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[[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
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.
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* [[An Aesop]]: Yes, there actually is one, but it's very vague -- [[Get
* [[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
* [[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
* [[It Runs
* [[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.
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* [[Screwy Squirrel]]: The Do-Do.
* [[Shout
** 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
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* [[Spell My Name
* [[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
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