April 22, 1939 –
The Looney Tunes short, Porky and Teabiscuit, directed by Ben Hardaway and Cal Dalton and starring Porky Pig, debuted on this date.
The horse’s name, Teabiscuit, is a play on that of Seabiscuit, a real-life thoroughbred racehorse, ungainly and mistreated in his early life, who was rehabilitated by an empathetic trainer and, by the time of this cartoon, had gone on to become a racing champion and a sentimental favorite of the American public. The cartoon’s story is an affectionate screwball parody and celebration of Seabiscuit’s rise to fame.
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