A Fractured Leghorn

I have a lot of favorite Looney Tunes characters, and Foghorn Leghorn is easily among my top 3. This cartoon demonstrates one of the reasons why I like him so much. He's an inherently funny character on his own. Often, he's pitted against other nemeses such as the Barnyard Dawg and Henery Hawk, and, while these do make his outings funnier and more memorable, they're not necessarily crucial, as shown here. In this short, Foghorn's motor mouth does most of the heavy lifting, as he spends the entire time annoying an unfortunate cat with his endless rambling. The stand-out gags in this one include Foghorn berating the cat, who dives into a water trough to escape him, only for Foghorn to stick his head in the trough and continue rambling underwater, and the ending gag where the cat tells him to shut up, and then Foghorn goes on a tangent to the audience.

Foghorn Leghorn always seemed like a Funny Character to me, which is an Obvious Satirization of the People of the South of the United States of the Mid 40s with that Typical Southern Accent, but despite that he is not an Offensive Character for the Southern Audience, and the Cat is not a Character that is as Memorable as Leghorn but he is still a Decent Character.

The Short itself is an Audiovisual Wonder with Excellent Scenarios and of the Highest Quality with Fluid Animations (as in any Looney Tunes Cartoon before its decline in 1962) and remains to this day a Memorable Cartoon.

As I said, the Animation and Scenery are Luxury, with a Great Attention to Detail (like any Looney Tunes Cartoon), the Movements look Fluid and of High Quality, the Designs are very Good and It represents how Professional the Animators were.

Music is worthy of 15 Oscar Nominations, Carl Staling was a Musician and will be one of the Best Cartoon Composers of all Time, this Guy was a professional and any Cartoon he credits means his Music It will be excellent.

Voice Acting is Magnificent, Mel Blanc's Work is Impressive, this Man was Great at Voice Acting, his Voice as Foghorn Leghorn is Amazing as well as his Other Performances.

In itself, this short is not the best of Foghorn Leghorn but it is one of his Best Appearances with Great Backgrounds and Animations, Exquisite Music and being a Good Cartoon to watch as a Family and laugh with his Beloved Family!

My Rating for this Good Short is a 9.

I remember how, when I was young and watched Robert McKimson's Foghorn Leghorn short "A Fractured Leghorn", I heard Foggy ask the anonymous cat "Who do you think you are?! George Washington?!". I of course didn't understand, as I had never heard the story about our first president chopping down a cherry tree and confessing. Of course, I suspect that it was a made-up story, part of our national myth. Analogies include stories in the Soviet Union about some glorious peasant rebelling against the landowners and often getting martyred.

But anyway, this is a pretty funny cartoon. As always, FL spends much of the time talking (as many southerners would do), until finally the cat has a statement of his own; since that was his only line, I would call him a feline version of Bill O'Reilly.

All in all, an entertaining one. Foghorn, I say Foghorn Leghorn is definitely an admirable character. Likable, that is.

Fun Foghorn Leghorn short from Bob McKimson. This time Foghorn and an unnamed cat are both trying to catch a little green worm. They must be stingy with the chicken feed on that farm. Anyway most of the jokes in the cartoon come from Foghorn being the blowhard, talking non-stop to the point where even I was almost irritated by him. The cat doesn't get a lot to do but suffer. But he does so in very funny ways, such as the tractor gag. He also had one amusing bit involving a gun that I laughed at. The animation is lovely and colorful. Lively music from Carl Stalling. Great voice work from Mel Blanc, as usual. The highlight of the short for me was the note from the fish that began "Dear Dope." Funny stuff.

Robert McKimson, to my mind, was the funniest animator WB had, because he used animation not just for comedy involving physical impossibilities, but for character-based physical comedy, the sort that made WC Fields great, the sort where a character expresses themselves physically. Added to which, the violence was always highly comic. In The Fractured Leghorn, the McKimson cat is chasing a worm for fishing and Foghorn is in competition for the worm, constantly (often violently) upbraiding the cat, who never speaks, and accusing him of being a gasbag, blabbermouth etc etc. The comic crescendo for me is when the cat, crawling backwards away from the Foghorn tirade, crawls through a horse trough under the water and Foghorn follows, sticking his head into the trough and under the water to continue his monologue, which is now just bubbles and burbling. But this is just one of many comic gem moments in this cartoon. I think overall, I like McKimson best because he had a better sense of humour; he was just funnier than the others.