Jumpin' Jupiter

Plot

Porky and Sylvester are camping in the desert in the Superstition Mountains. As they prepare to settle down for the night, Sylvester (already frightened by the location) hears a howl and wraps himself around Porky. An annoyed Porky peels him off, points out the sound was from a coyote howling at the Moon, and forces the cat to sleep outside while he sleeps in his tent. A UFO carrying a tall, birdlike alien from Jupiter arrives on Earth, its mission to collect animal life for an experiment.

After sizing up Sylvester and the tent with Porky inside, the alien maneuvers his spacecraft to bore through the ground and remove his specimens in one round slice, carried off on top of the UFO. Once in space but still within Earth's gravity, Porky wakes up cold, gets a blanket, and remarks that 'the stars are so bright tonight you can almost touch them.' The alien comes out, clamps his hand on Sylvester's head, and turns it so they face each other.

Terrified, Sylvester races into the tent and into Porky's bed. Porky angrily demands to know what's going on; Sylvester mimics the alien and is thrown out of the tent, nearly falling off the spacecraft. Scared, Sylvester ends up in the alien's arms, then scrambles back into the tent and hides under the bed. The alien arrives at the tent opening; Sylvester points him out, but Porky mistakes the alien for a Navajo Native American and tells him to go back in his 'wigwam,' saying they will look at his 'beads and trinkets' in the morning.

Confused, the alien goes inside the UFO to consult a book titled Denizens of the Planet Earth and Their Behavior. The spacecraft leaves Earth's gravity, and everything begins floating. Porky wakes up cold again, gets a drink of water, notices nothing amiss, and goes back to sleep. Sylvester realizes they are floating in space and begins to pray.

Shortly, they, their car, their campfire, and two cacti land on an alien world. Porky wakes up declaring, 'What a wonderful sleep.' Outside the tent, Porky comments on the 'beautiful morning' and says to Sylvester, 'Things sure look different after a good night's sleep, eh Sylvester?' He sees Earth in the sky but fails to recognize it.

Porky suggests they should easily make Albuquerque by that night, as he obliviously drives between two giant bird-like aliens who are observing him and Sylvester, who is cowering in the back of the car.

Did You Know?

• It is the final cartoon in the golden age of American animation featuring Porky before he is permanently paired with Daffy Duck.
• The 'Instant Martians' from this cartoon were reused in Hare-Way to the Stars (1958) with different coloring.
• Jumpin' Jupiter is available on disc 1 of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6 DVD set and on disc 2 of the Looney Tunes Collector's Vault: Volume 2 Blu-ray set.