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Foghorn Leghorn

{{short description|Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon character}}

{{about|the character|the film|The Foghorn Leghorn}}

{{Use American English|date=December 2022}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2022}}

{{Infobox character

| series = Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies

| image = Foghorn Leghorn.png

| image_size = 150 px

| first = Walky Talky Hawky ({{Start date and age|1946|8|31}})

| creator = {{Ubl | Robert McKimson}}

| voice = {{Ubl

| Mel Blanc (1946–1989)

| Jeff Bergman (1990–1993, 2002–2004, 2011–present)

| Greg Burson (1990–2003)

| Joe Alaskey (1991–1993, 2000, 2006)

| Frank Gorshin (1996–1997)

| Bill Farmer (1996, 2000, 2008)

| Billy West (1998–1999)

| Jeff Bennett (2000–2011, 2018)

| Scott McNeil (Baby Looney Tunes; 2004–2005)

| Maurice LaMarche (2007)

| Eric Bauza (2018, 2021–present)

| (see below)

}}

| species = Leghorn Rooster

| gender = Male

| family = {{Ubl | Harold Leghorn (father; deceased) | Unnamed grandson}}

| significant_other = Miss Prissy

| nationality = American

| relatives = Mr. Loghorn

}}

Foghorn Leghorn is an anthropomorphic rooster who appears in Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and films from Warner Bros. Animation. He was created by Robert McKimson, and starred in 29 cartoons from 1946 to 1964 in the golden age of American animation.{{cite book |last1=Maltin |first1=Leonard |title=Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons |date=1987 |publisher=Plume |isbn=0-452-25993-2 |edition=Revised |pages=258–259}} All 29 of these cartoons were directed by McKimson.{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=June 6, 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/80/mode/2up |pages=81–82}}

Foghorn Leghorn's first appearance was in the 1946 Henery Hawk short Walky Talky Hawky.{{cite book |last1=Beck |first1=Jerry |last2=Friedwald |first2=Will |title=Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons |date=1989 |publisher=Henry Holt and Co |isbn=0-8050-0894-2 |page=170}} Foghorn's voice was created and originally performed by Mel Blanc and was later voiced by Jeff Bergman, Joe Alaskey, Greg Burson, Frank Gorshin, Jeff Bennett, Bill Farmer, and Eric Bauza.

Inspiration

Foghorn Leghorn was directly inspired by the character of Senator Claghorn, a blustery Southern politician played by Kenny Delmar on Fred Allen's popular 1940s radio show. Foghorn adopted many of Claghorn's catchphrases, such as "I say..." and "That's a joke, son!" Delmar's inspiration for Claghorn was a Texas rancher who was fond of saying this.{{citation |chapter="It's a joke, Son!" |title=AFI Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States |volume=1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/americanfilminst00amer/page/1190 1190] |publisher=University of California Press |year=1971 |isbn=9780520215214 |chapter-url-access=registration |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/americanfilminst00amer/page/1190}}

According to Keith Scott, the character's voice was also patterned after actor Jack Clifford who played a hard-of-hearing West Coast-only radio character from the 1930s, known simply as The Sheriff, on a radio program called Blue Monday Jamboree.Scott, Keith (2008). [http://www.cartoonresearch.com/foghorn.html The Origin of Foghorn Leghorn] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116011056/http://www.cartoonresearch.com/foghorn.html |date=January 16, 2018}}, cartoonresearch.com The accent has similarities to that of another Mel Blanc voice: Yosemite Sam (a near-strictly Friz Freleng character); and even more similar to a proto-Sam character in Stage Door Cartoon.

Biography, characteristics and personality

Physically, Foghorn Leghorn is depicted as a very large rooster with a Southern accent; he is easily the tallest of all the regular Looney Tunes characters. He has a bombastic and somewhat unrefined personality, and shows a penchant for mischief. Aside from the Senator Claghorn reference, "Foghorn" is indicative of his loudmouthed personality, while "Leghorn" refers to a particular Italian breed of chicken. According to A Broken Leghorn and Raw! Raw! Rooster! Foghorn lives on "Old MacDonald's Farm" in Cucamonga, California, and had attended Chicken Tech University; his college roommate and rival Rhode Island Red is a practical joker and even more obnoxious than Foghorn himself.

