Absolutely Brilliant!

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

. . . William Randolph "CITIZEN KANE" Hearst foisted REEFER MADNESS upon gullible Rich People Party puppets such as Nancy "Just Say No" Reagan, Warner Bros. courageously confronted America's REAL corporate smoke culprit, Big Tobacco, with this Looney Tune animated short, WHOLLY SMOKE. As Porky Pig learns here, international health experts have documented 1,418.7 American Murders at the hands of the Bright Leaf Boys for every ONE fatality somehow attributed in part to pot (usually a hiking backpacker or bird watcher stepping on a land mine near a marijuana factory farm run by illegal foreigners in one of America's National Forests). Warner's child Porky Pig is victimized by every trick in Big Tobacco's Book, from the Cartoonish enticements of Joe Camel to the peer pressure applied by hired shills. Warner's "Nick O'Teen" character epitomizes the slick youth outreach that the Coffin Nail Corporations still are allowed to practice Today, with their peppermint and bubble gum-flavored E-cigarettes. But as the Trumpsters will say while they eliminate Affordable Health Care, Medicare, and Medicaid, "You can't live Forever!"

Well, these 7 minutes are not necessarily anti-smoking in general, just when it comes to young people smoking. Porky, who was still Warner Bros' biggest star around that time, smokes a cigarette and has the strangest hallucinations as a result from it. This is originally a black-and-white cartoon, even if there are colored versions out there. I thought this was neither too funny nor too smart in terms of the story, so if this cartoon is worth the watch for any reason, then it is because of its general weirdness from start to finish and several famous people from that era being included as cartoon characters, such as the 3 Stooges. Mel Blanc did most of the voice work and Frank Tashlin directed while George Manuell wrote this piece. These two may not be as known as Jones, Maltese or Freleng, but also worked on many Warner Bros. cartoons. All in all, not among the company's best. Good message, but not so great execution.

Just watched this Looney Tune Porky Pig cartoon on YouTube as linked from the Saturday Morning Blog. It has the child-pig going to church but on the way he encounters a bully his size who challenges him on his toughness by smoking on his cigar. Needless to say, some nightmares result..."Supervised" by Frank Tashlin, Wholly Smoke is quite entertaining when it goes on a delirium as Porky dreams of various smoking products singing and dancing about the dangers of smoke. Quite a bit of caricatures of famous celebrities like The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Curly), Bing Crosby, Rudy Vallee, and Cab Calloway abound and while some might be offended by the blackface matches, you might not notice right away since no stereotypical dialect comes out of them. Almost like a Max Fleischer cartoon yet with the Warner Bros. attitude that was just emerging from these Termite Terrace products. So on that note, Wholly Smoke is well worth seeing.

just a reminder that this was made back when smoking was still a common thing for the public. And didn't know that smoking was not healthy to do.Porky was given 5 cents to give at church and was told not to spend it.On his way to the chapel, he find a kid smoking a cigar. He tells him little kids shouldn't smoke. The kid doesn't think Porky is man enough to smoke. So Porky bet on his nickel that he can smoke.After getting dizzy and coughing a lot he winds up at a smoke shop. And is greeted by Nick O'Teen the smoke cloud dude. He was pleased to see that Porky is interested in smoking so Nick tests if Porky really does like to smoke. But getting his pipe, cigar, cigarette and tobacco friends to sing and remind that little kids shouldn't smoke.For a cartoon this old it does have a good message in letting kids know that you shouldn't smoke at a young age.But if this was made decades later it be "Smoking is bad for you". But can't blame the way people thought of smoking back in the olden days.Sad thing is this is one of the many Looney Tunes that's been censored a few times. I never seen an uncut version or uncensored version of this fine cartoon.I hope one day it'll be part of a collection of uncut Looney Tunes DVD.