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In 1964, the Warner Brothers cartoon division — which was by then producing no cartoons — sold a package of old WB classics to ABC where they aired under the title, The Porky Pig Show. The new animated titles were "outsourced" (that word didn't exist then) to Hal Seeger's animation company where they were produced at a somewhat lower standard than had been the norm for those characters. Back in this post, we showed you the opening titles and told you more about this.

Here's a look at the closing animation of The Porky Pig Show. As was then not uncommon in cartoon show closings, the premise of the ending is that it's a sad, tearful fact that the show is over and the characters must cry and weep as if Grandma just died. But they can all cheer up and dance when they realize that it'll be on again next week! Cartoon characters in the sixties spent a lot of time bawling because their show was over.

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That's a pretty dismal bit of animation and I don't think much of the theme song, either. But for some reason, the whole thing's kind of fun in Spanish. Take a look…

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