A neighborhood bully convinces Porky to take a puff from his cigar, causing Porky to hallucinate a smoke-man named Nick O. Teen, along with a musical number done by cigars, cigarettes and pi... Read allA neighborhood bully convinces Porky to take a puff from his cigar, causing Porky to hallucinate a smoke-man named Nick O. Teen, along with a musical number done by cigars, cigarettes and pipes in the likeness of the 3 Stooges, etc.A neighborhood bully convinces Porky to take a puff from his cigar, causing Porky to hallucinate a smoke-man named Nick O. Teen, along with a musical number done by cigars, cigarettes and pipes in the likeness of the 3 Stooges, etc.
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- Cab Calloway
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- Church Choir
- (uncredited)
- Crooners
- (uncredited)
- Nick O'Teen
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaCelebrity likenesses are used for the living cigars and cigarettes: Cab Calloway, Rudy Vallee, Bing Crosby, and The Three Stooges.
- Quotes
Vocalists: [singing with a whisper] You~ shouldn't smoke, you shouldn't smoke... / *harmonizing* It's no fun to smoke just one/ Take six at a stroke/ Fume and fuzz and sizzle... /
British Pipe: Children should not smoke, rather!
Vocalists: Light a fag and tag a drag/
Bossy Cow: This is not a joke/
Fat-Emma: You will squirm and... /
Owl: Hoo-hoo/
Corn Cob Pipe: Little kids shouldn't smoke tobaccy! *spits*
Vocalists: You'll feel ill and see spots and get a tummy ache/ Inhale, exhale, smoke until you start to bake/
Bing Crosby Cigar: So smoke a lot/ you're on the spot/ you may have a stroke/
Rudy Vallée Cigar: Puff and puff and pu~uff/
German Pipe: Little boys should not smoking cigarettes!
Vocalists: Smoke like that and chew some more/ now that we have spoke/ chew and chew and chew-chew/ Little boys should not smoke/
Vocalists: *harmonizing*
Cab Calloway: [after cleaning pipe] Little boys~ shouldn't smoke!/
- Alternate versionsThis cartoon was colorized in 1968 by having every other frame traced over onto a cel. Each redrawn cel was painted in color and then photographed over a colored reproduction of each original background. Needless to say, the animation quality dropped considerably from the original version with this method. The cartoon was colorized again in 1990, this time with a computer adding color to a new print of the original black and white cartoon. This preserved the quality of the original animation.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Atop the Fourth Wall: Spider-Man, Storm, Cage (2009)
- SoundtracksMysterious Mose
(uncredited)
Written by Walter Doyle
Sung with substitute lyrics by various characters, including cartoon parodies of Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee
In this cartoon, Porky is cast as a boy-pig rather than an adult. His mother sends him off to Sunday school with a nickel for the collection plate. On the way, Porky encounters a standard Warner Bros bully: a bowler-hatted Dead End Kid pig-boy. This kid is smoking a cigar, and there's some funny animation (with good music cues) as the cigar smoke takes various shapes. When the punk learns that Porky has a nickel, he bullies Porky into giving it up. Porky feels some peer pressure: to prove he can be tough too, Porky takes a drag on the cigar ... and collapses into a sickening jag in which he is confronted by a smoke-man named Nick O'Teen.
Now comes the brilliant setpiece of this cartoon. To the tune of 'Old Man Mose' (a standby of the Warners music department), Nick O'Teen drags Porky into a nightmare reverie of anti-smoking images. Cigars resembling the Three Stooges poke Porky in the eyes. A squadron of cigarettes start marching in Busby Berkeley manoeuvres, spelling out the words 'NO SMOKING'. There's an extremely well-animated montage sequence, as the nightmare picks up speed. Eventually Porky reclaims his nickel, besting the bully and getting to Sunday school, vowing never again to smoke.
'Wholly Smoke' (made during the Schlesinger unit's black-and-white period) is a visual delight, as well as funny. Even the opening credits are better-looking than usual. There is only one unpleasant (vaguely racist) gag, when Nick O'Teen's face becomes temporarily covered with soot, making him look like a blackface minstrel and prompting him to do an imitation of Cab Calloway. I heartily recommend 'Wholly Smoke' for kids and adults, and I rate it 10 out of 10. All fans of Warners animation should pay more attention to Frank Tashlin and Robert McKimson, and MUCH less attention to the monstrously overrated Schmuck Jones.
- F Gwynplaine MacIntyre
- Aug 13, 2003
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- Humo y más humo
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- Runtime7 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1