Walky Talky Hawky
Tags: psychedelic

Plot synopsis:
Henery Hawk discusses his cravings with his father, who then tells him "Your mother and I are outcasts, hated and hunted because of what we are: Chicken hawks. And you, you Henery, you're a chicken hawk too. And like all chicken hawks you crave to eat - a chicken." More enthusiastic than his father, Henery Hawk sets out to find a chicken, however, as he tries to fly, he falls from the tree and tells the audience "Someday I gotta learn to fly." Meanwhile, in a barnyard, the Barnyard Dawg deliberately throws a watermelon on an unsuspecting Foghorn Leghorn, who is done filing his nails, muttering to himself while thinking of the Dawg "EVERYDAY IS THE SAME THING!". Just as the Dawg goes to sleep, Foghorn deliberately spanks the Dawg with a paddle, angering the Dawg into chasing Foghorn, only the Dawg gets choked by the leash and falls. The Dawg now angrily barks at Foghorn, who then deliberately slaps the Dawg, yelling "Ah, SHUT UP!" and walks away.
Henery meets Foghorn, who, seeing the hawk as a potential pawn against the Dawg, tells Henery he is a horse and that the Dawg is a chicken and Henery Hawk goes up to the Dawg and deliberately bites the Dawg in the tail, causing the Dawg to wake up from his nap in pain and Henery warns the Dawg "Are you gonna come quietly or do I have to muss ya up?!", but the Dawg chases Henery, but gets choked on the leash again and falls again while Foghorn whacks the Dawg in the head like he's playing croquet with croquet mallet and runs with the Dawg angrily barking again, only with a headache. Henery is still running, but Foghorn tells Henery not to give up and Henery literally carries the Dog house with the Dawg in it like a train while the Dawg investigates with a mirror, sees Henery and lifts up his house and gives chase but is choked and falls again and Foghorn deliberately puts a knight's helmet on the Dawg and whacks the Dawg in the side of the head many times causing the Dawg's head to literally shake inside. Foghorn tells Henery that the Dawg is a "foxy chicken" and they have to "outsmart him" and Foghorn whispers the plan into Henery's ear. Henery lures the Dawg out of his house by drawing a doorbell and presses it and plays a piano while the Dawg dances to the music and the Dawg gets whacked and trips over a banana peel and a spring while walking clumsily and landing on a rollerskate. When the Dawg surrenders and asks Henery what he is looking for, Henery tells the Dawg "You're a chicken, I'm a chicken hawk, and I'm gonna eat chicken!", the Dawg realizes he's been the victim of Foghorn's prank and points out "I'm NO chicken! THAT'S a chicken!" and Foghorn accuses the Dawg, "Don't you, I say don't you call ME a chicken, you... chicken!" Henery realizes he's been tricked and he releases the Dawg on Foghorn which starts a brawl between the two of them, only this time, Foghorn is now running while the angry Dawg is now on the warpath against Foghorn. When the brawl takes them into a barn, an ACTUAL horse forcibly ejects them, clunking their heads together in the process. The two foes, shaking hands to prove solidarity, re-enter to double-team the horse. Finally, Henery captures Foghorn, the Dawg, and the horse, mimicking Foghorn and telling the camera that "One of these things, I SAY, ONE OF THESE THINGS, has GOT to be a chicken!" as the cartoon irises out.

Review: An assured beginning for Foghorn Leghorn.
Robert McKimson's 'Walky Talky Hawky' introduced Foghorn Leghorn, a character with whom McKimson did much of his best work.
This short was originally intended as a star vehicle for Henerey Hawk but Foggy obviously steals the show, so much so that Henerey became the supporting player.
Foghorn is close to fully realised already in this debut outing, as is his regular rival, the barnyard dog.
When Henerey comes to the farm looking for a chicken to eat, Foggy convinces him that the dog is a chicken, thereby exposing him to the little hawk's persistent kidnapping attempts.
