Weasel Stop

Weasel Stop
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Airdate:	11 February 1956 Blue Ribbon reissue: 25 January 1964
Series:	Looney Tunes
MPAA Number:	17576
Production Number:	1383
Vitaphone Number:	2566
Runtime:	6 minutes, 18 seconds
Copyright Renewed:	1 March 1983
Starring:	Foghorn Leghorn The Weasel
Crew
Voice Characterizations:	Mel Blanc Lloyd Perryman (uncredited)
Director:	Robert McKimson
Written By:	Tedd Pierce
Producer:	Eddie Selzer (uncredited)
Animated By:	Keith Darling Ted Bonnicksen Russ Dyson George Grandpré (uncredited) Robert McKimson (uncredited)
Layout Artist:	Richard H. Thomas
Background Artist:	Richard H. Thomas
Film Editor:	Treg Brown (uncredited)
Musician:	Milt Franklyn

Weasel Stop is a 1956 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.

Title

The title is a play on "whistle stop," a stop or station at which buses or trains stop only if there are passengers or freight to be picked up or dropped off.

Plot

The Weasel climbs atop a telephone pole to spot a nearby chicken barn. Foghorn Leghorn and a watchdog occupies the barn; the latter being asleep while whittling some wood. Foghorn pranks the dog by blowing a false weasel alarm on the dog, making the dog run wildly around the barn until he hits a wall painted as an entrance by Foghorn. Soon afterwards, the weasel enters the barn and snatches Foghorn. The rooster's screams fall on the deaf ears of the watchdog, who later puts on earmuffs after enough screaming. Foghorn escapes the weasel's grasp using a tree branch, as he complains about the "no-account dog." The weasel tries to eat off Foghorn's leg, but Foghorn boots the weasel off, who then goes after a hen inside the yard. The watchdog stops the weasel by whittling a croquet ball that the weasel trips on, and the whittling a mallet to boot the weasel back to Foghorn. Foghorn tells the weasel that he must dispose of the watchdog first in order for him to get after the chickens.

Foghorn ties the weasel up a balloon and hands the weasel a firecracker to try to blow the dog up. However, the weasel is unable to light up the firecracker in time for the dog to pop the balloon using a toothpick. The weasel lands on a wooden seesaw with a rock on one end; just as the dog lights up the weasel's firecracker, the rock lands back on the seesaw and launches him back into the tree with Foghorn as the firecracker blows up on the both of them. The two try to hide themselves as haystacks to put traps, but the dog takes notice and activates a hay baler that catches the two, releasing the two hairless and featherless with their fur and feathers baled. As the weasel gives up and leaves, Foghorn asides that he keeps his feathers numbered for such an emergency.

Availability

(1982) VHS
The Looney Tunes Video Show Volume 7

(1990) VHS
Foghorn Leghorn

(1994) VHS
Special Bumper Collection (Vol. 1)

(1996) VHS
Foghorn Leghorn

(1996) VHS
Special Bumper Collection (Vol. 4)

(1997) VHS
Classic Bumper Collection

(2003) VHS
Foghorn Leghorn

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

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

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

Streaming

Boomerang App ( - 2024) (restored)

HBO Max (2020 - 2022) (restored)

Max (2024 - 2025) (restored)

iTunes ( - ) (restored)

Tubi (2025 -)

Notes

• This cartoon contains an unnamed dog character who replaces Barnyard Dawg.
• Uncredited voice actor Lloyd Perryman was a member of the legendary western singing group the Sons of the Pioneers. He was known as "Mr. Pioneer".

Gallery

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