Release Date:

May 10, 1958

Main Character(s):

Foghorn Leghorn, Barnyard Dawg

Summary:

Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg are now old geezers and best friends playing checkers instead of fighting. Their respective grandsons fighting with each other reminds them of the old days where they recount these memories with clips from older cartoons.

That’s Not All, Folks:

The production number is 1476 and was released as a Merrie Melodie.

This is the third clip show cartoon from Warner. This one contains clips from “Henhouse Henery”, “The High and the Flighty”, and “All Fowled Up”. The former two also contain new bits of animation, with the latter being due to Foghorn having gotten the trick bone from Daffy instead of having received it in the mail.

Similar to “The Old Grey Hare”, which had Bugs and Elmer as elderly, this one does the same with Foghorn and Dawg. Unlike that cartoon where Elmer is still after Bugs with Bugs still outsmarting him, Foghorn and Dawg have ceased their rivalry at old age.

This is the first cartoon where Warren Batchelder is credited. From this point on, he would always be credited, making this the cartoon where McKimson’s late 1950’s and early 1960’s unit was fully established, considering that Batchelder, Ted Bonnicksen, and George Grandpre were his core three animators during that period.

Although Milt Franklyn scored this cartoon, Carl Stalling is also given credit due to the inclusion of the earlier cartoons.

Dawg’s doghouse in this cartoon reads “Grandpup” while Dawg III’s reads “Pup”.

Unfortunately, the animator draft for the cartoon doesn’t exist anywhere online.

Foghorn initially not remembering that he used to harass Dawg after scolding Foghorn III for teasing Dawg III could possibly be him having a slight bit of dementia (one of several things that we in real life could all gladly do without).

The grandsons are very small versions of their respective grandpas (even smaller than Sylvester Jr.) with Mel Blanc’s voices for them also being higher-pitched (and sped up) versions of their voices.

This is the only cartoon besides “Crowing Pains” where Foghorn and Dawg are fully on good terms with each other.

Favorite Scene:

The ending scene where Foghorn and Dawg find out their respective grandsons have been listening to them this whole time where Foghorn III has Dawg III play “doctor” with him and have him say “ah” as an excuse to paint his tongue green.

What Happens in This One:

On a beautiful spring day, inside Foghorn’s shack, the now-elderly Foghorn and Dawg are playing checkers as the latter asks, “Hey, Foggy. What do you suppose those two grandsons of ours are up to? They’re too quiet!” Foghorn answers, “Last, I say, last time I saw ‘em, they was playing real nice together up by the red barn!” Foghorn III walks out of the barn scatting to “Camptown Races” as he picks up a plank and walks over to Dawg III’s house with it (animated by George Grandpre). He whacks Dawg III’s behind with the plank, provoking him into chasing him. Once Dawg III reaches his rope limit, he continues barking angrily in place, to which Foghorn III slaps him with an “Ah, shut up!” (animated by Tom Ray)

Foghorn leans his head outside the shack’s window in front of the grandsons and asks, “What’s going on out here? What’s all the fuss?” Foghorn III answers, “Aw, we’re just having fun, Gwandpa!” Foghorn scolds, “You lay off of teasing that little pup or I’ll paddle you right where your feathers are the thinnest!” (animated by Ray) He then limps back to Dawg, “I do-, I say, I don’t know what’s wrong with that grandson of mine!” Dawg laughs, “Ain’t nothing wrong with him! ‘Cept that he takes after you!” Confused by this, Foghorn asks, “Now whatever are you talking about, Dawg?” Dawg: “Oh, come now, Foggy! I suppose you’ve forget about how you was always rousting me around!” Now remembering, Foghorn laughs, “Come to think of it now, seems, I say, it seems (animated by Ted Bonnicksen) like I ALWAYS got the best of ya, Dawg!”, unaware that the grandsons are listening from outside (animated by Warren Batchelder).

“Like the time ya took up art?”, Dawg asks. Foghorn: “Huh? Art?” Dawg: “Yeah, you remember. You went in for painting landscapes” (animated by Bonnicksen) as a flashback from “Henhouse Henery” is shown with Foghorn painting a fake open gate setting on the fence. Dawg continues, “Got yourself all set up with paints and a silly-looking hat on your head!” The flashback shows Foghorn provoking Dawg into chasing him with the whacking behind with plank bit up to the point where Dawg steals the bat Foghorn carved a tree into in the workshop. The flashback ends with new footage of younger Foghorn seemingly unscathed and remarking, “Tha-, I say, that Dawg keeps a-pitching ‘em and I keep a-ducking them!”, before this is proven wrong when he turns around and lets out a dazed groan, turning around again and then collapsing front-first (animated by Batchelder).

Back in the present, Dawg laughs, “Didn’t quite turn out like ya figured, did it?” Foghorn scoffs and then retorts, “Well, I didn’t bear ya no grudge, did I? Remember, I came right back with a (animated by Bonnicksen) handsome present for ya!” With this flashback beginning with new animation of younger Foghorn receiving an ACME Trick Bone in the mail and then compressing the spring to make the two ends connect (animated by Batchelder), the scene of Foghorn giving Dawg the spring bone from “The High and the Flighty” is shown.

The next flashback is from “All Fowled Up” with Foghorn setting up the pipes in order to send a dynamite stick in there by blowing through it. They are also both heard talking about it. Foghorn: “Then there was the time I built ya that beautiful new doghouse, remember?” Dawg: “Yeah, complete with outside plumbing! (laughs)” With no voice-over for the rest of the clip, the flashback also shows Foghorn struggling to get his lighter to work and Dawg blowing a lit match of his own into the pipe, ending with Foghorn’s upper feathers getting blown through the pipe from the explosion.

Foghorn scoffs at this memory in a grumpy manner, which causes Dawg to ask, “Can’t take it, huh?” Foghorn replies, “Oh, I can take it! But I prefer, I say, I prefers to dish it out! (laughs) I’ll always cherish the memory of my superb (animated by Bonnicksen) coup-de-grace that left such a bad taste in your mouth! (laughs)” This last flashback shows another clip from “Henhouse Henery” with Foghorn provoking Dawg into chasing him by tickling him from outside his doghouse with a clown face on a stick, ending with Foghorn painting Dawg’s tongue green when the latter reaches his rope limit.

In the present, Foghorn laughs over this last flashback, but upon seeing Dawg staring at him with his left hand on his cheek and staring at him irritated, asks, “What’s the matter, Dawg? I don’t hear ya laughing!” Dawg then hears the grandsons giggling and realizes something, “You don’t suppose them kids was listening to us?”, but Foghorn doesn’t believe it, “No! They c-, I say, they couldn’t hear what we was talking about!” before going over to the window (animated by Bonnicksen). Foghorn looks out the window to observe Foghorn III requesting to Dawg III, “Hey, puppy dog! Wet’s pway a game!” Dawg III: “Okay, what’ll we pway?” Foghorn III: “Wet’s pway doctor!” Dawg III: “Okay”. Foghorn III puts on a makeshift head mirror with the mirror part being the lid of a tin can and tells Dawg III, “Alwight, open, I say, open your mouth and say ‘ah’!” When Dawg III does so, he gets his tongue painted green by Foghorn III. Having also watched this, Dawg answers sarcastically, “No! They couldn’t hear us!” Foghorn admits, “Well, I cou-, I say, I could be wrong! (laughs)” (animated by Ray)

Where Can I Watch It?

At toontales.net!

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