It's a funny set-up and makes for a very good cartoon, although a couple of cartoons down the line McKimson flipped the premise and had Foggy trying to convince Henerey that he was a chicken.
That cartoon, 'The Foghorn Leghorn', was a classic and it also christened the character.
In comparison, 'Walky Talky Hawky' still holds up well, setting up the premise for McKimson to later subvert.
I always think McKimson seems most at ease when directing the Foghorn Leghorn series and 'Walky Talky Hawky' benefits greatly from that assurance.
It's a lovely cartoon with a great ending and it also proved to be a great beginning, giving birth to yet another classic Warner Bros.
star.
Neither Henery Nor Foghorn Is Funny In This One. After telling his pop that he has a craving for something and can't figure out what it is, little "Henery" hears the facts of life from his dad.
No, nothing to do with the birds and bees, just telling his boy that they are "hated and hunted down" because they are chicken hawks and chicken hawks eat chickens.
That's what they do!"Hey, that's for me," says the little bird.
Henery doesn't even know what a chicken looks like, so he goes out looking.
Just his luck - the first one he encounters is the huge "Foghorn Leghorn." From that point, this is Foghorn's cartoon, not Henery's.
He's loud, he's abrasive, he's obnoxious, but who doesn't love Foghorn?Along the way, as Foghorn puts on the little guy by telling him the nearby dog is a chicken, we get parody of a cigarette commercial from those days ("round, firm and fully-packed"), but overall I didn't find this a very funny cartoon.
I doubt others did either which is probably why Henery never became a star.
Foghorn wasn't either, but at least many of us have heard of him.Henery sounds a little like Bugs.
I guess Mel Blanc couldn't disguise his Brooklyn accent enough to make Henery sound different, although he did fine with Foghorn..
Classic Animation at Its Best.
Walky Talky Hawky (1946) **** (out of 4)Hilarious short has a small chicken hawk being told by his father that he needs to eat chicken so he sets out to find out.
He comes across Foghorn Leghorn who convinces him that a dog is really the chicken.
This here is a wonderful short that remains one of the absolute best to ever come from Warner.
There are so many classic moments here but the real highlight is simply the fact that all three characters are so downright funny and lovable in their own right.
There are many funny moments here but for me the highlight will always be the scream that Foghorn lets out once the dog finally gets a hold of him.
That scream itself is one of the funniest noises to ever come from the studio.
As you'd expect the animation is terrific but the final line of the film is just priceless..
The best of the nominees that year..
This is the first appearance of Foghorn Leghorn and the dog as well as the second appearance of Henery Hawk (but the first voiced by Mel Blanc).
As far as the dog and chicken are concerned, they related to each other exactly as they did in subsequent films--and seeing them tormenting each other was, as always, a pleasure.
In the midst of this fighting arrives Henery who is used by both Foghorn and the dog to fight their battle.
Quite a few later films featured similar scenarios, but this was the first.This film was nominated for Best Animated Short but ultimately lost to "Cat Concerto"--which was an intellectual Tom & Jerry outing which critics apparently loved but which was short on laughs.
If I had been alive and a member of AMPAS (the Oscar folks) back then, I certainly would have voted for "Walky Talky Hawky", as it was the funniest of the nominees..
I SAY, I SAY This is my first Cartoon!.
Listen when I'm talking to you boy!
This is Foghorn Leghorn's first short.
And he got an Oscar-Nomination!
WOW!
I SAY, I SAY OSCAR NOMINATION!
HAHA!
You're a good reader but you ain't paying attention to a thing I say!3(***)out of 4(****)stars.
"Are you comin' quietly or do I have to muss ya up?".
A wonderful debut for Foghorn Leghorn in this Oscar-nominated short.
This one has the formula that would make up many of the Foghorn cartoons, but probably never better than it is here.
Young chicken hawk Henery Hawk is determined to get himself a chicken.
He happens upon the farm where Foghorn Leghorn resides and finds the rooster feuding with the farm's dog (Barnyard Dog, also in his first appearance).
