Porky's Badtime Story is a Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and was Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series. Since its first official release, 1930's Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the series has become a worldwide media franchise, spawning several television...

 cartoon

Cartoon

A cartoon is a form of two-dimensional illustrated visual art. While the specific definition has changed over time, modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic style of such works...

 starring Porky Pig

Porky Pig

Porky Pig is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators created many critically acclaimed shorts using the fat little pig...

 and Gabby Goat. The cartoon was directed by Robert Clampett.

Plot

Porky and Gabby always show up late to work. Their boss warns them that they will be fired if they continue being late. That night, Porky and Gabby desperately try to get enough rest, but many disturbances were a bother, such as somebody playing outside, and a thunderstorm. When the morning arrives, they rush off to work, only to realize that the office is closed on Sundays. Relieved, the two rush home and head right back to bed.

Remake

Porky's Badtime Story was remade in 1944 as Tick Tock Tuckered

Tick Tock Tuckered

Tick Tock Tuckered is a 1944 Looney Tunes cartoon. A color remake of the cartoon Porky's Badtime Story featuring Porky Pig and Gabby Goat, it was directed by the same director of the previous film: Bob Clampett.-Plot:...

with Daffy Duck

Daffy Duck

Daffy Duck is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons, often running the gamut between being the best friend and sometimes arch-rival of Bugs Bunny...

 replacing Gabby Goat as Porky's sidekick. It was an exact remake, except for the following differences:

• • Tick Tock Tuckered was reissued as a Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodie.
  • Tick Tock Tuckered is a color vs. black and white (although Porky's Badtime Story now airs in color).
  • In Tick Tock Tuckered, while Porky is naked, Daffy puts on two shoes. In Porky's Badtime Story, Gabby only puts on one shoe.
  • In Tick Tock Tuckered, the heroes work for Fly-by-Nite Aircraft Co. In Porky's Badtime Story, the place is called Peter Piper Pickled Peppers.
  • In Porky's Badtime Story, there were decrepit paint jobs. In Tick Tock Tuckered, the paint jobs are new.
  • In Tick Tock Tuckered, Daffy sets the time clock back a few hours, punches in and makes the alarm go off. In Porky's Badtime Story, Gabby tries to gently punch in, but has to get tough.
  • In Tick Tock Tuckered, the boss calls Porky and Daffy "The Dover Boys" before he screams "Now get this! The next time I catch you being late one more time, you're sure to get fired! Now get to work!", in Porky's Badtime Story, the boss calls them "The Rover Boys".
  • In Tick Tock Tuckered, the boss is a human character (a caricature of Clampett's immediate boss, production manager Ray Katz). In Porky's Badtime Story, the boss is a canine character.
  • The fly scene in Porky's Badtime Story is not seen. Instead, the previous scene is extended to where Porky throws the book, "The Falcon", and gets hit with "The Falcon Returns".
  • After Porky's nightshade problem in Tick Tock Tuckered, Daffy solves the problem by shooting the moon. Gabby does not do this in Porky's Badtime Story.
  • In Tick Tock Tuckered, there's an added part where Porky tells Daffy that they don't have to go to work after they see the "CLOSED" sign on the factory door. (Daffy: "Now you tell me!") In Porky's Badtime Story, Porky and Gabby see the sign and race back home without saying a word.
  • At the end of Tick Tock Tuckered, Porky shoots the clock. In Porky's Badtime Story, the clock is hit with a mallet.

Production notes

The working title for this cartoon was It Happened All Night (a pun on the Clark Gable

Clark Gable

William Clark Gable , known as Clark Gable, was an American film actor most famous for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh...

 It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night is a 1934 American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter . The plot was based on the story Night Bus by Samuel...

), but it was changed after the studio censors feared that the title would be too sexually suggestive.