The Blow Out
| The Blow Out | |
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| Looney Tunes (Porky Pig) series | |
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| Directed by | Tex Avery |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Voices by |
Joe Dougherty Sara Berner Lucille LaVerne |
| Music by |
Bernard Brown Norman Spencer |
| Animation by |
Charles Jones Sid Sutherland Robert Clampett (uncredited) |
| Studio | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributed by |
Warner Bros. The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date(s) | April 4, 1936 (USA) |
| Color process | Black & White |
| Running time | 7:30 |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | The Fire Alarm |
| Followed by | Westward Whoa |
The Blow Out is a 1936 Looney Tunes animated short film starring Porky Pig. It was directed by Tex Avery.
As the cartoon opens, a hooded figure appears at the doorway of a building and leaves behind an alarm clock that suddenly starts smoking. At the next second, the clock explodes and blows the building to smithereens. Afterwards, newspaper headlines explain that the figure, known as the Mad Bomber, has been terrorizing the entire city by placing time bombs at different buildings to blow them up. As a result, the police are making every effort to search the city and offer a cash reward of $2000 to anybody who can capture the fiend.
In the Mad Bomber's hideout, the Mad Bomber is seen making his next time bomb. He does this by taking apart an alarm clock, stuffing it full of various explosives (dynamite, a black bomb, skyrockets, and firecrackers), and puts the alarm clock back together, to make a bomb that is capable of, as he puts it, "blowing up an entire city." After completing his bomb, the Mad Bomber looks at a map of the city, where x's mark the buildings he's already blown up, and draws an x to mark his next target, the Blotz Building. Then he dons a black hat and cloak and makes his way out of the hideout.
Elsewhere in the city, Porky Pig is staring into the window of an Ice Cream Parlor where they sell ice cream sodas for 10 cents. After watching a customer buy and drink an ice cream soda, Porky checks his money and decides the five pennies he has are enough for the soda. Porky comes up to the manager and asks for an ice cream soda, but the manager points out that Porky has only half the amount of money for the soda. Porky starts to leave, feeling disappointed, but suddenly gets the idea that half a soda would be worth half the price. He zips back and requests half of a soda, but the manager still tells Porky that he needs five more pennies for the soda.
Porky leaves the parlor disappointed and sits down at the curb, wondering how to get five more pennies. As Porky does this, a rich gentleman walks by and drops his cane. Porky notices this and hands back the cane, to which the gentleman thanks Porky by giving him a penny. Overjoyed at being rewarded with a penny, Porky dances a jig and tosses the penny into his pocket, as this has solved his problem. With that, Porky retrieves a glove for a fancy dressed lady (just before the lady picks it up herself) and a handkerchief for Mrs. Cudd (after seeing it all the way from a corner down the street), each time being rewarded with a penny and dancing a jig before putting them into his pocket.
During the quest, Porky spies a nickel on the pavement and decides it could save him the trouble of earning another two pennies. Before Porky can pick it up, a Scotty Dog zips down all the way from a corner and picks up the nickel. Whether the Scotty Dog lost the nickel or the nickel was a rare one is never revealed, but the Scotty Dog doesn't thank Porky for finding it nor reward him with a penny. Porky just remains undaunted and continues on his quest to retrieve lost items.
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