Strangled Eggs

Strangled Eggs
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Airdate:	18 March 1961
Series:	Merrie Melodies
MPAA Number:	19531
Production Number:	1546
Copyright Renewed:	29 January 1988
Starring:	Foghorn Leghorn Miss Prissy Henery Hawk
Crew
Voice Characterizations:	Mel Blanc Julie Bennett
Director:	Robert McKimson
Written By:	Tedd Pierce
Producer:	David H. DePatie
Animated By:	Warren Batchelder Ted Bonnicksen George Grandpré Tom Ray
Layout Artist:	Robert Gribbroek
Background Artist:	Robert Singer
Film Editor:	Treg Brown
Musician:	Milt Franklyn

Strangled Eggs is a 1961 Merrie Melodies short directed by Robert McKimson.

Plot

Foghorn Leghorn finds his cupboards are bare and, with courting a woman as his only hope to get food for the winter, visits Miss Prissy. While trying to court her, there is a knock on the door. It is a baby basket containing Henery Hawk. Foghorn immediately wants to eat him, but Miss Prissy wants to adopt him as her "son." To get him alone, he pretends to help Henery become a "real" chicken.

Foggy tries to teach Henery how to be a chicken, though his attempts are actually thinly disguised attempts to kill his foe, but such attempts as a hand grenade painted to look like an egg, and pecking for insects in a minefield are unsuccessful.

Foggy claims that if Henery can be a chicken, then he can be a chicken hawk, so he flies after Henery with the intent of catching him. Henery flees to the safety of Miss Prissy, who slams the door on Foggy once and for all! "My pappy used to say, 'Shoemaker, stick to your last. And this is my last!" a clobbered Foggy says.

Availability

(2010) DVD
Looney Tunes Super Stars' Foghorn Leghorn & Friends: Barnyard Bigmouth

(2013) DVD
Looney Tunes Super Stars 3-Pack, Disc 2

(2014) DVD
Looney Tunes Super Stars Family Multi-Feature, Disc 2

Streaming

Boomerang App ( - )

Censorship

• On CBS, the part where Foghorn disguises a hand grenade as an egg, which explodes in Foghorn's hand instead of beneath Henery is cut.
• On the syndicated Merrie Melodies Show, the part where Foghorn teaches Henery how to crow, only to get a noose wrapped around his neck and dropped into a cauldron was cut.
• The WB network kept in the scene that The Merrie Melodies Show removed, but cut the brief shot of Foghorn Leghorn getting strangled and dangling from a noose.

Notes

• This cartoon marks the final appearances of Henery Hawk and Miss Prissy from the Golden Age of American Animation.
• Much like in "Little Boy Boo" (1954) and "A Broken Leghorn" (1959), Foghorn pursues after Prissy for selfish reasons.

Gallery

Closing color rings for this short (1998 dubbed version)

Animator draft

References

Preceded by The Dixie Fryer

Foghorn Leghorn cartoons 1961

Succeeded by The Slick Chick