Foghorn often fancies himself a mentor figure to the smaller and younger characters he encounters, particularly Henery Hawk, tossing off bits of self-styled sagacity interjected with phrases like "Pay attention, son", or "Look at me when I'm talkin' to ya, boy", both of which are borrowed heavily from Senator Claghorn's vernacular. But this proves to be Foghorn's worst trait, as his loud and fast mouth and propensity for over-explanation eventually annoys his intended subjects so much that, completely fed up with him, they end up hitting him over the head with a blunt object, yelling "Ahhhhh, shaddap!" and leaving in a huff.

="Camptown Races"=

Beginning with the 1949 cartoon Henhouse Henery, Foghorn frequently performs a verse from the Stephen Foster song "Camptown Races", softly humming the lyrics while loudly singing the refrain "Doo-Dahh! Doo-Dahh!", and ending the verse, again loudly, with "Ohh, Doo-Dahh Day!" He often hums the song more than once in a given short, though in the 1950 cartoon The Leghorn Blows at Midnight, he hums "Camptown" only at the beginning, but then hums "Old MacDonald" in two later scenes. On occasion, he also sings his own lyrics if they are related to what he's doing at the time. "Camptown Races" essentially became Foghorn's signature tune and one of the most widely familiar uses of the song in popular culture. The final theatrical film in which Foghorn sings "Camptown" is Mother Was a Rooster (1962).

=Rivalry with Barnyard Dawg=

File:foghornleghorn&georgepdog.jpg in The EGGcited Rooster (1952).]]

Many of Foghorn's cartoons involve his perennial prank war with Barnyard Dawg, though it is never revealed how or why their feud started in the first place. Foghorn is often the initial aggressor, but unlike most of the other Looney Tunes rivalries, Foghorn pranks Dawg out of sheer self-amusement and Dawg is usually the one with the winning hand in nearly every short they appear together, although both lost in Walky Talky Hawky, Of Rice and Hen, and Mother Was a Rooster, and Foghorn managed to have some victories over Dawg in the Looney Tunes comic books. But for all of Foghorn's pranks, Dawg is just as adept at retaliation.

Most of the Leghorn cartoons begin the same: Foghorn, humming "Camptown Races" to himself and carrying a wooden plank, sneaks up on Dawg while he is sleeping, often facing into his doghouse with his back protruding out the entry hole. Foghorn then pulls Dawg up by his tail and uses the plank to give him a whacking on his rear (in nearly every cartoon, Foghorn gives Dawg eight whacks), at which point the angered Dawg chases after Foghorn barking, but can only go as far as the rope to which he is tied, which either yanks him back or stops him. In the latter case, he keeps barking at Foghorn, who tells him, "Aah-h, sha-daahhp!" or does something to Dawg to force him to stop.

Despite their feud, Foghorn and Dawg manage to get along in a few instances, usually joining forces to defeat somebody who has caused problems for both of them (e.g. Daffy Duck in The High and the Flighty or a fox in Fox-Terror).

In the 1958 short Feather Bluster, the prank feud has been passed down to Dawg's and Foghorn's respective grandsons, and the now-elderly Foghorn is puzzled as to why the little leghorn is behaving the way he is, but the elderly Dawg is only too happy to point out there's nothing wrong with him, except that "he takes after you."

="Foggy" and others=

Other recurring themes throughout the cartoons include the attempts of the naive and diminutive Henery Hawk to catch and eat a chicken and Foghorn usually tricking him into believe that he is another animal and that Dawg is a chicken; and Foghorn's own efforts to woo the widowed hen Miss Prissy, often by babysitting her studious son, Egghead Jr. Foghorn is joined in a few episodes by a weasel called "Bill", who initially attempts to eat him but ends up joining forces to outwit the aforementioned canine.

