The Slick Chick

The Slick Chick is a 1962 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.
== Plot ==
Widow Hen asks curmudgeon old rooster Mr. Cackle to watch her young son Junior while she goes out. Mr. Cackle refuses, claiming Junior is destructive, disrespectful, and incorrigible; in fact, the old geezer says Junior "makes Dennis the Menace look like an angel." Foghorn Leghorn overhears the proceedings and, hoping to silence Mr. Cackle and prove a point that "ain't no such thing as a bad boy," volunteers to watch Junior, who snickers, "Oooh, he don't know me vewy well, do he?" Foggy thought he will go really well with Junior, but Junior snickers, "Five will get he ten!" before putting a needle on his bottom. Mr. Cackle laughs loud. Foggy says angrily,"What'd you laughing at, yer old goat? The boy was just being playful." Junior snickers and says, "Who he tink he kiddin'!" Foggy took the boy to play, while Mr. Cackle laughs and says, "Lotsa luck, Foggy. You're gonna need it!"
Foggy first takes Junior to a box full of toys, and tells Junior to play with them. Junior was disappointed to find no toys that he likes, "just a box full of widdle kids' stuff." He decides to find something that a "destwuctive widdle kid" like him could play with. First, upon finding a cement mixer in the barn, Junior decides to call a false alarm, which leads to Foggy landing in the cement mixer; he comes out posed as Rodin's "The Thinker" statue. Junior then says, "I'm not weawwy a scuwptor. It's just me mean widdle hobby!" Foggy recovers and threatens to report Junior's misbehavior to Widow Hen, but Junior counters by warning that he'll tell his mother that Foggy is still betting on the horses. Foggy tries to laugh this off, and does, but not after he briefly mimics watching a horse race.
Junior wanders from the farm while Foggy is taking a nap, and goes into a secret shed to find a balloon. Junior ties the harness around Foggy and puts the rooster into orbit. Eventually, Foggy awakens and panics when he realizes he is flying high above the farm. When he demands that Junior help get him down, Junior says,"Yer know, it's kind wevoltin' to see a wooster turn chicken. But, if he want down, I get he down." Then he sends a dart to puncture the balloon. Foggy falls to the earth, and Junior gives him a landing pad ... first, a spring, which springs Foggy back into the air, which makes Junior decide to use something softer in the form of a landmine. After an explosion, Junior remarks, "Now why do you suppose he bwow his top?"
Once Foggy regains his senses, with feathers all blown up, and blue boxer shorts on his pink skin, his mind is made up about Junior: "I still say he ain't a bad boy. He's the worst. Worst, that is. Pew!"
== Caricatures ==
* Red Skelton
== Television ==
* The Road Runner Show (1966–1968; 1971–1974)
* The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour (1968–1971; 1975–1976)
* The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show (1976–1985)
* Looney Tunes on Nickelodeon (1988–1989; 1994–1999)
* Merrie Melodies Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends [Syndication and Fox] (1990–1994)
* The Bugs and Daffy Show [Cartoon Network] (1999–2004)
* The Road Runner Show [Boomerang] (2000–2002)
* The Looney Tunes Show [Cartoon Network] (2001–2004)
* Looney Tunes on Boomerang (2003–2005; 2013–present)
* Looney Tunes on Cartoon Network (2011–2015)
* Bugs Bunny and Friends [Me-TV] (2021–present)
== Availability ==
=== Streaming ===
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Lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2022) (restored)
Lt itunes.jpg|iTunes ( - ) (restored)
== Censorship ==
* On CBS and ABC, the part where Junior places a landmine on the ground for Foghorn Leghorn to fall on is cut.https://web.archive.org/web/20240228021817/https://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-s.aspx
== Notes ==
* Despite this being a Looney Tunes short, it uses the Merrie Melodies ending title card with "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" as the theme.
* This was one of the seven cartoons (not counting "The Jet Cage", as William Lava also did music for that short) that were released after Milt Franklyn's death, alongside "Mexican Boarders", "Bill of Hare", "Zoom at the Top", "Louvre Come Back to Me!", "Honey's Money", and "Mother Was a Rooster".
* Mr. Cackle mentions Dennis the Menace when comparing the destructive Junior with that character in one scene, referencing the comic strip character of the same name by Hank Ketcham and the 1959 live-action television series it inspired.
== Gallery ==
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SlickChickRestoredSmall.jpeg|Cropped screenshot of 2020 restoration
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== References ==
Category:1962
Category:Cartoons directed by Robert McKimson
Category:Foghorn Leghorn Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Cartoons with music by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons animated by George Grandpré
Category:Cartoons animated by Warren Batchelder
Category:Cartoons animated by Keith Darling
Category:Cartoons written by Tedd Pierce
Category:Cartoons animated by Ted Bonnicksen
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Robert Gribbroek
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Robert Gribbroek
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons produced by David H. DePatie