King Klunk

King Klunk
Pooch the Pup series
Pooch and his girlfriend about to photograph King Klunk.
Directed by	Walter Lantz
Produced by	Walter Lantz
Music by	James Dietrich
Animation by	Manuel Moreno Lester Kline Fred Kopietz Charles Hastings Ernest Smythe
Studio	Walter Lantz Productions
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	September 4, 1933
Color process	B&W
Running time	9 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Hot and Cold
Followed by	She Done Him Right

King Klunk is a 1933 animated short subject, produced and directed by Walter Lantz. It stars Pooch the Pup, and is the twelfth of the thirteen cartoons featuring that character. The cartoon is a parody of the RKO feature King Kong, which premiered six months earlier to this cartoon's release on September 4, 1933 from Universal Pictures.

Pooch and a girl coonhound sail into Africa, looking to take photographs of King Klunk, the largest gorilla in the planet.

On the continent, a pack of chimpanzees are doing a dance ritual as well preparing a meal for their gigantic gorilla leader. King Klunk immediately shows up, excited to get his lunch. But seeing the amount of food in the platter is inadequate, he rejects it. While thinking what he should feed on, the hungry gorilla sees Pooch and the girl coonhound walk by from several yards away. King Klunk then quietly captures Pooch's partner and replaces her with a lady chimp.

Pooch, unaware of the exchange, still carries on in his exploration. He even holds the hand of the lady chimp. When he looks back, the pup realizes and is most surprised. As he runs, the lady chimp starts following him, wanting to make Pooch her date.

When King Klunk has the girl coonhound in his grasp and is ready to devour her, the chimp cupid suddenly appears and shoots him with an arrow. In this, rather than eating her, the love-stricken gorilla chooses to merely hold that dog and give warm smiles.

Pooch continues running until he loses the lady chimp. As he runs again, Pooch, without noticing, runs up to the top of King Klunk. The gorilla immediately sees and blows him away where he falls into a pond.

In the pond, Pooch swims toward what looks like a harmless boulder extending above the surface. In turns out suddenly that the rock is actually a dinosaur that rises.

The dinosaur chases Pooch on land but couldn't keep track of its prey. After losing the little dog, the dinosaur then sees the girl coonhound still being held by King Klunk, and therefore wants to make a meal out of her.

Not wanting to relinquish anything, King Klunk puts the girl coonhound safely on a tree and goes on to brawl with the dinosaur. The two beasts trade attacks. Eventually, King Klunk comes out the victor.