What is Petunia Pig?
'''Petunia Pig''' is an [[animation|animated]] [[fictional character]] under the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' and ''[[Merrie Melodies]]'' series of cartoons from [[Warner Bros.]] She looks quite a bit like her significant other, the [[Porky Pig]]. But she wears braids and a [[dress]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Cartoon Animals|publisher=Prentice Hall|url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc00rovi/page/204/mode/2up|access-date=August 22, 2020}}</ref> Petunia was introduced by the animator Frank Tashlin in the 1937 short ''Porky's Romance''. The [[movie]] is a [[parody]] of a 1932 [[Walt Disney]] [[cartoon]] called ''Mickey's Nightmare'', except [[Mickey Mouse]] [[marriage|marries]] his long-time girlfriend [[Minnie Mouse]] in that movie. Porky's overtures toward Petunia bring him only the scornful laughs of his lover pig. Tashlin adopted Petunia as a regular member of Porky's crew. He (Tashlin) showed her in two more cartoons: ''The Case of the Stuttering Pig'' and ''Porky's Double Trouble''. As Porky's being popular was overshadowed in the late 1930s and 1940s by other characters, such as [[Daffy Duck]] and [[Bugs Bunny]], he himself was reduced to a supporting player under new Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes shorts. Petunia, only a bit player to Porky's lead, fared worse. But later, Petunia made appearances in other specials, like ''Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol''. The regular adult Petunia was a guest star under [[DC Comics]]' ''Looney Tunes'' comic book and in the official ''Looney Tunes'' [[website]]. Petunia also appears in ''Looney Tunes Cartoons''. Her first showing in the series was presented in the piece ''Happy Birthday, Bugs Bunny''. ==References== <references/> {{Looney Tunes & Merrie Melodies}} [[Category:Looney Tunes characters]] [[Category:Anthromophic characters]] [[Category:Fictional pigs]] [[Category:Fictional characters introduced in 1937]]