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Lovelorn Leghorn is a 1951 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.

Plot[]

The other hens in the barn tease Miss Prissy because she does not have a husband and have mocked her for being unable to find one. Prissy sets out with a rolling pin in her hand to find one. Meanwhile, Barnyard Dawg sees a relaxing Foghorn Leghorn and dumps cold water on the rooster, beginning a feud between the two.

Meanwhile, Miss Prissy spots Foghorn, but she ends up whacking him with a rolling pin. As Foghorn is angered, Miss Prissy cries, but Foghorn instead insists that she's trying to find a husband, and that good wives don't hit other's heads with a rolling pin. However, Foghorn uses this to get back at Dawg, with Miss Prissy as his lackey. Prissy first lures Dawg using a melon, causing the dog to chases after the hen. Foghorn comes in as a football player and after getting the melon passed to him, he smashes it onto Dawg's head and uses him as a football field goal. As Prissy then tries to claim the dog, Dawg tells him that he's not a rooster and that Prissy needs to catch a real rooster. Assembling a rube goldberg machine, Foghorn ends up starting the machine himself which starts the contraption, ending up with a cannonball dropped on the head.

Prissy returns with a picnic basket, where Foghorn is stuffed inside. The other hens attempts to mock her again if she found a husband, and a dizzy Foghorn pops out of the picnic basket stating that she did, as Prissy hugs Foghorn.

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  • This is the first pairing of Foghorn Leghorn and Miss Prissy, who debuted in the Porky Pig cartoon "An Egg Scramble" the previous year. Initially in these cartoons, Miss Prissy has a crush on Foghorn Leghorn, who doesn't reciprocate her affections, though in later cartoons, Foghorn pursues Miss Prissy for selfish reasons.
  • This cartoon was used in Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island, but the ending was changed so that Miss Prissy would carry Foghorn in a wheelbarrow as they leave the wishing well.
  • This cartoon was screened in November 1950.[2]
  • This is the final cartoon Eugene Poddany composed music for in the series, as Carl Stalling returned following recovery from brain surgery.[3]
  • This is the first Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg pairing short to not feature Henery Hawk.

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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
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