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Baby Bottleneck
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| Baby Bottleneck | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Robert Clampett |
| Written by | Warren Foster |
| Starring | Mel Blanc (voice) Sara Berner (voice) |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1946 |
| Running time | Short: 7 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Baby Bottleneck is a Warner Brothers Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short released in 1946 and directed by Robert Clampett and written by Warren Foster.
The cartoon opens with an overworked stork (a clear Jimmy Durante reference) getting drunk in the Stork Klub. As a result, babies are getting sent to the wrong parents (such as a baby Hippopotamus to a Scottish Terrier and a baby alligator to a pig). To clear up the confusion, Porky Pig is brought in to manage the factory, with Daffy Duck as his assistant. The babies are seen going through a conveyor belt (to the tune of Raymond Scott's famous "Powerhouse") and getting sent by various animals, while Daffy mans the phones (making quick references to Bing Crosby, Eddie Cantor and the Dionne Quintuplets).
When a stray egg is found without an address, Porky decides to have Daffy sit on it until it hatches. However, Daffy (nor Porky, for that matter) wants to sit around on top of an egg. Porky chases Daffy around the factory, until they wind up trapped on the conveyor belt. The belt winds up stuffing both of them into one package (with Porky as the legs and Daffy as the top half) and send them off to Africa, where a gorilla is waiting for her arrival. When the gorilla looks at the 'baby', Porky peeks through the diaper, causing the gorilla to cry on the telephone to a call-in therapist.
Animators John Kricfalusi and Daniel Goldmark have mentioned this cartoon as a major influence, particularly due to its manic pace and very unusual animation of Daffy and Porky.
- In the sequence where the baby alligator tries to get some milk from the mother pig, the alligator manages to push the other pigs aside and is about to take a drink when the pig stops him and starts to say something before the scene abruptly ends. As it was reaching for her teat, the pig was about to tell the alligator, "Ah, ah, ah! Don't touch that dial!" This gag was censored before the theatrical version was released (and remains so on the DVD, since the footage apparently no longer exists).
- The voice of the ethnic sounding pig was provided by actress Sara Berner. All other character voices, including the narrator, were performed by Mel Blanc.