Fox Terror (1957)

Original title

Fox-Terror

Directed by

Robert McKimson

Genre

animation

Country

United States

Runtime

7 min

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Foghorn Leghorn and the Barnyard Dawg get into comedic conflict set to a fishing song. A brief parody of 1950s quiz shows appears in the cartoon.

playfulslapsticklivelynostalgicwhimsicalcomicbouncy

What happens

Fox-Terror is a 1957 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short directed by Robert McKimson. The cartoon was released on May 11, 1957, and features Foghorn Leghorn and the Barnyard Dawg. The title is a play on the dog breed name "Fox Terrier". By the time of this cartoon's release, the Stephen Foster song "Camptown Races" has been established as Foghorn Leghorn's theme; in other cartoons Foghorn normally hums the verse, but in this cartoon he sings specially-written lyrics about fishing. The cartoon also briefly paid homage to the then-wildly popular genre of television quiz shows, particularly The $64,000 Question which, like many other quiz shows of the day, would soon become embroiled in scandal and be taken off the air a year later. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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