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The Blow Out is a 1936 Looney Tunes short directed by Fred Avery.

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The title has a double meaning: a "blow out" is slang for a party and could also suggest a bomb "blowing out" its intended target.

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A criminal bomber is using a time bomb disguised as alarm clocks to destroy places, with a $2,000 reward for the capture of the mastermind. While the citizens tries to track down the bomber, the criminal is in his hideout, planting several explosives inside an alarm clock that will be enough to blow up an entire city.

Porky Pig, craving for an ice cream float, heads to the local diner and tries to get an ice cream float for 5 cents. When Porky realizes that ice cream sodas cost 10 cents a piece, he tries to order a smaller cup for half the price, which fails. He sits on the curb, sulking, while a passerby drops his cane. Porky picks up the cane and hands it to the man, and he is pleasantly surprised when the man gives him a penny for a tip. He excitedly runs around town, picking up dropped items for people and collecting coins from them. Porky eventually finds a nickel on the concrete, but a dog takes it.

As the mad bomber plants the time bomb onto the central of the city, Porky discovers the alarm clock. Not knowing it is a bomb, the porcine runs after the criminal in attempt to hand him back the alarm clock. The bomber runs from the bomb, but Porky follows him throughout the city at every block until the bomber accidentally runs right into the back of a paddy wagon. Porky manages to give back the clock to the criminal in the police car just as it explodes on them. The city rewards Porky the $2,000 for capturing the criminal, which he spends it all on ice cream floats.

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  • This is the first solo Porky Pig short.
  • Author Thomas Pynchon refers to the cartoon involving "Porky Pig and the anarchist" several times in his novels The Crying of Lot 49 (Vintage, 2000, p. 63) and Gravity's Rainbow.
  • The short marks the first use of the premise of a person tracking someone and always waiting for that other person wherever he turns up, which would later be expanded and exaggerated by director Tex Avery in the Bugs Bunny and Cecil Turtle short "Tortoise Beats Hare" (1941) five years later, as well as the Droopy cartoon "Dumb-Hounded" over at rival studio MGM seven years later. This premise would also be exaggerated by Bob Clampett in the Daffy Duck short "Draftee Daffy" (1945), nine years later; coincidentally, Clampett also worked as an animator on this short.
  • While the Mad Bomber is being pursued by Porky, they pass a building with a sign containing the message "LOONEY TUNE TONITE".
  • Vitaphone release number: 7262

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Porky Pig Cartoons
1935 I Haven't Got a HatGold Diggers of '49
1936 Plane DippyAlpine AnticsThe Phantom ShipBoom BoomThe Blow OutWestward WhoaFish TalesShanghaied ShipmatesPorky's PetPorky the Rain-MakerPorky's Poultry PlantPorky's Moving DayMilk and MoneyLittle Beau PorkyThe Village SmithyPorky in the North WoodsBoulevardier from the Bronx
1937 Porky the WrestlerPorky's Road RacePicador PorkyPorky's RomancePorky's Duck HuntPorky and GabbyPorky's BuildingPorky's Super ServicePorky's Badtime StoryPorky's RailroadGet Rich Quick PorkyPorky's GardenRover's RivalThe Case of the Stuttering PigPorky's Double TroublePorky's Hero Agency
1938 Porky's PoppaPorky at the CrocaderoWhat Price PorkyPorky's Phoney ExpressPorky's Five & TenPorky's Hare HuntInjun TroublePorky the FiremanPorky's PartyPorky's Spring PlantingPorky & DaffyWholly SmokePorky in WackylandPorky's Naughty NephewPorky in EgyptThe Daffy DocPorky the Gob
1939 The Lone Stranger and PorkyIt's an Ill WindPorky's Tire TroublePorky's Movie MysteryChicken JittersPorky and TeabiscuitKristopher Kolumbus Jr.Polar PalsScalp TroubleOld GloryPorky's PicnicWise QuacksPorky's HotelJeepers CreepersNaughty NeighborsPied Piper PorkyPorky the Giant KillerThe Film Fan
1940 Porky's Last StandAfrica SqueaksAli-Baba BoundPilgrim PorkySlap Happy PappyPorky's Poor FishYou Ought to Be in PicturesThe Chewin' BruinPorky's Baseball BroadcastPatient PorkyCalling Dr. PorkyPrehistoric PorkyThe Sour PussPorky's Hired HandThe Timid Toreador
1941 Porky's Snooze ReelPorky's Bear FactsPorky's PreviewPorky's AntA Coy DecoyPorky's Prize PonyMeet John DoughboyWe, the Animals - Squeak!The Henpecked DuckNotes to YouRobinson Crusoe Jr.Porky's Midnight MatineePorky's Pooch
1942 Porky's Pastry PiratesWho's Who in the ZooPorky's CafeAny Bonds Today?My Favorite Duck
1943 Confusions of a Nutzy SpyYankee Doodle DaffyPorky Pig's FeatA Corny Concerto
1944 Tom Turk and DaffyTick Tock TuckeredSwooner CroonerDuck Soup to NutsSlightly DaffyBrother Brat
1945 Trap Happy PorkyWagon Heels
1946 Baby BottleneckDaffy DoodlesKitty KorneredThe Great Piggy Bank RobberyMouse Menace
1947 One Meat BrawlLittle Orphan Airedale
1948 Daffy Duck Slept HereNothing but the ToothThe Pest That Came to DinnerRiff Raffy DaffyScaredy Cat
1949 Awful OrphanPorky ChopsPaying the PiperDaffy Duck HuntCurtain RazorOften an OrphanDough for the Do-DoBye, Bye Bluebeard
1950 Boobs in the WoodsThe Scarlet PumpernickelAn Egg ScrambleGolden YeggsThe DuckstersDog Collared
1951 The Wearing of the GrinDrip-Along DaffyThe Prize Pest
1952 Thumb FunCracked QuackFool Coverage
1953 Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
1954 Claws for AlarmMy Little Duckaroo
1955 Jumpin' JupiterDime to Retire
1956 Rocket SquadDeduce, You Say
1957 Boston Quackie
1958 Robin Hood Daffy
1959 China Jones
1961 Daffy's Inn Trouble
1965 Corn on the Cop
1966 Mucho Locos
1980 Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century
1996 Superior Duck
2004 My Generation G...G... Gap
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