Polar Pals is a 1939 Looney Tunes short directed by Bob Clampett.
Plot[]
Porky lives in an igloo in the Arctic, where he sleeps with a polar bear, bathes in water that freezes up at once, and dances in the ice and snow with the native fauna. A greedy fur trapper named I. Killem arrives and threatens Porky and his friends. Porky responds with firing a musket with explosives. Killem flees into a whale that he mistakes for a kayak.
Caricatures[]
- Edward G. Robinson - Porky's reflection
Availability[]
Longitude and Looneytude: Globetrotting Looney Tunes Favorites
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5, Disc 4
Porky Pig 101, Disc 3
Streaming[]
Censorship[]
- Nickelodeon airings of this cartoon deleted two gun shooting scenes due to violence:
- The hunter shooting his machine gun at a penguin, leaving bullet holes in the penguin's shadow, which dramatically dies as the penguin himself watches in horror.
- A drunken walrus being riddled with gunfire, claiming, "Ya never even touched me," drinking some of his liquor, and having the fluid leak out of the holes in his body.[2]
Let’s Rub Noses Like the Eskimoses Lyrics[]
There’s a nice land known as Iceland, living there is swell,
That’s where those frozen people dwell.
One supposes rubbing noses saves them lots of heat
Boy, how they’re making both ends meet!
Wow!
Oh, let’s rub noses like the Eskimoses,
That’s a northern custom turns winter into spring
Each polar guy’s a hero when it’s under zero
You can always trust them to do that certain thing
When the band is playing Nola at the Polar Ball
You won’t find a blue schnozola anywhere at all
Let’s rub noses like the Eskimoses
Don’t you know that’s Eskimo for “I love you”?
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