Porky at the Crocadero

Porky at the Crocadero is a 1938 Looney Tunes short directed by Frank Tashlin.

Plot[]

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.

Caricatures[]

• Leopold Stokowski - mentioned and impersonated by Porky.
• Rudy Vallee - mentioned and impersonated by Porky.
• Benny Goodman - mentioned and impersonated by Porky.
• Marian Jordan - the telegram messenger quotes her character Tini from Fibber McGee and Molly, "I betcha!"
• Paul Whiteman - impersonated by Porky.
• Guy Lombardo - impersonated by Porky as Guy Lumbago.
• Carmen Lombardo - as Cryman Lombago.
• Cab Calloway - impersonated by Porky as Cab Howlaway.

Availability[]

(2007) DVD
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5, Disc 4 (restored)

(2017) DVD
Porky Pig 101, Disc 2 (restored)

Censorship[]

Nickelodeon aired two censored versions of this cartoon, both cutting out the brief part where Porky, as Cab Calloway singing "Chinatown My Chinatown", runs across the stage with stereotypical Chinese facial features:^[3]

• The black and white version that aired when Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon was a Nick at Nite show replaced that shot of Porky with a repeat shot of the patrons on the dance floor during the Guy Lumbago scene.
• When Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon became a daytime show and phased out their black and white cartoons in favor of redrawn and computer-colorized versions of black and white cartoons, that shot of Porky was replaced with a frozen shot of the empty stage as Porky runs off it. Both versions had the audio play as normal.

Notes[]

• In the telegram, a wire company lists Melvin Millar as the president, Volney White as the board president, and Bob Bentley as the first vice president.
  • Western Bunion is a play on the Western Union company.
• Guy Lumbago and His Boiled Kanadians is a play on Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians.
• Cryman Lombago sings on a microphone with the letters "KFWB," a reference to the radio station launched by Warner Bros. in 1925.
• This film was copyrighted on 22 December 1937.^[4]

Gallery[]

Lobby card

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