YMMV / Foghorn Leghorn

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In Henhouse Henery, Foghorn pulls a folderol (a jester head on a stick with a big red tongue) out of a barrel then scares Barnyard Dawg with it to get him to come out, and once Dawg reaches the rope limit, Foghorn paints his tongue green. Yes, it is funny, but it doesn't really make sense. How is it that a jester head on a stick just happens to be around the barnyard, and what's the significance of Foggy painting the dog's tongue?
• Moment of Awesome: There are two times where Foghorn and Dawg team-up and it results in whoever's the antagonist for that short being terrified:
  • Fox Terror has Dawg finding out that all of the hi-jinks that he's been blaming Foghorn for are actually because of a conniving fox trying to distract him to steal chickens. Dawg wants to go straight after him but Foghorn talks him into giving the fox a taste of his own medicine by pulling the fox's own stunts on him. The fox whimpers when they confront him, well aware of what's going to happen.
  • The High and the Flighty has Foghorn and Dawg realizing that Daffy has been egging the two on in order make a bigger profit. They loudly broadcast this knowledge, which makes Daffy sensibly try to take off and results in him getting caught in the latest prank that he sold the duo.
• My Real Daddy: Henery Hawk was actually created in 1942 (predating Foghorn himself by four years) by Chuck Jones. However, it was Robert McKimson who shaped him into the character we know today. Jones, meanwhile, only used him two more times (in You Were Never Duckier and The Scarlet Pumpernickel, the latter of which he only had a minimal role in anyway) and never again.
• Nightmare Fuel: How Foghorn gets rid of the rival rooster in Cock-A-Doodle-Duel - he tricks him into eating a bunch of corn, then shoots a lump of hot coal down his throat while he's crowing, resulting in all of the corn inside the rival rooster's stomach popping before he actually EXPLODES! This is then mitigated by the rival rooster's legs, which are all that remain of him, walking off into the distance in defeat.
  • Foghorn's debut short Walky Talky Hawky ends with him being dragged away by Henry Hawk while bawking and panicking, knowing his fate is sealed.
• Parody Displacement: How, I say, how many people remember Senator Claghorn versus his animated rooster counterpart? And how many remember the sheriff from Blue Monday Jamboree (another radio program- show, that is- McKimson cited as an inspiration for the character according to Leonard Maltin)? Not many, unless you know your golden age of radio history or do a Wikipedia search.

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