Why is Foghorn Leghorn racist?

Cartoon brew ^ | 07/28/09 | Amid Amidi

[raccoonradio]

AMID: How did we ever manage to answer these burning animation history questions before the existence of Yahoo! Answers?

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Resolved Question Why is Foghorn Leghorn Racist? I no theres no racist undertones (sic) but what are they? how is it rascit? (sic) 4 months ago

Best Answer--chosen by voters Foghorn Leghorn was created during a time filled with tension so perhaps that's why 3 months ago

[the_devils_advocate_666]

I went out and got myself a boxed set of “Our Gang” (or The Little Rascals) before they are banned from the world. Loved that show as a kid.

[JoeDetweiler]

Geez.....this was settled two years ago........

Whatever happened to the foghorn leghorn cartoons?

I used to grow up watching the bugs bunny, daffy duck cartoons and I haven’t seen foghorn leghorn in forever or chilly willy the penguin, droopy... I miss the old cartoons I don’t care for the crap they have now. I’m an old school kid who grew up with school house rock!

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker

Most of them had racist undertones and had to be taken off of the air. I mean, think about it...Foghorn?.......Leghorn? That is racist and people don’t put up with it any more.

2 years ago

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070925192501AApYptN

[70th Division]

It was probably that “Camp Town Races” song he used to sing. Do Da Do Da!

[the_devils_advocate_666]

“an I say this is gonna cause more confusion than a mouse in a burlesque show”

[raccoonradio]

Speedy got taken off due to concerns of racism; as for Foghorn, maybe it’s still on Boomerang or something (I don’t have that channel) but the old Looney Tunes cartoons were
hilarious even if they’re tough to find on TV anymore
(...but you can buy boxed sets on DVD)

[fieldmarshaldj]

I still call the joint “Colonel Sanders.”

[raccoonradio]

“oh but sometimes I have been spotted with a Big Mac on my breath
stumbling into a Colonel Sanders, with a face as white as death...”

—Larry Groce, Junk Food Junkie

“Colonel Sanders wants to cook his goose
But Psycho Chicken’s still on the loose”

—The Fools, Psycho Chicken (parody of Psycho Killer)

[snarks_when_bored]

The Flintstones would fit right in nowadays:

The Flintstones theme song

Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones.
They're the modern stone age family.
From the town of Bedrock,
They're a page right out of history.

Let's ride with the family down the street.
Through the courtesy of Fred's two feet.

When you're with the Flintstones
You'll have a yabba dabba doo time.
A dabba doo time.
You'll have a gay old time.

Fred & Barney, Wilma & Betty...yes, it all makes sense now...

[InvisibleChurch]

thanks

[gundog]

Typical White Leghorn.

[VeniVidiVici]

I still call the joint “Colonel Sanders.”

The five words never spoken anymore in regards to the chain are:

1. Colonel Sanders
2. Kentucky Fried Chicken

Sort of odd, isn't it?

[Lady Jag]

[Abundy]

bkmk for later

[BluesDuke]

Racist, no. Ripoff, yes---especially since Warner Brothers copyrighted not just the cartoon image but the characterisation and vocalisation of the character, denying Kenny Delmar the right to continue his Senator Claghorn character after Fred Allen discontinued the radio show on which Delmar made the character so popular.

The Fred Allen Show: Auditions (with Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy)---Also the "Allen's Alley" debut of Sen. Claghorn . . . and Titus Moody (Parker Fennelly). (7 October 1945, NBC)

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

My favorite, Droopy Dog, could be seen today as having numerous racist symbols in it.

Shuffle-footed, Suth’rin drawl, that suspiciously plantation-like tune the wolf always whistled.

Is there a box set?

[raccoonradio]

Interesting—at the cartoon convention IIRC Joe Harris said there was talk of getting the voice actor (M. Blanc) who did the Claghorn type voice and someone said, why not just get Kenny Delmar himself (to do The Hunter). So they did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coe3WOdnkCw

“Come in, son, come in that is! Oh, that’s the phone...Well relax, son. The hunter is on the job!”

[raccoonradio]

When I was in Montreal over 10 yrs ago I was in Olympic Stadium/Stade Olympique for Expos game and saw they had a PFK inside. That familiar logo, but w/ different letters...

Poulet Frie Kentucky

[Secret Agent Man]

Not only that, look more carefully.

He’s white, yes. He’s also a redneck.

Said ‘boy’ a lot too. Also ‘kid’, and ‘son’, but let’s not cloud the issue with facts.

[ozzymandus]

Cartoons went to hell about the time they cut out all the violence from the old cartoons they showed on TV. When I was a kid, they showed old WW2 propaganda cartoons killing Japs (they still called them that) and Nazis, and cartoon characters killing themselves.

Remember the black maid from the old “Tom and Jerry” cartoons (the funny, violent ones)? Now she has a “white” voice.

[the invisib1e hand]

Then there’s the accent. Probably reminds people of George W. Bush. And we all know what a racist he is.