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All Fowled Up is a 1955 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.

Plot[]

Foghorn Leghorn sneaks up on the Barnyard Dawg and hits his rear with a two-by-four, and the chase begins. Foghorn leads Dawg over a well, which Dawg, when his rope reaches its limit, falls into, taking his kennel with him. After Dawg bails all the water out following this, he sneaks up on Foghorn and attacks him while the rooster is asleep. Foghorn, believing that Dawg is "lower than a snake full of buckshot", says that he could pay a visit to him and "gently break him in two with my good right arm!" when his muscles turn slack. He resolves to do some exercises to build them up.

While he is doing push-ups, however, he sees a chicken named Henrietta pass by with unusually short legs. When he picks up the chicken, he uncovers Henery Hawk, who then tries to fight Foghorn. In response, Foghorn sends Henery on a wild ride on a plate. It flies over to Dawg's kennel, who is panicked by "a flying saucer! Little man from Mars!" and hides in and barricades his kennel. Henery, however, flies through a hole in the back of the kennel and causes Dawg to burst through its roof.

He picks the chicken hawk up, and Henery explains that Foghorn did this. When Dawg informs Henery that Foghorn is a chicken when they see the rooster doing pull-ups, Dawg convinces him to put Foghorn in a cooking pot and cook him. The heat from the fire causes Foghorn to rocket out in pain and crash-land into some trash, where he quickly figures that Dawg was responsible for what had just happened ("I ju..., I say, I just know that marble-headed mongrel is back of all this.").

From this point on, Foghorn's pranks begin to backfire on him. When he constructs an elaborate pipeline to blow a stick of dynamite out of Dawg's kennel with the intention of blowing him up, while he tries to light a lighter to ignite the dynamite ("this is gonna cause more confusion than a mouse at a burlesque show"), Dawg lights a match from his side and blows it over to Foghorn, who gets blown up instead. The feathers of Foghorn's upper half come out from the end of the pipe on Dawg's side. Foghorn is quick to pick his plumage up, saying, "Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered for... for just such an emergency."

Later on, Foghorn takes a sleeping Dawg and his kennel with the intention of entombing both in concrete from a cement truck. The rooster pours out a small fraction of concrete to place the kennel on as a precaution in case Dawg tries to escape. However, when Foghorn tries to pour the whole load of concrete onto it, a ramp comes out from the mixer, and the whole concrete load flows onto Foghorn instead. Foghorn can do nothing as the concrete hardens him into a Thinker-like pose. Dawg asks him, "Well, smarty-pants, what ya gonna do now?", to which Foghorn replies, "Don't, I say, don't bother me, dawg. Can't ya see I'm thinkin?" Henery Hawk reappears and drags a tough-to-chew dinner home with him, griping, "Of all the kinds of chickens in the world, I had to catch me a PLYMOUTH ROCK!"

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Notes[]

  • This cartoon premiered with the American release of the independently-produced New York Confidential.
  • The production of this cartoon coincided with the brief shutdown of the studio in 1953. As a result, McKimson had to borrow animators from other units to help finish the cartoon, and he even animated a few scenes himself.
  • This is the only short where Richard Thompson animates outside Chuck Jones' unit.
    • This is also the only time where Thompson animates for McKimson.

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References[]

Foghorn Leghorn Cartoons
1946 Walky Talky Hawky
1947 Crowing Pains
1948 The Foghorn Leghorn
1949 Henhouse Henery
1950 The Leghorn Blows at MidnightA Fractured Leghorn
1951 Leghorn SwoggledLovelorn Leghorn
1952 Sock a Doodle DoThe EGGcited Rooster
1953 Plop Goes the Weasel!Of Rice and Hen
1954 Little Boy Boo
1955 Feather DustedAll Fowled Up
1956 Weasel StopThe High and the FlightyRaw! Raw! Rooster!
1957 Fox-Terror
1958 Feather BlusterWeasel While You Work
1959 A Broken Leghorn
1960 Crockett-Doodle-DoThe Dixie Fryer
1961 Strangled Eggs
1962 The Slick ChickMother Was a Rooster
1963 Banty Raids
1964 False Hare
1980 The Yolks on You
1996 Superior Duck
1997 Pullet Surprise
2004 Cock-a-Doodle Duel
Henery Hawk Cartoons
1942 The Squawkin' Hawk
1946 Walky Talky Hawky
1947 Crowing Pains
1948 You Were Never DuckierThe Foghorn Leghorn
1949 Henhouse Henery
1950 The Scarlet PumpernickelThe Leghorn Blows at Midnight
1951 Leghorn Swoggled
1952 The EGGcited Rooster
1955 All Fowled Up
1961 Strangled Eggs



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