Feather Dusted

Feather Dusted
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	January 15, 1955
Starring	Mel Blanc Bea Benaderet
Producer(s)	Edward Selzer
Music composed by	Milt Franklyn
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Animation	Rod Scribner Phil DeLara Charles McKimson Herman Cohen
Director(s)	Robert McKimson
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Feather Dusted is the three hundred and eighty-nineth Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on January 15, 1955. It was written by Tedd Pierce, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Robert McKimson.

Against Miss Prissy's wishes for her son, Egghead Jr., to do his studies, Foghorn Leghorn decides to teach him that there's more to life than reading books and studying, like having fun and playing games.

Memorable quotes

Prissy: Mark my words, one of these days, some of your childish pranks are going to backfire on you!
Foghorn: Ma'am, AH SAY, ma'am, you are sooooooo right!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Foghorn Leghorn	Mel Blanc
Miss Prissy	Bea Benaderet
Egghead Jr.	N/A

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
  • Foghorn's Farmyard
    • Miss Prissy's Henhouse
    • Toolshed (Changed into a fake bank)
    • Fake Fort Paleface
    • Lake

Objects

• Yo-yo
• How to Isolate the Isotope Book
• Croquet Ball and Mallets
• Diagram of Croquet Ball Shot
• Wooden pole
• Black paint can and brush
• Police whistle
• Shovel
• Iron Ball and chain
• Loaded popgun
• Toy sailboat
• Makeshift cannon
• Bowling ball
• Box of loaded windup battleships

Vehicles

• Police car (offscreen)
• Makeshift pirate raft

Music

The music was composed by Milt Franklyn.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: January 15, 1955 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun of the cleaning tool, the feather duster.
• This was the final cartoon to use the original "bullet" sequence for the ending titles, alongside the 1953-1955 orange Color Rings.
• This cartoon was also the last-produced, but not the last-released, before the original studio shut down.
• This is the second and final cartoon where Miss Prissy has a more extensive vocabulary than her trademark "Ye-eeesss", as in A Broken Leghorn (1959), the character returned to only saying her trademark "Ye-eeesss." This was also her last appearance with her son, Egghead Jr. But he would make one more appearance in the 1960 Merrie Melodies cartoon, Crockett-Doodle-Do.