Porky's Poor Fish

Having watched The Sea Hawk recently, I noticed that among the extras on it is a Porky Pig short that I hadn't heard of before, Porky's Poor Fish.

There's not much to this short, or at least not much Porky Pig. The movie starts off with with a bad pun about being an adaptation of "Twenty Thousand Leaks Under the Ceiling", and then a cat chasing a mouse. (This short was released about two months after the first Tom and Jerry short; I don't know if those influenced it.) The mouse escapes.

Cut to Porky's fish pet shop, a shop selling nothing but fish and being so empty that I wonder how Porky could make a living. He goes out to lunch, and the cat that had been chasing the fish sees he's got a chance for a lunch of his own. When one of the fish is caught, the other fish gang up on the cat.

As I said, there's not much of a plot here. The emphasis is more on bad word-play, and some sight gags, of which the best was a curtain rising partially to show what looks like a chours line. Eventually, it's raised all the way to reveal... an octopus! All the others are things you can see coming a mile away. The short, as you can also see from the screenshot, is in black and white, which surprised me as I thought all of Warner's cartoons were in color by this point.

Porky's Poor Fish isn't particularly good, but of course if you're getting the DVD you're getting it for the feature film The Sea Hawk and not this short.