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 decides to teach him that there's more to life than reading books and studying.

Memorable quotes

Foghorn: That woman's as cold as a nudist on an iceberg.

Foghorn: I don't, I say, I don't think this boy's got all his marbles. Shakes his head when he means yes and nods when he means no. But I know he wants to play!

Prissy: Mark my words, one of these days, some of your childish pranks are going to backfire on you!
Foghorn: Ma'am, I 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
    • Farm
      • Miss Prissy's residence
      • Toolshed
      • Fort Paleface
      • Lake

Objects

• Yo-yo
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• Croquet ball and mallets
• Diagram of a 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

• 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 on "feather duster."
• This was the final cartoon to use the original "bullet" sequence for the ending titles, alongside the 1953-55 orange color rings.
• It is the last theatrical short produced before the brief shut down of the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio in 1953, although it isn't the last one to be released. The staff later moved to a newer facility on the main Warner Bros. lot on Burbank, after its reopening 1955.
• 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.
• This was also Prissy's last appearance with Egghead Jr., but he would make one more appearance in the 1960 cartoon Crockett-Doodle-Do.