Dumb Patrol

 Gerry Chiniquy, Dumb Patrol, USA 1964

Kicking off 1964 and yeah, by this point the writing was on wall. The shorts division at Warner Bros. was shutting down. What could they produce?

Well, this has been called the WORST short Bugs ever did, so there's that. 

1917 and World War One rages. The Allies are bedeviled by Baron Sam Von Shpamm. It's so bad that straws are drawn with the winner picked to do early morning battle in the skies. Captain Smedley (Porky Pig) is the lucky winner, but the next day as he readies himself for battle, Bugs opts to smack him over the head with a brick and take his place. "He has a wife and seven piglets!" 

Very noble, but on the German front, Baron Sam is refusing to fly anymore. He's been awarded yet another Iron Cross and he's sick of them. He wants to drink Schnapps and make whoopie with frauleins, and he ain't flying until he gets both of those.

He stick by it too, at least until Bugs taunts him. Now it's personal.

I'm not sure I'd call this the WORST but it isn't very good. Bugs and Porky never teamed up that much and this short doesn't really do that much with them. This would also be the last time (in a short) that we see Yosemite Sam, so it is rather fitting he's blown up. 

Could and should have been better but it also could have been a lot worse.