Feather Bluster

Feather Bluster is a 1958 Merrie Melodies short directed by Robert McKimson.
== Title ==
The title is a play on a "feather duster."
== Plot ==
An elderly Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg are exchanging old stories during a game of checkers. Their grandsons outside overhear their talk and imitate their old actions. Foghorn chastises his grandson, but the latter points out that he and his grandson take after them. The flashbacks between Foghorn and Dawg use footage from the following cartoons:
* "Henhouse Henery" (1949): The scene where Dawg runs into the fence that Foghorn painted to make it look like an open gate, and when Foghorn runs into a mill to create a baseball bat to use against Dawg. Only a new bit of animation is made showing Foghorn coming out of the workshop apparently unscathed telling the audience "That, I say, that dawg keeps a-pitchin' 'em and I keep a-duckin' 'em!", but proves himself wrong when after briefly going back in, he falls over in a daze after coming back out.
* "The High and the Flighty" (1956): The scene where Foghorn gives Dawg a rigged spring bone.
* "All Fowled Up" (1955): The scene where Foghorn tries to blow a stick of dynamite through a tube at Dawg, but it backfires.
* "Henhouse Henery" (1949): The final reused clip in the cartoon, is once again from here, in which Foghorn scares Dawg out of his dog house and proceeds to paint his tongue green. They share laughs revisiting all these memories, till Dawg questions if the kids were listening in on them, Foghorn says there's no way they could've heard their talk as he looks out the window to check on them, being greeted by watching his grandson painting Dawg's grandson's tongue green.
== Availability ==
lt vs6.jpg|(1982) VHS The Looney Tunes Video Show, Volume 6
51MP3H9DKYL.jpg|(1990) VHS Foghorn Leghorn
Bumper04.jpg|(1996) VHS Special Bumper Collection (Vol. 4)
Lt ltc fl.jpg|(1996) VHS Foghorn Leghorn
=== Streaming ===
Lt boomerang.jpg|Boomerang App (2018 -)
Lt itunes.jpg|iTunes ( - ) (restored)
== Notes ==
* The short is a clip show; the majority of the footage is reused from earlier shorts featuring Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg.
* On Cartoon Network or Boomerang, the short plays in PAL audio.
* A puppy basset hound resembling Barnyard Dawg's grandson from this cartoon would later reappear in Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas as carolers alongside Henery Hawk, Egghead Jr. and Priscilla Pig.
* MeTV aired a previously unreleased restored print of the cartoon on "Toon In with Me". This restoration was later made available on iTunes Video.
== Gallery ==
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File:Feather Bluster (1958) - 2021 restoration - Intro and Outro + 30-seconds clip
=== TV Title Cards ===
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Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:Cartoons directed by Robert McKimson
Category:Foghorn Leghorn Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:1958
Category:Barnyard Dawg Cartoons
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with music by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons written by Tedd Pierce
Category:Cartoons animated by Ted Bonnicksen
Category:Cartoons animated by George Grandpré
Category:Cartoons animated by Warren Batchelder
Category:Cartoons animated by Tom Ray
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Robert Gribbroek
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by William Butler
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 John W. Burton
Category:Cartoons that reuse footage from earlier cartoons