Cartoon appearances

;Shorts (1946–1964):

All of the 29 shorts from 1946 to 1964 were directed by Robert McKimson

  1. Walky Talky Hawky (1946)
  2. Crowing Pains (1947) – with Sylvester
  3. The Foghorn Leghorn (1948)
  4. Henhouse Henery (1949)
  5. The Leghorn Blows at Midnight (1950)
  6. A Fractured Leghorn (1950)
  7. Leghorn Swoggled (1951)
  8. Lovelorn Leghorn (1951)
  9. Sock-a-Doodle-Do (1952)
  10. The EGGcited Rooster (1952)
  11. Plop Goes the Weasel (1953)
  12. Of Rice and Hen (1953)
  13. Little Boy Boo (1954)
  14. Feather Dusted (1955)
  15. All Fowled Up (1955)
  16. Weasel Stop (1956)
  17. The High and the Flighty (1956) – with Daffy Duck
  18. Raw! Raw! Rooster! (1956)
  19. Fox-Terror (1957)
  20. Feather Bluster (1958)
  21. Weasel While You Work (1958)
  22. A Broken Leghorn (1959)
  23. Crockett-Doodle-Do (1960)
  24. The Dixie Fryer (1960)
  25. Strangled Eggs (1961)
  26. The Slick Chick (1962)
  27. Mother Was a Rooster (1962)
  28. Banty Raids (1963)
  29. False Hare (1964) (cameo) – with Bugs Bunny

;Miscellaneous:

  1. Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies (1972) - voiced by Mel Blanc
  2. Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol (1979) - voiced by Mel Blanc
  3. The Yolk's on You (1980) voiced by Mel Blanc
  4. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) – voiced by Mel Blanc, (silent cameo appearance; voiced in a deleted scene)
  5. Superior Duck (cameo appearance) (1996) – voiced by Frank Gorshin
  6. Space Jam (1996) – voiced by Bill Farmer and Greg Burson
  7. Pullet Surprise (1997) – voiced by Frank Gorshin
  8. Tweety's High-Flying Adventure (2000) – voiced by Jeff Bennett
  9. Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) – voiced by Jeff Bennett
  10. Cock-A-Doodle Duel (2004) – voiced by Jeff Bennett
  11. GEICO commercial (2011) – voiced by Jeff Bennett
  12. Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) – voiced by Eric Bauza
  13. Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (non-physical cameo appearance) – (2022)

Later appearances

  • In the third episode of the 1970 series Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour, Paulsen interviews Foghorn Leghorn, voiced by Mel Blanc.
  • A carving of Foghorn Leghorn is seen as "Mount Foghorn" in The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special, a la Mount Rushmore.
  • Foghorn made a cameo appearance in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), during the final scene at Marvin Acme's factory along with several other various characters. He was also planned to deliver the sermon in the deleted "Acme’s Funeral" scene.
  • Foghorn Leghorn made numerous appearances in Tiny Toon Adventures in numerous roles as Acme Looniversity's Professor of Hound Teasing, Baseball Coach and an obnoxiously loud Librarian, and also a mentor of Fowlmouth, voiced by Jeff Bergman in most episodes and Greg Burson in the episode "Buster and Babs Go Hawaiian".
  • Foghorn Leghorn appeared in Taz-Mania in the episode "Gone with the Windbag" (1994).
  • Foghorn Leghorn appeared in Animaniacs on "The Warner's 65th Anniversary Special", voiced again by Greg Burson.
  • Foghorn Leghorn appeared in two Chuck Jones shorts of the 1990s, Superior Duck (1996) and Pullet Surprise (1997), voiced on both occasions by Frank Gorshin.
  • Foghorn's shadow appears as the radio announcer ordering General Pandemonium (Yosemite Sam) to get the secret German plans from Bugs Bunny in Carrotblanca.
  • Foghorn Leghorn appeared in the music video for Eminem's Role Model.
  • A character named Mr. Leghorn, based on Foghorn himself, made a pair of appearances in Loonatics Unleashed, voiced by Bill Farmer and Rob Paulsen.
  • A toddler version of Foghorn made appearances in short music videos of Baby Looney Tunes. He starred in only one episode of the show, in which he was trying to fit in with a gang of cool roosters and employed the help of Tweety and his friends before Lola Bunny suggested to just be himself, which came in handy when Barnyard Dawg chased the cool roosters.
  • Foghorn Leghorn is a croupier at Yosemite Sam's casino in Looney Tunes: Back in Action, voiced by Jeff Bennett.
  • Foghorn appeared in commercials for Kentucky Fried Chicken, Oscar Mayer, and most recently, GEICO insurance.
  • Foghorn Leghorn appears in The Looney Tunes Show, voiced by Jeff Bergman and his singing voice is provided by Damon Jones. In the series, he is represented as a billionaire and is one of a few characters to not be annoyed by Daffy Duck's antics.
  • Foghorn Leghorn is the main antagonist of Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run, voiced by Jeff Bergman. He is shown as a four-star U.S. general who is served by his intern Pete Puma, his spy Cecil Turtle, and his agent Elmer Fudd.
  • Foghorn made a cameo appearance in the Wabbit episodes "Bugs vs. Snail", "Pork in the Road", "Squeaks Upon a Star", "'Tis the Seasoning", "Brothers in Harms". He has got the lead role in "Free Range Foghorn", "Fowl Me Once", "Fowl Me Twice", "Greenhouse Gasbag", "For the Love of Fraud", "Love Makes Me Daffy" "Victory Clasp", "You Ain't Nothing But a Foghorn", "Porky Pigskin", "Foghorn Foods" and "A Duck in the Laundromat", voiced again by Jeff Bergman.
  • Foghorn officially made his debut in the Looney Tunes Cartoons short "Weaselin' In!" while also making a cameo in the 2020 short "Happy Birthday, Bugs Bunny!", voiced once again by Jeff Bergman.
  • Foghorn made a cameo appearance in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) on a frozen pasta box meal and his name “FOGHORN” is seen in a label name in Sweet Pete's bootlegging facility.
  • Foghorn Leghorn appears in Bugs Bunny Builders as the mayor of Looneyburg, voiced once again by Jeff Bergman.
  • In Tiny Toons Looniversity, Foghorn is a coach of the fictional ball game, Tuney Ball and a former superstar of it.
  • Foghorn appears in the Teen Titans Go! episode, "Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary". He is among the Looney Tunes characters guests for the Warner Bros. centennial celebration, voiced once again by Jeff Bergman.

