# Don't You Just LOVE "Foghorn Leghorn"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 28, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584 "2009-07-28T20:01:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584/1 "2009-07-28T20:01:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584/2 "2009-07-28T20:03:17Z")
No. In point of fact, he might be my least favorite Loony Tunes character. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584/3 "2009-07-28T20:09:30Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584/4 "2009-07-28T20:12:12Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > No. In point of fact, he might be my least favorite Loony Tunes character. That’s because you haven’t watched him enough to appreciate him properly 😃 Least favourite? How could anyone perfer Pepe LePew over Foghorn 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584/5 "2009-07-28T20:13:47Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584/6 "2009-07-28T20:15:13Z")
“Fortunately, I keep my feathers numbered for just such an emergency” The Tweety look-alike science geek son was great. An yeah, Pepe LePew blows. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584/7 "2009-07-28T20:30:07Z")
The correct answer is “Ee-_yey_-esssssss!” (You guys don’t like Pepe LePew? He gets more pussy than any of ya.) ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584/8 "2009-07-28T20:38:48Z")
The ones where Foghorn and the dog are one-upping each other are hilarious! “You’re built too low to the ground son. I keep pitching 'em and you keep missing 'em.” ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584/9 "2009-07-28T20:59:40Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > No. In point of fact, he might be my least favorite Loony Tunes character. Boy’s about as sharp as a bowling ball. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584/10 "2009-07-28T21:01:42Z")
Ah say, ah say, ah say, AH DOOOO loves me some Foghorn Leghorn, boy! He’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584/11 "2009-07-28T21:05:44Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Ah say, ah say, ah say, AH DOOOO loves me some Foghorn Leghorn, boy! Beaten! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584/12 "2009-07-28T21:07:03Z")
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!” ---
**Author:** ![Floppy\_Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3bc359/32.png) [@Floppy\_Joe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floppy_Joe)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584/13 "2009-07-28T21:08:45Z")
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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator_Claghorn)) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584/14 "2009-07-28T22:54:14Z")
“Schnook!” I was usually rooting for the dog. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584/15 "2009-07-28T23:28:03Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > “Schnook!” > > I was usually rooting for the dog. I rooted for the dog too, that is why Foghorn is so great, you can both love and hate him. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584/16 "2009-07-28T23:35:39Z")
I did love Foghorn Leghorn. 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!” Then things got nasty. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584/17 "2009-07-29T00:06:53Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584/18 "2009-07-29T01:04:43Z")
Two words: “Rope Limit.” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584/19 "2009-07-29T01:47:42Z")
By the way, why the dog sound like he was from Brooklyn? “They left me all alone, rrrrRRRR-cluck!” ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584/20 "2009-07-29T01:55:21Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > By the way, why the dog sound like he was from Brooklyn? Damned yankee. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-just-love-foghorn-leghorn/504584.md?page=2)