Looney Tunes - Season 10 / Year 1938

A very early appearance of a barely recognisable Daffy Duck, seen here tormenting Egghead, a prototype Elmer Fudd who is just as unsuccessful with ducks as he was later to be with a certain wascally wabbit.

We take a tour of Porky's Poppa's farm, to the tune of Old MacDonald. After meeting several animals, "on this farm, he has a mortgage" which he frets over, particularly since Bessie has stopped producing milk. Poppa orders an Acme milk producing robot, and the beast vs. machine battle is on.

In the border town of Boiled Beef, Texas, in 1872, a bandit who is wanted by authorities terrorizes the town - but a pig-headed deputy thinks he has a way to capture him.

While at the Crocadero night club, Porky dreams of becoming a bandleader, but he finds out that he has no money. Instead he gets a job at the club working on the dishes. His boss gets the wrong idea of Porky involving a fly and fires him. The boss's bandleaders don't show up, so he brings Porky back and has him impersonate several famous bandleaders.

One of the "Censored Eleven", a group of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons that have been withheld from syndication due to offensive racial themes.

Porky tries to feed his chickens, but some ducks steal the corn he puts out, then declare war. The battle rages, with the ducks against the chickens, sometimes in wing-to-wing combat, but also aerial attacks, and Porky finally turning the tide with his machine gun improvised from a wringer washer and a bag of corn. But the ducks still get the last laugh.

While their mother hen is away, a group of young chicks must defend themselves from a weasel that is planning to have them for dinner. They fight back using military techniques. The weasel leaves but laughs and gets knocked out by one of the chicks.

A pony express office. Porky's only allowed to clean up and lick envelopes. When a rider comes back, unable to get past the Indians, Porky has his chance. 

Emily the chicken, lives in Hickville but dreams of Hollywood. Her chance comes when director J. Megga-Phone happens to drive past and gives her his card. She makes her way to Hollywood, and Megga-Phone's office, where she discovers a whole flock of hens with the same card and a completely uncaring Megga-Phone. She returns home to faithful Clem, and a chick with foolish notions.

Porky is setting sail for the Boola-Boola islands, with hopes of opening 5 & 10 cent store. Sadly, a swordfish cuts a hole in the ship and all of Porky's goods fall out. The fishes make use of them, and instead Porky opens up a Hollywood nightclub, which consists of fish-impersonated celebrities. Porky is ultimately saved when a water-spout restocks his ship.

Penguins from all over gather at the grand opening of their new nightclub, The Club Iceberg. A penguin version of Bing Crosby appears, and the cartoon ends with an 1930s jazz band.

Porky goes after a rogue rabbit who manages to frustrate him at each turn. He is unsuccessful and the rabbit comes to visit him just to make recovery tougher for him.

All of the squirrels are busy gathering nuts for the winter, except for one young squirrel who prefers to win his nut through gambling.

Porky is leading a wagon that is going into Injun Joe territory. He finds himself at odds with the super-chief. Sloppy Moe has a secret about the Injun Joe attack, but he won't tell Porky.

One of the "Censored Eleven", a group of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons that have been withheld from syndication due to offensive racial themes.

Porky and his friends try to save a theatrical boarding house.

At the Katnip Kollege, we see a roomful of cats taking a course in Swingology. Everyone swings except Johnny, who can't cut it and has to sit in the dunce chair. Miss Kitty Bright tells him to look her up when he learns how to swing. Finally, listening to the pendulum clock at night, Johnny gets the beat. He rushes out to where everyone is playing and sings "Easy As Rollin' Off a Log" to Kitty Bright. She joins in; he grabs a trumpet for an instrumental break, with the complete band. They both fall off a log; she covers him with kisses.

Porky's birthday. His uncle sends him a silkworm that churns out articles of clothing when it hears the word "sew." After a sock and a bra, Porky stuffs it in a pocket to prepare for his party. He uses some hair tonic, then his dog Black Fury has some for himself it's 99% alcohol. The guests arrive: a penguin and a goose. The penguin, shoveling in the food, accidentally swallows the worm, which starts churning out top hats, which pop open inside the penguin's head. The goose tries increasingly violent ways of remedying this. Meanwhile, Porky's dog, lathered with shaving cream, runs in and is branded a mad dog.

