Little Boy Boo

Little Boy Boo is a 1954 Looney Tunes short directed by Robert McKimson.
== Title ==
The title is based on the Mother Goose rhyme "Little Boy Blue".
== Plot ==
Foghorn reads a newspaper story in the Barnyard News predicting a cold winter. To avoid freezing in his shack, he decides to woo Miss Prissy, who lives in a warm, cozy cottage across the way, saying, "I need your love to keep me warm." Miss Prissy is flattered by Foghorn's two-second courtship, but tells him that, in order to prove his worthiness as her mate, he needs to show that he can be a worthy father to her bookish son.
The little boy, Egghead Jr., dressed in a stocking cap and oversized glasses, would rather read about "Splitting the Fourth Dimension" than engage in typical little boy games. Foghorn immediately catches on to this and sets out to win his audition by showing Egghead Jr. how to play various sports games.
Although he apparently has never participated in any of these events before, Egghead Jr. effortlessly masters them all:
* Baseball: After Egghead Jr. swallows the ball whole and clonks Foghorn over the head with the bat, the rooster has Egghead Jr. properly use both items. Egghead goes to bat and smashes a line drive down Foghorn's throat, and later fires a fast-pitch offering that slices through Foghorn's bat and a row of trees in the grove. When asked to explain, Egghead produces a series of scientific formulas.
* Making paper airplanes: Foghorn makes a conventional one, but Egghead Jr. creates a fighter that not only floats sleekly through the air, it shoots Foggy's plane down in flames. Foghorn is handed another scientific explanation.
* Hide and seek: Foghorn hides in the feedbox, but using a slide rule and a shovel, Egghead Jr. finds the rooster elsewhere. Flabbergasted at how the chick accomplished this, Foghorn decides not to look in the feedbox, declaring "I just might be in there."
Later, Foghorn tries to take an interest in Egghead Jr.'s interests. The chick is experimenting with formulas in his Tiny Tot Chemical Set marked "harmless". Foghorn assumes Egghead Jr. is making soda and tries to make it fizz, but causes an explosion instead, blowing off his feathers.
Foghorn returns Egghead Jr. home and cancels the engagement. "I've got my bandages to keep me warm!" he scowls as he walks off on crutches and in a full-body bandage.
== Availability ==
W UK10551 LooneyTunesVideoShowNo16The.jpg|(1984) VHS The Looney Tunes Video Show, Volume 16
Lt salute mb.jpg|(1985) VHS A Salute to Mel Blanc
51MP3H9DKYL.jpg|(1990) VHS Foghorn Leghorn
Lt ltc fl.jpg|(1996) VHS Foghorn Leghorn
Bumper03.jpg|(1996) VHS Special Bumper Collection (Vol. 3)
LTCE VOL 4 DAFFY DOODLES.jpg|(2000) VHS Looney Tunes: The Collectors Edition Volume 4: Daffy Doodles
File:Foghorn Leghorn Vhs.webp|(2003) VHS Foghorn Leghorn
SuperStars Foghorn.jpg|(2010) DVD Looney Tunes Super Stars' Foghorn Leghorn & Friends: Barnyard Bigmouth (restored)
Lt ss3p.jpg|(2013) DVD Looney Tunes Super Stars 3-Pack, Disc 2
Lt ssfm.jpg|(2014) DVD Looney Tunes Super Stars Family Multi-Feature, Disc 2
=== Streaming ===
Lt boomerang.jpg|Boomerang App ( - ) (restored)
Lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2022) (restored)
Lt max.jpg|Max (2024 - ) (restored)
Lt itunes.jpg|iTunes ( - ) (restored)
== Censorship ==
* On the ABC and FOX airings of this cartoon, the part where Egghead hits Foghorn Leghorn with a baseball bat after Foghorn asks him what a baseball bat is used for was cut.http://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/censored-k-l.aspx
* On the CBS version of this cartoon, the part where Foghorn Leghorn shakes up the contents in Egghead's test tube like a soda pop (and the explosion that follows) was cut (yet the end where Foghorn Leghorn was bandaged up from the explosion was not edited at all).
== Notes ==
* This cartoon marks the debut of Egghead Jr.
* This is the first cartoon which Miss Prissy had a more extensive vocabulary than her trademark "Ye-eeesss." Only one more cartoon has Miss Prissy speaking this way, "Feather Dusted".
* As opposed to "Lovelorn Leghorn" and "Of Rice and Hen", in which Foghorn had no interest in Prissy at all, this is the first cartoon where Foghorn pursues Prissy for selfish reasons. This would happen again in "A Broken Leghorn" and "Strangled Eggs".
== Gallery ==
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== References ==
* Friedwald, Will and Jerry Beck. "The Warner Brothers Cartoons." Scarecrow Press Inc., Metuchen, N.J., 1981. ISBN 0-8108-1396-3.
== External links ==
* Baxter's Breakdowns
Category:1954
Category:Cartoons directed by Robert McKimson
Category:Foghorn Leghorn Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:Looney Tunes Shorts
Category:Cartoons written by Tedd Pierce
Category:Cartoons animated by Charles McKimson
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Robert Givens
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Richard H. Thomas
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Bea Benaderet
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer