Release Date:

September 8, 1951

Main Character(s):

Foghorn Leghorn, Miss Prissy, Barnyard Dawg

Summary:

Miss Prissy sets out to catch herself a husband. Foghorn Leghorn manipulates her into believing Barnyard Dawg is a rooster in a dog suit.

That’s Not All, Folks:

The production number is 1168 and was released as a Looney Tune.

The cartoon was given a Blue Ribbon reissue.

This is Prissy’s second appearance and her first appearance in a Foghorn cartoon.

This is also the first time Foghorn cartoon where Dawg appears, but not Henery Hawk as well as one of two times where Dawg and Prissy appear in the same cartoon, with the other one being 1953’s “Of Rice and Hen”.

This is the first McKimson cartoon where Tedd Pierce is now his official storyman.

This is the only time since “Saddle Silly” where Phil DeLara is credited as “Philip DeLara” and the only time he is credited as such in a McKimson cartoon.

This is the last Warner cartoon scored by Eugene Poddany and the last Warner cartoon to be scored by someone other than Carl Stalling until Freleng’s “Bugs and Thugs” in 1954 (which was the first cartoon to be scored by Milt Franklyn, who had started sharing composing duties with Stalling around that time).

You can find out who animated what scene here.

The cartoon was used in the 1983 compilation movie, “Daffy Duck’s Movie: Fantastic Island”.

Foghorn uses one of Bugs’ often-used catchphrases, “Of course, you know, this means war!” at one point, albeit slightly tweaked, “Course, you know, this means war!”

Favorite Scene:

The scene where Dawg splashes a sunbathing Foghorn with water complete with Foghorn’s hilariously over-the-top scream.

What Happens in This One:

In the henhouse, Prissy is seen getting herself ready to go out to look for a husband, where she also has a book called “Live Alone and Hate It” (animated by John Carey). One hen, Clara, talks to another about this: “Hey, Hazel. Look who’s goin’ out to look for a husband!” Hazel laughs, “Not Prissy?” to which Clara confirms, “Yeah, old square-britches herself!” (animated by Phil DeLara) While humming Wagner’s “Bridal Chorus”, Prissy powders herself and sprays herself with perfume. Another hen, Alice, teases, “If you ask me, the poor old thing couldn’t catch a husband with a bear trap!” to which the other hens giggle at this. As Prissy walks past them, Clara sarcastically wishes her, “Happy husband-huntin’, dearie!” Hazel asks, “Did you take something with you to clunk him on the head with?” Prissy replies, “Yes” and pulls out a rolling pin before exiting the henhouse (animated by Carey).

Meanwhile, Foghorn is sunbathing and snoring, also muttering, “I say-” and “-that is” between snores (animated by Charles McKimson). Dawg sneaks out of his doghouse with a pail of water, and splashes Foghorn with it, causing the latter to scream over-dramatically (animated by DeLara). After gasping for air, Foghorn wonders, “Now, who’s respons-, I say, who’s responsible for this unwarranted attack on my person?” (animated by Charles) Dawg whispers, “Psst” from behind, to which Foghorn turns around with an “Ah-ha!” before attempting to charge at him. Dawg just simply shuts Foghorn’s umbrella on him. In the umbrella, Foghorn vows, “Course, you know, this means war!” (animated by DeLara)

Prissy spots Foghorn as he’s sharpening an ax, walks up to him with her rolling pin, and whispers, “Psst” to him to get his attention. Foghorn wonders, “Now, uh, what have we got here?” Answering to Prissy’s “come here” gesture, Foghorn tells her, “Alright, sister! Out with it! Let’s have it!”, to which she wallops him with the rolling pin (animated by Rod Scribner). After Prissy bats her eyelashes at him (animated by Charles), Foghorn starts raving, “Now what, I say, what’s the big idea bashing me on the noggin with a rolling pin!? (animated by Scribner) Clunk enough people and we’ll have a nation of lumpheads!” This unintentionally hurts Prissy’s feelings as she starts sobbing loudly (animated by Charles). Foghorn apologizes, “Now, hold on. That was a joke, girl. Lump. Heads. Lumpheads! Nothin’ to cry about! Now let’s hear YOUR side of the story, sister!” (animated by DeLara)

Prissy begins to explain, “Well-” but Foghorn interrupts her by holding her beak, “I know ju-, I say, I know just what you’re gonna say! (animated by Charles) You’re lookin’ for a husband!” When Prissy confirms, “Yeeesss” (animated by Scribner), Foghorn informs her, “Well, you’re going about it all wrong, girly. You don’t bat him on the bean with a rolling pin!” and asides, “That comes later”. He then points towards a sleeping Dawg in his doghouse, “Now you take that rooster yonder! There’s a fine bachelor rooster!” (animated by Charles)