Voice actors

  • Mel Blanc (1946–1989)
  • Gilbert Mack (Golden Records records, Bugs Bunny Songfest){{Cite web|title=Bugs Bunny on Record|url=https://www.newsfromme.com/2004/11/09/bugs-bunny-on-record/|publisher=News From ME|access-date=September 28, 2020}}{{cite web|title=Golden Records' "Bugs Bunny Songfest" (1961)|url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/golden-records-bugs-bunny-songfest-1961/|website=cartoonresearch.com |access-date=September 28, 2020}}
  • Jeff Bergman (Bugs Bunny's 50th Birthday Spectacular,{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E9CWJlgx8c&t=472s|title=1990 - Bugs Bunny's 50th Birthday Spectacular - Six Flags Great America|date=July 8, 2021 |publisher=YouTube|access-date=February 15, 2022}} Tiny Toon Adventures, Tyson Foods commercial,{{cite web|url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=DXH9wB9UwgE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/DXH9wB9UwgE |archive-date=December 21, 2021 |url-status=live|website=YouTube|title=Tyson Loony Toons Meals for Kids|date=June 23, 2018|access-date=November 24, 2021}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web|website=Behind The Voice Actions|title=Tyson|url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/commercials/Tyson/|language=en-US|access-date=November 22, 2021}} The Plucky Duck Show, The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Program Special...Live!...In Stereo!, Cartoon Network's Funniest Bloopers and Other Embarrassing Moments, Boomerang bumpers,{{cite web|website=YouTube|title=Foghorn Leghorn Boomerang|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f95J0DaB1gA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/f95J0DaB1gA |archive-date=December 21, 2021 |url-status=live|date=August 29, 2020|access-date=November 22, 2021}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web|website=Behind The Voice Actors|title=Voice(s) of Foghorn Leghorn in Boomerang|url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/commercials/Boomerang/Foghorn-Leghorn/|language=en-US|access-date=November 22, 2021}} The Looney Tunes Show, Looney Tunes Dash, Scooby Doo and Looney Tunes: Cartoon Universe, Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run, New Looney Tunes, Converse commercials,{{cite web|website=YouTube|title=All Of The Looney Tunes x Converse Redubs|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=lUBcBXkBGk8|date=October 1, 2021|access-date=November 22, 2021}} Looney Tunes Cartoons,{{Cite web|title='Looney Tunes Cartoons': Release date, plot, cast, trailer and all you need to know about the classic Warner Bros franchise's revival|url=https://meaww.com/looney-tunes-cartoons-warner-bros-revival-release-date-cast-plot-trailer|website=meaww.com|date=May 7, 2020 |language=en|access-date=May 30, 2020}} Bugs Bunny Builders, Tiny Toons Looniversity,{{cite news|url=https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/tiny-toons-looniversity-exclusive-tease|title='TINY TOONS' REBOOT ON HBO MAX WILL FEATURE A 'DUMBLEDORE'-ESQUE BUGS BUNNY, RETURN TO LOONIVERSITY|last=Weiss|first=Josh|date=July 15, 2021|work=SYFY WIRE|access-date=August 6, 2021|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/CtzAtvCrD5Z/|title=[Tiny Toons cast announcement]|first=Bob|last=Bergen|work=Instagram|date=June 22, 2023|accessdate=June 22, 2023}}{{cite press release|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2023/06/22/meet-the-all-star-voice-cast-for-tiny-toons-looniversity-435213/20230622cartoon01/|title=Meet the All-Star Voice Cast for "Tiny Toons Looniversity"|publisher=Cartoon Network|via=The Futon Critic|date=June 22, 2023|access-date=June 22, 2023}} Teen Titans Go!, Looney Tunes: Wacky World of Sports){{cite web|url=http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/Looney-Tunes/Foghorn-Leghorn/|title=Voice(s) of Foghorn Leghorn|website=Behind the Voice Actors|language=en-US|access-date=September 28, 2020}}
  • Noel Blanc (You Rang? answering machine messages){{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kmk2G9IemM&t=115s|title=You Rang? Answering Machine Messages Holiday|date=May 20, 2020 |publisher=YouTube|access-date=July 7, 2022}}
