History WesternAnimation / FoghornLeghorn

* TalksLikeASimile: Does it all the time. Some examples: "Nice girl, but about as sharp as sack of wet mice." "This boy's more mixed up than a feather in a whirlwind" and "This kid's about as sharp as a sack of wet leather."

The shorts are centered on the eponymous Rhode Island rooster with a Central Virginia accent, no filter between his mouth and his mind, and very expressive body language. His voice is patterned after a 1930s radio character known as "The Sheriff", with his phrases cribbed from Senator Claghorn, a regular character of the Fred Allen radio show.

* FatBastard:Subverted on the "fat" part: when shown without his feathers, Foghorn appears a lot skinnier. How much of a jerk he tends to be varies throughout his appearances.

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* OffWithHisHead: When he makes an appearance on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Foghorn starts to compare someone to a chicken with its head cut off before he realizes what he's saying:

* ShuttingUpNow: At the end of ''A Fractured Leghorn'', as Foghorn lectures the cat about dividing a worm in half for them to share, the cat, who hasn't said a word at all the whole cartoon, [[SuddenlyVoiced finally gets fed up and yells at him to]] [[BigShutUp "SHUT UP!"]], clobbering him in the process, after which Foghorn continues in the manner of this trope:

* ButtMonkey: Foghorn or sometimes Barnyard, depending on who has the upper hand in their EscalatingWar in the short. Prissy is often bullied and alienated by the [[IncrediblyLamePun gossipy hens]] of the pen.

Currently, ol' Foggy's appearances are infrequent, aside from commercial work for KFC [[note]]Try to think about [[LetsMeetTheMeat the implications]] of that[[/note]], Oscar Meyer, and Advertising/{{Geico}}. His most recent appearances were in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', ''WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction'', ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesCartoons'', ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy', an ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunnyBuilders''.

Currently, ol' Foggy's appearances are infrequent, aside from commercial work for KFC [[note]]Try to think about [[LetsMeetTheMeat the implications]] of that[[/note]], Oscar Meyer, and Advertising/{{Geico}}. His most recent appearances were in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'', ''WesternAnimation/WabbitALooneyTunesProduction'', ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesCartoons'', and ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy''.

* GiveTheDogABone: Occasionally, Foggy will actually get the best of his adversaries. Such as in "Raw, Raw Rooster!" and "The Dixie Fryer".

* FatBastard:
** Subverted on the "fat" part: Foghorn, although when shown without his feathers, he appears a lot skinnier.
** Also, the dog, who is somewhat chunky himself.

* FatBastard: Subverted (the "fat" part, not the "bastard"): Foghorn, although when shown without his feathers, he appears a lot skinnier.

* FatBastard: Subverted. Foghorn, although when shown without his feathers, he appears a lot skinnier.

* CatchPhrase: Foghorn has numerous ones, which he uses frequently and make his speech pattern very distinctive.

* ChainOfDeals: This is the basis of "Leghorn Swoggled". The Dawg offers to help Henery Hawk catch a chicken in return for a bone. When asking a cat where he can find a bone, the cat offers to tell him if Henery can give him a fish. Then while wondering where he can get a fish, a mouse offers to tell him if he brings him some cheese. In the end, after he gives each animal its desired item, the Dawg slams Foghorn on the head with his bone, knocking him out and letting Henery take him away.
-->'''Henery Hawk''': If I get the dog a bone, I'll get a fish. Uh, if I get a mouse—no. If I get the fish a dog, the cat wants cheese—uh, no, no, the ''mouse'' wants the cheese. Gosh, I wonder what the cheese will want.

->[[JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere Describe, I say, Describe Foghorn Leghorn here!]]

* MeaningfulName: "Foghorn" describes the character's loud, overbearing voice, and leghorn describes a breed of chicken. And both are intended to resemble "Claghorn", the original inspiration for the character.

** Foggy himself was a caricature of Senator Claghorn, a popular radio comedian at the time of UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, although that's pretty much been forgotten to modern viewers.

** Foghorn's speech pattern and phrases are based on Senator Claghorn, a fictional politician from the 1940s radio show The Fred Allen Show. Though according to Leonard Maltin, [=McKimson=] claimed the influence for Foghorn goes back even further, to a sheriff from another radio show called "Blue Monday Jamboree"

* DrivenToSuicide: In "Of Rice and Hen", Miss Prissy tries to jump off the barn's roof to end it all after the GosssipyHens speak ill of her one times too many. Fortunately, Foghorn saves her, though it has the unwanted effect of kicking off the plot when she once again tries to woo him.

