Review of Polar Pals

Polar Pals (1939)
"Let's rub noses / like the Eskimoses....."
19 January 2011
Warning: Spoilers
"Polar Pals" is a nice Porky Pig cartoon directed by the wacky Bob Clampett. At the North Pole, P-P-P-Porky is prompted to protect his "Polar Pals" from a sinister fur trapper.

Highlights: A penguin doesn't get shot by the trapper but his shadow does, performing a hilarious death scene. The jazzy harmonized number about rubbing noses "like the Eskimoses" is so delightful you just have to hear it for yourselves. Porky sings "Singing in the Bathtub" with a bouncy walk and is hilarious when musically drying his fanny. Celebrating his victory against the trapper at the very end, Porky shouts "Whoopee!", then falls into thin ice.

All of Porky's "Polar Pals" depend on him for p-p-protection, and that is p-p-p-precisely what he gives them. That fur trapper doesn't get too far before he gets his behind beaten very badly!
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