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Barnyard Dawg, also known as Mandrake or George P. Dog or Rover or George P. Mandrake, is a Looney Tunes character. He is Foghorn Leghorn's arch-nemesis. Barnyard also vies with some other enemies in different cartoons, such as Henery Hawk, the Weasel, Daffy Duck, and Sylvester.

Biography[]

Barnyard's first appearance came in "Walky Talky Hawky" (1946), the same Henery Hawk cartoon in which Foghorn himself first appeared. Although, in that cartoon, Barnyard initiates hostilities with Foghorn by dropping a watermelon on his head (prompting Foghorn to grumble "Every day, it's the same thing!"), Barnyard is usually seen sleeping in his kennel at a cartoon's beginning, with Foghorn provoking him by slapping his hindquarters with a wooden fencepost and giving chase while still leashed, setting the stage for Barnyard to seek vengeance, often by manipulating Henery Hawk.

George was cast as pet to Porky Pig in 1947's "One Meat Brawl", where the pair pursue one-shot star Grover Groundhog, who gives the hunting dog a sob story ("Wife and 72 children!...No coal in the cellar...!") that has him weeping sympathetic tears, much to Porky's disgust. George uses this ploy himself in 1949's "Daffy Duck Hunt", where, still Porky's pet and hunting companion, he persuades Daffy Duck to play along at being captured so he can avoid punishment from Porky, promising to free the duck later. However, once Daffy is tucked into Porky's freezer, George goes back on the bargain, although Daffy has little trouble outwitting both him and Porky.

In 1958's "Don't Axe Me", George, now the pet of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Fudd and renamed "Wover," again matches wits with Daffy after convincing Mrs. Fudd to designate the duck as Sunday dinner; surprisingly, Daffy is the loser in this cartoon, although he escapes doom when a guest requests a vegetarian meal instead. In 1958's "Gopher Broke", Barnyard is the subject of "psychological wearing down" by Mac and Tosh, who are trying to get their vegetables back. After the gophers initiate phase no. 4 of their plan, which leaves Dawg on top of a telephone pole, he flips out and flies off (literally) after a crow, causing a deadpan pig, who has been witnessing the aftermath of the gophers' abuse against Dawg, to also flip out. While the pig has gone to see an animal psychiatrist, the doctor sees Dawg fly by his window and also flips out enough to join the pig on the couch.

Henery mistakes Barnyard for a chicken in "The Foghorn Leghorn", because his father told him that chickens are great big monsters with real huge teeth who live in caves. Henery notices Dawg's mouth and presumes Dawg's doghouse is a kind of cave. Although Dawg is normally portrayed as the straight man for Foghorn's pranks, in "Mother Was a Rooster", he is portrayed in a very negative light, as he not only steals an ostrich egg (he justifies this by explaining that it's been kind of dull round the farm lately, giving reference to his four year peace between him and Foghorn between "Weasel While You Work" and "Mother Was a Rooster"), he mocks the hatched ostrich, which Foghorn has adopted, and cheats in a boxing match with the rooster.

Dawg also appeared in Space Jam as a member of the Tune Squad, and in Looney Tunes Back in Action playing cards with other dogs in Yosemite Sam's casino. In Baby Looney Tunes, Dawg appears as a puppy who chases the cool roosters, until Foghorn Leghorn shows the cool roosters how to deal with dogs (through a game of fetch), and instead of joining them, just befriends Barnyard. He made a cameo in the Looney Tunes Cartoons short "Happy Birthday Bugs Bunny!"

He appears in Bugs Bunny Builders as George P. Mandrake.

