Porky's Prize Pony is a 1941 Looney Tunes short directed by Chuck Jones.
Plot[]
Porky the jockey is getting his prize entry ready for the big steeplechase, but an overambitious and ever-confident, somewhat bumbling nag, who needs an owner, is determined to convince Porky to ride him in the race. The pony flimflams Porky into buying him. After a steady series of spastic attempts to impress Porky, the nag bumbles his way into being Porky's entry when Porky's horse gets drunk.
Television[]
- Sunset Productions (1955-1968)
- Porky Pig and Friends (1969-1990) redrawn colorized
- Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon (1988-1995) colorized
- That's Warner Bros.! (1995-1996) computer colorized
- Bugs 'n' Daffy [The WB] (1996-1998) computer colorized
- The Bugs Bunny Show [TBS] (1997-1998)
- The Bugs and Daffy Show [Cartoon Network] (1997-2004)
- Late Night in Black and White [Cartoon Network] (1997-2002)
- The Porky Pig Show [Boomerang] (2000-2002)
- The Chuck Jones Show [Cartoon Network] (2001-2004)
- The Looney Tunes Show [Cartoon Network] (2001-2004)
- Looney Tunes on Boomerang (2003-2005)
- Sunday Night Cartoons [Me TV +] (2021-present)
Availability[]
Censorship[]
- Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Nickelodeon, and MeTV airings cut a very brief shot of the black stablehands leading horses out before the start of the races (a scene recycled from the Tex Avery short, "Milk and Money")[1]
Notes[]
- Rich Hogan's name is misspelled as "Rich Mogan" in the redrawn colorized version.
- This cartoon entered the public domain in 1969 since Warner Bros.-Seven Arts didn't renew the copyright.[2]
- MeTV+ aired a previously unreleased restored print of the cartoon on Sunday Night Cartoons; however, this restoration has an incorrect opening cue.
- Vitaphone release number: 9940
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