Leghorn Swoggled

Leghorn Swoggled
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Airdate:	28 July 1951 Blue Ribbon reissue: 25 November 1961
Series:	Merrie Melodies
MPAA Number:	14194
Production Number:	1162
Vitaphone Number:	1963
Runtime:	7 minutes, 13 seconds
Copyright Renewed:	19 June 1978
Starring:	Foghorn Leghorn Henery Hawk Barnyard Dawg The Supreme Cat
Crew
Voice Characterizations:	Mel Blanc
Director:	Robert McKimson
Written By:	Warren Foster
Producer:	Eddie Selzer
Animated By:	Charles McKimson Rod Scribner Phil DeLara Emery Hawkins
Layout Artist:	Cornett Wood
Background Artist:	Richard H. Thomas
Film Editor:	Treg Brown (uncredited)
Musician:	Eugene Poddany
Orchestrations:	Milt Franklyn

Leghorn Swoggled is a 1951 Merrie Melodies short directed by Robert McKimson.

Title

The name is a play on "leghorn" and "hornswoggled".

Plot

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Little Henery the Chicken Hawk wants to trap Foghorn Leghorn for his dinner, and Barnyard Dawg then says he will help Henery to catch Foghorn on one condition - that Henery find him a bone. Henery's efforts to find the dog a bone involve obtaining cheese for a mouse and a fish for a cat, with Foghorn's help! Once the dog is given his bone, he uses it to knock Foghorn out, so that Foghorn can be carried away by Henery on a toy train.

Availability

(1984) VHS
The Looney Tunes Video Show Volume 11

(1986) VHS
Foghorn Leghorn's Fractured Funnies

(1986) Beta
Foghorn Leghorn's Fractured Funnies

(1996) VHS
Foghorn Leghorn

(2003) VHS
Foghorn Leghorn

(2024) Blu-ray
Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 4 (restored, original rings restored)

(2024) Blu-ray
Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volumes 1-4

Streaming

Boomerang App ( - 2024)

HBO Max (2020 - 2022) (restored with original titles)

Max (2024 - 2025) (restored with original titles)

Tubi (2025 - ) (restored with original titles)

Censorship

Two gags centered on choking were cut when this cartoon aired on ABC's The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show:

• When Henery Hawk catches Foghorn by the neck with his lasso, Foghorn's line, "I've lost my voice. I can't sing. It's like being choked on a rope" was cut down on "I've lost my voice".
• The scene of Foghorn Leghorn spanking Barnyard Dawg and making him chase him up a ladder and onto a pull-up bar, where Barnyard Dawg swings from his rope and gets his underside repeatedly painted was cut off after Foghorn Leghorn spanks him and runs.

Goofs

• After Barnyard Dawg is punched in the face with a boxing glove camera, the screen briefly freeze-frames for one second before it resumes playing as normal.
• The 2020 restored print with the original titles jump cuts from the color rings to the title card instead of fading from the color rings to the title card. Although the version shown on MeTV corrects this, it was not fixed on the Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 4 print.

Gallery

Part of the animator draft along with two other drafts for "Lovelorn Leghorn" and "The Foghorn Leghorn"