Release Date:

December 5, 1936

Main Character(s):

Porky Pig

Summary:

Porky Pig is a blacksmith’s assistant and causes two problems, one being a rubber horseshoe, and accidentally burning the horse’s behind with a hot horseshoe.

That’s Not All, Folks:

The cartoon is a parody of the poem of the same name.

This is the first cartoon to use the late 1936 to mid 1937 Looney Tunes theme.

What I Like About This One:

The narrator reciting the poem at the start of the cartoon, but when the Smithy shows his muscles as “strong as iron bands”, his arms are very skinny, so he blows on his thumbs to puff them up.

A literally roaring bellows.

The smithy sticking his tongue out at the narrator after Porky is introduced.

When they need a horse for the cartoon, they bring in a camel by mistake (the narrator mentions that the camel belongs “in our Foreign Legion picture”). They soon correct this error by giving the camel the hook and replacing him with a horse.

Porky’s difficulties in trying to hammer the rubber horseshoe.

Porky accidentally putting the rubber horseshoe on the smithy’s foot, which is then immediately followed by the hilarious sight of the smithy walking around and bouncing every time he puts his foot with the rubber horseshoe down.

The smithy throwing out the rubber horseshoe, but it rebounds off a tree and hits him.

When Porky trips, the hot horseshoe lands on the horse’s behind. He reacts to the pain by racing around town, carrying the Smithy with him.

During the wild ride, they wreck a general store, uproot a bank and unintentionally expose an oblivious robber in the middle of breaking into a safe, and after passing a pointing sign that says, “Here they come!”, it flips around in the other direction now reading, “There they go!”. The Smithy at one point comments, “What a buggy ride!”

The horse rebounds off a wire fence, and everything that just happened occurs again in reverse (although the rebuilt general store is moved out of the way). The Smithy even comments again in reverse (“Ride buggy a what!”)!

In the end, when Porky tells the Smithy exactly how this all happened, he burns the horse’s behind again, sending the Smithy on the same wild ride again!

Where Can I Watch It?

At archive.org!

Carrot Rating:

🥕🥕🥕🥕