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Boobs in the Woods

1948

Summary: Porky is trying to enjoy the great outdoors. Daffy is trying not to let him.

Director: Robert McKimson

Writer: Warren Foster

Featuring: Daffy Duck; Porky Pig.

Onreel

0:19 Sound cue under titles: "There's Music in the Land."

0:35 This is not the first time Daffy has sung about himself to "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down." See Daffy Duck and Egghead.

2:28 Sound cue for the old man of the mountains: "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain."

2:43 Sound cue: "A-Hunting We Will Go."

3:05 Sound cue: IMDb says "Indian Dawn" is used somewhere in this cartoon, in which case it is surely in this scene.

3:08 "Don't kill-um Captain John Smith! Me, Pocahontas, love-um!" There's no evidence that the real Pocahontas had any sort of romance with John Smith, but mythology will have its way with the truth, especially when Daffy is in charge.

3:13 "Captain John Smith marry-um Pocahontas; raise-um little Poca [poker] chips!" It will not surprise you to know that this whole sequence has been cut on various airings of this cartoon by the squeamishly correct.

3:14 Again there is a sound cue I don't know listed on IMDb: "Put 'em in a Box, Tie 'em with a Ribbon, and Throw 'em in the Deep Blue Sea." This would be the logical place for that cue, and the rhythm is right.

5:09 Sound cue in the baseball sequence: "Freddy the Freshman." Daffy repeatedly calls Porky "DiMaggio."

5:56 "Must be the points." Cars generally don't have points anymore. Nor do they nowadays have manual chokes (which help a car start in cold weather by lowering the amount of air in the fuel-air mixture).

6:17 Daffy, having been "choked" into activity, is turning the car's crankshaft with his feet, with the spark plugs attached to his head. I believe the sound cue here - although it's hard to tell at first, it's clearer when we cut back to Porky after the license - is "In My Merry Oldsmobile." "When we get to California, I'll have his valves ground."

Offreel

The title of this cartoon is a reference to the old folktale "Babes in the Woods" (and its many derivatives, including a 1932 Disney cartoon).

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