Filmography[]

Cartoons[]

  1. Merrie Melodies "Walky Talky Hawky" (1946) Blue Ribbon Academy Award nominee
  2. Merrie Melodies "One Meat Brawl" (1947) Blue Ribbon
  3. Looney Tunes "Crowing Pains" (1947) Blue Ribbon
  4. Merrie Melodies "The Foghorn Leghorn" (1948) Blue Ribbon
  5. Looney Tunes "Daffy Duck Hunt" (1949) Blue Ribbon
  6. Looney Tunes "Henhouse Henery" (1949) Blue Ribbon
  7. Looney Tunes "The Leghorn Blows at Midnight" (1950) Blue Ribbon
  8. Looney Tunes "Lovelorn Leghorn" (1951) Blue Ribbon
  9. Merrie Melodies "Leghorn Swoggled" (1951) Blue Ribbon
  10. Looney Tunes "Sock a Doodle Do" (1952) Blue Ribbon
  11. Merrie Melodies "The EGGcited Rooster" (1952)
  12. Looney Tunes "Plop Goes the Weasel!" (1953)
  13. Looney Tunes "Of Rice and Hen" (1953) Blue Ribbon
  14. Looney Tunes "All Fowled Up" (1955) Blue Ribbon
  15. Merrie Melodies "The High and the Flighty" (1956) Blue Ribbon
  16. Merrie Melodies "Fox-Terror" (1957) Blue Ribbon
  17. Merrie Melodies "Don't Axe Me" (1958)
  18. Merrie Melodies "Feather Bluster" (1958)
  19. Merrie Melodies "Weasel While You Work" (1958)
  20. Looney Tunes "Gopher Broke" (1958)
  21. Merrie Melodies "Mother Was a Rooster" (1962)
  22. Merrie Melodies "Banty Raids" (1963)
  23. Looney Tunes "Carrotblanca" (1995)
  24. Looney Tunes "Cock-a-Doodle Duel" (2004)

In other media[]

Television[]

Baby Looney Tunes:

The Looney Tunes Show episodes:

Looney Tunes Cartoons:

Bugs Bunny Builders

Voice[]

George was originally voiced by Mel Blanc except in "Crowing Pains", where he was voiced by Robert C. Bruce, and through the years following Mel's death, he has been voiced by Bob Bergen, Jeff Bergman, Greg Burson, Billy West, Joe Alaskey, Eric Bauza and Andrew Morgado.

Notes[]

Gallery[]

Main article: Barnyard Dawg/Gallery

References[]

Characters
Main Characters
Bugs Bunny (Prototype Bugs Bunny) ā€¢ Daffy Duck ā€¢ Elmer Fudd ā€¢ Foghorn Leghorn ā€¢ Lola Bunny (Honey Bunny) ā€¢ Marvin the Martian (K-9) ā€¢ PepĆ© Le Pew (Penelope Pussycat) ā€¢ Porky Pig ā€¢ Road Runner ā€¢ Speedy Gonzales ā€¢ Sylvester (Sylvester Jr.) ā€¢ Taz ā€¢ Tweety ā€¢ Wile E. Coyote ā€¢ Yosemite Sam
Recurring Golden Age Characters
1930s debuts

Bosko ā€¢ Honey ā€¢ Bruno ā€¢ Foxy ā€¢ Piggy ā€¢ Goopy Geer ā€¢ Buddy ā€¢ Cookie ā€¢ Beans ā€¢ Little Kitty ā€¢ Oliver Owl ā€¢ Ham and Ex ā€¢ Petunia Pig ā€¢ Piggy Hamhock ā€¢ Gabby Goat ā€¢ Egghead ā€¢ Big Bad Wolf ā€¢ Little Red Riding Hood ā€¢ Yoyo Dodo ā€¢ Mrs. Daffy Duck ā€¢ The Two Curious Puppies ā€¢ Sniffles ā€¢ Inki ā€¢ Minah Bird

1940s debuts

Willoughby ā€¢ Three Little Pigs ā€¢ Cecil Turtle ā€¢ Beaky Buzzard ā€¢ Mama Buzzard ā€¢ Leo the Lion ā€¢ Babbit and Catstello ā€¢ Conrad the Cat ā€¢ Hubie and Bertie ā€¢ Claude Cat ā€¢ A. Flea ā€¢ Three Bears ā€¢ Schnooks ā€¢ Hector the Bulldog ā€¢ The Drunk Stork ā€¢ Gossamer ā€¢ Rocky ā€¢ Barnyard Dawg ā€¢ Henery Hawk ā€¢ Charlie Dog ā€¢ Bobo the Elephant ā€¢ Goofy Gophers ā€¢ The Dog ā€¢ Wellington ā€¢ Gruesome Gorilla ā€¢ Hippety Hopper ā€¢ The Talking Bulldog ā€¢ The Crusher ā€¢ The Supreme Cat ā€¢ Playboy Penguin

