{"id":4422,"date":"2024-01-21T20:16:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T03:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/?p=4422"},"modified":"2026-03-19T14:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:31:33","slug":"curtain-razor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/?p=4422","title":{"rendered":"Curtain Razor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;I killed them in Cu-&#8230; camonga.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Curtain Razor (1949)\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e_rjYkk6vy0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Directed by I. Freleng; Story by Tedd Pierce; Animation by Manuel Perez, Ken Chapin, Virgil Ross, and Pete Burness; Layouts by Hawley Pratt; Backgrounds by Paul Julian; Voice Characterization by Mel Blanc; Musical Direction by Carl W. Stalling. A Looney Tune released on May 21, 1949.<\/p>\n<p>Hope you enjoyed the green rings in the opening because they&#8217;re gonna be the iconic orange from here on out!<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s role Porky finds himself in is a talent scout at the Goode and Korny talent agency. It really is one of the world&#8217;s more entertaining jobs. You get to see the beginning of the greats, total failures embarrass themselves, and best of all: send the worst down a trapdoor. The operatic grasshopper that was singing over the opening titles wasn&#8217;t too shabby! Can any other acts top that?<\/p>\n<p>We aren&#8217;t off to a promising start. Clara Cluck&#8217;s sister, Sara, instead of trying to develop a talent on her own, tries to copy her sibling&#8217;s opera shtick, seeing as how said sibling has been retired by now. Here&#8217;s a tip Sara: close your eyes when you do that. Makes you look more operatic and less &#8220;I&#8217;m being goosed by a poltergeist.&#8221;. She\u00a0 stops her performance short upon laying an egg during the performance. Literal or figurative, that&#8217;s earned you a trap door ride. (Her egg hatches before it follows her, revealing Tweety&#8217;s stepbrother, Tweeter.)<\/p>\n<p>A fox enters the room boasting about what a sensational act he&#8217;s got. Porky is willing to see it, but the fox totally cut the line. He&#8217;ll have to wait his turn. Next up for real is Cecil Turtle&#8217;s nephew, Sessile. He&#8217;s this universe&#8217;s Mel as he claims to have 1,000 different voices. (Of which, I can make out Bugs, Foghorn, Durante, and Rochester.) Despite his claim, Porky only counted 999. The poor reptile leaves, hoping he&#8217;ll remember the last one. (Isn&#8217;t it your normal speaking voice? Sessile, get back here! You need to be discovered!)<\/p>\n<p>Next up, a parrot named Bingo, (who you can also see in Arthur Davis&#8217;s &#8220;Catch as Cats Can&#8221;) a chicken named Frankie, and a duck named Al, collectively known as the Three Cavalheiros! They sing just like their namesakes and I think they&#8217;re rather swell. Porky thanks them as they leave, but confines to us that that kind of stuff is only going to appeal to the bobbysoxer crowd. (Porky, pal, I can see your socks. Don&#8217;t be ashamed of what you like.)<\/p>\n<p>And now a man with two heads enters. Porky is sure this act is going to be awesome, but the man angrily states that he is only the janitor. I figured two heads meant there was two of you. I guess me and Porky are both guilty of facial profiling. That poor guy! He&#8217;s just like every tall person who has to tirelessly tell everyone that no, he <em>doesn&#8217;t <\/em>play basketball. When will we learn as a society that we need to <em>ask<\/em> what other people are into. Oh, and the fox still tries to jump the queue.<\/p>\n<p>After a couple more acts, including a regular old human using the same pigeon act Daffy tried in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/blog-1\/2012\/12\/26\/2012-12-26-show-biz-bugs-html\/\">Show Biz Bugs<\/a>&#8220;, Porky finally gets tired of the pushy fox, and sends him down the trapdoor. Just in time for a dog to enter. He&#8217;s not a dog act. He&#8217;s merely the transportation. (Porky? What did we just learn from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/blog-1\/2012\/08\/21\/2012-8-21-the-great-piggy-bank-robbery-html\/\">Double Header<\/a>&#8216;s son?) The dog&#8217;s got a flea circus act! And by that, I mean the fleas build a circus. (And judging by the musical accompaniment, they commissioned the\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/blog-1\/2022\/06\/19\/tin-pan-alley-cats\/\">Rubber Band<\/a> to join.)<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <em>finally, <\/em>it&#8217;s that foxes turn to perform. This better be nothing we&#8217;ve ever seen before, considering how much hype he gave it. The act in question? Ingesting several flammable substances, before swallowing a lit match while dressed as a devil. &#8230; Well, I suppose back in 1949, people wouldn&#8217;t have yet seen this ending in a different cartoon by Freleng&#8217;s unit. I&#8217;ll give it to him.<\/p>\n<p>Favorite Part: The scowl Porky gives after Sara&#8217;s performance. He&#8217;s all &#8220;B*tch, don&#8217;t you be having no babies on my floors. I just got these carpets cleaned!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Personal Rating: 3. It&#8217;s a shame the aforementioned &#8220;S.B.B.&#8221; did this sorta idea better, mainly by having established characters with an established rivalry front and center. If you were watching this short before 1957, then it was a 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I killed them in Cu-&#8230; camonga.&#8221; Directed by I. Freleng; Story by Tedd Pierce; Animation by Manuel Perez, Ken Chapin, Virgil Ross, and Pete Burness; Layouts by Hawley Pratt; Backgrounds by Paul Julian; Voice Characterization by Mel Blanc; Musical Direction by Carl W. Stalling. A Looney Tune released on May 21, 1949. 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