Looney Tunes Database

1939

A Day at the Zoo
This is one of the cartoons that Warner would occasionally produce featuring few or none of its stable of characters. It contains a series of gags, usually based on outrageous stereotypes and plays on words, and topical references, as a narrator (Robert C. Bruce) describes the action. This one is about a "tour" of a zoo (the "Kalama Zoo") where the animals have nonsensical names, display anthropomorphic behavior, illustrate punly gags, or any combination thereof

Bars and Stripes Forever
Shenanigans in (and out of) prison. The prisoners are all anthropomorphic dogs, and they resort to all means possible to attempt a prison breakout. When the dogs in prison make a break for it, the canine cops are on their heels. The prisoners are really in the doghouse with the warden when they attempt to escape from "Alcarazz," where "stone walls do not a prison make... but they sure help!"

Believe It Or Else
The cartoon's plot is a parody of "Ripley's Believe It Or Not!"
This cartoon marks the last appearance of Egghead due to Chuck Jones creating Elmer Fudd, although an unnamed, different prototype Elmer is present in Hare-um Scare-um.

Chicken Jitters
Porky runs a poultry farm. The farm is filled with nothing but chickens. Within that farm is a little duckling that, when we first saw it, was still inside its egg. It came out when it skipped into a tree. After that it took a picture of the audience. Everything is going fine in the farm, until a fox shows up and steals the duckling. Porky tries to get it back but the fox keeps overpowering him. Luckily, the ducks arrive in time. They kill the fox and turn him into a fur coat.

Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur
Casper (a caveman) and Fido (an apatosaurus) go duck hunting and find Daffy

Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur
Casper (a caveman) and Fido (an apatosaurus) go duck hunting and find Daffy.

Dangerous Dan McFoo
Dan is in the rear of the arctic "Malibu Saloon" playing pinball. A villain enters and sees Dan's love interest: "the girl who's known as Sue." A boxing match ensues during which Dan and the stranger have to fight for the dame.

Detouring America
A tour of the United States, with recurring checks on the progress of the human fly climbing the Empire State Building. Also featured are jokes and gags on the Everglades, the Wyoming prairies, Alaska, a California prospector, Sioux Indians and a Jerry Colona-esque (literal) Texas cow-puncher. In the end, the human fly screams for help when the narrator tells him to say a word to the audience

Dog Gone Modern
The two puppies explore an electronic home of the future full of animatronics devices.

Fagin's Freshman
It's the world of cats and dogs. Blackie, a little black kitten (who lost his mittens), dreams that he runs off to join a school for criminals. Tiring of "sissy stuff," he gets his wish when he teams up with Fagin and his school for young crooks. Blackie gets mixed up with some bad cats. There's a shootout with police dogs. The scenario is a perfect excuse for the "Three Little Kittens" song.

Fresh Fish
A tour of the waters near a South Sea island, introducing us to the various kinds of marine life, including the pickled herring, the hermit crab, the starfish, a seahorse race, and many other puns. Among the running gags, a two-headed fish who keeps asking for directions to Mr. Ripley and a professor in a diving sphere looking for a rare wim-wam whistling shark.

Gold Rush Daze
A hound dog drives to the hills to dig for gold. However a gas station hound explains that in 1849 there was a major gold rush in the hills at the first sight of gold and he didn't have any success digging, mining or panning any gold. When a horseman reports a sign of gold, the station hound trades his gas station for the other hound's car and equipment.

Hamateur Night
Showing tonight at a theatre is "Four Daughters with Selected Shorts". Throughout the performance, members of the audience do some miscellaneous gags while Egghead keeps interrupting by singing "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain" and getting dragged offstage

Hare-um Scare-um
When a hunter learns of higher meat prices, he goes off to kill a proto-Bugs rabbit - but runs into constant obstacles

Hare-um Scare-um
When a hunter learns of higher meat prices, he goes off to kill a proto-Bugs rabbit - but runs into constant obstacles

Hobo Gadget Band
At the hobo hotel, it's morning. A train goes by, and the swinging rhythm inspires a makeshift clarinet solo. The cook grabs some fish from the fridge, which opens right onto the river. Another train whistle prompts an announcer; the hobos board down a slide. The clarinet player starts up again, and everyone dances.

It's an Ill Wind
Porky and his friend Dizzy Duck's attempt to go fishing is ruined by a thunderstorm. They find shelter in an old yacht club house that appears to be haunted, but their biggest problems come from a bearskin on a chair, a dog stuck in a diving helmet, but most of all their own clumsiness.