1950s debuts

Melissa Duck ā€¢ Frisky Puppy ā€¢ Granny (Proto-Granny) ā€¢ Miss Prissy (Emily the Chicken) ā€¢ Sam Cat ā€¢ Nasty Canasta ā€¢ Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot ā€¢ Spike and Chester ā€¢ Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog ā€¢ The Weasel ā€¢ Witch Hazel ā€¢ Tasmanian She-Devil ā€¢ Ralph Phillips ā€¢ Egghead Jr. ā€¢ Mugsy ā€¢ Jose and Manuel ā€¢ The Honey-Mousers (Ralph Crumden, Ned Morton, Alice Crumden, Trixie Morton) ā€¢ Instant Martians ā€¢ Slowpoke Rodriguez ā€¢ Pappy and Elvis ā€¢ Blacque Jacque Shellacque

1960s debuts

Cool Cat ā€¢ Colonel Rimfire ā€¢ Merlin the Magic Mouse ā€¢ Second Banana ā€¢ Bunny and Claude

One-Off Golden Age Characters
1930s debuts

Owl Jolson

1940s debuts

The Gremlin ā€¢ The Dover Boys (Tom Dover, Dick Dover, Larry Dover, Dora Standpipe, Dan Backslide) ā€¢ Mr. Meek ā€¢ Russian Dog ā€¢ The Little Man from the Draft Board ā€¢ Colonel Shuffle ā€¢ Giovanni Jones

1950s debuts

The Martin Brothers ā€¢ Pete Puma ā€¢ George and Benny ā€¢ Toro the Bull ā€¢ Babyface Finster ā€¢ Michigan J. Frog ā€¢ Shropshire Slasher ā€¢ Mot ā€¢ Pablo and Fernando ā€¢ Charles M. Wolf ā€¢ SeƱor Vulturo ā€¢ Mighty Angelo

1960s debuts

Hugo the Abominable Snowman ā€¢ Nelly the Giraffe ā€¢ Count Bloodcount ā€¢ Spooky ā€¢ Rapid Rabbit and Quick Brown Fox

Post-Golden Age Characters
Tiny Toon Adventures

Buster Bunny ā€¢ Babs Bunny ā€¢ Plucky Duck ā€¢ Hamton J. Pig ā€¢ Fifi La Fume ā€¢ Shirley the Loon ā€¢ Sweetie Bird ā€¢ Elmyra Duff ā€¢ Montana Max

Taz-Mania

Jean ā€¢ Hugh ā€¢ Molly ā€¢ Jake ā€¢ Dog the Turtle ā€¢ Drew

Pinky and the Brain

Pinky ā€¢ The Brain

Baby Looney Tunes

Floyd Minton

Duck Dodgers

Dr. I.Q. Hi ā€¢ Captain Star Johnson ā€¢ Commander X2

Loonatics Unleashed

Ace Bunny ā€¢ Lexi Bunny ā€¢ Danger Duck ā€¢ Slam Tasmanian ā€¢ Tech E. Coyote ā€¢ Rev Runner

The Looney Tunes Show

Tina Russo

New Looney Tunes

Squeaks the Squirrel ā€¢ Bigfoot ā€¢ Barbarian ā€¢ Boyd ā€¢ Cal ā€¢ Carl the Grim Rabbit ā€¢ Claudette Dupri ā€¢ Dr. Clovenhoof ā€¢ Eagle Scout ā€¢ Elliot Sampson ā€¢ Horace the Horse ā€¢ Ivana ā€¢ Jack ā€¢ Thes ā€¢ Leslie P. Lilylegs ā€¢ Miss Cougar ā€¢ Pampreen Perdy and Paul Perdy ā€¢ Rhoda Roundhouse ā€¢ Shameless O'Scanty ā€¢ Sir Littlechin ā€¢ Slugsworthy the First ā€¢ Squint Eatswood ā€¢ Tad Tucker ā€¢ Trey Hugger ā€¢ Viktor ā€¢ Winter Stag

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