Release Date:

February 19, 1955

Main Character(s):

Foghorn Leghorn, Barnyard Dawg, Henery Hawk

Summary:

In his never-ending feud with Barnyard Dawg, Foghorn Leghorn decides to develop his muscles to get even with him. After he sends Henery Hawk away on a “flying saucer” after he takes the chicken Henery has abducted away from him, Henery teams up with Dawg to catch Foghorn.

That’s Not All, Folks:

The production number is 1325 and was released as a Looney Tune.

This is the penultimate cartoon that McKimson did with his old unit (Herman Cohen and Rod Scribner both only animated small portions in the cartoon, leaving them uncredited). McKimson even did some animation on this one himself, marking the first time a director animated on one of his own cartoons.

This is the first McKimson cartoon to have Keith Darling credited.

This is the only McKimson cartoon to have animation by Richard Thompson and the only time that Thompson animated on a cartoon outside of Jones’ unit.

Charles McKimson co-wrote this cartoon with Sid Marcus. Likely because of him contributing to the story, Robert animated what would’ve likely been Charles’ scenes (although Phil DeLara, who IS credited in this cartoon, wrote “Quack Shot” and still animated on that one).

This is Henery’s penultimate appearance and the last time he is in the same cartoon with Dawg. He would appear one more time six years later in “Strangled Eggs”.

The title is a pun for “all fouled up” (this phrase was part of an acronym used for the Private Snafu cartoons where Snafu’s name stood for “Situation Normal All Fouled Up”).

The pipe gag is reused from “No Parking Hare”.

Carl Stalling scored this one.

The animator draft for the cartoon can be viewed here.

I love the 1950’s swing rendition of “Camptown Races” over the opening credits.

Favorite Scene:

The ending where Foghorn ends up showering wet cement all over himself when attempting to trap Dawg in his house by pouring concrete over it.

What Happens in This One:

Foghorn sneaks across the barnyard carrying a plank (animated by Herman Cohen). As usual, he picks Dawg up by the tail and whacks him on the behind with the plank several times. Dawg begins chasing after him while barking angrily. This time, Dawg’s rope limit stops at a well, which he falls into with his doghouse going down with him shortly. When both land in the well’s bottom, Foghorn chuckles, “LOVE that Dawg!” (animated by Phil DeLara)

Later, with him and the doghouse out of the well and back onto the ground, Dawg is seen scooping out bucket after bucket full of water. Propping up a pillow to take a nap against a tree, Foghorn again chuckles, “Love that Dawg!” before he begins napping. Dawg sneaks up to him hidden under a metal dinner platter and then bangs the platter over Foghorn’s head before running off. Foghorn begins looking around and talking very fast, “Hey! What? What? I say, I say, what? What? Who? Who-?”, before realizing, “Oh, it’s that Dawg again!” Deciding “That do-, I say that Dawg is lower than a snake full of buckshot”, Foghorn decides, “Well, I’ll just have to pay a visit to that blubber-headed hound and gently break him in two with my good right arm”. He flexes his right arm, only for his muscle to droop, complete with Bob Clampett’s “Bee-woop!” sound effect. “Hmm. Don’t look so good. Uh, mus-, I say muscle’s getting kind of flabby” (animated by Phil DeLara).

Foghorn decides, “I’d better do a few exercises and build ‘em up!” He begins doing push-ups, just as a hen seemingly walks past in front of him with her legs having presumably shrunk. Foghorn wonders, “Why, Henrietta. What in the w-, I say, what in the world has happened to your legs?” Once he picks her up, it turns out Henery has been carrying her off as he demands, “Hey! What’s the big idear!? Give me back my chicken!” Foghorn asks in confusion, “YOUR chicken?” (animated by DeLara), to which Henery answers, “Yeah! I’m a chicken hawk and I’m after chicken!” He grabs Foghorn’s wattle and attempts to drag him off by pulling him wattle-first, “Are YOU a chicken? If ya are, come along quietly, before I mess ya up!” Foghorn pulls himself free from Henery’s grasp, “Go awa-, I say, go away, boy! Ya bother me!” (animated by Richard Thompson) He then puts Henery on a plate and throws him and said plate into the air like a frisbee, “Here. Take a ride for yourself” (animated by Rod Scribner).

