Porky's Badtime Story (1937) Online

This a hilarious Looney Tune. Unlike most early Porky Pig cartoons, this one was actually funny which something of a surprise. It was somewhat refreshing in a way. Some of the stuff they did here would become classic gags in later shorts. Really good.

One of Porky's earliest cartoons and a great one. Porky's character animation was more refined later on, but is still acceptable. The rest of the animation is great, the transfer from black and white to colour gives it a sumptuous and haunting visual style which works very well. The music is lush and characterful, while the dialogue from Gabby's "why doesn't somebody fix these things" to the boss' "Well, well! If it isn't the rover boys! and only two hours late too!" is very funny. The gags are equally clever, though also done in a way that you do sympathise with Porky and Gabby's predicament of not being able to sleep. Porky I can find bland at times when paired with Daffy later on, but he is very good here and works well with Gabby, who is every bit his equal. Mel Blanc's voice work is stellar. On the whole, a great short and one of Porky's better ones. 9/10 Bethany Cox

Clampett made some good cartoons and I like his style of directing. However, in 1937, he didn't develop that style that he would be known for. Porky in Wackyland was probably one of the first black and white shorts I actually liked. I'm not a fan of the BW cartoons up until 1940, but I give Bob some credit for his first few toons. Personally, I like the color Merrie Melodies better than the BW Looney Tunes. Gabby Goat just wasn't funny enough for primetime, thankfully they got rid of him. The remake has Daffy instead and when he shoots the moon, I laugh.

. . . Corporate Capitalism, in which workers are treated like slaves (if you equate, say, the 80% of coal miners who die slow, painful deaths from "Black Lung" Disease unless they're among the "lucky" thousands perishing suddenly below ground among the casualties of innumerable "mishaps" caused by unsafe working conditions with the minority of slaves who subject themselves to flogging), as Porky Pig and Gabby Goat's abusive canine supervisor at the Peter Piper Pickled Peppers Plant thoroughly terrorizes the hapless pair with bombastic threats that would NEVER be tolerated by any Committee Man in a Union Shop early on during this cautionary Public Service Cartoon, PORKY'S BADTIME STORY. When this Management Goon brainwashes Porky and Gabby into showing up an hour early for their dead-end job on Sunday--their one day of weekly rest--it closely parallels America's current predicament, which finds the Red Commie KGB Chief Vlad "The Mad Russian" Putin able to use the resources of HIS Oligarchical Billionaires to brainwash those in the so-called "Right to Work" anti-Union Nazi Confederate States into expanding the Swamp in Washington with Putin's hand-picked slate of U.S. Oligarchical Billionaires, led by his titular puppets in the odoriferous RumpScents Administration. Warner is warning the Silent Majority of Loyal Normal Patriotic True Average Working Class Blue Collar Union Label Americans STILL smart enough to vote AGAINST Self-Confessed Serial Finger Rapists to take to the streets like Porky and Gabby, and forcibly seize back their livelihoods stolen by the Foreign Fifth Columnist Corporate Saboteurs who've so obviously violated their Oaths to Uphold the U.S. Constitution. "Don't let the traitors triumph!" Warner screams at us with PORKY'S BADTIME STORY.