  • Greg Burson (Bugs Bunny's Birthday Ball, Looney Tunes River Ride, Tiny Toon Adventures, Bugs Bunny Goin' Hollywood,{{cite web|title=Children's Theater At Six Flags Great Adventure|url=https://www.greatadventurehistory.com/ChildrensTheater.htm|publisher=GreatAdventureHistory.com|access-date=September 21, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220725023830/https://www.greatadventurehistory.com/ChildrensTheater.htm|archive-date=July 25, 2022}}{{Cite web|title=Park History Timeline|url=https://www.sfotsource.com/history-timeline|publisher=SFOT Source|access-date=September 21, 2024}}{{Cite web|title=Majestic Theatre|url=https://www.sfotsource.com/entertainment/majestic-theatre|publisher=SFOT Source|access-date=September 21, 2024}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSJCg_3qtJY&t=232s|title=Looney Tunes Goin' Hollywood|date=28 September 2008 |publisher=YouTube|access-date=February 16, 2022}} Taz-Mania, Animaniacs, Have Yourself a Looney Tunes Christmas, Hip-Hop Hare,{{cite web|url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=jRyICjLHjqk|title=1995 - HIP HOP HARE - Six Flags Great America - Theatre Royale|date=September 25, 2021 |publisher=YouTube|access-date=October 28, 2024}} Carrotblanca read-along,{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plPfzZeQmb4&t=197s|website=YouTube|title=Carrotblanca Read Along 1995|date=October 2021 |access-date=December 21, 2024}} Carrotblanca short, Space Jam (most lines), The Looney West,{{cite web|url=https://vgmdb.net/album/97348|title=The Looney West|website=VGMdb|access-date=October 17, 2024}} Bugs & Friends Sing Elvis,{{cite web|url=https://vgmdb.net/album/95259|title=Bugs & Friends Sing Elvis|website=VGMdb|access-date=November 26, 2021}} Bugs Bunny's Learning Adventures,{{cite web|url=https://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/videowbmisc.aspx|title=Looney Tunes DVD and Video Guide: VHS: Misc.|website=The Inernet Animation Database|access-date=November 30, 2021}}{{cite web|title=Foghorn Leghorn |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/movies/Bugs-Bunnys-Silly-Seals/Foghorn-Leghorn/|website=Behind The Voice Actors|access-date=August 21, 2020}} Looney Tunes: What's Up Rock?!,{{Cite web|url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/rides-attractions/Looney-Tunes-Whats-Up-Rock/|title=Looney Tunes: What's Up Rock?|website=Behind The Voice Actors|language=en-US|access-date=September 28, 2020}} various commercials and webtoons)
  • Keith Scott (Looney Tunes Musical Revue,{{Cite web|url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/rides-attractions/Looney-Tunes-Musical-Revue/|title=Looney Tunes Musical Revue|website=Behind The Voice Actors|language=en-US|access-date=September 28, 2020}}{{cite web|title=06 Looney Tunes Stage Show_0001|date=March 29, 2010 |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/25236560@N05/7168214035/in/album-72157630022703299|publisher=Flickr|access-date=September 28, 2020}} The Christmas Looney Tunes Classic Collection,{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoZBGwez5pw&t=206s|title=The Christmas Looney Tunes Classic Collection (Music Cassette): Performed by Keith Scott|date=December 16, 2023 |publisher=YouTube|access-date=13 January 2024}} Spectacular Light and Sound Show Illuminanza,{{cite web|title=Spectacular Light and Sound Show Illuminanza|url=https://facebook.com/wbmw25/videos/1636864629953777/|publisher=Facebook|access-date=September 28, 2020}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/rides-attractions/Warner-Bros-Movie-World-Illuminanza/|title=Warner Bros. Movie World Illuminanza|website=Behind The Voice Actors|language=en-US|access-date=March 8, 2021}} Toyota commercial,{{Cite web|url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/commercials/Toyota/|title=Toyota|website=Behind The Voice Actors|language=en-US|access-date=September 28, 2020}} Golden Eggs commercial,{{Cite web|url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/commercials/Golden-Eggs/|title=Golden Eggs|website=Behind The Voice Actors|language=en-US|access-date=September 28, 2020}} KFC commercial,{{Cite web|url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/commercials/Kentucky-Fried-Chicken/|title=Kentucky Fried Chicken|website=Behind The Voice Actors|language=en-US|access-date=September 28, 2020}} Kraft Foods commercial,{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4-c2gVf3Ro |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/-4-c2gVf3Ro |archive-date=December 21, 2021 |url-status=live|title=Kraft Shake n Bake - TV Ad - Australia 1996|date=August 31, 2020 |publisher=YouTube|access-date=January 2, 2021}}{{cbignore}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/commercials/Shake-n-Bake/|title=Shake 'n' Bake|website=Behind The Voice Actors|language=en-US|access-date=January 16, 2021}} Looney Tunes: We Got the Beat!,{{cite web|title=New Looney Tunes show unveiled at Movie World|url=https://www.leisuremanagement.co.uk/detail.cfm?pagetype=detail&subject=news&codeID=85143|publisher=Leisure Management|access-date=September 28, 2020}} The Looney Tunes Radio Show,{{cite web|title=That Wascally Wabbit|url=http://www.ianheydon.com/that-wascally-wabbit/|access-date=September 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317112128/http://www.ianheydon.com/that-wascally-wabbit/|archive-date=March 17, 2012}}{{cite web|title=The Day I Met Bugs Bunny|url=http://www.ianheydon.com/category/the-day-i-met-bugs-bunny/|publisher=Ian Heydon|access-date=October 9, 2020}} Looney Rock){{cite web|title=Keith Scott: Down Under's Voice Over Marvel|url=https://www.awn.com/animationworld/keith-scott-down-unders-voice-over-marvel-0|publisher=Animation World Network|access-date=September 28, 2020}}{{cite web|title=Keith Scott|url=https://gracegibsonradio.com/keith-scott/|publisher=Grace Gibson Shop|access-date=September 28, 2020}}[http://www.keithscott.com/bio.html "Keith Scott-"The One-Man Crowd""]. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
  • Joe Alaskey (Madcap Mardi Gras,{{cite web|url=https://youtube.com/watch?v=FERozfnTr2Q|title=1991 - Madcap Mardi Gras - Six Flags Great America - Orleans Gazebo|date=September 25, 2021 |publisher=YouTube|access-date=October 28, 2024}} The Toonite Show Starring Bugs Bunny,{{cite web|url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/rides-attractions/The-Toonite-Show-Starring-Bugs-Bunny/|title=The Toonite Show Starring Bugs Bunny}} You Don't Know Doc! ACME Wise-Guy Edition,{{Cite web|title=You Don't Know Doc! ACME Wise Guy Edition - Bugs Bunny|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/you-dont-know-doc%21-acme-wise-guy-edition-mw0000061999|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=September 28, 2020}} Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas)
  • Frank Gorshin (Superior Duck, Pullet Surprise)
  • Bill Farmer (Space Jam (some lines), The Looney Tunes Rockin' Road Show,{{Cite web|url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/rides-attractions/The-Looney-Tunes-Rockin-Road-Show/|title=The Looney Tunes Rockin' Road Show|website=Behind The Voice Actors|language=en-US|access-date=September 28, 2020}} Looney Tunes Racing, Looney Tunes: Space Race, Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor)
  • Billy West (The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, Histeria!{{cite web |title=Foghorn Leghorn |url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/tv-shows/Histeria/Foghorn-Leghorn/|website=Behind The Voice Actors|access-date=August 21, 2020}})
  • Jeff Bennett (Tweety's High-Flying Adventure, Sprint commercial, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Looney Tunes: Back in Action (video game), Cock-A-Doodle-Duel, A Looney Tunes Sing-A-Long Christmas,{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/a-looney-tunes-sing-a-long-christmas-mw0000750274|website=AllMusic|title=A Looney Tunes Sing-A-Long Christmas|first=James|last=Monger|access-date=November 26, 2021}} GEICO commercial, Ani-Mayhem{{cite web|url=https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/rides-attractions/Ani-Mayhem/|title=Ani-Mayhem|website=Behind The Voice Actors|language=en-US|access-date=January 14, 2022}})
  • Scott McNeil (Baby Looney Tunes)
  • Maurice LaMarche (Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal)
  • Damon Jones (singing voice in The Looney Tunes Show)
  • Eric Bauza (Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Acme Fools,{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/bauzilla/reel/Cq3MaddJMdM/|website=Instagram|title=ERIC BAUZA on Instagram|access-date=August 8, 2023}} MultiVersus, Coyote vs. Acme{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/ClQ5rpFrRcd/|website=Instagram|title=John Cena on Instagram|access-date=October 18, 2024}})

