oscaralbert Review of Porky Pig's Feat

Porky Pig's Feat (1943)

America's hotels always have engaged in Looney Tunes math . . .

[8/10 · 16 August 2016]

. . . as Warner Bros. warns unsuspecting honest U.S. citizens and world travelers during PORKY PIG'S FEAT. The Broken Arms Hotel Manager presents Porky and Daffy Duck with an 8-line bill for $152.50 about 46 seconds into this story. Trouble is, the mostly bogus itemized charges actually add up to $172.50. Then the manager waves a second bill in the faces of his victims 5:39 into this animated short. It shows a charge of $500.62 ($25,031, adjusted for inflation) for 11 mostly different items, when the fraudulent sum should total $619.13. Warner is telling viewers to always look a "Gift Trump" in the mouth, since they'll usually find lots of rotten teeth. My Grandpa's saddest story was the time he took his University of Michigan Chess Team to a tournament in Southern Illinois. Reaching the Chicago area on the return trip at about 1 AM, the Skokie Motel 6 claimed they'd lost Gramp's "guaranteed" four-room reservation for the 15-person coed squad. Since the Sixers had two German Shepherd attack dogs in their lobby, Grand Pops couldn't argue about their perfidy. He was forced to pool everyone's remaining personal cash for a quartet of rooms at a swank mob motel on the other side of town called something like "Allgauers." At the next morning's check-out time, the Looney Tunes Allgougers Manager knocked on the window of the U-M Chess Team Van, claiming "complimentary" guest robes that Gramps had just personally inventoried as "the last one out" were "missing." Three days later the U-M Comptroller received a "damage claim" for $2,114.67 (about $34,770, adjusted for inflation) from Alliars. Gramps got fired so that he could not argue on behalf of a trio of U-M chess coeds who were held academically hostage until their dad's ponied up the $2,000-plus ransom demand. If Gramps had seen PORKY PIG'S FEAT prior to that trip, Bobby Fischer might be alive Today.