Dough for Do-Do/Porky in Wackyland - Looney Tunes - Toonstalgia

Porky meets the Dodo Bird

Porky in Wackyland

The first appearance of the Dodo came in the 1938 cartoon Porky in Wackyland where Porky travels to Wackyland to find the last Dodo and earn a three trillion dollar bounty.

I do not support colorizing black and white cartoons. I don't think they need it. By using a computer (or the older style of hand work) to colorize a cartoon, erases the cartoon. I think it's important to appreciate art as it is and not "make it better". Whether a color cartoon is better than a black and white cartoon is firmly personal opinion. I have spotted more than a few errors in cartoons from animation errors and bits of dust to shortcuts. I like the errors. It's part of the art to me. But that's just my opinion. Colorizing this cartoon is particularly absurd because it was remade into Dough for Do-Do. They took the opportunity to elevate backgrounds of the cartoon.

Tin Pan Alley Cats

This is the second appearance of Wackyland. A jazz artist finds himself transported to Wackyland. The strange experience scares himself out of jazz. Really a tragic story.

Tin Pan Alley Cats was released in 1943. This needs a content warning. This cartoon is a part of history and only for completionists who want to see all of history even the things that are just bad.  This is a member of the censored eleven and censored with good reason. 

I don't recommend seeking it out. It's not worth the watch. The music is kind of good but just listen to Fats Waller and don't bother with the cartoon. It has offensive caricature and reused animation. The only reason it gets a mention here is the animation from Porky in Wackyland was reused and reanimated with additional actions. The main character from the cartoon is transported to Wackyland. This is the strangest and most distressing version of Wackyland. The animators did try to add their own wacky with caricatures of Stalin, Hitler and Hideki Tojo.

Dough for the Do-Do

This is my all-time favorite cartoon short. I love a lot of cartoons but I adore this one. 

Dough for Do-Do is a color remake of Porky in Wackyland released in 1949. This is a case of the remake improving on the original. They don't just make it color. They changed the backgrounds to resemble Dali paintings. They reanimated porky to his newer modern design. The remake did not supplant Bob Clampett's original. It added to the legacy of Porky in Wackyland.

Tiny Toons Adventures

Tiny Toons Adventures featured newer younger versions of the Looney Tunes casts including Gogo Do-Do (or Go-Go Do-Do or Gogo Dodo, I don't know. The original short established the dash convention and later toons rejected it), the son of Yoyo Do-Do (I don't know about the Dashes). He only appeared in a couple cartoons during the original run. Gogo was one of the core secondary characters of the show.

For a character as a wacky as the land he called home, his storylines and the storylines that included Gogo featured meaning and pathos.

Her Wacky Highness

Season 1, Episode 6

After Babs gets sent home from school for inappropriate imitations, she feels unappreciated. She runs away to Wacky Land where she will never have to restrain herself or exercise any self control. Wackyland proves to be too much for Babs Bunny. She quickly realizes there's no place like home. 

Sawdust and Toonsil

Season 1, Episode 31

A circus kidnapped and enslaved a dragon, a Pegasus, a sphinx and later Gogo, from Wackyland for his Wonderful World of Wonderment. It turns even more grim when we learn the natives of Wackyland will die unless they regularly return to Wackyland. It's toon trafficking and slavery and it scared me as a kid. After the original and the remake of Porky in Wackyland, this is the best Looney Tunes cartoon featuring a dodo.

Waste Deep in Wackyland

Season 1, Episode 57

This episode is a series of environmental vignettes with Elmyra and Montana Max dumping garbage and deforesting. Montana Max dumps his waste in Wackyland. Gogo and his nephews (or clones of himself or something else, it is Wackyland, no point holding it to too much continuity) join together to force Montana to change his waste distributing ways.

The moral of the episode: Your trash will catch up with you.

Night of the Living Dull

Tiny Toon's Night Ghoulery Special

The short featuring Gogo is extremely short. It's a brief joke about detail obsessed fans.

SpongeBob SquarePants

SpongeBob in Randomland

Season 12, Episode 15

Squidward and SpongeBob go to Randomland to deliver an order. It reminds me of "Pizza Delivery" from the first season. They have to deliver an order. Squidward wants to give up and SpongeBob wants to do his duty. This is a fun episode of Spongebob SquarePants. It's very weird and they take the concept in some interesting visual directions. But I wish they had done more with it.