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Tag: Looney Tunes
Animated Wrestling Episodes on Hulu
Here’s a top ten list of the best animated wrestling episodes you can stream on Hulu right now, as of today, March 13, 2018. I dare you to find a more niche Hulu streaming list.
Man Mountain
Medium: Animation
Title: Porky the Wrestler
Bio: A giant ogre of a man who ruled the wrestling circuits of the 1930’s. Suffered the biggest and most embarrassing loss of his career on a fluke to newcomer Porky Pig.
Signature Move: The airplane spin.
Looney Tunes
“Porky the Wrestler”
No. 153
1/9/1937
Long before Bugs Bunny donned a mask and stepped into the squared circle for some slapstick shenanigans, his brother from a Warner Brother, Porky Pig, was the first Looney ‘toon to step into the ring.
Merrie Melodies
“Bunny Hugged”
3/10/1951
Pro wrestling seems to be good fodder for cartoons. It’s already outlandish and slapstick as it is. Wrestling is built on magnifying everything related to the real world to a ridiculously excessive interpretation. Within the boundaries, or lack thereof, of the animated world that ridiculous interpretation is further heightened to even more preposterous levels of absurdity. This is exactly why every cartoon should have at least one wrestling-themed episode. Wrestling and cartoons go hand in hand. They’re the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups of the entertainment medium.
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