Little Boy Boo (1954) User Reviews

One of the better Foghorn Leghorn cartoons

[TheLittleSongbird · 9/10 · 28 June 2011]

My only real gripe with Little Boy Boo is that it is perhaps too short. Other than that, it is enormously entertaining and one of the better Foghorn Leghorn cartoons. The story does have some formulaic elements to it admittedly, like the wooing of Miss Prissy, but because a lot of Foghorn Leghorns cartoons are formulaic in structure I have come to accept it. Even if I considered it a flaw, which I don't this time round, a lot of things do compensate. The animation is colourful and lively and the music has an infectious energy to it. The writing is very funny, with three of Foghorn's lines being classic particularly the one about not playing baseball, and the physical comedy also amuses. Foghorn is a lot of fun, and the nephew character while nerdy isn't annoying thankfully. Mel Blanc's voices as they are consistently are superb. In conclusion, fun and one of the better entries of this set of cartoons. 9/10 Bethany Cox

"I know the boy'll be crazy about me. Crazy, that is."

[utgard14 · 7/10 · 11 September 2015]

Winter is on its way and it's expected to be an unusually cold one. So Foghorn Leghorn, who lives in an old shack that offers little protection from the elements, decides to court Miss Prissy because she lives in a nice, warm cottage. But what Foghorn isn't prepared for is that Prissy insists that he prove he is a suitable father for her son, Egghead Jr. He proceeds to try and teach the little chicken about sports and things with humorous results. Foghorn's fun and little Egghead is too adorable for words. Excellent voice work from the incomparable Mel Blanc. Nice, colorful animation and lively music. A funny cartoon with several great lines and gags, especially the baseball stuff.

Very funny and very smart

[Horst_In_Translation · 8/10 · 10 January 2018]

"Little Boy Boo" is an American color cartoon from 1954, so this one is already over 60 years old, way over actually, and it runs for slightly under 7 minutes. The names of McKimson and pierce who made it as well as genius Mel Blanc's inclusion as voice actor show us that this is another Warner Bros. cartoon from the Golden Age of Animation. Foghorn has to deal with Prissy's son again and finds out that sometimes theory simply is better than practice. The only thing I question here is the take on love. Boy wants to be with a girl to have a safe place for dinner while girl wants to be with boy, so that her kid has a father. Oh well, not too romantic isn't it. That's the only flaw though. I think other than that it was a truly funny watch from start to finish (who cares about physics in the world of animation? Iknow I don't) that I would have liked to go on into double-digit territory minutes-wise. Then again I may be a bit biased as Foghorn Leghorn really is among my favorite cartoon characters, perhaps even my number 1 from Warner Bros. Glad he got warm at least at the end with his bandages and I hope he and Prissy find somebody they really love, even if the lengths he went for to get a warm place in winter were admirable. One of the best 1954 cartoons in my opinion, I highly recommend checking this one out.

Absolutely the best cartoon ever produced !!

[davidsands-85666 · 10/10 · 20 January 2019]

Sometimes the most profound truths come in the simplest packages !!

Leghorn Rooster Courts the Widow Hen

[contrarywise · 10/10 · 12 September 2005]

Probably my all time favorite cartoon. Yields, at the end, a line which I would like to display on my wall permanently--a statement of philosophy, life experience, irony. But I can't quote it because that would spoil it for you.

Okay, here's the plot. Leghorn goes courting the Widow Hen in search of a warm perch for the coming winter. She requires that he make friends with her little son, the egghead genius. The rest is history--comic history.

If you like Warner Bros. cartoons, and have missed this one, I urge you to seek it out at all costs. Yields at least three classic lines (which keep coming up for me in more or less appropriate circumstances.)

What's wrong with not having played baseball?

[lee_eisenberg · 7/10 · 3 January 2007]

Once again, blustery old Foghorn Leghorn tries to woo Prissy - he doesn't want to spend a cold winter alone - but there's a catch: he has to befriend her intellectual nephew. What follows just goes to show why it's so funny when nerds meet hicks; I sure couldn't understand any of those charts! Anyway, "Little Boy Boo" is one of the many cartoons that remind us that nothing was too outlandish for the Termite Terrace crowd. They created ultra-zany situations and were proud of it. And they, I say they had every reason to be.

Still, I can't help but wonder why Foghorn has to go through the sorts of things that he experiences.

This brief cartoon seems to dovetail with Real Life events . . .

[pixrox1 · 8/10 · 29 June 2021]

. . . specifically, when the Detroit Tigers traded sure-shot Hall-of-Fame pitcher John S. For flash-in-the-pan aging old-timer Doyle A. In 1987. As the big white rooster could attest if you asked him today, the Motor City Nine has not won a championship since this misfire, reminiscent of Foghorn's misjudgment of his young protege's skills as a baseball hurler in LITTLE BOY BOO. The second scene here, in which the younger rooster's plane shoots down old Fog Throat's, seems to foreshadow the toothless Tigers being sold from one failed infielder-turned-pizza-mogul to ANOTHER failed-infielder-turned-pizza-mogul! The final bit, during which Foghorn is unearthed from a mystery hole and blown up by a chemical concoction, surely portends the many millions thrown away on losers such as D. Willis, P. Fielder and J. Zimmerman. This is why the Detroit affiliates refuse to run LITTLE BOY BOO when their national network is screening it. The sad saga just dredges up too many painful memories.

Blended family dynamics take center stage . . .

[oscaralbert · 8/10 · 6 October 2015]

. . . in this Warner Bros. "Looney Tunes" animated short, LITTLE BOY BOO. The Blue Bonnet clad "Widow Hen" serving as the object of Foghorn Leghorn's attentions here is a dead ringer for "Prissy" of A BROKEN LEGHORN (released by Warner about six years later). The title "Widow Hen" probably was dropped in the latter Foghorn outing since it implies 1)That Mr. Leghorn murdered a rival rooster to whom Blue Bonnet\Prissy was hitched, or 2)That she was anachronistically gay-married to another, perhaps now-deceased--hen; either way, it would make Leghorn's "courtship" seem unseemly. Widow Hen\Prissy's marital status is not the only thing that changes during the Beatnik Decade. Her mute, butterball "Egghead, Jr." son of the first animated offering now morphs into a wise-cracking Mini-Me, complete with a tiny red head comb. But both of these versions of incipient roosters can think circles around Mr. Leghorn (which isn't saying much). Egghead, Jr., is first seen reading a book entitled "Splitting the Fourth Dimension." From this he perfects an ability to throw split-fingered fast balls through tree trunks. (I have been trying to locate a copy of this tome to express to the Orioles' pitching staff, but I guess now that will have to wait until next year.)