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Crockett-Doodle-Do is a Looney Tunes short released in 1960 by Robert McKimson.[1] The film stars Foghorn Leghorn going in the woods.[2]
| Crockett-Doodle-Do | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Robert McKimson |
The film was well-known for being one of the most well-known Looney Tunes shorts.[3]
Plot
[edit]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."
Reception
[edit]Crockett-Doodle-Do was a popular Looney Tunes short, according to The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Willis, Don (1982). "Review: The Warner Brothers Cartoons by Will Friedwald, Jerry Beck". Film Quarterly. 35 (4): 49. doi:10.2307/1212115. ISSN 0015-1386. JSTOR 1212115.
- ^ Ayers, Meredith (2009-09-24). "A Review of "The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons, Third edition"". Community & Junior College Libraries. 15 (4): 226–227. doi:10.1080/02763910903255498. ISSN 0276-3915.
- ^ "The animated film encyclopedia: a complete guide to American shorts, features, and sequences, 1900-1979". Choice Reviews Online. 38 (2): 38–0664-38-0664. 2000-10-01. doi:10.5860/choice.38-0664. ISSN 0009-4978.
- ^ Smolko, Joanna R. (2012-10-01). "Southern Fried Foster: Representing Race and Place through Music in Looney Tunes Cartoons". American Music. 30 (3): 344–372. doi:10.5406/americanmusic.30.3.0344. ISSN 0734-4392.