The Blow Out

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The Blow Out Looney Tunes series
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Directed by	Tex Avery
Produced by	Leon Schlesinger
Voices by	Joe Dougherty Billy Bletcher Mel Blanc
Music by	Bernard Brown
Animation by	Chuck Jones Sid Sutherland
Release date(s)	1936 (USA)
Color process	Black & White
Running time	7 min, 30 sec
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The Blow Out is a 1936 Looney Tunes animated short film starring Porky Pig. It was directed by Tex Avery.

1 Plot
2 Outside references
3 Censorship
4 External links

[edit] Plot

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.

[edit] Outside references

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.

[edit] Censorship

When this cartoon aired on Nickelodeon, the part where the bomber closes the manhole to lock Porky inside (who has the bomb, thinking the bomber dropped it) and says, "Now I'll fix the little pest so he'll be blown to pieces whether you people like it or not," was cut.^{[citation needed]}