Trap Happy Porky

(1945)

Starring Porky Pig
Hubie and Bertie (prototypes)
Directed by Chuck Jones
Story by Tedd Pierce
Music Carl Stalling

Premise

The mice (who look an awful lot like Hubie and Bertie) in Porky’s kitchen are keeping him awake, and none of his traps are working. He gets help from a cat, whose Rube Goldberg-like trap does get results. (Friz Freleng would replicate this device almost completely in Tweetie Pie.) The drunk rendition of “Moonlight Bay” by the cat and his friends is a Mel Blanc classic.

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