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Porky Pig is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators (particularly Bob Clampett) created many critically acclaimed shorts using the fat little pig. Even after he was supplanted by later characters, Porky continued to be popular with moviegoers and, more importantly, the Warners directors, who recast him in numerous everyman and sidekick roles. He is known for his signature line at the end of each short, "Th-th-that's all folks!" but in fact this slogan had been used by both Bosko and Buddy and even Beans at the end of every Looney Tunes cartoon. In contrast, the Merrie Melodies series used the slogan: So Long, Folks! until the late 1930's when it was replaced with the same one used on the Looney Tunes series.

Charlie Dog is an animated cartoon fictional character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes series of cartoons.
Bob Clampett minted the scenario that Charlie Dog would later inherit in his cartoon short Porky's Pooch, first released on 27 December, 1941. A homeless hound pulls out all the stops to get adopted by bachelor Porky Pig. Mel Blanc and Joe Alaskey would provide the dog's gruff Brooklyn -Bugs Bunny-like voice and accent.

However, as he did for so many other Looney Tunes characters, Chuck Jones took Clampett's hound and transformed him into something new. Jones first used the dog in Little Orphan Airedale (October 4, 1947) which saw Clampett's "Rover" renamed "Charlie." The film was a success, and Jones would create two more Charlie Dog/Porky Pig cartoons in 1949: The Awful Orphan (January 29) and Often an Orphan (August 13). Jones also starred Charlie without Porky in a couple of shorts: Dog Gone South (August 26, 1950) which sees Yankee Charlie searching for a fine gentleman of the Southern United States, and A Hound for Trouble (April 28, 1951) which sends Charlie to Italy where he searches for a master who speaks English.

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Porky Pig is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators (particularly Bob Clampett) created many critically acclaimed shorts using the fat little pig. Even after he was supplanted by later characters, Porky continued to be popular with moviegoers and, more importantly, the Warners directors, who recast him in numerous everyman and sidekick roles. He is known for his signature line at the end of each short, "Th-th-that's all folks!" but in fact this slogan had been used by both Bosko and Buddy and even Beans at the end of every Looney Tunes cartoon. In contrast, the Merrie Melodies series used the slogan: So Long, Folks! until the late 1930's when it was replaced with the same one used on the Looney Tunes series.

Charlie Dog is an animated cartoon fictional character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes series of cartoons.
Bob Clampett minted the scenario that Charlie Dog would later inherit in his cartoon short Porky's Pooch, first released on 27 December, 1941. A homeless hound pulls out all the stops to get adopted by bachelor Porky Pig. Mel Blanc and Joe Alaskey would provide the dog's gruff Brooklyn -Bugs Bunny-like voice and accent.
However, as he did for so many other Looney Tunes characters, Chuck Jones took Clampett's hound and transformed him into something new. Jones first used the dog in Little Orphan Airedale (October 4, 1947) which saw Clampett's "Rover" renamed "Charlie." The film was a success, and Jones would create two more Charlie Dog/Porky Pig cartoons in 1949: The Awful Orphan (January 29) and Often an Orphan (August 13). Jones also starred Charlie without Porky in a couple of shorts: Dog Gone South (August 26, 1950) which sees Yankee Charlie searching for a fine gentleman of the Southern United States, and A Hound for Trouble (April 28, 1951) which sends Charlie to Italy where he searches for a master who speaks English.

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Charlie Dog is an animated cartoon fictional character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes series of cartoons.
Bob Clampett minted the scenario that Charlie Dog would later inherit in his cartoon short Porky's Pooch, first released on 27 December, 1941. A homeless hound pulls out all the stops to get adopted by bachelor Porky Pig. Mel Blanc and Joe Alaskey would provide the dog's gruff Brooklyn -Bugs Bunny-like voice and accent.

However, as he did for so many other Looney Tunes characters, Chuck Jones took Clampett's hound and transformed him into something new. Jones first used the dog in Little Orphan Airedale (October 4, 1947) which saw Clampett's "Rover" renamed "Charlie." The film was a success, and Jones would create two more Charlie Dog/Porky Pig cartoons in 1949: The Awful Orphan (January 29) and Often an Orphan (August 13). Jones also starred Charlie without Porky in a couple of shorts: Dog Gone South (August 26, 1950) which sees Yankee Charlie searching for a fine gentleman of the Southern United States, and A Hound for Trouble (April 28, 1951) which sends Charlie to Italy where he searches for a master who speaks English.

