A clinical study of Porky Pig cartoons
Abstract Porky Pig is a hard core stutterer of long standing (since 1935), who will be with us for many years to come on television. This Warner Brothers' cartoon character stutters on approximately 23% of his spoken words and has a wide variety of stuttering symptoms. Porky Pig was predisposed to stutter since his father also is a hard core stutterer. In spite of negative opinions about this stuttering pig, these cartoons might be beneficial in therapy with children who stutter.
HAROLD PINTER'S CHARACTERS frequently resemble children in the manner in which he presents them to us, in their behavior, which is either distinctly juvenile or manifests the conditioning associated with childhood, and in the way in which we react to them.