{"id":5554,"date":"2026-02-15T18:38:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/?p=5554"},"modified":"2026-02-22T20:12:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T03:12:03","slug":"robinson-crusoe-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wackyland2.com\/?p=5554","title":{"rendered":"Robinson Crusoe Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Waiter, waiter, percolator!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LOONEY TUNES (Looney Toons): PORKY PIG - Robinson Crusoe Jr. (1941) (Remastered) (HD 1080p)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ePfN5KTRb1w?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>Supervision by Norman McCabe; (His first time!) Animation by Veve Risto; Story by Melvin Millar; Musical Direction by Carl W. Stalling. A Looney Tune released on October 25, 1941.<\/p>\n<p>Porky is going sailing! Maybe as part of the U.S. Navy, maybe as a freighter. Or I guess it could be for fun. What isn&#8217;t hard to guess is Porky&#8217;s attitude. He expects smooth sailing. And you know I&#8217;d be joining him if I was alive in the 40&#8217;s. Strangely enough, all the rats on the ship flee before it can sail. Now, rats are dang smart. But pigs are dang smarter. They&#8217;re d*mn smart! Porky believes the rats to be clueless cowards who wouldn&#8217;t know a ship sinking from a sub sandwich. (Porky? Did your arm just phase through the side of the ship?)<\/p>\n<p>Nine weeks in and we&#8217;re still floating! And why shouldn&#8217;t we? This ship comes with a guarantee to be unsinkable. Signed by Thomas Andrews himself! I don&#8217;t care if the signature says &#8220;John Hancock&#8221;. Haven&#8217;t you heard of incredibly unoriginal pen names? D*mn smart as he is, Porky can&#8217;t help but wonder how the vessel would fair in a hurricane. Well, since you want to know so bad&#8230; Porky finds himself washed ashore on an island; the sole survivor of the storm. It&#8217;s just like that one story: &#8220;The Swiss Family Robinson!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, Porky was expected. A little guy named Friday is here to greet and invite him to live together. (No, I&#8217;m not Friday.) The book chapter transitions I haven&#8217;t mentioned have jumped from VI back to III. Because that&#8217;s how numbers worked back then. Friday is pretty much a black stereotype. Rochester voice, unfunnily large lips; I do like his hat and spats. Very dapper. But in the spirit of adaptation, I&#8217;d just like to remind you that Friday wasn&#8217;t black in the original manuscript. If Mickey hadn&#8217;t done something similar six years earlier, I&#8217;d be more depressed.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also got quite the accommodations. Complete with Bedrock style appliances. Turtle washboard; elephant spigots. How does one get just cold water to come out of a mammal? Is it a zombie? They sing too! That song will be stuck in your head all day if you let it. I did. Friday is a man of schedules. Today is Monday is washday is Friday&#8217;s. Porky might as well look about his new home and encounter some gags as he does. Not the funniest ones, but not the absolute worse. Two of whom I must discuss a bit further.<\/p>\n<p>One: Porky finding a parrot and asking why it doesn&#8217;t respond to him. It&#8217;s waiting for the $64.00 question, but it was still presumptuous to assume being a parrot automatically means it can mimic. I&#8217;m an adult, and yet, people don&#8217;t just assume I drink. This picture already had an unfair stereotype. It didn&#8217;t need two! Second: animals gathered at a watering hole. Water cooler, I mean. They flee when they see Porky watching them, leaving a mess of papers. A feline of some sort (couldn&#8217;t be a tiger) returns to tidy up. The trash can reminds one to keep the desert island clean. But does this really qualify as one? Looks lush to me.<\/p>\n<p>Porky comes across human footprints leading into a cave. So the island is more inhabited than he thought. Why isn&#8217;t Friday with these guys anyhow? He a misanthrope? Very noble. Porky enters to&#8230; establish trade? Show them whose boss around here? Eat them? Probably eat them. Pigs can eat humans very efficiently. It&#8217;s how I want my body disposed. Speaking of eating, the natives chase Porky. It isn&#8217;t fair to call them cannibals, seeing as they&#8217;re chasing PORKy. I&#8217;m not in favor of this, but I&#8217;m sick of people thinking cannibalism means eating something only similar to you. (We eat other mammals. So why do people freak out when cartoon fish try to eat each other?)<\/p>\n<p>Porky flees back to camp. (I like him being faster than his footprints. That&#8217;s a decent gag.) Friday is equally scared, and is more than eager to join Porky once he carves a motor boat. Not willing to pass up a food source, the natives throw their spears. Who would&#8217;ve thought they could do that? Porky, still d*mn smart, stops things by putting up a sign on the boat saying their American. Listen, eating someone to survive is one thing. The crap the Nazis were pulling? They may be wild, but these guys aren&#8217;t savages!<\/p>\n<p>Favorite Part: They bothered to only put four toes on the native footprints. They didn&#8217;t need to do that, as most people probably wouldn&#8217;t check to see to see if they were accurate, but they didn&#8217;t insult our intelligence. Almost as if they had a vision of a smart@$$ blogger discussing their work over 80 years later.<\/p>\n<p>Personal Rating: 2. Weak gags and bad stereotypes. Two reasons for a two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Waiter, waiter, percolator!&#8221; Supervision by Norman McCabe; (His first time!) Animation by Veve Risto; Story by Melvin Millar; Musical Direction by Carl W. Stalling. A Looney Tune released on October 25, 1941. Porky is going sailing! Maybe as part of the U.S. Navy, maybe as a freighter. 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