Little Boy Boo

Little Boy Boo
Production company	Warner Bros. Cartoons
Distributor	Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date	June 5, 1954
Starring	Mel Blanc Marian Richman
Producer(s)	Edward Selzer
Music composed by	Milt Franklyn
Story by	Tedd Pierce
Animation	Herman Cohen Rod Scribner Phil DeLara Charles McKimson
Director(s)	Robert McKimson
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Little Boy Boo is the three hundred and thirty-sixth Merrie Melodies theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on June 5, 1954. It was written by Tedd Pierce, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Robert McKimson.

With the coldest winter coming up soon, Foghorn decides to woo Miss Prissy and plead her to help keep him warm. Prissy decides to have him be a father figure to her son, Egghead Jr., in order to prove his worthiness as her mate.

Memorable quotes

Foghorn: Here's ya lil' boy back, widow! The deal's off!
Prissy: But you said you needed my love to keep you warm.
Foghorn: Madame, ah don't need your love! I've got, I say, I've got my bandages to keep me warm!

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Foghorn Leghorn	Mel Blanc
Miss Prissy	Marian Richman
Egghead Jr.	Mel Blanc

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Farm
      • Foghorn's residence
      • Miss Prissy's residence

Objects

• Barnyard newspaper
• Bouqet of flowers
• Box of chocolates
• Paper airplanes
• Bookshelf
• Book stack
• Splitting the Fourth Dimension
• Baseball
• Bat
• Pepper shaker
• "Strike One" diagram
• Paper airplane
• Paper jet plane
• Feed Box
• Shovel
• Tiny-Tot Chemical Set
• Vial of explosive substance

Music

The music was composed by Carl Stalling.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: June 5, 1954 in theatres

Behind the scenes

• The title is a pun on the nursery rhyme "Little Boy Blue."
• This is the first cartoon which Miss Prissy had a more extensive vocabulary than her trademark "Yes". Only one other cartoon, Feather Dusted, has Miss Prissy speaking this way,.
• As opposed to Lovelorn Leghorn and Of Rice and Hen, in which Foghorn showed no interest in Prissy, this is the first short where Foghorn pursues Prissy for selfish purposes.
• This is the first short to contain a scene where Foghorn is featherless. It would occur a few more times in The High and the Flighty, Crockett-Doodle-Do and The Dixie Fryer.

Legacy

• Egghead Jr. who would appear in two more theatrical shorts: Feather Dusted and Crockett-Doodle-Do.
• Foghorn would again peruse Prissy in A Broken Leghorn and Strangled Eggs
• This cartoon was used in the television specials, Bugs Bunny's Easter Funnies and Bugs Bunny's Wild World of Sports.

Home availability

• In the United States:
  • November 30, 2010: Warner Home Video releases Looney Tunes Super Stars' Foghorn Leghorn & Friends: Barnyard Bigmouth on DVD.