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The Best of Foghorn Leghorn
BigMin28
(1,176 posts)Thanks for a much needed laugh this morning.
Bfd
(1,406 posts)Ohiogal
(31,979 posts)I'm an all time fan, too!
Bfd
(1,406 posts)He was created by Robert McKimson and writer Warren Foster, and starred in 29 cartoons from 1946 to 1964 in the Golden Age of American Animation.
Wikipedia
Significant other: Miss Prissy
Freddie
(9,259 posts)So funny. This and Pepe LePew were my favorites, although Pepe wouldnt fly today!
mucifer
(23,530 posts)Yavin4
(35,437 posts)yellowdogintexas
(22,250 posts)was FogHorn in a man suit.
To me the dog kind of represents the struggling underclasses. Just when he thinks he is going to get there that damn chain pulls him back.
This just came to me... in my old age.
I still love the cartoons.
Bfd
(1,406 posts)A good mockery in a harmless kid's cartoon. Ha.
Wonder who, in 1946 they modeled Foghorn after?
Wouldn't it be interesting to know that!
jmowreader
(50,554 posts)Aristus
(66,316 posts)He's a Sikh with a thick accent, and refers to the cartoon character as 'Leghorn Foghorn'.
Once, a few years ago, back when we were working out of the same office, we brought up some old F-L cartoons on YouTube and watched them together during a lull in our clinic day. That was some interesting bonding...
Bfd
(1,406 posts)I can think of many scenarios where a few clips of this cartoon should be viewd.
Aristus
(66,316 posts)While watching the cartoons, we indulged in cups of Indian tea; British blend, hot milk, and brown sugar. Good stuff!
Bfd
(1,406 posts)Who knew?
PennyK
(2,302 posts)He was based on Senator Beauregard Claghorn, a character on the Fred Allen radio show.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foghorn_Leghorn
Bfd
(1,406 posts)Senator Beauregard Claghorn was a popular fictional radio character on the "Allen's Alley" segment of The Fred Allen Show, beginning in 1945.
Succeeding the vaguely similar but not nearly as popular Senator Bloat from the earliest "Allen's Alley" routines, Senator Claghorn, portrayed by Allen's announcer, Kenny Delmar, was a blustery Southern politician whose home was usually the first at which Allen would knock.[1] Claghorn would typically answer the door with, "Somebody, ah say, somebody knocked! Claghorn's the name, Senator Claghorn, that is. I'm from the South. Suh."[2]
AdamGG
(1,288 posts)Hoo Hah