Changes: The Leghorn Blows at Midnight

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.

Gallery

TV Title Cards

References

↑ https://archive.org/details/boxofficebaromet00boxo_7/page/152/mode/2up
↑ https://archive.org/details/1976motionpictur3301213libr/page/117/mode/1up?view=theater
↑ The Censored Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Page: K-L http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-k-l.aspx

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

Henery Hawk Cartoons
1942	The Squawkin' Hawk
1946	Walky Talky Hawky
1947	Crowing Pains
1948	You Were Never Duckier • The Foghorn Leghorn
1949	Henhouse Henery
1950	The Scarlet Pumpernickel • The Leghorn Blows at Midnight
1951	Leghorn Swoggled
1952	The EGGcited Rooster
1955	All Fowled Up
1961	Strangled Eggs

[1] ttps://archive.org/details/boxofficebaromet00boxo_7/page/152/mode/2up

[2] ttps://archive.org/details/1976motionpictur3301213libr/page/117/mode/1up?view=theater

[3] The Censored Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Page: K-L http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-k-l.aspx

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+{{Shorts
 |name = The Leghorn Blows at Midnight
-|image = Leghorn blows.jpg
-|Director = [[Robert McKimson]]
-|producer = [[Eddie Selzer]] (uncredited)
-|airdate = May 6, 1950
-|series = [[Looney Tunes]]
-|Voice = [[Mel Blanc]]
-|Starring = [[Foghorn Leghorn]]<br>[[Henery Hawk]]<br>[[Barnyard Dawg]]
 |previous = [[Big House Bunny]]
 |next = [[His Bitter Half]]
+|image = Screenshot 2021-01-16 at 1.15.39 PM.png
-|video = [[File:Foghorn Leghorn - (1950) - Leghorn Blows at Midnight|center|300px]]
+|airdate = 6 May 1950 <br/><br/>'''[[Blue Ribbon]] reissue:''' <br/>2 November 1957<ref>https://archive.org/details/boxofficebaromet00boxo_7/page/152/mode/2up</ref>
-|Writer = [[Warren Foster]]
+|renewed = 12 January 1976<ref>https://archive.org/details/1976motionpictur3301213libr/page/117/mode/1up?view=theater</ref>
-|Animators = [[Charles McKimson]]<br />[[Phil DeLara]]<br />[[Rod Scribner]]<br />[[Emery Hawkins]]<br />[[Bill Melendez|J.C. Melendez]]
+|runtime = 7 min. 17 sec.
-|Layout-artist = [[Cornett Wood]]
-|Background-artist = [[Richard H. Thomas]]
+|series = [[Looney Tunes]]
+|mpaa = 13374
-|Sound effects = [[Treg Brown]] (uncredited)
+|prodno = 1116<br>1504 (reissue)
-|Musician = [[Carl W. Stalling|Carl Stalling]]}}
-'''The Leghorn Blows at Midnight''' is a 1950 [[Foghorn Leghorn]] cartoon made by [[Warner Bros.]] and directed by [[Robert McKimson]] featuring [[Henery Hawk]] and the [[Barnyard Dawg]].
+|starring = [[Foghorn Leghorn]]<br>[[Henery Hawk]]<br>[[Barnyard Dawg]]
+|voice = [[Mel Blanc]]
+|director = [[Robert McKimson]]
+|producer = [[Eddie Selzer]] (uncredited)
+|writer = [[Warren Foster]]
+|animators = [[Charles McKimson]]<br>[[Phil DeLara]]<br>[[Rod Scribner]]<br>[[Emery Hawkins]]<br>[[Bill Melendez|J.C. Melendez]]
+|layout = [[Cornett Wood]]
+|background = [[Richard H. Thomas]]
+|editor = [[Treg Brown]] (uncredited)
+|musician = [[Carl W. Stalling|Carl Stalling]]
+|video = Leghorn Blows at Midnight
+}}
+'''The Leghorn Blows at Midnight''' is a [[1950]] ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short directed by [[Robert McKimson]].
-==Plot==
+== Title ==
+The title is a play on the 1945 Warner Bros. film ''The Horn Blows at Midnight''.
-Henery the chicken hawk arrives back on the farm, in the process he disturbs the antics of Foghorn Leghorn. Henery puts a pumpkin in a catapult and Foghorn sees and helps him and he asked for a match and he gives him a match and lits the rope. Foghorn walks away then wonders what is a pumpkin tied to a rope before he could finish the pumpkin went to 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 my toe and he removes the pumpkin from his head and begs him not take me. Foghorn then fools the chicken hawk into thinking he has painted him invisible and sends the naïve little after "Pheasent Under Glass" which turns out to be the barnyard dog.
+== Plot ==
+[[Foghorn Leghorn|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 (2001 TV Series)|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 ==
+<gallery>
+Lt flff.jpg|(1986) VHS <br/>''[[Foghorn Leghorn's Fractured Funnies]]''
+Lt flff beta.jpg|(1986) Beta <br/>''[[Foghorn Leghorn's Fractured Funnies]]''
+Lt ltc fl.jpg|(1996) VHS <br/>''[[Looney Tunes Collection#Foghorn Leghorn|Foghorn Leghorn]]''
+File:Foghorn Leghorn Vhs.webp|(2003) VHS <br/> [[Foghorn Leghorn (2003)|''Foghorn Leghorn'']]
+front.jpg|(2023) Blu-ray <br>''[[Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 2]]'' (restored)
+</gallery>
+===Streaming===
+<gallery>
+Lt boomerang.jpg|[[Boomerang]] App (2018 - )
+Lt hbo max.jpg|[[HBO Max]] (2020 - 2023) (restored) <!--Was available 4 November 2020-->
+lt max.jpg|[[Max]] (2023 - 2024) (restored)
+Lt itunes.jpg|iTunes ( - ) (restored)
+</gallery>
+==Censorship==
+[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s ''The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show'' edited the following scenes:<ref>The Censored Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Page: K-L http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-k-l.aspx</ref>
+*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.
+== Gallery==
+<gallery>
+LeghornMidnightRestoredSmall.jpeg|Cropped screenshot of 2020 restoration
+Drawing (7).png|Title card (low quality)
+Screenshot 2021-01-16 at 1.15.39 PM.png|Title card (HBO Max HD expanded version)
+Screenshot 2021-01-16 at 1.16.21 PM.png
+Screenshot 2021-01-16 at 1.16.28 PM.png
+TheLeghornBlowsAtMidnightLobbyCard.jpg|[[Lobby Cards|Lobby card]]
+TheLeghornBlowsAtMidnightLeadSheet1.jpg
+TheLeghornBlowsAtMidnightLeadSheet2.jpg
+TheLeghornBlowsAtMidnightLeadSheet3.jpg
+TheLeghornBlowsAtMidnightLeadSheet4.jpg
+</gallery>
+===TV Title Cards ===
+<gallery>
+Screenshot 2021-03-15 at 2.23.00 PM.png|''[[The Bugs Bunny Show|The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show]]''
+</gallery>
+==References==
+<references />
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+{{HeneryHawkShorts}}
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 [[Category:Cartoons animated by Bill Melendez]]
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