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Line 1: {{~~trope~~work}} [[File:PorkyInWackyland_9660.jpg\|frame\|They call it "[[Looney Tunes]]" ["[Meaningful Name\|for a reason, y'know."]] ]] {{quote\|''"It'' '''CAN''' ''happen... here."''\|Signpost on the border of Wackyland.}} '''''Porky In Wackyland''''' is a [[The Golden Age of Animation\|1938]] [[Looney Tunes]] short, made by director [[Bob Clampett]], has [[Porky Pig]] going off on a quest to [[Darkest Africa]] to find the legendary Do-Do bird, for a cash reward of 4,000,000,000,000 dollars <ref>P.S.: 000,000,000</ref>. Upon arriving, he discovers the Do-Do's homeland: [[Cloudcuckooland\|Wackyland]], an unbelievably insane place where nothing makes sense and ''anything'' can happen. All in all, the short winds up being [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made Onon Drugs?\|one really,]] [[Deranged Animation\|really strange ride]]. The color remake, ''Dough for the Do-Do'', is the version most viewers are familiar with, however, simply because it was a more attractive version to air on television during the 60's and 70's. Line 9: This short holds the place of #8 on ''[[The 50 Greatest Cartoons]]'' list. It also made it as part of ''[[The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes]]'' list. ---- {{tropelist}} ~~=== '''Contains examples of:''' ===~~ * [[An Aesop]]: Yes, there actually is one, but it's very vague -- [[Get- Rich- Quick ~~Schemes~~Scheme]]s never work. * [[Anticlimax]]: In the beginning when it seems like the first monster that Porky encounters is about to attack him it turns out to be a very ''[[My Species Doth Protest Too Much\|prissy]]'' monster and promptly walks off. * [[Butt Monkey]]: Porky Pig's confrontations with the Do-do are very one sided, thanks in part to that the Do-Do is an experienced [[Reality Warper]]. It's not until the end when he disguises himself as a newsboy (or, in "Dough for the Do-Do", a do-do himself) that he is actually able to catch him. * [[Cloudcuckooland]] * [[Darkest Africa]]: It's right after Dark Africa and Darker Africa. * [[A Day Atat the Bizarro]]: This short was one of these for ''animation itself.'' It almost single-handedly established that not every piece of animation had to be a rip-off of Disney's latest short. However, [[Max and Dave Fleischer]] had been producing bizarre animation for some time before this short came out. ''Swing You Sinners'' is probably the only one that matches ''Porky in Wackyland's'' absurdity though. * [[Deranged Animation]]: Quite possibly the [[Trope Codifier]]. * [[Everythings Nuttier With Squirrels]]: The population of Wackyland [[Population X and Counting\|according to a sign]] is "100 nuts and a Squirrel". * [[Extra! Extra! Read All About It!]]: At the beginning. * [[He Went That Way!]]: When Porky asks a ~~goggily~~ googly-eyed resident with a candle on his head where the ~~Dodo~~Do-Do is, he says this and his many arms point in different directions. * [[It Runs Onon Nonsensoleum]]: Pretty much anything that exists within Wackyland. * [[Last of His Kind]]: The Do-Do. Subverted at the end, where dozens of Do-Dos pop out. * [[Not Rare Over There]]: See above. * [[Reality Warper]]: The Do-Do. * [[RThe ~~Emake~~Remake]]: 1949's ''Dough for the Do-Do'' by Friz Freleng, made with most of the original animation included <ref> [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKedQDSvfq8&feature=related Proof]</ref>, but with updated, Daliesque backgrounds, an entirely new soundtrack, and new scenes. * [[Screwy Squirrel]]: The Do-Do. * [[Shout -Out]]: In ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' there was a portal to Wackyland from Acme Acres, and one of the characters was Gogo Do-Do, the son of the Do-Do from ''Porky in Wackyland''. In a blink-and-you-miss-it, one character had a W B on him and blinked at the audience. One of the "monsters" in Wackyland is a three-headed goon ~~who's~~whose heads slap and poke each other while babbling incoherently. [[The Three Stooges\|Guess who they look like?]] {{quote\| '''Tiny creature:''' He says his mother was scared by a pawnbroker's sign!}} * [[Spell My Name ~~With~~with a "The"]]: The Do-Do, apparently. The video game ''Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal'' lists his official name as "Yo-Yo the Do-Do", however. * [[Stock Footage]]: Some of the footage in this cartoon was later recycled for another Bob Clampett short: ''Tin Pan Alley Cat.'' * [[Travel Montage]]: The line on the map variety. * [[Twist Ending]]: There are actually ~~DOZENS~~''dozens'' of Do-dos living in Wackyland. * [[Write What You Know]]: Clampett apparently made the short as a tribute to his favorite newspaper comic strips of the time, no surprise considering that he was a big comic buff. {{50 Greatest Cartoons}} {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Animated Films]] [[Category:National Film Registry]] Line 43 ⟶ 44: [[Category:Films of the 1930s]] [[Category:The Great Depression]] [[Category:~~Porky~~Looney InTunes ~~Wackyland~~in the Thirties]] [[Category:~~Trope~~Western Animation of the 1930s]] [[Category:Short Film]] [[Category:Western Animation]] [[Category:Film]]