Foghorn convinces Henery that the dog is a chicken, which results in lots of funny gags.It's a hilarious short with great lines and gags, and colorful, well-drawn animation.
One of director Bob McKimson's best.
Lively music from Carl Stalling.
Mel Blanc's voice work is flawless.
As much fun as his voices for the main trio are, his work with Henery's father in the beginning of the cartoon was a highlight for me.
So melodramatic!
It's a Looney Tunes classic, both for being the beginning of a terrific series and for being very funny in its own right..
This is good clean violent fun, I say, this is good clean violent fun..
This Foghorn Leghorn short offers a twist on the usual Tom and Jerry/Sylvester and Tweety/Roadrunner and Wil E.
Coyote model.
Like those classics, we are offered a conflict between scavenger and prey.
Unlike them, the scavenger is a sweet little cutie, while his victim is a bloated, blustery sneak.
The film begins with lachrymose melodrama, as the hero's father tragically tells toddler Henery Hawk that he is a chicken hawk, that he must hunt chickens.
With innocent bravado, he sets out to fulfil his duty, but his ominous first act is to fail to fly, falling and thudding from a great height.Meanwhile Foghorn Leghorn is having his usual self-imposed troubles with Barnyard Dog, taunting the latter because safe in the knowledge of his being tied up.
Foghorn is lovably unsympathetic, a windy, Burl Ives-type, full of cod-military guff; he'll turn any trick to save his own hide.
This mixture of malice and cowardice makes him a true cousin of Bugs.He sees in the chickenhawk an opportunity to further exasperate Barnyard, and, persuading the little fellow that he is a horse, and Barnyard a chicken, urges Henery to root out his meal.
Much sadistic lunacy ensues, wonderfully brutal, with the scheming Foghorn not always coming out best.This energetic short plays havoc with sentimental ideals of the pastoral, especially prominent just after the war - its celebration of metamorphosis, duplicity and cunning is heartening in that oppressive All American social atmosphere.
There is also some bracing philosophy about the struggle between free-will and genetic destiny.
A Tex Avery would have made this a classic, but a funny script and peerlessly protean Mel Blanc voicing make this a rare treat..
A great start to the Foghorn Leghorn series.
Foghorn Leghorn is not my favourite of the Looney Tunes characters.
He is however a very funny one and one of their most distinctive(Pepe LePew probably gets the top spot on that front.
Walky Talky Hawky was Foghorn and Henery Hawke's first cartoon, and while it's their first it's also one of their better ones.
The animation is beautifully done, Foghorn is a little overweight here as he was in his early cartoons but the colours are vibrant with a good amount of depth and the backgrounds are fluid and detailed.
The music has always been one of the main reasons why Foghorn's and Looney Tunes' (in general) cartoons score so well with me.
It is lushly orchestrated, it is hugely energetic and very catchy and jazzy, it enhances the action so well and keeps you in a good mood throughout and afterwards.
The writing would get wittier later on- as you'd expect for a first time there is the sense that it's trying to find its feet still, perfectly natural- but it is still very funny and fresh with the Foghorn series' writing style(ie.
Foghorn's repetition and crazy similes) evident.
The gags are clever and well timed.
The two characters come off against each other very well, they're not at their best, their personalities got stronger as the series evolved, but they are still like the characters that we know.
Mel Blanc does a great job, spot on as Foghorn as always and while he's fine as Henery there are times where he sounds as though he's experimenting with which voice he used before settling with a hybrid of Bugs Bunny, Speedy Gonzales and Tweety.
In conclusion, a great promising start in introducing a character that is funny and sticks out from the crowd.
9/10 Bethany Cox.
"chicken hawk" sounds like a sign of things to come.
In Foghorn Leghorn's debut, he tries to get Henery Hawk to to go after Barnyard Dog, with unexpected consequences.
One thing that I noticed was that Henery Hawk's father called the family "chicken hawks", meaning that they hunt chickens.