Jeepers Creepers
One late evening at the Podunk City Jail, a report it sent out to the car Porky drives. So he goes to investigate the location. He is warned to be careful, as there may be some ghosts at the house.

Kristopher Kolumbus Jr.
Kristopher Kolumbus plans to discover the new world along with carrying queen Isabella's treasure. Along the way he encounters some Indians and takes them back to Queen Isabella's court. The natives then prepare to preform their dance.

Land of the Midnight Fun
A cruise to Nome, Alaska starts with various cruise ship jokes: the ship pulls out of the harbor like a car, raising anchor also raises the front of the boat, the ship follows the coast by curving around it. On arrival, we see some local scenes: A penguin eats two fish, then is eaten by the third; the dogs of a dog sled stop (behind an iceberg) at a telephone pole; a timber wolf goes around shouting "Timber!" Two Eskimos rub noses: in preparation, the woman applies lipstick to her nose. Finally, an Eskimo nightclub (after all, the nights are six months long) features a rotoscoped ice skater. The ship leaves, and gets caught in the fog near New York; when the fog clears, we see the ship is perched atop the World's Fair Trylon.

Little Brother Rat
On a scavenger hunt, Sniffles has to avoid an owl and a cat to get the owl's egg.

Naughty But Mice
Sniffles the mouse, in his first appearance in a Warner Bros. cartoon, goes to a drugstore and gets drunk on a cold remedy, then befriends an electric razor and gets it drunk as well.

Naughty Neighbors
Petunia and Porky are from two different households at war with each other, decide to declare peace with their families the Martins and the McCoys. It doesn't last land however and soon the two families are seen fighting with each other once more.

Old Glory
The uniquely serious Schlesinger-produced cartoon retells the origins of the United States of America. Porky Pig plays a child forced to learn the Pledge of Allegiance. He becomes quickly bored and falls asleep. In his dream, Uncle Sam comes to life and teaches Porky about history from Colonial America through the American Revolutionary War to the expansion of the American Old West

Pied Piper Porky
Porky Pig stars as the Pied Piper, who thinks he has taken care of all the mice. However, there is one rogue mouse that he is unable to catch. So he tries an old-fashioned mouse trap (a cat) and when the cat tries to fight, the result is the mouse wearing his fur

Polar Pals
Porky lives in an igloo in the Arctic, where he sleeps with a polar bear, bathes in water that freezes up at once, and dances in the ice and snow with the native fauna. A greedy fur trapper named I. Killem arrives and threatens Porky and his friends. Porky responds with firing a musket with explosives. Killem flees into a whale that he mistakes for a kayak.

Porky and Teabiscuit
Porky is sent by his father to drop some feed off to the horse racetrack and get paid eleven dollars for the work. On the way home, he arrives at an auction and ends up accidentally spending the money on a horse named, "Teabiscuit". Teabiscuit turns out to be a sick, broken down horse, but Porky is able to shape him up so he can race, despite this Teabiscuit can not clearly think well. With help from a balloon pop however Porky is able to ensure a victory and get back his money.

Porky the Giant Killer
Porky joins a giant-killing expedition marching out of town. They arrive at the giant's castle, and begin to sneak inside. The giant's voice frightens them and everybody but Porky runs away. Porky accidentally wakes the giant's sleeping baby. Porky then has to put the baby back to sleep and escape.

Porky's Hotel
Porky is running a hotel which is located in the small center of the town. A goat checks in to rest, but gets trouble when a duck won't let him get rest because he keeps hitting a fly with a hammer.

Porky's Movie Mystery
Mr. Motto returns from his vacation to try and catch an evil phantom.

Porky's Movie Mystery
Mr. Motto returns from his vacation to try and catch an evil phantom.

Porky's Picnic
Porky asks Petunia on a picnic. Unfortunately, bratty baby Pinkie tags along. First he separates their sidecar from Porky's scooter, then he torments a squirrel with scissors and Porky with a board, then he sneaks into the animal cages at the zoo. Porky saves him, earning a big kiss from Petunia. Finally, Pinkie sneaks up on a cute little chipmunk with the scissors and the chipmunk gets even.

Porky's Tire Trouble
Porky works at the Snappy Rubber Company. His dog named Flat Foot Flookey, wants to follow him into work, despite the store not allowing dogs. Flookey is also a clumsy dog, so sneaking in will not be easy for him. In the process Porky falls into a vat of rubberizing solution, and gets turned into several then movie stars. Plus Porky's boss (a walrus) drops several tires.

Prest-O Change-O
It marks the second appearance of Bugs Bunny as a white rabbit. Two dogs being hunted by a dog catcher find shelter at Sham-Fu's house and before they can realize this, they are tossed inside. A strange bird in the clock comes in to tell them its midnight and the dogs decide to explore. They are quickly separated when the puppy gets through a door that vanishes!

