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Porky

Porky

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Porky may refer to:

  • Porky, the toddler character played by Eugene Lee in the 1930s comedy Our Gang
    Our Gang
    Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, Our Gang was produced at the Roach studio starting in 1922 as a...

    (The Little Rascals)
  • Porky (novel), a 1983 novel by Deborah Moggach
    Deborah Moggach
    Deborah Moggach is a British writer. She has written sixteen novels to date, including The Ex-Wives, Tulip Fever, and, most recently, These Foolish Things...

  • Porky Pig
    Porky Pig
    Porky Pig is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators created many critically acclaimed shorts using the fat little pig...

    , a character from Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes
  • Porky's
    Porky's
    Porky's is a comedy film about the escapades of teenagers at the fictional Angel Beach high school in Florida in 1954. It was released in the United States in 1982, and spawned two sequels: Porky's II: The Next Day and Porky's Revenge and influenced many writers in the teen film genre...

    , a 1982 Canadian film
    • Porky, the title character of Porky's and its sequel Porky's Revenge, played by actor Chuck Mitchell
  • Craig "Porky" Chedwick
    Porky Chedwick
    Craig "Porky" Chedwick known to generations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, as "The Daddio of the Raddio, " "The Platter Pushin' Papa, " "The Bossman," "Pork the Tork", and a host of other colorful nicknames, is a veteran radio presenter.-Background:Chedwick was the first white DJ to...

    , a Pittsburgh radio disk jockey of the 1950s and 60s
  • Porky Minch, Ness' portly, cowardly next-door neighbor in the Super Nintendo video game EarthBound
    EarthBound
    EarthBound, known in Japan as , is a role-playing video game co-developed by Ape and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super NES video game console. It was designed by Shigesato Itoi, who also developed its predecessor, Mother, which was released only in Japan. EarthBound was...

    (Mother 2).
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Porky may refer to:

  • Porky, the toddler character played by Eugene Lee in the 1930s comedy Our Gang
    Our Gang
    Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a series of American comedy short films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy producer Hal Roach, Our Gang was produced at the Roach studio starting in 1922 as a...

    (The Little Rascals)
  • Porky (novel), a 1983 novel by Deborah Moggach
    Deborah Moggach
    Deborah Moggach is a British writer. She has written sixteen novels to date, including The Ex-Wives, Tulip Fever, and, most recently, These Foolish Things...

  • Porky Pig
    Porky Pig
    Porky Pig is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators created many critically acclaimed shorts using the fat little pig...

    , a character from Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes
  • Porky's
    Porky's
    Porky's is a comedy film about the escapades of teenagers at the fictional Angel Beach high school in Florida in 1954. It was released in the United States in 1982, and spawned two sequels: Porky's II: The Next Day and Porky's Revenge and influenced many writers in the teen film genre...

    , a 1982 Canadian film
    • Porky, the title character of Porky's and its sequel Porky's Revenge, played by actor Chuck Mitchell
  • Craig "Porky" Chedwick
    Porky Chedwick
    Craig "Porky" Chedwick known to generations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, as "The Daddio of the Raddio, " "The Platter Pushin' Papa, " "The Bossman," "Pork the Tork", and a host of other colorful nicknames, is a veteran radio presenter.-Background:Chedwick was the first white DJ to...

    , a Pittsburgh radio disk jockey of the 1950s and 60s
  • Porky Minch, Ness' portly, cowardly next-door neighbor in the Super Nintendo video game EarthBound
    EarthBound
    EarthBound, known in Japan as , is a role-playing video game co-developed by Ape and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super NES video game console. It was designed by Shigesato Itoi, who also developed its predecessor, Mother, which was released only in Japan. EarthBound was...

    (Mother 2). He shows up again in the Game Boy Advance game Mother 3
    Mother 3
    Mother 3 is a role-playing video game developed by Brownie Brown, HAL Laboratory, and Nintendo SPD Production Group No. 3. It was published by Nintendo for the Game Boy Advance handheld game console. It has only been released in Japan, alongside a limited supply bundle...

    in 2006. (Japan only)
  • David Brennand, also known as "Porky", UK musician and DJ; founder of Pork Recordings
    Pork Recordings
    Pork Recordings is a record label based in Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, north-east England, that specialises in electronica, mostly in the downtempo or chill-out styles....

  • George Peckham
    George Peckham
    George "Porky" Peckham is a British record cutting engineer, widely recognised as among the most accomplished in the business. He has been responsible for producing the master discs from which countless vinyl records have been pressed over the last 40 years....

    , the British record engineer better known under the pseudonym "Porky"
  • Silvester "Porky" Broadway, a character from the 1950s TV series Lassie
    Lassie (1954 TV series)
    Lassie is an American television series that follows the adventures of a female rough collie named Lassie and her companions, human and animal. One of the longest running dramatic series on television, Lassie was broadcast by a television network from September 12, 1954, to March 24, 1973...


Porky may also be slang for

  • A derogatory nickname applied to obese
    Obesity
    Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have an adverse effect on health, leading to reduced life expectancy and/or increased health problems...

    people
  • A lie, or even a "big fat lie" http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=porky