''Feather Bluster'' is a 1958

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'' animated short directed by Robert McKimson. The cartoon was released on May 10, 1958, and features Foghorn Leghorn and the

Barnyard Dawg Barnyard Dawg is a ''Looney Tunes'' character. A feisty anthropomorphic basset hound, he is the archenemy of Foghorn Leghorn. He was created by Robert McKimson, who also created Foghorn, and was voiced by Mel Blanc. Dawg also feuds with other ...

. The short is essentially a

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, in that the majority of the footage is reused from earlier cartoons.

Plot

The plot features an elderly Foghorn Leghorn and

sitting peacefully and exchanging old stories during a game of checkers. Their grandsons outside overhear their talk and imitate their old actions. The flashbacks between Foghorn and Dawg use footage from the following cartoons: (in order of appearance) * ''

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'' (1949): The scene where Dawg runs into the fence that Foghorn painted to make look like an open gate, and when Foghorn runs into a mill to create a baseball bat to use against Dawg who steals it; except it has some newly-made animation the appears just after the Dawg steals the bat, showing Foghorn coming out of the workshop apparently unscathed telling the audience "That, I say, that dawg keeps a-pitchin' 'em and I keep a-duckin' 'em!", only to prove himself wrong when after briefly going back in, he falls over in a daze after coming back out. It also makes up the final clip in the cartoon, where Foghorn scares Dawg out of his dog house and proceeds to paint his tongue green. * ''

The High and the Flighty ''The High and the Flighty'' is a 1956 Warner Bros. ''Merrie Melodies'' cartoon directed by Robert McKimson and written by Tedd Pierce. The short was released on February 18, 1956, and stars Daffy Duck, Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg. The t ...

'' (1956): The scene where Foghorn gives Dawg a rigged spring bone, only in this case, not sold to Foghorn by Daffy but rather, through new animation, received by Foghorn in the mail. * ''

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'' (1955): The scene where Foghorn tries to blow a stick of dynamite through a tube at Dawg, but it backfires.

References

1958 films 1958 animated films 1958 short films 1950s Warner Bros. animated short films Merrie Melodies short films Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films Films directed by Robert McKimson Films scored by Carl Stalling Films scored by Milt Franklyn Foghorn Leghorn films Films about old age Barnyard Dawg films {{MerrieMelodies-stub