Fox-Terror

A wily fox is trying to distract the Barnyard Dog so that he can sneak in and get the chickens. He disguises himself in a variety of ways to fool Foghorn Leghorn to get the dog away with him. One of the fox's disguises is the Sheldon Leonard racetrack tout popularized on the Jack Benny Show.

The fox also disguises himself as a fortune-telling swami. Foghorn tells a baby rooster to ring the bell in case of fox. All the while, the rooster keeps pulling the "fox alert." Every time that the rooster rings the bell, the fox disappears, and the dog thinks that he's crying wolf when there's no fox around. Finally Foghorn and the dog discover the ruse of the fox, and they team up to get rid of him. Loads of good gags and puns!

Foghorn Leghorn, Barnyard Dog, Fox, Rooster

In September of 1943, beginning with A Feud There Was, Warner Bros. began re-releasing select color cartoons in their "Blue Ribbon" program. Typically the Blue Ribbon reissues received new opening sequences with Blue Ribbon title cards and standardized music. Cartoon production credits were also removed. Between ten and fifteen cartoons were released in any given year, with cartoons coming from as far back as 1935. The reissues continued until the close of the studio in the 1960's.

All Blue Ribbon cartoons were released as "Merrie Melodie" cartoons regardless of the original series. The first "Looney Tunes" short to be included in the Blue Ribbon series was The Hep Cat, which was added in 1949. The only current prints of many of these cartoons are the Blue Ribbon releases, although restoration of these cartoons with original elements and titles is always ongoing.