An Egg Scramble (1950)

Director:

Robert McKimson

Writer:

Warren Foster (story)

Release Date:

27 May 1950 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Animation | Short | Comedy

Plot:

On Porky Pig's farm, Miss Prissy, a slow-witted hen, has never laid an egg. So, one of her fellow hens...

Plot Keywords:

Prissy | Egg | Hen | Porky Pig | Pig

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Mel Blanc

...

Porky Pig / Pretty Boy Bagel (voice)

Runtime:

7 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Quotes:

Porky Pig, Pretty Boy Bagel: Are you t-t-telling me that you WON'T give me the egg?
Prissy, Hens, Housewife: Yeeeeeeeeees!
Prissy, Hens, Housewife: Just take it already. It's not even her egg!
[Prissy walks away crying. Drops egg and it hatches into miniature version of Prissy]
Porky Pig, Pretty Boy Bagel: Well, well, well! You WERE P-P-Prissy's egg all along, weren't you?
Prissy Jr: Heheheheheheheehhe... Yeeeeeeeeees.

Movie Connections:

References The Egg and I (1947)

Soundtrack:

Chicken Reel

Fantastic Cartoon Offers A Lot

Porky Pig's farm, home of "Hammond Eggs,: looks nice and prosperous to the point where our Pig is prancing around singing "Old MacDonald Had A Farm."

Each of the hens has a name and Porky collects their eggs each morning, talk to them individually. One hen, "Prissy," is "too embarrassed" to lay an egg so Porky threatens her to produce or else! ("Just bluffing," he tells us). Anyway, the other hens make fun of "square britches." They play a joke on her by planting an egg in her nest. We she discovers it, she goes wild celebrating, handing out cigars to everyone. The poor old girl thinks she finally laid an egg.

This is pretty funny stuff! Prissy is a hoot. However, the story turns dramatic when Prissy doesn't want to give up that egg, and follows it when Porky gives it to the trunk-driving delivering man. Prissy races into town to get that egg back

This cartoon really gets wild at that point, with two crime stories going on at once: a minor one with Prissy and a major one with "Pretty Boy Bagle." The two wind up both holed up in the same place with "the coppers" firing at them. A lot of crazy things happen, making this an outstanding Looney Tunes effort. (Porky winds up being a bit player in this story.)

"Prissy," by the way, was voiced by Bea Benaderet, who went on to become quite famous in television on "The George Burns Show," Green Acres," "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Petticoat Junction."

It is highly recommend and can be seen on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Three.