. . . born loser, looking a gift dog in the mouth and not seeing the forest for the teeth as Warner Bros.' animated short THE AWFUL ORPHAN Unspools. Sometimes a person might have a legitimate reason to kill the goose laying golden eggs. Gold is pretty heavy, and goose eggs are fairly large, so if this potentially lucrative goose nest is perched five or ten feet above the only place you or your child can rest their head, offing the dangerous fowl might be more of a case of self-defense than one of poor financial planning. On the other hand, when a talking dog falls into your lap, especially a canine fluent in English, you'd be nuts to shoo him away, right? But that's exactly what Porky Pig does, since Porky lacks any sense of showmanship. Even when this gifted mutt proves himself to be in possession of genii-like qualities, such as conjuring a stack of 650 bed mattresses outside Porky's high-rise window or making a round trip from America to Siberia in less than 10 seconds, Porky tries to reject his Good Fortune. Despite his would-be pet's talent as a song-and-dance dog, Porky just can't wait to get back to his boring bachelor solitude. It all makes you think that if pigs could fly, they'd flock to bookkeeping school.
Review of Awful Orphan
