The Barnyard Dawg appears as the tennis tournament's chair umpire, an homage to the Golden Era shorts in which he and Foghorn took turns tormenting one another, not unlike a tennis match. Henry Hawk frequently appeared in these shorts. attempting to eat Foghorn. In some, Foghorn would convince him that the Dawg was really a chicken, causing him to try to eat the dog, as he tries to do in the pet store.