This marks Petunia's first ever color appearance. In addition, she appeared in the 1972 special Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies, voiced by Jane Webb. Voice actors Berneice Hansell, Shirley Reed, June Foray, and Grey DeLisle each performed Petunia's voice in various shorts. As Porky Pig's popularity got eclipsed by brasher and funnier characters such as Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny in the 1940s, while Porky began starring in fewer solo cartoons, Petunia had been retired from the classic shorts at this time. She appeared in only two Porky cartoons directed by Clampett in 1939, ' Porky's Picnic' and ' Naughty Neighbors', the latter being her final appearance from the Golden Age of American Animation.

Tashlin quickly adopted Petunia as a regular member of Porky's entourage and featured her in two more cartoons: ' The Case of the Stuttering Pig' and ' Porky's Double Trouble', both in 1937.Īfter Frank Tashlin's first departure from the studio in 1938, Bob Clampett redesigned Petunia to become cuter, similar to how he previously redesigned Porky the previous year. Whereas Mickey Mouse marries his longtime girlfriend Minnie in that film, Porky's overtures toward Petunia bring him only the scornful laughter of his porcine paramour, and instead only dreams of their potential future.

The film is a parody of a 1932 Walt Disney cartoon called 'Mickey's Nightmare'. Petunia was introduced by animator Frank Tashlin in the 1937 short ' Porky's Romance'. Petunia's appearance and personality has changed over the years over the course of the late-1930s, evolving from a mean, selfish and snobbish girlfriend of Porky with an unappealingly heavyset appearance in the Frank Tashlin cartoons into the sweet, kind-natured girlfriend of Porky with a cute appearance ever since Bob Clampett retooled the character. She looks much like her boyfriend, Porky Pig, except that she wears a dress and has pigtailed black hair (which she originally did not have).

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