The Blow Out

The Blow Out is a 1936 Looney Tunes animated short film starring Porky Pig. It was directed by Tex Avery. While a mad bomber is terrorizing the city, Porky Pig (depicted here as a child character) needs money to buy an ice cream soda. He earns a few cents retrieving lost items for people (such as a cane for an old man and a purse for a society matron) and stumbles upon the bomber's lost bomb. The bomber tries to get away, but ends up getting defe... more

The Blow Out is a 1936 Looney Tunes animated short film starring Porky Pig. It was directed by Tex Avery. While a mad bomber is terrorizing the city, Porky Pig (depicted here as a child character) needs money to buy an ice cream soda. He earns a few cents retrieving lost items for people (such as a cane for an old man and a purse for a society matron) and stumbles upon the bomber's lost bomb. The bomber tries to get away, but ends up getting defeated by Porky's relentless pursuit in trying to give the bomb back. Porky is given a cash reward and spends it all on ice cream sodas. Thomas Pynchon refers to the cartoon involving "Porky Pig and the anarchist" several times in his novels The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow. less