Dawg wakes up upon seeing Henery on the plate zooming past and believes it’s “a flying saucer! (animated by Scribner) Little man from Mars!” He quickly runs into his doghouse and boards up the entrance (animated by McKimson). Henery comes crashing in through the back of the house and hitting Dawg in his backside. Dawg picks Henery up as the latter demands, “Are YOU a chicken!? Speak up! Speak up!” Dawg answers in confusion, “Why, uh, no. I’m a dog”. Henery: “Well, I’m a chicken hawk, and I’m looking for chicken!” Dawg: “Chicken hawk? Well, what’re ya doing HERE?” Henery answers while referring to Foghorn, “Ah, that big schnook tricked me!” Dawg: “Schnook?” Henery then describes him, “Yeah! He’s got big eyes, big beak, big feet, and he’s big and ugly!” Dawg begins to put two and two together, “Ugly, huh? Eh, sounds like somebody I know”, before Henery tells him, “Come on, I’ll show him to ya!” (animated by Thompson)

Foghorn is beginning to do chin-ups by using a tree branch tied down to a stake as Henery shows him to Dawg, “There’s the big schnook over there!” Realizing his assumption is correct, Dawg informs, “Hmm. I’m gonna let ya in on a little secret. That schnook over there is an overstuffed, fat, flabby, slob of a chicken!” (animated by Thompson) Elated at what he just heard, Henery starts repeating “Chicken!” in ecstasy before stating, “Gosh! I’m a chicken hawk! I catch chickens and eat ‘em!” Dawg then points to Henery’s stomach, “In YOU, that big fella would look REAL good!”, before asking, “How would ya like to catch him?” After Henery answers with several enthusiastic “Yeah!”’s, Dawg explains, “Now here’s what ya do!” and whispers a plan to him (animated by Keith Darling).

In the middle of his chin-ups, Foghorn starts going up above the branch without doing anything. He initially believes, “Well, look at me! Chinnin’, no hands! I’m stronger than I thought I was!” before seeing what’s going on underneath him, “I-I-,uh-oh”. It’s revealed that Henery has sneaked a pot up from under him and is jacking it up. Foghorn realizes, “Uh oh. He’s back again” before he asides, “That b-, I say that boy’s just like a tattoo. Gets under your skin”. He then calls down, “Hey, boy! What’s the idea of jacking that pot up under me!?” After Henery throws some wood under it (animated by Darling), Foghorn realizes, “Uh, Jack? Pot?” and then chuckles, “Jackpot! Hey, that’s a joke, son! Don’t ya get it?” (animated by DeLara) Henery leaves and then comes back to put more wood under the pot as Foghorn continues, “I made a funny, son, and you’re not laughing” before he asks, “Say! What’re you up to, boy?” (animated by McKimson) Henery answers, “You’re a chicken and I’m gonna cook ya and eat ya!”, before lighting a match and throwing it onto the wood. Foghorn chuckles, “This boy can’t be serious! He must’ve eh-,”, but then smells smoke and realizes Henery IS serious as he jumps up into the air, yelling in pain. Using binoculars, a chuckling Dawg watches Foghorn’s pain-powered leap into the air and then his falling back down into a pile of junk offscreen (animated by Darling). Piled up, Foghorn realizes, “I ju-, I say, I just KNOW that marble-headed mongrel is back of all this!” (animated by DeLara)

Foghorn is seen attaching some pipes together, intending to send a dynamite stick into Dawg’s home that way. After testing it by blowing the unlit stick all the way through, Foghorn takes it back with him to light it. Chuckling, “This is gonna cause more confusion than a mouse in a burlesque show!”, Foghorn finds that his cigarette lighter won’t turn on. Dawg lights a match and blows it through the pipe from his end (animated by DeLara). The match lights the fuse on Foghorn’s stick just as Foghorn finally gets his lighter to work. He only has time to look down and see it’s already been lit, before the explosion causes all of his upper feathers to blow through the pipe and land next to Dawg. Coming in featherless, Foghorn holds his lower feathers together to prevent them from slumping down and revealing his purple underwear with yellow polka dots. “Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered for-, for just such an emergency” (animated by McKimson).

As Dawg is asleep in his doghouse, Foghorn picks up the doghouse and takes it near a cement mixer labeled “Concrete”, intending to trap Dawg in his house by encasing it in said cement. After checking to see if there is indeed cement in there by slightly pulling on the rope for the mixer, which results in a small drop coming out, Foghorn puts Dawg’s house on top of the cement drop and sits on a nearby rock before pulling the rope. Unfortunately for Foghorn, a ramp emerges out of the mixer and the cement pours out right on top of him (animated by McKimson), causing Foghorn to harden into the pose of “the Thinker” (animated by Darling). Amused at Foghorn’s predicament, Dawg smirks, “Well, smarty pants. What ya gonna do NOW?” With his beak and wattle being the only things on him not covered in cement, Foghorn answers, “Don’t, I say, don’t bother me, Dawg! Can’t ya see I’m thinkin’?” Still sitting on the rock posing as the Thinker, a very hard to chew Foghorn is dragged home by Henery who complains, “Of all the kinds of chickens in the world, I have to catch ME a Plymouth Rock!” (animated by McKimson)

Where Can I Watch It?

At archive.org!

Carrot Rating:

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