Clampett: Porky’s Tire Trouble
My personal favorite of Clampett’s black-and-white cartoons, which got pretty mediocre really fast after this one. The Fleischer influence is clear, what with the rubbery animation and designs of the walrus and Flat Foot Flookey (which may be the greatest name for a dog ever). I think John Carey animated the scene where Flookey morphs his head into all the celebrities. Stalling does a great job utilizing “Mutiny in the Nursery” on the soundtrack. It’s great how Flookey is able to pinch off his parasite with that huge shoe on too.
The hot dog gag is great. It comes completely out of nowhere.
Stalling’s score is really fun. I don’t know if Milt Franklyn was doing his arrangements at this point, but I liked the arrangement of “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby.”
I get the feeling Clampett did this cartoon just to see how he could stretch a character, because there’s no plot, and it just kind of ends.
There is a “plot”(the tire factory),but no story.Clampett was the one who was able to do a funny cartoon without a story.
I remember seeing this one a lot as a kid. I wasn’t very pleased with the angry walrus boss. He seemed like a jerk to me. Flat Foot Flookey was awesome though and the hot dog gag is great!
By this time, the Fleischer non-Popeye shorts had deteriorated into bad Disney knockoffs, so in a way this cartoon is more Fleischer-like than Fleischer’s shorts at the time.
Flat Foot’s design is beautifully wacky and distinctive. That combined with the inspired gags mitigates the protagonist’s-dog-steals-the-cartoon thing that just totally destroyed Betty Boop from the inside out.
I really loved this one. I like how logical it is. There’s so much continuity between gags that most directors would just discard (not that I dislike that either). It plays off like a vaudville routine or something, like this was the real world if you could really rubberise a dog.
And I in general just love how much Clampett loved his medium that he made it little love notes like the whole rubber hose thing and gave so much care to the face morphing animation which also felt a bit different than your run of the mill cartoon treatment.
Fantastic cartoon. The soundtrack was delightful. However, my favorite B&W Clampett cartoon is still “The Daffy Doc”.
About time someone celebrated this short.
It’s not my favorite b/w cartoon by Clampett but it’s among the favorite ones.
Another great one is “Porky’s Naughty Nephew”. Do you like it, Thad?