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Crockett-Doodle-Do is a 1960 Merrie Melodies short directed by Robert McKimson.

Title[]

The title is a portmanteau of frontiersman Davy Crockett and "Cock-a-doodle-doo," an English representation of a cock crowing.

Plot[]

Foghorn Leghorn is going for a hike in the woods when he notices Egghead Jr. reading Basic Research in the Physical Sciences by Prof. Newt Ronn. Foghorn takes him out in the woods to learn scouting and woodcraft. He tries to light a friction fire with a spindle drill, but Egghead breaks off a twig, strikes it like a match on his buttock, and lights the fire for him. Foghorn calls the act impossible and tries it for himself, and sets his own tail on fire.

While Egghead returns to his book, Foghorn carves a duck call. When he blows it, a pig comes running, knocking Foggy off his feet and into a tree. Egghead carves his own call, which brings three bobbysoxer ducks to swoon over him. Foghorn then tries to send a smoke signal; he burns a hole in his blanket. Egghead signals back with a neatly typed and signed message in his smoke.

Foghorn rigs a watering can in a tree and tries to fool Egghead with an Indian rain dance. Egghead folds a paper airplane and uses it to seed a small cloud with dry ice, making actual rain and strike Foggy with lightning, leaving him featherless.

Foghorn shows him how to set up a box trap, but Egghead builds a snare trap. Foghorn scoffs and demonstrates how the snare will not work. He inadvertently sets off a Rube Goldberg-esque trap that springs the rooster up into the air, bounces him off a tree branch, launches him through a chute, down a hollow tree, and deposits him back at the snare, which triggers and hangs Foggy upside-down by his feet. Beaten, Foghorn asks him if he has any more of "those long-haired books."

Notes[]

  • This is the third and final appearance of Egghead Jr., and his only appearance without his mother Miss Prissy.
  • This cartoon marks the third featherless scene of Foghorn Leghorn, after "Little Boy Boo" and "The High and the Flighty" (with Daffy Duck and Barnyard Dawg).
  • Although this cartoon is available on VHS, DVD, and iTunes Video, it has seldom aired on American television since Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon due to the Indian rain dance sequence. Despite this, this cartoon had aired uncut and uncensored on international Cartoon Network and Boomerang feeds following the Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon years, and has also aired on MeTV this way in 2021.

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Foghorn Leghorn Cartoons
1946 Walky Talky Hawky
1947 Crowing Pains
1948 The Foghorn Leghorn
1949 Henhouse Henery
1950 The Leghorn Blows at MidnightA Fractured Leghorn
1951 Leghorn SwoggledLovelorn Leghorn
1952 Sock a Doodle DoThe EGGcited Rooster
1953 Plop Goes the Weasel!Of Rice and Hen
1954 Little Boy Boo
1955 Feather DustedAll Fowled Up
1956 Weasel StopThe High and the FlightyRaw! Raw! Rooster!
1957 Fox-Terror
1958 Feather BlusterWeasel While You Work
1959 A Broken Leghorn
1960 Crockett-Doodle-DoThe Dixie Fryer
1961 Strangled Eggs
1962 The Slick ChickMother Was a Rooster
1963 Banty Raids
1964 False Hare
1980 The Yolks on You
1996 Superior Duck
1997 Pullet Surprise
2004 Cock-a-Doodle Duel




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