Little Boy Boo
Little Boy Boo | |
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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 Looney Tunes 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.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Foghorn: There's somethin', I say, there's somethin' kind of YEEEEEUGH about a kid that's never played baseball.
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, I don't need your love! I've got, I say, I've got my bandages to keep me warm!
Characters
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Locations
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
Production
Development
Filming
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:
References
- Films
- 1954
- Directed by Robert McKimson
- Foghorn Leghorn series
- Foghorn Leghorn theatrical shorts
- Foghorn and Egghead Jr. series
- Foghorn and Miss Prissy series
- Looney Tunes (theatrical shorts)
- Miss Prissy theatrical shorts
- Miss Prissy series
- Egghead Jr. theatrical shorts
- Egghead Jr.series
- Warner Bros. Cartoons
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Written by Tedd Pierce