Robin Hood Makes Good
While playing Robin Hood a group of squirrels are captured by a fox. It's up to the smallest of the bunch and the person who played the villain in the Robin Hood game, to use his genius to rescue his pals.

Scalp Trouble
General Daffy is commanding a fort, but his troops are a sorry lot, the sorriest easily being Porky is impossible to get out of his bed, that is, until Daffy comes in and breaks the bed. Suddenly a tribe of Indians launch an attack on the fort on horseback.

Screwball Football
A series of gags hung on a football game. The running gag of the entire cartoon is a baby that is licking an ice cream cone; the man next to the baby wants to have some of the cone. We see the warmups (a kicker punts sitting in a chair; three other kickers break into a chorus line). The coin flip and the players that pile right up. The kickoff: the ball stays put and the man that has it in his hand is kicked. A re-kick: one player is used like a golf club by another. Some razzle-dazzle on the scrimmage line. The QB fades (literally) for another pass. Half-time: a quick show by the marching band; the team beats up their coach; a cheerleader rallies his team's supporters: one man. Second half: A touchdown run is interrupted because of a commercial; when completed, a cheerleader literally yells their head off. A quick montage of action, then the final gun which comes from the ice-cream tot, who has finally fended off the neighbor.

Sioux Me
An Indian reservation is experiencing the worst drought in a decade. The Indian chief enlists the help of a rain dancer. The chief's son happens upon (and buys) a set of weather pills which can bring rain, ice, lightning, earthquakes and other natural phenomena. Where these pills end up supplies much of the humor.

Sniffles and the Bookworm
Literary characters come to life late at night in a bookshop, serenading Sniffles the mouse with swing music until the Frankenstein monster intrudes.

Sniffles and the Bookworm
Literary characters come to life late at night in a bookshop, serenading Sniffles the mouse with swing music until the Frankenstein monster intrudes.

Snowman's Land
In the northeast of Canada, a small Mountie finds himself going up against the accursed outlaw, Dirty Pierre.

Snowman's Land
In the northeast of Canada, a small Mountie finds himself going up against the accursed outlaw, Dirty Pierre.

The Curious Puppy
While pursuing a little dog who's wandered into an amusement park at night, the park's watchdog accidentally switches on the power to all the rides and attractions, bewildering the pair of canines.

The Film Fan
While on his way to the grocery store to pick up groceries for his mother, Porky stops by a sign that says that the local movie theater is "Having a kids admitted free day". Porky excitedly runs in and views various spoofs of things such as Newsreels, movie trailers, films, and also the Lone Ranger. But when the usher discovered that a boy disobeyed his mother by coming to the movies (namely Porky), everybody dashed out, and the theater deflated because of it.

The Good Egg
A hen with no chicks adopts a leftover turtle egg, which obviously hatches into a turtle. Naturally, the turtle does not fit in nicely with the baby chicks. The turtle becomes the butt of jokes for the chicks, until real danger happens.

The Little Lion Hunter
Little African boy Inki is out hunting in the jungle with his spear, to the music of Felix Mendelssohn's Fingal's Cave Overture, but has some difficulty in capturing any animals. He's also oblivious to the fact that a ferocious lion has selected him as prey and is sneaking up on him.

The Lone Stranger and Porky
The Lone Stranger is sleeping when his faithful, if overly caricatured, Indian scout sees stagecoach driver Porky being robbed by a bad guy. The scout summons the Lone Stranger, who rides to the rescue. The bad guy goes after him (and, briefly, the narrator), but just in the nick of time, the Lone Stranger recovers and conquers the bad guy. Meanwhile, Silver and the villain's horse have been having their own close encounter, and Silver returns with several little colts.

Thugs with Dirty Mugs
Its subject matter (movie gangsters) is a parody of Warner's famous cycle of crime films starring such actors as James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, George Raft, and Edward G. Robinson. The lead character here is in fact a caricature of the last named, and the title derives from the studio's own 1938 acclaimed feature film, Angels with Dirty Faces, which starred the first two. It is directed by Tex Avery, and, similar to his later MGM crime/detective-oriented cartoon, Who Killed Who?, the ostensible plot�in this case, gangster Killer Diller goes on a bank-robbing spree and the police attempt to apprehend him�is secondary to a fast and furious series of gags.

Wise Quacks
Mr. and Mrs. Daffy Duck are having ducklings, which excites Porky. But the eggs don't seem to be hatching. Daffy must save his little duckling from a group of eagles and a strange drinkin problem..