Little Boy Boo

Sometimes the most profound truths come in the simplest packages !!

Probably my all time favorite cartoon. Yields, at the end, a line which I would like to display on my wall permanently--a statement of philosophy, life experience, irony. But I can't quote it because that would spoil it for you.

Okay, here's the plot. Leghorn goes courting the Widow Hen in search of a warm perch for the coming winter. She requires that he make friends with her little son, the egghead genius. The rest is history--comic history.

If you like Warner Bros. cartoons, and have missed this one, I urge you to seek it out at all costs. Yields at least three classic lines (which keep coming up for me in more or less appropriate circumstances.)

Once again, blustery old Foghorn Leghorn tries to woo Prissy - he doesn't want to spend a cold winter alone - but there's a catch: he has to befriend her intellectual nephew. What follows just goes to show why it's so funny when nerds meet hicks; I sure couldn't understand any of those charts! Anyway, "Little Boy Boo" is one of the many cartoons that remind us that nothing was too outlandish for the Termite Terrace crowd. They created ultra-zany situations and were proud of it. And they, I say they had every reason to be.

Still, I can't help but wonder why Foghorn has to go through the sorts of things that he experiences.

Winter is on its way and it's expected to be an unusually cold one. So Foghorn Leghorn, who lives in an old shack that offers little protection from the elements, decides to court Miss Prissy because she lives in a nice, warm cottage. But what Foghorn isn't prepared for is that Prissy insists that he prove he is a suitable father for her son, Egghead Jr. He proceeds to try and teach the little chicken about sports and things with humorous results. Foghorn's fun and little Egghead is too adorable for words. Excellent voice work from the incomparable Mel Blanc. Nice, colorful animation and lively music. A funny cartoon with several great lines and gags, especially the baseball stuff.

My only real gripe with Little Boy Boo is that it is perhaps too short. Other than that, it is enormously entertaining and one of the better Foghorn Leghorn cartoons. The story does have some formulaic elements to it admittedly, like the wooing of Miss Prissy, but because a lot of Foghorn Leghorns cartoons are formulaic in structure I have come to accept it. Even if I considered it a flaw, which I don't this time round, a lot of things do compensate. The animation is colourful and lively and the music has an infectious energy to it. The writing is very funny, with three of Foghorn's lines being classic particularly the one about not playing baseball, and the physical comedy also amuses. Foghorn is a lot of fun, and the nephew character while nerdy isn't annoying thankfully. Mel Blanc's voices as they are consistently are superb. In conclusion, fun and one of the better entries of this set of cartoons. 9/10 Bethany Cox