Release Date:

July 16, 1938

Main Character(s):

Porky Pig

Summary:

Porky Pig and his dog, Streamline, plant a garden that gets raided by a flock of hungry chickens.

That’s Not All, Folks:

The cartoon is similar to “Porky’s Garden” in that Porky has to defend his garden from chickens.

This is the only cartoon where Rod Scribner animates a scene for Tashlin. He animated the scene where Porky reacts when he first sees the chickens in his garden.

What I Like About This One:

A tree stump moving out of the way of Porky’s plough.

Porky pushing a button on his hat that acts as a windshield wiper for his sweat (of course, in real life, pigs don’t have sweat glands).

Streamline having a safe for his bones (having categories for T bones, beef bones, marrow bones, and chicken bones).

Anything Streamline says in his head.

Porky rolling up a patch of grass like a carpet, sprinkling flower seed underneath it, and using a plunger to make flowers grow.

Streamline planting seeds by digging holes with his tail and having the seeds slide down his body into the holes.

Streamline cooling his behind in a washtub when he finishes planting. When Porky tells him they’re all done now, he takes the tub with him as it has wheels attached to it.

When a chicken puts the menu for Porky’s garden on the fence, it is hung up with a Schlesinger branded nail (an obvious reference to Leon Schlesinger).

Another chicken struggling to remove an ear of corn and finally doing so with a corkscrew.

Porky starts shooing the chickens away when a group of them are in the middle of eating celery. They go in reverse, causing the celery to grow back.

When Porky tries to swat at a tsking chicken, another tsking chicken keeps appearing. They all hit Porky with their own brooms, and continue tsking.

A chicken commenting on Porky’s makeshift scarecrow (“Nice material”).

In the end, Porky tries to make a deal with the chickens by offering to plant a separate garden just for them and questions them on what vegetable they want. When he questions corn, they reply “Oh, yeaaaahhhhh”.

Where Can I Watch It?

At supercartoons.net!

Carrot Rating:

🥕🥕🥕 ½