Porky's Midnight Matinee
Working backstage at a theater, Porky frees a little ant he finds in a cage, only to learn that it's a rare and valuable trained pygmy ant.
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"To me, "Porky's Midnight Matinée" seems like one of the cartoons that the Termite Terrace crowd made as a sort of place holder between the really cool ones ("Wabbit Twouble" was released a few weeks after this one). It's got a fairly interesting plot line, as Porky Pig is cleaning a backstage area and comes across a sadistic trained ant. Some of the things that the ant does to him mirror what Tweety would later do to Sylvester. There's just one thing, though. I don't quite understand the title. I've always thought that a matinée is a movie showing ..."
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Excluding the sales tax, if the value of the 1941 price of the pygmy ant were in 2025, with the cumulative rate of inflation, the value would go up exponentially to $3,525,584,847.96.
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Working backstage at a theater, Porky frees a little ant he finds in a cage, only to learn that it's a rare and valuable trained pygmy ant.