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Jones first used the dog in Little Orphan Airedale (October 4, 1947) which saw Clampett's "Rover" renamed "Charlie." The film was a success, and Jones would create two more Charlie Dog/Porky Pig cartoons in 1949: The Awful Orphan (January 29) and Often an Orphan (August 13). Jones also starred Charlie without Porky in a couple of shorts: Dog Gone South (August 26, 1950) which sees Yankee Charlie searching for a fine gentleman of the Southern United States, and A Hound for Trouble (April 28, 1951) which sends Charlie to Italy where he searches for a master who speaks English.
In these cartoons, Charlie Dog is defined by one desire: to find himself a master. To this end, Charlie is willing to pull out all the stops, from pulling "the big soulful eyes routine" to boasting of his pedigree ("Fifty percent Collie! Fifty percent Irish Setter! Fifty Percent Boxer! Fifty percent Doberman Pincher! But, mostly, I'm all Labrador Retriever!")—though in reality, he is just a slick-talking mutt who rarely realizes that his own aggressive obnoxiousness is sabotaging his appeal to any potential guardian.

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Jones shelved the Charlie Dog series of films in the 1950s, along with other characters he had introduced, such as The Three Bears and Hubie and Bertie. He was turning his efforts to new characters, such as Pepe Le Pew and Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner. However, recent Warner Bros. merchandising and series and films such as episodes of Tiny Toon Adventures, the movie Space Jam (1996) in the crowd seens, and Tweety's High Flying Adventure (2000) in Italy have brought Charlie back out of retirement.

The Frisky Puppy character that Jones paired with Claude Cat in several '50s shorts bears a close physical resemblance to Charlie.

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Charlie Dog started out as a homeless dog named Rover who wanted a new master. The new master he had decided should be Porky Pig. This was his first appearance in the cartoon Porky's Pooch from 1941. His second appearance was a remake of the first cartoon, only in color and the dog had changed name to Charlie Dog. The cartoon was Little Orphan Airedale from 1947. Charlie Dog appeared in seven cartoons, Dog Tales from 1958 being the last. He then had a few appearances on The Bugs Bunny Show and The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show doing reruns of the old cartoons, but was otherwise shelved until The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries started in 1995. Here he appeared from 1997 to 1999 in a yet unknown number of episodes. In the original cartoons Charlie's voice was done by Mel Blanc and in The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries the voice was done by Joe Alaskey.

In comics he appeared a few times in the series Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (#122 from 1951 is the earliest record so far), and he has also had a few appearances in the current Looney Tunes from DC Comics, so he is still around after more than 60 years, even though he not a very prominent character.

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Porky Pig was designed by animator Bob Clampett and introduced in the short I Haven't Got a Hat (first released on March 2, 1935), directed by Friz Freleng. Studio head Leon Schlesinger suggested that Freleng do a cartoon version of the popular Our Gang films. Porky only has a minor role in the film, but the fat little stuttering pig quickly became popular. Porky's name came from two brothers who were childhood classmates of Freleng's, nicknamed "Porky" and "Piggy".
Since Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising had left the studio in 1933, taking the studio's star character Bosko with them, Looney Tunes had been kept afloat by cartoons featuring the bland Buddy. Porky's introduction ushered Buddy out the door and pointed to things to come. Tex Avery was hired to the studio in 1935, and his film Gold Diggers of '49 reused much of the cast from I Haven't Got a Hat, albeit in wildly different roles. Porky transitioned from a shy little boy to an immensely fat adult. Though he was still in a supporting role, Porky got most of the laughs. The directors realized they had a star on their hands.

Charlie Dog is an animated cartoon fictional character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes series of cartoons.
Bob Clampett minted the scenario that Charlie Dog would later inherit in his cartoon short Porky's Pooch, first released on 27 December, 1941. A homeless hound pulls out all the stops to get adopted by bachelor Porky Pig. Mel Blanc and Joe Alaskey would provide the dog's gruff Brooklyn -Bugs Bunny-like voice and accent.

However, as he did for so many other Looney Tunes characters, Chuck Jones took Clampett's hound and transformed him into something new. Jones first used the dog in Little Orphan Airedale (October 4, 1947) which saw Clampett's "Rover" renamed "Charlie." The film was a success, and Jones would create two more Charlie Dog/Porky Pig cartoons in 1949: The Awful Orphan (January 29) and Often an Orphan (August 13). Jones also starred Charlie without Porky in a couple of shorts: Dog Gone South (August 26, 1950) which sees Yankee Charlie searching for a fine gentleman of the Southern United States, and A Hound for Trouble (April 28, 1951) which sends Charlie to Italy where he searches for a master who speaks English.