ArrowverseDCEUGothamJoker This is one of Friz Freleng's earlier masterpieces in this cartoon. It has a very good story with good character personalities of a greedy little pig who can only think about food but then his food dream turns into a nightmare as I imagine that it was supposed to be rather dark. The Feed-a-Matic sequence was very original to me and this is what influence writers on shows like 'The Simpsons' and even in Walter Lantz cartoons; and even the writers from the Treehouse of Horror episode mentioned that they were inspired from this short. This is the second and final appearance of the Hamhock family as we wouldn't have needed anymore since it could only go worse. The animation here is very appealing as it was animated by mostly Bob McKimson since I can see some scenes he probably did but I'm not going to grasp on the styles. After only two cartoons of the Hamhock family; the characters then disappear from the screen but Pigs is Pigs is easily their best cartoon out of 'At Your Service Madame' and it's even on the '100 Greatest Looney Tunes' book.

TheLittleSongbird Love animation, it was a big part of my life as a child, particularly Disney, Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry, and still love it whether it's film, television or cartoons.'Pigs is Pigs' is not one of Friz Freleng's best cartoons by any stretch, in an uneven "still evolving" period of his long career, and he was yet to be in his full prime and not yet found his style properly. For a relatively early effort, 'Pigs is Pigs' has some interest but it's a bit bland too. It is never what one would call hilarious, Freleng's later efforts show more evenness and confidence in directing and the story is flimsy and occasionally loses momentum, taking too long to get going. It is also rather disjointed. Things become significantly more interesting in the truly nightmarish and sometimes second second half than the overly-cutesy and sugary sweet first act. Sadly, the two halves do feel like two different cartoons that don't gel properly with each other.However, the characters are fun, especially the antagonist the scientist while the pig is a decent protagonist. The conflict between them carries 'Pigs is Pigs' and does so very well.The cartoon is amusing at times when it becomes more interesting and entertaining in the nightmarish second half.Animation is excellent, it's fluid in movement, crisp in shading, vibrant in colour and very meticulous in detail. Ever the master, Carl Stalling's music is typically superb. It is as always lushly orchestrated, full of lively energy and characterful in rhythm, not only adding to the action but also enhancing it. Voice acting from particularly Billy Bletcher is terrific.All in all, interesting but not great. Freleng did much better since. 6/10 Bethany Cox

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . "Piggy," with this animated short, PIGS IS PIGS. Warner wanted to underline their warning to America about the Fat Cat Greedheads who had caused the then on-going Great Depression. No matter how much the gluttonous Piggy ingests here, he not only wants--he finds a way to STEAL more. Piggy is shown at the family supper table slurping down all the spaghetti right off his nine siblings' plates into his own insatiable gullet with such a gusto it was adapted by THERE WILL BE BLOOD villain Daniel Day Lewis into his infamous "I'll suck your straw!" scene. Even when Piggy falls into the clutches of an evil scientist, who force-feeds him fuller than a dozen Foie Gras geese, Piggy still is grasping for MORE! Warner tries to warn America NEVER to allow the One Per Center thieves and self-proclaimed Billionaires to ever filch our food again, Lording it over everyone else. These miscreants MUST be neutralized with extreme prejudice, just as the Looney Tuners pigged out themselves at Piggy's pig roast after completing PIGS IS PIGS. We all know how the U.S. Sheep Nation has backslid in the face of the Porkers to date. But as they say at the corner butcher shop, growing a backbone is better late than never.

F Gwynplaine MacIntyre The Warner Brothers cartoon 'Pigs Is Pigs' takes its title from a best-selling humour book by Ellis Parker Butler, but is not otherwise related to that book. (In fact, the 'pigs' in Butler's book are guinea pigs.)This very funny cartoon is about a little-boy pig (not Porky) who lives with his young siblings and their mother. (There doesn't seem to be a father pig in this family, so who brings home the bacon?) There are several spot gags dealing with the gluttonous Piggy stealing his siblings' dinners as well as scoffing his own.Eventually he leaves home and finds himself at the door of a mad scientist (with an elaborate hiccough) who invites Piggy in for some free food. Which, indeed, he gets. But the mad scientist is testing a contraption that resembles the feeding machine in Chaplin's 'Modern Times', only it's more aggressive. The scientist straps Piggy into the machine, which then proceeds to force-feed him huge amounts of food. We get a variation of Friz Freleng's 'Hold the Onions' gag, which showed up in several Freleng toons. At the climax of the story, there's a very impressive montage as the scientist ratchets up the action. When he's finished, he laughs evilly as Piggy finds himself swollen to gargantuan girth. (Great voice work as the scientist by Billy Bletcher, better known for the voice of Paw Bear in some later Warners toons.)SPOILER COMING. Warner Bros were the most cynical movie studio, and 'Pigs Is Pigs' follows the same pattern as several other Warners cartoons - including 'Now that Summer Is Gone' and 'I Wanna Be a Sailor' - in which a little-boy animal with a moral failing (in this case, gluttony) is taught a lesson and appears to repent but then (hilariously) proves he has no intention of reforming. In the case of 'Pigs Is Pigs', the whole ordeal turns out to be a nightmare ... and of course Piggy hasn't really learnt his lesson.Kids and adults will both get a laugh out of this toon. 'Pigs Is Pigs' is also interesting for another reason, and from here on this review is adults-only. At approximately age eight, a boy named Bob Flanagan was profoundly impressed by 'Pigs Is Pigs'. Flanagan had cystic fibrosis, and he had to be repeatedly spanked on his chest by an adult in order to clear out his fibrotic tissues. The sadomasochistic aspects of 'Pigs Is Pigs' (bondage, forced feeding, forced body modification, experiments on an unwilling subject) had a highly erotic effect on young Bob, who developed at an early age an interest in masochism. Bob Flanagan grew up to be the adult subject of the 1997 documentary 'Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist'. In his performance pieces, the adult Flanagan often paid tribute to 'Pigs Is Pigs' and its early influence on him. Several of the Warners cartoons by Bob Clampett have extreme fetish content, so it's intriguing to know that somebody found fetish content in a cartoon by the more staid Freleng. I'll rate 'Pigs Is Pigs' 9 out of 10. Don't worry, parents: this cartoon won't turn your kids into Bob Flanagan.