This is why the YouTube compilation video was invented: someone put together a collection of scenes where Foghorn Leghorn paddles the Barnyard Dawg's ass. This gag was in the first Foghorn cartoon ("Walky Talky Hawky") and became a staple of the series.
I've always found the Foghorn/Dog conflict funny because it's different from most cartoon conflicts. Usually it's predator vs. prey, or some variation on the idea. (Foghorn Leghorn, of course, was conceived as a twist on the predator/prey formula, a huge prey stalked and eventually beaten by a tiny predator, Henery Hawk.) But these guys don't want to eat each other, or even kill each other; they just want to cause each other as much humiliation as possible. That's why the paddling gag works so well: there is absolutely no point to it except for Foghorn to amuse himself by beating up the dog. It's part of what made Foghorn Leghorn a pleasingly amoral series at a time when most big cartoon series were coming down on the side of good and right (antagonist loses, protagonist wins).
Friday, August 14, 2009
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I love that clip. I watched it when I was younger...
Foggy spooking the dog with a deranged clown head and then painting his tongue green is the best variation of any cartoon gag ever.
I'm more than a little pissed off that Foghorn has been shafted on the DVD's... in favor of F***ing Bosko. If I want to watch Mickey Mouse, I'll watch Mickey Mouse, not his racist minstrel show duplicate.
Is the title of this post a reference to Jasper Beardley?
Has the dog ever been given a name?
Micheal: He never had a name in Mckimson's cartoons.
Thad: Damn Straight !
For me the issue of the dog's name is like the name of the frog in One Froggy Evening. He may have a name outside the cartoon (or in other incarnations, since McKimson used the design elsewhere), but in these cartoons he's just "the dog."
Jamie:
He was only given a name by Warner Marketing. As Anon posted, he was dubbed "Barnyard Dawg". Mike Fontanelli told me this.
He's called just "Dawg" on a few modelsheets. And you know what the frog's real name is according to an episode of The Bugs Bunny Show? Enrico!
"Coming up next, Enrico the Frog !" XD
I didn't know that was called Dawg though. Ever noticed that in the Foghorn cartoons he had a new york accent but in Daffy Duck Hunt he had country accent being in the suburbs ? There are some pretty frickin' weird things in Mckimson cartoons.
Everyone's right: he was "Dawg" on a few model sheets, but "George P. Dog" on others, and "Barnyard Dawg" according to Warner Marketing—not that I mind, as it makes sense and the spelling jibes with the earlier sheets.
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