1937)PIGS IS PIGS is the title of a Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon that was directed by I. Freleng (Isadore 'Friz' Freleng) and released on January 30, 1937. Synopsis PIGGY HAMHOCK (a character concurrent with but separate from Porky Pig) is shown to be always hungry, eating, and stealing food when he can. That night, he dreams he is invited in a kindly old man's house to eat. As soon as he sits down, the man turns out to be some sort of mad scientist (voiced by Billy Bletcher), who straps him down and declares, So, its food you want! Ha, ha! (Hic) Well give you plenty of it! The pig then is sent down into the basement where it is revealed to be some sort of fantastic machine the sole purpose of which is to force-feed hungry little kids like him (not that he would need any forcing). As he begins his work, the scientist yells, So, you love food, aye? Piggy is carried around via mechanical chair (with a robotic arm holding his nose) and brought to a huge vat (labeled SUPER SOUP FEEDER) where opened cans of soup are being poured into it. The mechanical arm pulls his mouth open to let in a torrent of soup. He is then fed bananas shot out of their skins down his thoat like bullets. This is followed by stops at a gumball machine that doles out olives and a conveyor belt of ice cream cones. Then comes the main course a sandwich as big as a king-sized bed (featuring the first appearance of Frelengs hold the onions gag), followed by dessert dispensed from the PIE-A-TROPE (pies spun on the spindle of a converted jukebox). The scientist incessantly continues forcing food into Piggy shown in montage. After an entire day of this business, the pig is brought back up into the mad scientists house. He has been transformed into an obese, food-packed, ball and happy as a clam. Seeing him bulging out of the restraints, the scientist pokes him twice and kindly asks Happy now, my boy? To which Piggy replies Y-y-y-yes sir! The doctor then releases him commenting, Why, youre not even half full! With the sun setting, he waddles his bloated way to the door, passing by the food the scientist had laid out on the kitchen table to bait him. He looks at the turkey and is thrilled at the chance of eating some more. He picks up a drumstick and after taking a bite, explodes. Or rather, he wakes up to the sound of his mother calling him down to breakfast. He rushes downstairs and is again eating like its going out of style. Thats All Folks! General Information The animation is crude by later Warner standards. In 1954 Disney released an animated short based on the best-selling humour book by Ellis Parker Butler that goes by the same name this work (film and book) has absolutely nothing to do with this cartoon. This film was the second (and last) featuring the Family Hamhock, which Friz Freleng had apparently intended as a series of recurring characters. They made their first appearance in AT YOUR SERVICE MADAME (1936) this established that Mrs. Hamhock was a widow and that her late husband had left her a sizable inheritance. Rooted in the concept of morality, each of her 7 children were to embody one of the seven-deadly-sins; Piggy, of course, was gluttony. Warner Bros. apparently didn't like this idea and Mrs. Hamhock's children would never appear again after this film. Mrs. Hamhock herself would make one last appearance in what would have been the next short in the series, WHOLLY SMOKE (1938), with Porky Pig as her only child. The the mad scientists Feed-A-Matic machine was featured in a similar nightmare sequence in APPLE ANDY (1946) (Walter Lantz Studio). Art Clokey did a full reimaging of this cartoon in 1957 as part of THE GUMBY SHOW. GRUB GRABBER GUMBY recast Gumby in Piggys role and featured Pokey as a bipedal equine named "Mr. Stuff". This short is included in the laser disc collection THE GOLDEN AGE OF LOONEY TUNES vol. 3. External Links (images) http://www.thegremlin.com/PUBLICITY.STILLS/PS171.JPG http://www.thegremlin.com/PUBLICITY.STILLS/PS172.JPG
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