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Judging by the title, you wouldn't think this is a WB cartoon. But of course, after seeing the great Daffy gags ("I'm the old man of the mountains!") and Porky's licenses (like a license to sell hair tonic to bald eagles in Omaha, Nebraska) you'll think differently. My favorite gag is when Daffy asks Porky if he has a marriage license, Porky says no, and then Daffy replies "Well, whaddya say you and me go steady?" Daffy's singing at the beginning of this cartoon is great too, singing on how it gives him a pain when people think he's nutsy. Every gag is great, and this is my favorite Daffy and Porky cartoon (my second favorite is Corn On The Cop) and I recommend this to any Daffy and Porky fan.

Directed by Robert McKimson, "Boobs in the Woods" is a highly energetic Porky/Daffy cartoon. All Porky wishes for is some peace and quiet while he paints a beautiful landscape, but with Daffy around to constantly aggravate him, he just can't win. Fortunately, the kind, lovable Porky musters enough strength to get revenge on Daffy at the end of the picture.

Highlights: At the film's opening, Daffy sings quite a wacky introductory song that has remnants of earlier, and even wackier, cartoons, with such lines as "Please pass the ketchup, / I think it's going to rain." Daffy's Pocahontas disguise is made funnier with his little-girl voice, complete with his trademark spitting. And Daffy tricks Porky into believing himself to be the baseball legend Joe DiMaggio, so Daffy cheers enthusiastically while Porky makes a slide into a mud puddle.

"Boobs in the Woods" is a cartoon I highly recommend for all fans of Porky and Daffy. If you love brisk, lively cartoons with plenty of gags, then this cartoon is for you.

. . . to Porky Pig during the course of BOOBS IN THE WOODS. Porky has the final say: "When we get to California, I'll have his valves ground," referring to the possible vasectomy to be performed on his serial harasser, Daffy. So what's a parent to make of BOOBS IN THE WOODS (and are there any animated Ta-Ta's flopping around in the forest here?)? The answer to the latter question is, "No," though Daffy takes an early flop into a pond, and Porky later belly-flops down on a mud patch (not unlike a pig sty). Regarding the first question, parents can rest easy that Porky explicitly tells Daffy that his--Porky's--marital status is single, so there's no BIG LOVE or Bigamy on the horizon in BOOBS IN THE WOODS. There's also no suggestion during BOOBS that EITHER Porky OR Daffy have EVER had even a passing interest in females, which rules out the specter of Bisexuality, as well. There is a hint of Racism, however, as Daffy proposes playing "Pocahantas" to Porky's "John Smith" and raising a crop of "Poka-Chips" between the two of them. I'm not sure how this would work biologically, but either Daffy is foreseeing the glut of Tribal casinos which have spread across the Face of America in recent decades, or--as his subsequent "War Dance" seems to indicate--he's not entirely Politically Correct.

. . . the Walt Disney Corporation. With its Looney Tunes\Merrie Melodies franchise of animated shorts, Warner always was uncannily prescient in predicting future ills fated to befall America in the near or more distant future. The focus of Warner's BOOBS IN THE WOODS warning was an attempt--which turned out to be futile--to warn of Disney's coming assault on Artistic Freedom world-wide. BOOBS IN THE WOODS begins with innocent artist Porky Pig settling in to paint the pond is which Daffy is paddling. Just like Disney Siccing a team of modern mercenary lawyers upon an unsuspecting Pre-school for letting a gifted student decorate its walls with a fresco of Steamboat Willie and other "Disney" characters who would have passed into the Public Domain decades ago had not Disney bribed the U.S. Congress to extend American (and, collaterally, World) copyrights for several millennium into the Future, Daffy "forbids" Porky to paint "his" pond. "You can paint the mountain over yonder," Daffy allows. "I don't own the mountain." However, in the next few frames this devious Disney-stand-in duck dresses up like The Old Mountain Man, and prohibits Porky from painting the peaks, as well. This follow-up reflects Warner's insight that you cannot bottle up Steamboat Willie without also imprisoning THE GREAT GATSBY, THE WOMAN IN GOLD, and all other art of the 1920s and later. Warner is saying "Shame!" on Disney for its plots against America and the rest of the world. I say "Shame on us" for ignoring Warner's warning, and letting us sink into the pit of lock-step compliance with Disney's Fascist fiats!

. . . the innocent Children of America. Even Today the title of this outrage cannot be aired on legitimate channels or streaming services, let alone its vile content, which was out-of-step with American back then, as it is now. The past 72 years have seen a focused approach on the part of normal people to right the sinking American ship of state. Shortly after this travesty first aired in local movie theaters, Righteous Congress People corrected the Founding Fathers' oversight, and added the key phrase "Under God" to the USA's Allegiance Oath, as well as requiring all kids taking public school classes on the taxpayer's dime to renew their subservience to the Almighty with their peers on a daily basis. Now that a sixth Papal delegate has finally been voted onto the U.S. Supreme Court, filth such as this brief cartoon will get the reception it richly deserves at long last. If anyone tries to screen something so packed with devious innuendos for impressionable young kids, crowds will assemble at the scene of this crime to chant "Lock them up!"--and then administer vigilante justice, safe in the knowledge that the Supreme Tribunal is backing them up 2000 per cent!

Here we have a classic Daffy/Porky pairing; this was the 31st cartoon Robert McKimson directed. One joke contemporary audiences miss right off the bat is the retro-cool vintage teardrop trailer Porky is traveling with was also called a "canned ham" because of its shape…and Porky is a pig…get it? It's also interesting that while Loony Tunes are famous for their Salvador Dali tributes (not just for PORKY IN WACKYLAND/DOUGH FOR THE DO-DO, but also many of the desert scenes in early Roadrunner cartoons) here René Magritte is referenced in the landscape painting Porky does, where the painting represents exactly the portion of the landscape covered by the painting. This was a common theme in Magritte's paintings (referenced extensively in Douglas Hofstadter's 1979 book GODEL, ESCHER. BACH: THE ETERNAL GOLDEN BRAID) and can be seen in "Les Promenades d'Euclide" and his two paintings entitled "La condition humaine," to name a few. Another joke contemporary audiences don't get is Mel Blanc's virtuosity in sounding like old car motors; he came to fame on radio doing voices and, most importantly, making the sounds of Jack Benny's Maxwell, which he is referencing at the end of this cartoon. The closing scene has been cut when broadcast where Daffy is "choked" over and over while pretending to be the engine, and the "Pocahontas" scene with war woops are also often cut.