That phrase now refers to politicians who never served in the armed forces but send other people to fight in wars (often for lies).
The connection that I see - however loose - is that Foghorn lies to Henery about Barnyard being a chicken.
So he sends Henery off to do something for a lie.
On the other hand, Foghorn had tortured Barnyard many times, so he wasn't being as much of a hypocrite as George W.
Bush.But anyway, it's a really fun cartoon, a sign of the later Foghorn Leghorn shorts.
Cool..
Foghorn Leghorn's first appearance-and his only shot at an Oscar.
This cartoon, nominated for an Oscar, was actually a Henery Hawk cartoon.
But Foghorn Leghorn-a takeoff on a radio character of the 1930s-1940s-steals the show and launched himself to fame and fortune, while Henery saw his career fizzle.
The Foggy in this is the Foggy everyone knows today.
Very little change from the first appearance to the familiar figure, unlike Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Elmer or most of the others.
Well worth watching..
Many, if not most, people tasting poodle .
. for the first time in their local Chinese eatery remark, "It tastes like chicken." After gnawing off Evander Holyfield's ear in their heavyweight boxing bout, Michael Tyson observed, "It tasted like chicken." Asked what kind of taste eating crow left in his mouth as he watched Middle Tennessee cut down the nets after triumphing over his Michigan State Spartan Hoopsters, a squad he was touting as the sure national champs in the run-up to March Madness 2016, MSU star Denzel Valentine croaked, "Sort of like chicken." Whenever humans bite into fowl-tasting things, their initial thought is that "This tastes just like chicken!" That's why Col. Sanders' 57 secret ingredients are carefully selected to insure that KFC's namesake dish NEVER tastes like chicken!
WALKY TALKY HAWKY's title character, Henery Hawk, decides that the tail of the dog that bit him--or even horse meat--are more desirable fates than tasting chicken.
It's small wonder that the term "chicken" is one of Western Civilization's most derisive insults, as it originated as an epithet directed at folks afraid to taste chicken!.
Here comes Foghorn.
One of my favorite cartoon characters and he brings his frenemies Barnyard Dog and Henery Hawk.
"Walky Talky Hawky" is a 7-minute cartoon from 70 years ago that was made right after World War II and its success resulted in many more films with these characters.
Director is McKimson, writer is Foster and voice actor is Mel Blanc of course, all very prolific for Warner Bros.
This one may have lost the Oscar, but it was still a success.
The story is about Foghorn tricking the chicken hawk into thinking that Barnyard Dog is actually the chicken, a storyline that has been used in other films as well with these characters.
It was okay, even if some of the jokes were really just pure action with little comedic value.
However, all in all, I felt it was a decent watch with a nice ending too that was actually funny.
And you hear Foghorn making chicken sounds, which does not happen too often in these cartoons.
I recommend the watch..
"Did you lose something?
I say, did you lose something, kid?".
From director Robert McKimson comes "Walky Talky Hawky", a very good Foghorn Leghorn/Henery Hawk/Barnyard Dog cartoon.
The plot?
Henery's tummy craves a chicken, but Henery doesn't know what a chicken looks like!
Foggy tries to persuade Henery that Barnyard is a chicken, and vice versa.Two scenes from "Walky Talky Hawky" that I especially like.
First, after Barnyard crowns Foggy with a watermelon, he rushes back to his doghouse and feigns snoring; Foggy beats his behind and does the "Aaaaaah, shaddup!" bit.
And second, Henery rings Barnyard's "doorbell" and the dog emerges from his house stepping in a jazzy rhythm (WHY, I don't know, but it's terrific) before getting caught in a series of booby traps.Watching "Walky Talky Hawky" recently reminded me of a 1980s television commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken that featured Foghorn Leghorn and Henery Hawk.
Henery tells Foggy in his nasally arrogant voice, "I'm a chicken hawk and you're a chicken!
Now are you coming or do I have to muss you up?" Foggy then explains, "You've gotta go to Kentucky Fried Chicken if you want the world's best chicken!"