Notes to You

Notes to You is a 1941 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.^[1] The short was released on September 20, 1941, and stars Porky Pig.^[2]

This cartoon was remade in 1948, as Back Alley Oproar, with Elmer Fudd in Porky's role and Sylvester as the musical cat.^[3] It was remade again in 1967 as Le Quiet Squad, a short in The Inspector series (for which Freleng served as a producer for all cartoons in the series)

Along with All This and Rabbit Stew, the film was completed and shipped on September 2, 1941.^[4]

Plot

When Porky tries to go to sleep, a cat starts singing Largo al factotum from The Barber of Seville in his back yard. Porky then starts throwing objects at the cat and finally hits him with a vase. The cat starts singing When Irish Eyes Are Smiling at Porky, and Porky throws a book at him, causing the cat to yowl in pain. Porky attempts to return to bed only for the cat to throw the book back and continue the song, as Porky closes the window in retaliation. Porky's phone rings and he answers it; the caller is revealed to be the cat finishing the song. Furious, Porky grabs a shotgun and claims "D-uh-d-uh-darn that old cat, I'll fix him this time once and for all!" and lays a saucer of milk on the porch. Porky then falls asleep as the cat drinks the milk and wakes Porky up by banging on the saucer.

Porky then chases the cat with the shotgun until the cat sings

As the picture irises out, a crash is heard (presumably, Porky, at his wits' end, jumped out of the window).[5]

Home media

This cartoon has been presented in its 1968 colorized form on many public domain video compilations, such as the 2004 Digiview Entertainment DVD release of Porky's Café (where its image was grayscaled to look more like the original version).^[6]

It was released in its original black and white form in 1999 on a