* HenpeckedHusband: Literally becomes one in a one-shot short where his wife demands he sit on the nest and watch the egg while she's off enjoying herself. He calls her "Dream Boat" to her face, but quickly changes it to "Tug Boat" behind her back. Naturally, Dawg steals it simply so he can call her to rat on him, and by the end of the cartoon, [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale she's beaten him unconscious.]]

** ''Leghorn Swoggled'' starts with Dawg offering Foggy a device to see a total eclipse, which is actually a set-up to slam a pumpkin over his head. Foggy turns to the viewer and says, "Now ya just know I'm gonna do somethin' about this."

** Foghorn's speech pattern and phrases are based on Senator Claghorn, a fictional politician from the 1940s radio show The Fred Allen Show. Though according to Leonard Maltin, McKimson claimed the influence for Foghorn goes back even further, to a sheriff from another radio show called "Blue Monday Jamboree"

* ChainOfDeals This is the basis of "Leghorn Swoggled". The Dawg offers to help Henery Hawk catch a chicken in return for a bone. When asking a cat where he can find a bone, the cat offers to tell him if Henery can give him a fish. Then while wondering where he can get a fish, a mouse offers to tell him if he brings him some cheese. In the end, after he gives each animal its desired item, the Dawg slams Foghorn on the head with his bone, knocking him out and letting Henery take him away.

* YouTalkTooMuch: One of Foggy's personality flaws -- sometimes played up to eleven to increase the comedy -- is his talkativeness and overblown rambling on. The Barnyard Dawg is often annoyed by this and it frequently irritates Henery Hawk, but (in "A Fractured Leghorn") when a black and white cat takes the brunt of Foggy's motormouth and can't get a word in edgewise, he finally loses his cool. He grabs a nearby trash can, bashes it over the rooster's head and tells him to "SHADDUP!" But even a beating over the head (or a large headache) isn't enough to shut up Foggy -- only the iris-out a few seconds later, which he tries unsuccessfully to hold open, finally closes his mouth.

** Nowadays, Foghorn mostly calls people "son", most likely because a Southern rooster calling people "Boy" wouldn't be considered funny anymore. This only happens in the English version, as other dubs keep the phrase or adapt it for their respective countries. However, he used the phrase "boy" in his Toon Marooned appearance.

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* ChainOfDeals This is the basis of "Leghorn Swoggled". The Dawg offers to help Henery Hawk catch a chicken in return for a bone. When asking a cat where he can find a bone, the cat offers to tell him if Henery can give him a fish. Then while wondering where he can get a fish, a mouse offers to tell him if he brings him some cheese. In the end, after he gives each animal its desired item, the Dawg bashes Foghorn on the head with his bone, knocking him out and letting Henery take him away.

* DontExplainTheJoke: Frequently after making a lame joke, Foghorn would say, "That's a joke, son!"

* HonestJohnsDealership: In ''The High and the Flighty'', WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck appears on the scene as a salesman representing the Ace Novelty Company of Walla Walla, Washington. He has arrived to profit from Foghorn's rivalry with the Dawg by independently selling them both elaborate practical jokes to each play on the other. Unfortunately, Daffy pushes his luck too far when he sells them both the same thing, the Pipe Full of Fun Kit #7. Foggy and the Dawg realize they've been had, and [[EnemyMine they put their rivalry aside to get even with Daffy]], by [[HoistByHisOwnPetard using his own novelty device against him]].

* IncompetentGuardAnimal: Throughout most of the shorts starring Foghorn Leghorn, Barnyard Dog is shown to be an almost counter productive guard dog. Almost always sleeping on the job, he tends to only pay attention to farmyard predators like Henery Hawk and "Bill" the Weasel when directing them towards his ArchEnemy Foghorn, who trolls Barnyard ceaselessly for his idleness.

* MindScrew: While hiding in a feedbox in a game of hide-and-seek, Egghead manages to find Foghorn by doing some math, digging a hole in the ground, and pulling the chicken out of it. Foghorn is understandably flabbergasted and goes to check the feedbox he was hiding in, but then decides against it for this reason.

-->"There is but one course for me to follow - [[SuddenlyShouting I'LL MOIDER DA BUM!!!]]"