An Egg Scramble

1950
6.8| 0h7m| en| More Info
Released: 27 May 1950 Released
Producted By: Warner Bros. Cartoons
Country: United States of America
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On Porky Pig's farm, Miss Prissy, a slow-witted hen, has never laid an egg. So, one of her fellow hens paints Prissy's name on an egg and places it in Prissy's nest. Prissy believes she laid the egg and proudly refuses to let Porky have it to give to a market's truck. Porky takes the egg from her and gives it to the driver of the truck. Prissy follows the truck to a nearby city, determined to regain her egg. She grabs it from a woman in a house and flees. Convinced she's being chased by police, Prissy takes refuge in a run-down building where Pretty Boy Bagel, an escaped criminal, is also hiding out.

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Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!
Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.
Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
Edgar Allan Pooh . . . Louisiana, where AN EGG SCRAMBLE is set (Porky Pig works for the Hammond Farmers Co-Op, and probably grows strawberries on the side). Gramps labored at Hammond's public schools, which he said would have been called "Lean-To's" or "Carports" had the same buildings existed in his Native North. During SCRAMBLE, Porky sexually harasses one of his female employees named "Prissy." Grand Pops rented an upstairs apartment of some sort at a preacher's home, and told stories of how the reverend would sometimes ask prying questions about whether young Gramps had ever Miscegnated. When Porky threatens to slit Prissy's throat for not participating in his baby mill scheme, Prissy objects that she's too embarrassed to engage in such goings on. Grandpa always said he survived in Hammond by eating corn dogs from the local Krystal Fast Food chain shack. Prissy's salvation is Public Enemy #1, "Pretty Boy Bagle," who responds to police machine guns by pointing his fingers and making shooting sounds with his mouth. The lesson here is that a better way for Gramps and Prissy to have fought cops, preachers, and Porky in Hammond, LA, would have been by using their Second Amendment Right to Open Carry.
Lee Eisenberg While I've usually seen Prissy cast as Foghorn Leghorn's love interest, here she gets a lead role. As one of the hens on Porky Pig's Hammond Eggs farm, she can never lay an egg. So, another hen sticks an egg under her and Prissy believes that she has finally laid one. Her elation melts, however, when Porky sends the egg off to get sold. Even after Prissy finds her egg, she ends up hiding out with a criminal! Will this woman ever find true happiness?! So maybe Prissy can't quite carry a cartoon like Bugs or Daffy can, but I would say that "An Egg Scramble" shows her to be more assertive than I've seen in her appearances as Foghorn Leghorn's love interest. Maybe she needed to be alone in the world to show her true strength. As for Porky, it seems like they actually could have cast a non-star as the farmer, as I like to see the porker's roles developed more so that he can really turn into his reactive self.But overall, it's worth seeing, if only once.
slymusic Directed by Bob McKimson, "An Egg Scramble" is just an average Porky Pig cartoon costarring that shy, blue-bonneted, no-eggs hen named Prissy. After spotting a pretty pink egg (which she thinks she laid) with her name on it, she takes ridiculously extreme measures to protect her prized possession, eventually winding up inside a gangster's hideout.Despite the fact that "An Egg Scramble" is not the greatest Warner Bros. cartoon ever made, it still manages to provide at least a few laughs. At the beginning of the cartoon, farmer Porky sings/stutters "Old MacDonald," and when he kisses one of his hens for laying two eggs instead of just one, she hilariously wipes off the smooch. In searching for "her" new egg, Prissy breaks dozens of eggs inside a grocery store, causing the proprietor to literally blow his top. When Prissy spots her egg about to be boiled on a kitchen stove, she plays a trick on the housewife by repeatedly turning the stove off when the woman's back is turned; when the lady finally catches on, the mean look on her face is quite funny indeed. And when the police throw a tear gas bomb into the gangster's hideout, the gangster and Prissy both sob as they exit the building.That wraps up my commentary for "An Egg Scramble." Enjoy the cartoon!
bob the moo Porky Pig is a farmer who relies heavily on his chickens laying eggs to turn a profit. One of his chickens doesn't seem able to produce the goods however and Porky puts pressure on her to do so. The other chickens lay an egg for Prissy and convince her it is hers. However, when Porky comes to take the egg away, Prissy is unwilling to give it away.Despite the simple set up, the film does some interesting things - even getting Prissy involved in a James Cagney style shoot out in the big city! The material isn't exactly hilarious but it is still funny enough to entertain. The action is a bit forced at times but it is watchable throughout.The lack of strong characters is a bit of a problem. Porky is not a great character where he is required to really carry the film - he works better in a solid partnership (ie Daffy Duck in full manic mode!). Here he has nothing to really do and isn't very funny - that leaves Prissy to carry the film. Prissy is OK but I didn't like her posh character and her material isn't that great either - only having one line that made me laugh out loud. The support characters are broad but the lack of leadership from Porky or Prissy is a big flaw here.Overall this is an OK film but not much more than that I'm afraid. There aren't a great many laughs to be had here and it comes over rather average. More proof that Porky Pig, as is the case with most hams, should never be served up alone!

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