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The Leghorn Blows at Midnight is a 1950 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.

Title[]

The title is a play on the 1945 Warner Bros. film The Horn Blows at Midnight.

Plot[]

Foghorn and Barnyard Dawg goes on their usual duel as Henery Hawk stumbles upon the barn. Henery wrangles Dawg as the chickenhawk confuses the dog as a chicken. However, Dawg points out to Henery that he needs to go after Foghorn, and can do so by setting up curious traps.

Henery builds a pumpkin catapult, which Foghorn helps out. After being given a match, Henery starts to activate the catapult. Foghorn walks away, then wonders why a pumpkin is tied to a rope; before he could finish, the pumpkin is flung right into his head, sending rolling into the wall remarking, "Ask a silly question! Get a silly answer!" Henery drags him by the toe and Foghorn yells him to let go of his toe and he removes the pumpkin from his head and begs him not take him. Foghorn then fools the chicken hawk into going after a "pheasant under glass," the Dawg.

Sending a glass cover over, Henery smashes the dog with the cover, causing him to run out of his doghouse barking while Foghorn continues his antics with the dog. Foghorn applies "vanishing cream" on Henery to pretend that the chickenhawk is invisible, but the cream itself only vanishes. Needless to say, Dawg is quick to chase after the chickenhawk until he gets choked by his leash.

Finally, Henery comes back up to Dawg, but Dawg convinces him of a plan to get Foghorn instead. Dawg barks to alert Foghorn where he is, and when Foghorn arrives, Dawg steals his metal cover and hammer and bangs his head on it. Realizing that he has been hornswoggled, the two begins to fight. As Henery watches the duel, he has set up a boiling cauldron where he plans to fricassee the loser.

Television[]

  • The Bugs Bunny Show (1960-1968; 1971-1975)
  • The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour (1968-1971; 1975-1976)
  • The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show (1976-1985)
  • Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon (1988-1989; 1992-1995; 1998-1999)
  • Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends [Syndication] (1990-1992)
  • The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show (1995-1997)
  • Acme Hour [Cartoon Network] (1999-2003)
  • The Bugs and Daffy Show [Cartoon Network] (1999-2004)
  • The Bugs Bunny Show [Boomerang] (2000-2002)
  • The Looney Tunes Show [Cartoon Network] (2001-2004)
  • Looney Tunes on Boomerang (2003-2005; 2013-present)
  • Looney Tunes on Cartoon Network (2011-2015)
  • Bugs Bunny and Friends [Me TV] (2021-present)
  • Toon In with Me [Me TV] (2021-present)

Availability []

Streaming[]

Censorship[]

ABC's The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show edited the following scenes:[3]

  • Barnyard Dawg getting strangled by his rope after getting pied in the face was replaced with a shot of Foghorn Leghorn sitting on a fence and looking off-screen, though the other scenes of Barnyard Dawg getting strangled by his rope were left intact.
  • The fight near the end between Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg, going immediately to Henery Hawk cheering them on after Foghorn says, "I've been, I say, I've been hornswoggled."

Notes[]

  • Beginning from this cartoon, Foghorn is taller and a little thinner compared to his earliest appearances in the 1940s cartoons, while still retaining a plump gut and stature.
  • After Foghorn sends Henry off for the final time, at the 5 minute and 54 second mark, he very briefly looks towards the camera and opens his mouth before the next shot is shown, almost as if there was a line which got cut during production, perhaps for pacing reasons.

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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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