Confused, Prissy begins to tell him, “But, uh-” before Foghorn interrupts, “Ah, ah, ah, ah! You’re right! He DOES look like a dog! But he’s a rooster, alright! (animated by DeLara) He, I say, he just wears that dog suit to keep the lovesick hens away from him!” Intrigued, Prissy believes this, “Ohhhhh” (animated by Charles). Since the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, Foghorn instructs her to take a casaba melon (animated by Emery Hawkins) over to Dawg but not let him have it. “Tease him a little (animated by Charles). Make him chase ya! Look, sister, is any of this filterin’ through that little blue bonnet of yours?” Prissy answers, “Yeeessss” and walks off with the melon (animated by Scribner). Foghorn confides, “Nice girl, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice!” (animated by Charles)

Dawg wakes up to see Prissy seemingly about to give him the melon: “For me!?” but she instead does a Middle Eastern dance with it in front of him. Dawg figures, “This cluck’s off her onion!” before telling her, “Alright, Salome! Give papa the pretty melon!” When she doesn’t comply, he becomes angry: “Gimme that casaba, ya pea-brain!” and begins to chase her. In the midst of the chase, Foghorn comes running in, dressed as a football player from the 1950’s: “I’m wi-, I say, I’m wide open! Shoot me a lateral! That’s the old passin’ it, kiddo!” Prissy passes the melon over to Foghorn, who then shoves the melon on Dawg’s head, rendering him unable to see and still having the melon on his head when he reaches his rope limit, which is the same spot a goalpost is placed. After setting Dawg up like a football, Foghorn blows the whistle (animated by Hawkins up to here) and then punts Dawg over the goalpost, causing the melon to smash upon hitting the ground on impact. Foghorn tells her, “Your rooster, girly! I’ve hooked, I say, I’ve hooked him! It’s up to you to land him!” (animated by DeLara)

Foghorn walks off chuckling, “Soon, I say, sooner or later, she’s bound to try to get him out of that dog suit! Then, whoa-ho-ho, Nellie!” (animated by DeLara) Prissy is then seen trying to do so, to which Dawg asks with his head compressed into his body, “Hey, wait a minute! What are ya tryin’ to do, pull my skin off of me!?” After Prissy answers, “Yeeesssss”, Dawg gets his head out of his body and tells her, “Well it won’t work, girly! It’s on too tight! Now, what’s this all about?” She whispers her intentions of getting a husband to him. “A husband!? Look, chick, I got news for ya. What you want’s is a rooster! Not a dog, which I’m!” (animated by Scribner) Prissy again answers, “Yeeesssss” to which Dawg tells her, “Well, with THAT puss, your only chance to get a rooster is to TRAP one!” He then starts whispering to her as to how to do it, although his instructions are clearly audible, “You get yourself a couple of 2-by-4’s and then you get a stepladder….” before the scene fades out (animated by Charles).

Later, Prissy has just finished her “Rooster Trap” (animated by Charles) which Foghorn, who’s been fiddling with some sort of strings on fingers game, notices this and walks up, “What in the, I say, what in the world is that hen up to now?” Seeing her struggling to lift a bowling ball and send it rolling down the chute she made in her trap, Foghorn does it for her, not wanting to let a lady do a man’s job. “There ya are, sister! Have fun!” and then confides, “Nutty as a fruitcake” (animated by Scribner).

In tune to Strauss’ “Perpetual Motion”, the trap goes into action, revealing it to be a Rube Goldberg-like trap as Foghorn watches. The bowling ball goes down a ladder under the chute, and falls into a well’s bucket, with its weight sending the bucket all the way down to the bottom of the well, where the well’s crank hits a golf ball next to where the crank is placed. The golf ball lands on the barn’s roof, goes through the drainpipe, and falls onto a mousetrap with a straight razor attached to it, which slices a rope holding a hay bale in place. The hay bale lands on the water trough’s pump and fills a bucket on one end of a teeter board which has a rope on the other end, with the full bucket causing the other end of the teeter board to untie a shoe in an anvil that was attached to a tree. The shoe in the anvil lands on a tractor’s starter, sending a cork in its exhaust flying out with a match attached to it. The cork and match fly under a matchbox, which strikes the match before they land on a cannon with the help of a mini-suction cup that was attached to the cork, which fires a cannonball into a barrel (animated by Charles up to here) and the cannonball directly hits Foghorn on the head (animated by DeLara).

As the hens are all chatting, they notice Prissy’s back with a large market basket, sarcastically asking, “Prissy! What do ya got in the market basket, dearie? A husband?” A still-dazed Foghorn pops out to confirm while imitating Prissy, “Yeah, I say, uh, yeeeesssss” (animated by Hawkins).

Where Can I Watch It?

At archive.org!

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