Even if it's a 1940 cartoon set in Mexico, "The Timid Toreador" has nothing to do with "The Three Caballeros", released about at the same time.
"The Timid Toreador" is another story about somebody who gets at the wrong place at the wrong moment. Porky Pig stars as a tamente seller in a Mexican arena, during a bullfight. Unfortunately, he enters while the fighting is still on and he (evidently) comes face to face with the raging bull. The beast is appropriately named Slapsie Maxie Rosenbull, a reference to former heavyweight champion "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom.
This Looney Tunes cartoon isn't groundbreaking, but it's enjoyable and it has very funny moments. I think about the bullfight commentator, perhaps a Jim Lampley precursor. But the funniest moment happens at the beginning when a woman washes her clothes and spanks one of the costumes. But the costumes strikes back by spanking the lady...
I don't think that you'll sing La Cucaracha when you're done with this cartoon. But you couldn't stop the VCR until Porky Pig makes his brief Hardy impersonation and his trademark "That's all folks!"
"The Timid Toreador" is another story about somebody who gets at the wrong place at the wrong moment. Porky Pig stars as a tamente seller in a Mexican arena, during a bullfight. Unfortunately, he enters while the fighting is still on and he (evidently) comes face to face with the raging bull. The beast is appropriately named Slapsie Maxie Rosenbull, a reference to former heavyweight champion "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom.
This Looney Tunes cartoon isn't groundbreaking, but it's enjoyable and it has very funny moments. I think about the bullfight commentator, perhaps a Jim Lampley precursor. But the funniest moment happens at the beginning when a woman washes her clothes and spanks one of the costumes. But the costumes strikes back by spanking the lady...
I don't think that you'll sing La Cucaracha when you're done with this cartoon. But you couldn't stop the VCR until Porky Pig makes his brief Hardy impersonation and his trademark "That's all folks!"