I like him because he isn’t all self-righteous like Bugs Bunny. Often Foggy starts trouble as much as being the one the trouble is inflicted upon.
Plus you feel so good when he gets blowed up or something. Remember when he was babysitting some other hen’s kid and the kid is a science geek and Foghorn grabs the test tube and says (as he shakes the test tube), “What you got there boy, sody pop? Watch it FI-IZZZZZ”) Then it blows him up.
Well, I for one love Foghorn Leghorn. Especially the early ones where he said things like “Open the window, Richard. That’s why it’s there.” and “Barbeque my hamhocks, son!” I think he’s underappreciated.
I always found him pretty funny. And less one sided than Bugs Bunny; as you say, Foghorn is just as likely to get blown up as to do the blowing up. Bugs almost never gets the short end of the stick.
He is one of the more quotable characters. So many great lines.
“Two half-nothin’s is a whole nothin’!”
“I’m not a fish, son! I need air! My lungs crave air!”
“That boy’s about as sharp as a sack of wet mice.”
“That boy’s about as sharp as a pound of wet liver.”
“You’re built too low, son, the fast ones go right over ya!”
And thanks to Artie Lange, we have this one: “There’s - I say - there’s something a little ya-HOO about a boy who’s never played baseball!”
Long been a fan of Foghorn. Of course, you know, I say you KNOW that Foghorn is patterned after one Senator Beauregard Claghorn. (Senator Claghorn - Wikipedia)
Then, one night, he showed up at my house in a funny costume. I thought wacky hijinks would ensue. This feeling was reinforced when he took out some two by fours and began to build something on my lawn. Then, he stood there in his funny white robe and lit the wooden thing on fire.
“Ah say, Ah say we don’t cotton to no Hebrews around these parts. Y’all need to vamooose!”
One thing you have to understand about Foghorn Leghorn’s ongoing battle with the farm dog is that down south there’s an old tradition of playing really cruel, mean-spirited tricks on people you’re trying to get back at. Things like blowing up outhouses with dynamite, dismantling automobiles, spiking watermelons with laxatives, etc. I suspect someone on the writers staff hailed from Georgia.