Patient Porky is a Warner Brothers Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon, starring Porky Pig. It was directed by Bob Clampett, written by Warren Foster, and scored by Carl W. Stalling. Patient Porky was released on August 24, 1940. The cartoon features the Bugs Bunny prototype (AKA Bugs' Bunny), who has a mere cameo.
A title card at the beginning claims that the cartoon is adapted from a book called The Pains Came, but this is merely a joke, a pun off the novel and film The Rains Came.
The cartoon begins with a tour of a hospital where we see many patients resting in their beds. Porky soon checks in with a stomach ache, caused by overeating at his birthday party. Instead of a real doctor, he encounters a crazy cat patient who introduces himself as "Dr. Chilled-Air" (a reference to Dr. Kildare). After Porky tells him what's wrong with him, the cat decides to take an X-ray of Porky's stomach. Inside we see a birthday cake with one big piece missing. The cat then sympathetically escorts Porky over to a bed where he throws him into it and he bounces up off of the bed, his jacket comes off and the gown goes on. The cat then brags to the other patients, "Look fellas! I got a patient! I got a patient!" The cat then grabs the bed and pushes it really hard so they are speeding through the hospital where he sings "I've got a terrific urgin' to be a famous surgeon so I'm going to start out to carve my new career." He rushes Porky into Surgery where we see him sharpening knives and cleaning a saw with a rag. The cat then walks up to Porky who is lying in bed unsure of what the cat's plans are, takes the covers down and lifts his gown to operate. Porky sees what the cat is up to and yells, "Hey! W-W-What's the big idea?" He tries to escape the cat by slipping through the covers then running down the hall. He runs out of the hospital and back to his house where the cat is hot on his trail. Porky runs into his bedroom and slams the door and the cat follows him where he finds Porky lying in bed. Thinking he has the upper hand, the cat tries to operate on him again where he then sees a sticker pasted on Porky's stomach that reads "Do Not Open till Xmas." The cat confused looks at the camera and says "Christmas?", then jumps in bed next to Porky and states "I'll wait" much to Porky's horror.
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