Foghorn Leghorn

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Foghorn Leghorn is a large animated adult rooster appearing in numerous Warner Brothers cartoons. He first appeared in 1946 in a Henery Hawk film entitled Walky Talky Hawky. Foghorn Leghorn is considered a significant Looney Tunes character, whose sidekick/nemesis was referred to simply as The Barnyard Dog. All of the motion picture Foghorn Leghorn cartoons were directed by Robert McKimson.

Many of the gags involved Leghorn and the dog engaging in one-upmanship through a series of pranks and gags. Most common among them was Leghorn's taking up a piece of wood, while ambling along humming "Camptown Races," and, coming to the sleeping Dog with his front half inside his doghouse, picking up his tail and rapidly whacking his exposed rear end. The dog gave chase, usually while his leash was still on, until it was stretched taut and his barking was replaced by an anguished shriek. This gag was passed down to the Leghorn's grandson in Feather Bluster, where Leghorn was puzzled as to why the kid was behaving that way and the Dog was all too happy to remind him: "Ain't nothin' wrong with 'im, Foggy, 'cept that he takes after you".

His voice was created by actor Mel Blanc, patterned after the character of Senator Claghorn, a blustering southern politician who was a regular character on the Fred Allen radio show. Senator Claghorn was created and voiced by radio comedian Kenny Delmar. Foghorn Leghorn used a number of Claghorn's catch phrases, like "That's a joke... I say, that's a joke, son". The references to Senator Claghorn were obvious to much of the audience when the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons first premiered, but like many of the references in WB cartoons of the era, they have since become dated and "go over the heads" of most modern-day audiences.

A Leghorn is a breed of chicken, and foghorn describes the character's loud, overbearing voice. At its most raucous, it sounds similar to Blanc's Yosemite Sam. Both parts of the name also suggest the association with "Senator Claghorn."

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Quotes

  • "That boy is about as sharp as a bowlin' ball."
  • "Son, I said Son..."
  • "Now don't set the world on fire."
  • "Nice boy, but he doesn't pay attention to a word you say."
  • "I say!, I say!, The boy is bozerk!!"
  • "Clunk enough people and we'll have a nation of lumpheads."
  • "Nice girl, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice."
  • "That woman's as cold as a nudist on an iceberg."
  • "She reminds me of Paul Revere's ride - a little light in the belfry."
  • "Gal reminds me of the highway between Ft. Worth and Dallas - no curves."
  • "As bare as a cooch dancer's midriff."
  • "Hey boy, you cover about as much as a flapper's skirt in a high wind."
  • "She's tryin' to make a pantywaist out of that poor kid."
  • "That kid's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver."
  • "If kid don't stop talkin' so much he'll get his tongue sunburned."
  • "Well, barbeque my hamhocks!"
  • "That dog's as subtle as a hand grenade in a barrrel of oat meal."
  • "That boy's as strong as an ox, and just about as smart."
  • "Look sister, is any of this filtering through that little blue bonnet of yours?"
  • "You're doing a lot of choppin', but no chips are flyin'."
  • "I've got this boy as figgity as a bubble dancer with a slow leak."
  • "You look like two miles of bad road."
  • "That boy's just like a tattoo...gets under your skin."
  • "This is gonna cause more confusion than a mouse in a burlesque show!"
  • "I-I-I know what you're gonna say son. When two halves is gone there's nuthin' left - and you're right. It's a little ol' worm who wasn't there. Two nuthins is nuthin'. That's mathematics son. You can argue with me but you can't argue with figures. Two half nuthins is a whole nuthin'."
  • "Lookit here son, I say son, did ya see that hawk after those hens? He scared 'em! That Rhode Island Red turned white. Then blue. Rhode Island. Red, white, and blue. That's a joke, son. A flag waver."
  • "You're built too low. The fast ones go over your head. Ya got a hole in your glove. I keep pitchin' 'em and you keep missin' 'em. Ya gotta keep your eye on the ball. Eye. Ball. I almost had a gag, son. Joke, that is."
  • "Okay, I'll shut up. Some fellas have to keep their tongues flappin' but not me. I was brought up right. My pa used to tell me to shut up and I'd shut up. I wouldn't say nothin'. One time darn near starved to death. WOULDN'T TELL HIM I WAS HUNGRY!!"
  • "Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency!"
  • "You're doing a lot of choppin', but no chips are flyin'"
  • "Boy's like a dead horse -- got no get-up-and-go..."
  • "Pay attention, boy! I'm cuttin' but you're not bleedin'!"
  • "Kid don't stop talking so much he'll get his tongue sun burned."
  • "Mutts - ah say - mutts is nuts!"
  • "I don't this kid's got all his marbles. Shakes his head when he means yes and nods when he means no."
  • "That boy's so dumb, he thinks a Mexican border pays rent!"
  • "I don't need your love to keep me warm, Widow Hen. I have my BANDAGES to keep me warm!"
  • "Say, boy, you cover about as much as a flapper skirt in a high wind."
  • "You've gotta be a magician to keep a kid's attention 'more than two minutes nowadays!"
  • "A sensitive mind won't stand being picked on."
  • "The dawg's busier than a centipede at a toe-counting contest."
  • "Hey Dawg! I've come to bury the hatchet! Ha, ha. Not in your pointed head, Boy. I've come to give a present!"
  • "The snow's so deep, the farmers have to jack up the cows so they can milk 'em!"
  • "Here, boy, I bought you this bowling ball. I also bought you this clock to tell you when it's time to bowl."
  • "That dawg is strictly G.I. -- Gibbering Idiot!"
  • "My foot's getting hotter than a sweat-band in a fireman's helmet."
  • "OH that woman Gotta mouth like an outboard moter, All the time putputputputputput!"
  • "That boy's as timid as a canary at a cat-show."
  • "I need, I say, I need a pointer, and that dog's got just the head for it. Pointed, that is."
  • "Go away, boy! Or I'll spank you where the feathers are thinnest."
  • "Boy's got a mouth like a cannon. Always shooting it off."
  • "Some like to bowl on the green. I'm gonna bowl on the white."
  • "What'ya doin' with a pump, boy? Diggin' for oil? You're crazy, boy. There's no oil within 500 miles of here. Geology of the ground's all wrong. Even if there WAS oil you'd need a drill not a tire pump."
  • "Speakin' of figures. I put 2 and 2 together and come up with a 4-legged, smart alec mutt!"
  • "Smart boy, got a mind like a steel trap -- full of mice."
  • "I sais, now I said, pay attention boy!"es:Gallo Claudio
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