Foghorn Leghorn

Foghorn Leghorn
"It's a joke, son. Pay attention!"
Species	Chicken
Gender	Male
Member of	Tune Squad
Affiliation	Barnyard Dawg Sylvester Henrey Hawk Miss Prissy Bugs Bunny Daffy Duck Carol in The Looney Tunes Show
Marital status	Single
Children	One son-in-law, Egghead Jr.
First appearance	MM: Walky Hawky Talky (1946)
Played by	Mel Blanc (1946-1989) Jeff Bergman (1990-1992, 2001, Since 2011) Greg Burson (1991-2003) Bill Farmer (1996-2008) Frank Gorshin (1996-1997) Billy West (1998) Jeff Bennett (2000-2011 Joe Alaskey (2006) Maurice Lamarche (2007) Eric Bauza (2018, 2021)
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Foghorn Leghorn is an anthropomorphic rooster and is one of the main characters of the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies theatrical shorts. His voice was originated by Mel Blanc using a non-rhotic Southern accent.

Foghorn's protégé in Tiny Toon Adventures is Fowlmouth.

Appearances

TV series

• The Bugs Bunny Show
• Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny & Friends
• Tiny Toon Adventures
• Bugs 'N' Daffy
• Duck Dodgers (mentioned)
• Baby Looney Tunes
• The Looney Tunes Show
• New Looney Tunes
• Looney Tunes Cartoons
• Bugs Bunny Builders
• Teen Titans Go!
  • 8.24 "Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary"

Movies

• Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
• Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
• Tweety's High-Flying Adventure
• Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island
• Space Jam
• Looney Tunes: Back in Action
• Bah Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas
• Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run
• Space Jam: A New Legacy

Shorts

• Looney Tunes
• Merrie Melodies
  • Walky Talky Hawky
  • Crowing Pains
  • The Foghorn Leghorn
  • Henhouse Henery
  • The Leghorn Blows at Midnight
  • A Fractured Leghorn
  • Leghorn Swoggled
  • Lovelorn Leghorn
  • Sock-A-Doodle-Do
  • The EGGcited Rooster
  • Plop Goes the Weasel!
  • Of Rice and Hen
  • Little Boy Boo
  • Feather Dusted
  • All Fowled Up
  • Weasel Stop
  • The High and The Flighty
  • Raw! Raw! Rooster!
  • Fox-Terror
  • Feather Bluster
  • Weasel While You Work
  • A Broken Leghorn
  • Crockett-Doodle-Do
  • The Dixie Fryer
  • Strangled Eggs
  • The Slick Chick
  • Mother Was a Rooster
  • Banty Raids
  • False Hare (cameo)
  • Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol (cameo)
  • The Yolk's On You
  • Superior Duck
  • Pullet Surprise
  • Cock-A-Doodle-Duel

Biography

Foghorn Sells Out

Foghorn is a guest at Warner Bros.' Burbank lot for its 100th anniversary. While on the set of Friends, Cyborg claims the part of Joey Tribianni, while Foghorn claims the part of Rachel Green, which starts a fight with Yosemite Sam, Taz, and Wile E. Coyote who also want the part.

Development

Forghorn was directly inspired by Senator Claghorn, a fictional Southern politician played by Kenny Delmar on Fred Allen's radio program. Although Foghorn's first cartoon preceeded Claghorn, ten months before his debut on radio, the loudmouthed rooster had adapted much of his personality, including his blustering mannerisms and such catchphrases as "I say…" and "That's a joke, son!"; Delmar's Claghorn character, in turn, was inspired by a Texas rancher who was fond of saying this.

According to Keith Scott, Robert McKimson also modeled Foghorn's personality on another radio character from the 1930s, known simply as "The Sheriff", who was played by Jack Clifford in the variety program Blue Monday Jamboree. However, McKimson had likely misremembered that connection, as he cited Delmar's Claghorn character as inspiration during a mid-1970s interview and mistook him for the Jamboree's Sherriff character.

Gallery

Main article: Foghorn Leghorn/Gallery

Behind the scenes

• His first name, "Foghorn", refers to his loudmouthed personality, while the surname "Leghorn" is a reference to a breed of chickens originating from Tuscany, Italy (referred to in Italian as Livorno or Livornese).
• Blanc's portrayal of Foghorn bears some similarities to Yosemite Sam, namely his accent; and even more so to a Southern sheriff-type character that he voiced in Stage Door Cartoon.

In popular culture

• In the Family Guy episode "Back to the Woods," Foghorn shows up at a KFC, being lured in by the scent of seven herbs and spices before Colonel Sanders cuts his head off. Foghorn jokes about his headless body running around before realizing it's his own body.
• In the Justice League Action episode "Follow that Space Cab!," Lobo, an alien bounty hunter who knows Earth culture, makes fun of Hawkman by calling him Foghorn.
• In the Helluva Boss episode "Loo Loo Land," a character named Wally Wackford is introduced, who says "I say, I say" at the beginning of his sentences in similar fashion to Foghorn.
• In The Simpsons episode "Pretty Whittle Liar," a statue of Foghorn is seen at the Hillfolk in Media exhibit at the Hillbilly Pica-ture Palace.
• In April 2024, Foghorn became a subject of a viral meme where he was put in various anime and would either scold or give pep talk to characters such as Goku from Dragon Ball and Frieren from Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. In response, Eric Bauza posted three videos on his Twitter account where he voiced some of the aforementioned memes.