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''Pigs Is Pigs'', is a 1936-produced, 1937-released ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoon that featured Piggy and the Hamhock family, in what would be Piggy's final appearance in the Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes repertory in the Golden Age of American animation. == Synopsis == Piggy Hamhock (not to be confused with Porky Pig) is always hungry, thinking of food, eating, and stealing food when he can. And no matter how much he eats, he never fills up. When his mother leaves a pair of pies out to cool, Piggy swipes a pie from the windowsill and spins it around his finger as he eats it; he tries to eat a second pie in the same manner, but his mother catches him in time and he accidentally chomps on his bare fingers. He is scolded by his mother, but he ignores her and begins daydreaming about food. That afternoon, his mother serves spaghetti for dinner. While the family says grace, he ties all of their spaghetti strands together, so that he can devour all the spaghetti (enough to feed a family of eight) in a single slurp. His mother scolds him again, but he takes no heed. As the other pigs sleep, he is awake, in deep thought of food, then falls asleep. The next morning, he finds himself invited into the home of a kindly, hiccuping old man (voiced by Billy Bletcher, better known for the voice of Paw Bear in some later Warners toons and of Pete in the Disney cartoons). The old man asks Piggy if he is hungry and presents Piggy with a table laid out with a full-blown feast – complete with a roasted turkey. Overjoyed at the man's generosity, Piggy sits down, rubbing his belly in anticipation. At that moment the man shoves the table of food out of Piggy's reach as the cover of the chair is pulled out from under him. A leather belt across his arms and chest straps him in place as a robotic arm swings around to take hold of his nose. The man shows himself to be some sort of mad scientist declaring, "So, it's food you want!? Ha, ha! (Hic) We'll give you plenty of it!" The scene switches to the basement, revealing the Feed-A-Matic; a bizarre machine built for the sole purpose of force-feeding hungry little kids like Piggy (not that he would need any forcing) in order to make them really fat. The scientist rushes down to activate the controls, yelling, "So, you love food, (hic) eh?", and goes straight to his work. The chair Piggy is strapped into first carries him to a huge vat (labeled "SUPER SOUP FEEDER") filling with gallons of soup from cans; the mechanical arm then pulls on Piggy's nose forcing his mouth open to let in a torrent of soup through a feeder shaped like a Pelton wheel but with spoons as buckets. He is then fed bananas popped out of their skins down his throat like bullets. Next to follow are stops at a gumball machine that doles out olives and at a conveyor belt of ice cream cones dispensing ice cream via a bellows. Then comes the main course, a sandwich as big as a king-sized bed (featuring the first appearance of Freleng’s "hold the onions" gag), followed by dessert dispensed from the "PIE-A-TROPE" -- pies spinning on the spindle of a converted jukebox. Laughing maniacally, the scientist—in various montages— continues forcing more and more food into Piggy. After an entire day of the business, the pig is returned from the Feed-A-Matic machine to the mad scientist's laboratory, transformed into an extremely obese, food-packed ball. Fed like never before in his life, Piggy is clearly happy with what has happened to him. Smiling at the sight of Piggy’s new-found obesity, the scientist pokes his obese guest twice and kindly asks "Have enough, my boy?" To which Piggy replies "Y-y-y-yes sir!" The scientist then unstraps him, commenting "Why, you're not half full!" and laughs evilly as he watches the newly and extremely greatly obese pig leave. With the sun setting, Piggy waddles to the door, passing by the food the scientist had laid out to bait him earlier. Looking at the turkey he delights at the prospect of more food. He pulls off a drumstick, takes a bite, and explodes. Or rather, he wakes up screaming in his own bed – it was only a dream. Then hearing the sound of his mother calling him to breakfast, he dashes downstairs and starts eating with more gusto than ever before. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pigs Is Pigs (1937 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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