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Jeepers Creepers is a 1939 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes police comedy animated short, directed by Robert Clampett. The short was released on September 23, 1939, and stars Porky Pig.

In the film, Porky Pig is a depicted as a police officer who has to investigate a haunted house. A trickster ghost plays pranks on him.

It was released on DVD on September 19, 2017, in the Porky Pig 101.

Plot

Porky is a police officer, who is in a police car that is named 6 7/8. He gets a call from his chief to go investigate goings-on at a haunted house. The house is haunted to the core, and the fun loving ghost plays a series of pranks on the unsuspecting pig. As Porky knocks on the door to enter the haunted house, the ghost does a lady voice :"Come in." Porky enters, already frightened.

He enters again, the ghost places Frogs into a pair of shoes to look like a person walking, as Porky doesn't notice, the laces of the shoes get stuck to a coat hanger pole then rips off a curtain to make it look like a person with a cloak on. It immediately scares him and then the ghost scares him. Porky runs upstairs and lands in the ghost's arms with realizing, until that famous line comes as the ghost says it very goopy. "What the matter baby?".

Porky is finally scared out of the house, but he has the last laugh when his back-firing car leaves the ghost in blackface (and the surprised ghost doing a Rochester imitation: "My oh my, tattletale grey!").

Reception

Showmen's Trade Review called the short "an unpretentious cartoon that is good for seven minutes of enjoyment... On the whole it will make a welcome addition to any program."

The Film Daily wrote, "Although this type of material has been done so often in animated subjects, Jeepers Creepers carries enough humor to make it worth while for cartoon devotees, and particularly the younger generation of pix-goers."

Cast

• Mel Blanc – Porky Pig / Ghost and Making Faces / Falsetto (Uncredited)
• Pinto Colvig – one line of Ghost (Uncredited)

References

1. Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 93. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
2. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 124–126. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
3. "Short Subject Reviews". Showmen's Trade Review. 31 (11): 23. October 7, 1939. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
4. "Reviews of the New Films". The Film Daily. 76 (77): 6. October 19, 1939. Retrieved 3 January 2021.

External links

• Jeepers Creepers at IMDb

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• 1930s Warner Bros. animated short films
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