The Blow Out

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The Blow Out
Title Card
Directed byTex Avery
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
Animation byCharles Jones
Sid Sutherland
Color processBlack & White
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Running time
7:30

The Blow Out is a 1936 Looney Tunes animated short film starring Porky Pig. It was directed by Tex Avery.

Plot

While a mad bomber is terrorizing the city, Porky Pig (depicted here as a child character) is searching for money in order to buy an ice cream soda. He earns a few cents retrieving lost items for people (such as a cane for an old man and a purse for a society matron) and stumbles upon the bomber's lost bomb. The bomber tries to get away, but ends up getting defeated by Porky's relentless pursuit in trying to give the bomb back. Porky is given a cash reward and treats himself to an ice cream soda feast.

Outside references

Thomas Pynchon refers to the cartoon involving "Porky Pig and the anarchist" several times in his novels The Crying of Lot 49 (Vintage, 2000, p63) and Gravity's Rainbow.[citation needed]

Notes

This is the first solo Porky Pig cartoon.

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