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  • Foghorn Leghorn appeared in several Oscar Mayer hot dog commercials in the 1980s. One features an animated Foghorn Leghorn, with an animated hot dog on a bun, on a live-action beach, asking a child what he likes on his roasted Oscar Mayer hot dog. Asked whether he likes it with ketchup or corn relish ("A dog's best friend" according to Foghorn), the kid says he likes his hot dog "with friends", and is now sitting next to a girl, who is also eating an Oscar Mayer hot dog without a bun. Foghorn Leghorn remarks, "I'm starting to feel a little roasted myself". Another one features Foghorn Leghorn instructing a live-action child on the correct way to put fixings on a hot dog, including corn relish. The kid starts eating his own hot dog before Foghorn finishes demonstrating on another hot dog. It ends with Foghorn saying, "I say, you can't teach an old dog new tricks".
  • Foghorn appeared in several Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials.{{cite book | last1 = Maltin | first1 = Leonard | author-link1 = Leonard Maltin | title = Of mice and magic: a history of American animated cartoons | publisher = New American Library | year = 1987| isbn = 978-0-452-25993-5}} The 1996 film Space Jam contains a reference to this ad campaign; when Foghorn is torched by a Monstar during the TuneSquad/Monstars basketball game, he says, "Did you order Original Recipe or Extra Crispy?"
  • Much like Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn appeared in a GEICO commercial in 2011 (voiced by Jeff Bennett). Here, he is providing narration for an e-book, but motor-mouths as well as ad-libbing constantly and ends up getting clubbed by Henery Hawk off-screen.
  • He appeared in the video games Looney Tunes Racing, Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout, The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2 and Bugs Bunny: Crazy Castle 3. He also appears as an announcer and numerous cosmetics in the Warner Bros. game MultiVersus.
  • Foghorn was mentioned in the song Role Model by hip-hop artist Eminem in the line "Jumped in a Chickhawk cartoon with a cape on, and beat up Foghorn Leghorn with an acorn". He was also parodied in the music video.
  • In April 2024, Foghorn Leghorn became the subject of a viral Internet meme. Many pictures and videos online surfaced of him being placed within various cartoon and anime characters and humorously ranting during their iconic moments, such as ranting during Goku's first battle with Frieza.{{Cite web |date=2024-04-24 |title=Why Foghorn Leghorn Is Gassing Up Your Favorite Anime And Game Characters |url=https://kotaku.com/looney-tunes-foghorn-leghorn-meme-anime-video-games-1851431956 |access-date=2024-04-26 |website=Kotaku |language=en}}

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