Did Porky Pig/Bosko/Tweety really just cuss?
Yes and no. The case of Bosko allegedly saying “The dirty fuck!” is hotly debated even today. It is this author’s position that this came from bad film stock. Porky really did say, “Son of a bitch,” but the clip you see all over the internet is really part of a studio produced reel just for the entertainment of studio people and was never meant for public release. Tweety did say, “I tawt I taw a Damn Yankee tat!” in “The rebel without claws.” Someone has posited to me that this quote was really a publicity blurb for the play “Damn Yankees,” but it seems doubtful to me, considering the cartoon is set in the civil war, and that Tweety was a confederate soldier, and Sylvester was a Union soldier.
