| The Blow Out | |
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| Looney Tunes series | |
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| Directed by | Tex Avery |
| Produced by | Leon Schlesinger |
| Voices by | Joe Dougherty Sara Berner Lucille LaVerne |
| Music by | Bernard Brown |
| Animation by | Chuck Jones Sid Sutherland |
| Release date(s) | April 24, 1936 (USA) |
| Color process | Black & White |
| Running time | 7 min, 30 sec |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | The Fire Alarm |
| Followed by | Westward Whoa |
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) is searching for money in order 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 treats himself to an ice cream soda feast.
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.