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Coyote & Road Runner series), Foghorn is often the initial aggressor out of self-amusement and subsequently on the 'losing' end of gimmicks. Unlike other Looney Tunes rivalries (with the notable exception of the Wile E.

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Many of the gimmicks involve Foghorn and Barnyard Dawg engaging in one-upmanship through a series of pranks. All of the motion picture Foghorn Leghorn cartoons were directed by Robert McKimson, and the rooster vies with the Tasmanian Devil as the most popular character associated with the director. He has a knack of saying, 'I say' as a form of interjection in his speech. He has a Virginian accent, a 'good ol' boy' speaking style, and a penchant for mischief.

įoghorn debuted 31 August 1946 in the Henery Hawk short Walky Talky Hawky.įoghorn is a large, anthropomorphic adult rooster with a red head, long red tailfeathers, and yellow talons with short yellow claws. Both parts of the name suggest the association with 'Senator Claghorn.' According to Leonard Maltin, the character's voice was also patterned after a hard-of-hearing West Coast-only radio character from the 1930s, known simply as The Sheriff, in a radio program called Blue Monday Jamboree. At its most raucous, it sounds similar to that of another Blanc voice: Yosemite Sam (an almost exclusive Friz Freleng character). Ī “Leghorn” is a breed of chicken (since it was an Italian breed that makes him Italian-American), and “Foghorn” describes the character's loud, overbearing voice. The rooster adopted many of Claghorn's catchphrases, such as 'That's a joke, I say, that's a joke, son.' Delmar had based the character of Claghorn upon a Texas rancher who was fond of saying this. Foghorn Leghorn was directly inspired by the popular character Senator Claghorn, a blustery Southern politician played by Kenny Delmar who was a regular character in The Fred Allen Show, a popular radio show of the 1940s.