Another entry in the "books come alive" subgenre, with possibly more books coming alive than any other. We begin with some musical numbers, notably the various pages of Green Pastures all joining in on a song, The Thin Man entering The White House Cookbook and exiting much fatter, and The House of Seven (Clark) Gables singing backup to Old King Cole. The Three Musketeers break loose, become Three Men on a Horse, grab the Seven Keys to Baldpate, and set the Prisoner of Zenda free. They are soon chased by horsemen from The Charge of the Light Brigade and Under Two Flags and beset by the cannons of All Quiet on the Western Front. All this disturbs the sleep of Rip Van Winkle, who opens Hurricane so that everyone is (all together now) Gone with the Wind.

An aging hero is looking through the photo album and remembering the Gay 90's, and in particular a picnic interrupted by villainous Roger St. Clair, who tries to tempt Emily to the big city and away from Harold.

Porky and his dog, Streamline, plant a large garden in creative ways. The neighbor chickens see the garden as one big buffet/cafeteria.

A looney take on the classic Cinderella story with Egghead as Prince Charming.

Porky Pig, the manager to boxer Daffy Duck, gets him a match with famed fighter, "The Champ", who looks like he's seen better days. Come the night of the boxing match, it seems The Champ isn't as pathetic as they hoped so and Daffy is in for one crazy fight.

A retired English major tells a young boy tales of his safari through Africa.

A neighborhood bully convinces Porky to take a puff from his cigar, causing Porky to hallucinate a smoke-man named Nick O. Teen, along with a musical number done by cigars, cigarettes and pipes in the likeness of the 3 Stooges, etc.

Hayseed Egghead arrives in the big city of Bagdad and quickly wins a magic lamp in a carnival coin-operated crane game.

A group of animals go out to frolic and skate on the ice. When a W. C. Fields type pig sees how a Saint Bernard revives a frozen skater with gin, he decides to try and get some for himself.

The McCoys and the Weavers are two feuding hillbilly clans. Elmer Fudd, Peacemaker, attempts to end the fighting; but violence and zaniness win out.

Porky Pig goes on a hunt to catch the surreally elusive last Do-Do bird.

Little Pancho Villa dreams of being a great bull fighter. He's thrown out of the amateurs line for being too small, but gets the chance to prove himself when an accident throws him back into the ring.

Porky goes to the beach with Pinky. Porky attempts to take a nap, but Pinky whacks him with a shovel. Then, he attempts to fake his own drowning in a pool. Finally, Porky enters a swimming contest, and Pinky tries to scare him by sending a fake shark after him.

Egghead as Johny Smith, a caricature of the colonist Captain John Smith, arrives on the Mayflower to be met by some sarcastic Native Americans as he makes his escape with Poker-Huntas, a caricature of Pocahontas, and makes off to England with her to raise a family.

Porky is a tourist in Egypt. When his tour group takes off without him, he ventures into the desert alone, but both him and his camel are soon taken by the heat.

Numerous travel brochure characters come alive to sing and dance, until the notorious Thief of Bagdad turns up! A wild and crazy chase then ensues, which ends with our villain escaping with his new friend, the Lone Stranger.

A little cat must take his sick father's place as nightwatchman, but is bullied by a tough mouse and his gang, leaving the rest of the mice free to eat all the food and stage a musical floor show.

Doctor Quack is doing an operation, and Daffy is his assistant. Things start out sedately enough, with Daffy asking for quiet in various ways. Then the operation starts, and after handing over instruments at a ever-increasing pace, Daffy loses it and is ejected.

Daffy Duck wreaks havoc on a movie set at Wonder Pictures ("if it's good, it's a Wonder"). Daffy's creative editing impresses producer I. M. Stupendous.

A battleship mostly run by dogs sets sail. The crew threatens to get the mess hall before the captain will, the captain tells them to stop. The people in the ship are informed of a radio message about a reward for capturing a pirate submarine. The crew sets off in planes, leaving Porky behind. When the ship is attacked by the submarine, it's up to Porky to defend the ship.

Egghead decides that the only way he is going to be successful is through a Boxing Course. He graduates and has to take on champion Biff Stew. Biff destroys him, but by accident he knocks out him out, and then it's revealed that Egghead isn't even fighting Biff but instead got knocked out by practice equipment.

The mice are on the loose after hours in a doctor's office, playing with the various pieces of medical apparatus. Susie Mouse is caged for research until her lover Johnnie frees her. A mouse orchestra plays a swinging wedding song. But throughout, a cat is stalking...