Porky Chops is really just a Bugs/Elmer cartoon in disguise.

[grundle]

This is just my own theory.

In Porky Chops, Bugs Bunny is disguised as a squirrel, and Elmer Fudd is disguised as Porky Pig.

[Marty26]

Which is exactly why it's one of the less-popular cartoons of the pre-1964 Warner Brothers stable. Although I personally never found anything wrong with it.

[Rusty0918]

I'd say the biggest gripe was that remake of "Porky in Wackyland," known as "Dough for the Do-Do." Why they put that one in there I will never know.

I never thought "Porky Chops" was that bad. Actually, I kinda like it. Especially at the end when they find out an actual grizzly bear was in that log!!!

[Marty26]

I think Dough For The Do-Do was probably more the result of Warner Brothers needing to fulfill a contract obligation than anything else. Either that or Porky in Wackyland was really popular at the time and Friz decided to pull a George Lucas by "updating" it.

[The Spectre]

Yeah, I liked that ending too, but something seemed wrong with the timing or the pacing, it didn't quite have the impact it could have. it felt kind of Walter Lantz-ish (although that's probably a wrong judgement, since I've only seen 2 Walter Lantz cartoons).

[guy incognito]

I've long thought some of the late-'40s Daffy/Porky titles could've worked as Bugs/Elmer affairs, as well.

[The Spectre]

When exactly *is* the point when Porky changed into Elmer, as it were? That is, when the same basic role started to be filled by Elmer instead of Porky. I'm assuming it was somewhere around `48-`52.

[Duck Dodgers]

and duck soup to nuts is actually a way to reuse the classic elmer vs bugs basic situation with other characters...

[guy incognito]

When exactly *is* the point when Porky changed into Elmer, as it were? That is, when the same basic role started to be filled by Elmer instead of Porky. I'm assuming it was somewhere around `48-`52.
Well, as early as "My Favorite Duck" (1942) Porky was being used in the slow-burn, fall guy role. Actually, the use of the character "Porky's Duck Hunt" (1938) can be seen in many ways as a template for Elmer.

[The Spectre]

Sorry, I might not have made myself clear... I didn't mean, when did Porky start acting like Elmer. I meant, when did the directors at WB start using Elmer where beforehand they would have used Porky? I think the change is especially notable in McKimson's cartoons.

[Marty26]

Sorry, I might not have made myself clear... I didn't mean, when did Porky start acting like Elmer. I meant, when did the directors at WB start using Elmer where beforehand they would have used Porky? I think the change is especially notable in McKimson's cartoons.
Probably already with Elmer's Candid Camera (I think Elmer's first cartoon). Even after Elmer's introduction, though, Porky still took the hunter role in some cartoons. Remember his clip with Bugs Bunny in A Corny Concerto?

[Nick]

I've always found it surprising that very few Porky Pig cartoons were made in the late fifties and sixties, and in some Elmer cartoons like "A Mutt In A Rutt" it may as well of been Porky. Even the two cartoons made after Arthur Q Bryan's death, "Doggone People" and "What's My Lion" could of easily of usen Porky.