The perfect animated comedy pairing

I haven't seen the newer Looney Tunes movie yet due to be unavailable in theaters here, (and also not dubbed for now anyway. And I'M never gonna pirated the movie online for good measures) but it worth a post about the many comparisons between the Daffy Duck/Porky Pig modeling of comedy pair and the one from Misty and Ash Ketchum from the TV Anime of Pokemon.

The comparisons between these started to beginning at my younger tweens days, back Pokémon became a topical phenomenon and when the Looney Tunes franchise beginning its slow demise, even by still own a very solid range of online fans.

Despite the fact that anyone can parroted the history of Looney Tunes by countless online sources, the careers of Porky Pig and Daffy Duck started from two years time interval. 

Porky was launched on March 2th 1935 in Friz Freleng's I Haven't Got a Hat, from a time where Leon Schlesinger was hurry to get rid of Buddy and keep busy to finding a "potential" newer star. Originally, Beans having to be the star, but the stuttering pig (Voiced by Joe Dougherty, which he actually had stuttering problems in real-life) stealing the show on a fraction of seconds. But poor Dougherty! His "stutterings" put some nerves to the others Termite Terrace colleagues and by two years shy, Mel Blanc provided the voice with better and more energy to the pig. And with what? Daffy Duck of course! The pairing that are started together in the first duck's cartoon and hunting picture, Porky's Duck Hunt, remains succesful to the audience, and Tex Avery was able to producing two others shorts with the duck (Without Porky's involvement), while its destiny is to the core of the others producers.

The Daffy-Porky comedy team evolved from many trends and directors that it is so amazing that the pair worked out naturally. This is also obvious that it was largely influenced by the likes of the Three Stooges, Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, the Jack Benny cast and others comedy teams of this period. By the 1950s, the pair was involved to a fantastic series of shorts that parody the movies/TV genres of that time, from The Scarlet Pumpernickel to the terrific outer space road-trip from the original Duck Dodgers... to even the likes of Rocket Squad and of course, Robin Hood Daffy before all this went to an end. While more remote than it was before, McKimson was able to delivering the pairing in a different spot, by seen the duck as a huckster and Porky the victim average-man on anything. Their career on duo went to an end after that.

It is such fantastic to seen an Independent studio like Ketchup Entertainment to picked up The Day the Earth Blew Up - A Looney Tunes Movie to general theatrical release, and for the first time ever, without any steps of the Warner Bros.-Discovery involvement. Warner are going to paid the hard price to letting this unique opportunity be broken by an Indie studio player.

The other pair that seems to be connected with the duck and ham are Ash Ketchum and Misty from the Pokemon TV Anime. If you skip right away of that rigid and needless fan-reactions of them at a romantic couple, they are naturally best friends who are able to behave each other like real pre-teens of their age. And naturally, the comparions are obvious here.

Ash remains to me the inept Pokémon trainer who expected to be the next Pokémon master in the ease. For him, its motive, "Doing now. Talk later." is a fun and unique approach that ressmebled a little of the nature of the crazy-to-heckling black duck, while Misty is more-to-less a mentor due to Ash's awkward incompetences, like the Looney Tunes' ham become a witness to insurance salesman Daffy's pitfalls in "Fool Coverage" (Released in 1952). Probably the best parts of them at frenemies appear in the third episode, "Ash Catch a Pokemon". It's became quickly a sort of The Ash & Misty Show with Pikachu started to act like a peanut vendor than the mascot of this thing. But definitely, the producers have known already that a show about them alone would never work if they don't have a enough practical supporting cast to helped to elevate the quality the earlier Anime need. Even if the 1997s hand-drawn color palettes of the series has aged a bit, (But still pretty good for 1998s Television) the friendship and pairing between these two young humans are also the heart of what makes the early Anime so magical when it first came.

Misty is eventually Porky Pig at a way to be the average Pokemon trainer who have somehow to endear Ash's immature whims. (And you know the true reason why she having to follow him at first place, right?) But when the pair reunited, many seasons and years later in the pre-Horizons saga, it's as if nothing has changed. The overall three-dimensional characters designs been stripped away that you start to watching a lukewarm comic-book slideshow made by a nerd in your 4K TV flatscreen. If it weren't for the very irritating fans online who wanted to make them at a couple by force, maybe Misty and Brock would never returned on the show and we've doubt that anyone would complain.

But when the Daffy-Porky pairing made a quick return in recent years by the Looney Tunes Cartoons TV series and then, that movie, Ash and Misty emerged to be something that comes for fan-nostalgia only. Even at those days, I growth uncomfortable to look of them on romance. This is not a Hallmark movie, but a show about Pokémons. And due to their own self-interests and issues, making Ash and Misty falling in love each other will be rather horrible and toxic if that does happening in the real world. What about domestic violence? The rights of women in society? (Albeit better represented in the show than anywhere else) Or sacrified a lasting relationship by face with many adulthood responsibilites? This is there several fans never comprehend when it's about pairing them at couple. It's also accepting them to renting a murky appartment with lots of unpredictable fix, but also that, fans never wanna comprehend this.

Because Pokémon is a absurd concept to begin with, but that went with sense of values and openess to the other ones that others of theirs would simply ignored.

This is by there in their personalities, the duos of Daffy Duck and Porky Pig (Despite their true origins) and the ones from Misty and Ash make it like a fun study, albeit stupid nowadays. The Looney Tunes gang beginning to be seen like old hats (Even when Tweety's merchandising growth hot in sales) while the likes of Ash and Misty became the launch of a new, special thing for the youths we were. But be sure that you never going to seen Misty stuttering the pig's "T...T...That's All, Folks!" line in the end of each episode like when Mel Blanc has put to Porky its trademark line.