Pullet Surprise is a 1997 Looney Tunes short directed by Darrell Van Citters.
Title[]
The title is a play on the Pulitzer Prize, "pullet" referring to a hen that is less than one year old.
Plot[]
Pete Puma is trying to raid the hen house Foghorn Leghorn is guarding. Foggy decides to have some fun with Pete. He tells Pete what he really wants is a Venezuelan Racing Chicken which has unfortunately run back to Venezuela. Pete runs there and back in jig time. Next, he really wants an Irish Wrestling Chicken, which turns out to be a rope tied to a bull's tail. When Pete makes off with a chicken, nest and all, Foghorn grabs the chicken, then says Pete's found the rare Mongolian Disappearing Chicken, and the only way to make it reappear is tap dancing. Pete dances into a hole. Foggy drops an anvil on Pete's head ("a whole lotta lumps!"). Foggy walks away, chuckling at his cleverness, when a genuine Irish Wrestling Chicken pins him ("I'm glad, I say, I'm glad I didn't show him the Norwegian Exploding Chicken").
Availability[]
Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
Looney Tunes: Parodies Collection
Notes[]
- Since this cartoon was produced after the death of legendary Looney Tunes voice artist Mel Blanc, the voice of Foghorn Leghorn is supplied by Frank Gorshin. Stan Freberg still voiced Pete Puma, after voicing him in the 1952 short "Rabbit's Kin".
- This short was released in theaters with Cats Don't Dance.
- The bull resembles Toro the Bull from "Bully for Bugs".
Gallery[]
| Foghorn Leghorn Cartoons | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | Walky Talky Hawky | |||
| 1947 | Crowing Pains | |||
| 1948 | The Foghorn Leghorn | |||
| 1949 | Henhouse Henery | |||
| 1950 | The Leghorn Blows at Midnight • A Fractured Leghorn | |||
| 1951 | Leghorn Swoggled • Lovelorn Leghorn | |||
| 1952 | Sock a Doodle Do • The EGGcited Rooster | |||
| 1953 | Plop Goes the Weasel! • Of Rice and Hen | |||
| 1954 | Little Boy Boo | |||
| 1955 | Feather Dusted • All Fowled Up | |||
| 1956 | Weasel Stop • The High and the Flighty • Raw! Raw! Rooster! | |||
| 1957 | Fox-Terror | |||
| 1958 | Feather Bluster • Weasel While You Work | |||
| 1959 | A Broken Leghorn | |||
| 1960 | Crockett-Doodle-Do • The Dixie Fryer | |||
| 1961 | Strangled Eggs | |||
| 1962 | The Slick Chick • Mother 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 | |||