Misplaced Pages

Slap-Happy Pappy

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Maxie the Fox (talk | contribs) at 00:00, 6 December 2020. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Revision as of 00:00, 6 December 2020 by Maxie the Fox (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Slap-Happy Pappy" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
1940 film
Slap-Happy Pappy
Directed byRobert Clampett
Story byWarren Foster
Produced byLeon Schlesinger
StarringMel Blanc
Jack Lescoulie
Cliff Nazarro
Danny Webb
Music byCarl W. Stalling
Animation byIzzy Ellis
Dave Hoffman
Norman McCabe
Vive Risto
Production
company
Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • April 13, 1940 (1940-04-13)
Running time6 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Slap Happy Pappy is a Warner Brothers Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon, starring Porky Pig. It was directed by Bob Clampett, written by Warren Foster, and scored by Carl W. Stalling. Slap Happy Pappy was released on April 13, 1940.

Plot

Porky owns a farm. The cartoon starts with him plowing the fields. But the bulk of the cartoon is about the poultry farm. A sign reads, "Miracle Eggs for sale, if it's a good egg it's a miracle egg". A rabbit impersonating Jack Benny (Jack Bunny) looks at eggs. He is about to smash a black egg, but it breaks and a black bird emerges (doing an impersonation of Rochester).

The scene then cuts to the Eddie Cackler family (based on Eddie Cantor). The family wants a son, but is having no luck. Five eggs hatch and not a single one of them is a boy. A Bing Crosby lookalike happens to be near by holding a stroller that has babies all of which are boys. The father asks him what his secret is, and he croons to a chick who then lays dozen of eggs, all of whom are boys.

Eddie tries the same thing to his wife, and she lays an egg, labeled "JR." (junior). The two are dancing when Eddie asks if the baby could really be a boy. He then says, shrugging, "Mmmm, could be!"

Sources

  1. https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon-story/215-Slap-Happy-Pappy


This Looney Tunes–related article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: