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Looney Revue, Part 3 1934-1936: In Porky and Tex, Looney Tunes finds its sense of humour

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Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, Tom Palmer and Earl Duvall all left Warner Bros in the span of one year. Friz Freleng, whose animation work with Warner dates back to Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930), has been promoted to Merrie Melodies director, and How Do I Know It's Sunday (1934) is very much cut from the same cloth as its predecessors. Similar to I Like Mountain Music (1933) and We're In The Money (1933), except this film is set in a grocery store and it's a variety of food products that come to life to sing and dance. It goes through the same motions, but it displays a little more imagination than the earlier cartoons. In a couple instances, it plays with cartoon dimensions in a fun way, as seen when an Eskimo child drawn onto a bottle (he is a part of the bottle label) begins to move, while still part of the bottle, he casts a fishing line into a nearby bottle. The fishing line then drops inside a kitchen sink where a fish is caught (this sink being part of thi