This is another classic Warner Bros cartoon again featuring Foghorn Leghorn along with his nemesis and sometimes on-and-off friend The Barnyard Dawg. This time it involves Foghorn messing with Barnyard Dawg who is patrolling the hen house until a hungry Weasel arrives on the farm and attempts to devour the chubby Rooster. Foghorn tries to convince the sneaky predator into thinking Barnyard Dawg is the fat Chicken but the latter was able to get the better of him so Foghorn ends up getting cooked by The Weasel. As an ambitious comic book artist myself I'm this as inspiration for my fictional more imaginary characters; for example I'm using Foghorn Leghorn as my Rooster character Cluck, Barnyard Dawg as my Barnyard Dog character John and The Weasel character as Wilo the Weasel Bandit as the antagonist🐔🐶
Atsushi having a bad time and thinking he's nothing but a monster. That all he does is bring misfortune onto us.
Everyone at the Agency strongly disagrees with this. And thus make a plan to show show Atsushi that he's not some mindless beast.
So with the Presidents permission, Kenji brings a cow into the office.
And everyone's gushing over said cow but Atsushi is staying back and keeping his space.
He knows it won't happen because of the Presidents ability, but he's terrified he'll accidentally kill the cow.
So he stays by his desk, doing his paperwork and tries to pretend nothings going on.
The cow does not take kindly to this.
Trots over and drags Atsushi out of his chair by his shirt collar, much like cat with a kitten.
Atsushi yells, trying to get free but no one steps in and the cow doesn't stop. It puts him on the ground in the area Kenji set up for em.
Before sitting down, looking at Atsushi expectantly. Atsushi is just at a loss of what to do, Kenji pats his shoulder "I think she wants a hug Atsushi."
Atsushi shakes his head, all too aware of how his hands could become claws.
Kenji sits beside him "Atsushi, do you trust me?" Atsushi nods, without any hesitation and Kenji smiles. "So trust me when I say, that it's okay."
Hesitantly Atsushi wraps his arms around the Cow. Who makes a sound that very much sounds like "finally!" And nuzzling Atsushi's cheek, making him give a surprised laugh.
It was okay.
He didn't hurt them.
At some point, Atsushi fell asleep still curled up beside the cow who had adored and now seemed rather protective over him.
Sleeping peacefully for the first in a long time. Kenji grins because hey it worked.
The Agency got a lot of cute pictures of them both, using it as evidence whenever Atsushi thinks he's nothing but a monster.
Big, Big Day in the history of cartoons I’ve reviewed, and this isn’t all of them. This is just what I could fit in a Tumblr post!
Fiction peaks in 1996,
Dexter’s sister becomes his mother in 1998, on today’s instalment of “Please Don’t Think Too Hard About It”,
Eustace and Muriel get thrust into the most evil place they’ve ever been, Hollywood, in 2000,
and Fry gets taken over by futuristic parasites in 2001.
2005 gives us 2 season premieres, one where Bloo throws a house party that gets a little out of hand, and another where the American Dragon takes flight.
Then 2006 gives us the Kids Next Door preparing to eat cereal out of the Grand Canyon, then Ben and Gwen fighting old people.
More recently, we’ve seen Otis interact with Buddhists in 2009, and not seem out of place,
and Orbot take over from Eggman in 2017. But come on, Rocko has to be the winner today.
So in “Back in Action”, it is claimed that if Porky dropped his stutter, he would be rendered unfunny. Do you think this is true?
i think there’s a big misconception that Porky’s stutter pulls more weight than it actually does. it can absolutely add its own humor and certainly a lot of charm, but i wholeheartedly disagree that he needs it to be funny
the stutter can be an avenue for a lot of fun or charming gags (the ever reliable bait and eh-sweh-swee-eh-swetch-swi—beh-bai-eh-bait and eh-seh-sweh—the ever reliable switcheroo is always a favorite, but the rare occasions where it’s actually acknowledged by Porky himself make for some fun situations too), but Porky’s personality is i think wholly independent from his speech patterns and many of his best cartoons aren’t because he has a stutter and nothing else. it can help with charisma for sure, and i definitely think it would be an odd if he didn’t have it, but… it’s like a topper for what’s already there. stutter or no stutter, he’s a bumbling, oblivious but endearing innocent. the stutter i think helps to convey all that, but is like a compliment to an already founded ensemble
outside of the bait-n-switch wordplay (which can be genius in its own right but IS often used as a crutch by directors when they’re having trouble finding inspiration for him), it’s rare that Porky or other characters really comment on the stutter. likewise, very rarely is it made fun of, and if it is it’s usually by characters who are purposefully supposed to be conveyed as assholes in the moment. which, y’know, is good! it’s not something that’s often noted by other characters and i think that does help in showing that he’s more than just a guy who stutters and doesn’t really single him out.
and you have clips like this for example—i didn’t notice anything odd about it until i noticed there wasn’t a stutter, and even then the personality is still all there in the voice (and mannerisms.) likewise, there’s quite a bit of his dialogue that he goes through without stuttering because having him stutter on every single sentence ever WOULD be excessive. it’s definitely an art, all of the varying directors have different variations of his stutter and as i said before, sometimes you CAN tell when the directors are struggling with inspiration because that’s when the switcheroos come out in close concentration; i don’t think it’s Porky being an unfunny character so much as it is the occasional lack of inspiration. the personality is VERY much there, but sometimes it can be hard to find depending on the circumstances. i have a hard time pinning that as a problem exclusive to Porky
i guess it depends who you ask. i am a Porky nut and often make a point to try and get people to come to The Pork Side because i feel he’s very underrepresented and a very FUNNY character at that! so i’m a bit biased—some other people may think he IS only funny because of the stutter. i personally think that’s very false and puts a lot of faith on the stutter when (at least in the originals) it’s not something given a lot of importance from the characters themselves. i can only really think of one cartoon where the stutter is central to the plot (two if you count the days with his original voice actor, whose stutter was natural)—it would certainly be odd without it, and i can see how it adds a lot of charm and some personality, but people who say he’s ONLY funny because of the stutter are usually people who don’t know how to write him to begin with