Looney's Lesser Known: Petunia Pig Traditional Cache
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Looney's Lesser Known: Petunia Pig
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A series of caches dedicated to the lesser known Looney
Tunes characters.
Most of us grew up watching Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird and
the rest of the characters on Saturday mornings, but how many of us
can still remember the rest of the crew. The ones that got some on
camera exposure, but were never the stars of the show.
I can remember most of them, How will you do?
All caches in the series are a combination of small, micros
or nano containers placed to be winter friendly. The series is
meant to be fun for the young and/or young at heart.
Petunia was introduced by animator Frank Tashlin in the 1937 short
Porky's Romance. The film is a parody of a 1932 Walt Disney cartoon
called Mickey's Nightmare. Whereas Mickey Mouse marries his
longtime girlfriend Minnie in that film, Porky's overtures toward
Petunia bring him only the scornful laughter of his porcine
paramour. Tashlin adopted Petunia as a regular member of Porky's
entourage and featured her in two more cartoons: The Case of the
Stuttering Pig and Porky's Double Trouble, both in 1937. Voice
actors Bernice Hansen and Shirley Reed each performed Petunia's
voice in various shorts. She is now voiced by Grey DeLisle. Bob
Clampett was the only other Warner director to utilize Petunia
after Tashlin left the studio in 1938. He first featured her in
Porky's Picnic, a 1939 film that sees Porky tormented by his nephew
Pinkie. Pinkie and Porky's encounters are always out of sight of
Petunia, of course, so she blames Porky for everything that goes
wrong as a result of Pinky's activity. Petunia's largest role came
in Clampett's 1939 short Naughty Neighbors. The film borrows
elements from both the famous feud between the Hatfields and McCoys
as well as Romeo and Juliet as Porky and Petunia's love for each
other is stymied by their respective hillbilly families' mutual
hatred. Despite her more prominent role in the short, Petunia is
only a supporting character; Porky remains the star. As Porky's
popularity was eclipsed in the late 1930s and early 1940s by
brasher, funnier characters like Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny, he was
relegated to a supporting player himself in new Looney Tunes and
Merrie Melodies shorts. Petunia, already a bit player to Porky's
lead, fared much worse. She still appeared occasionally in Warner's
merchandising, but her tenure as a Warner Bros. player was mostly
over.
All caches are hidden on a service road that parallels
highway 11. Do not attempt these caches from the highway. Safety
First.
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