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Crowing Pains Looney Tunes (Foghorn Leghorn/Sylvester) series
Directed by	Robert McKimson
Story by	Warren Foster
Voices by	Mel Blanc
Music by	Carl Stalling
Animation by	John Carey Izzy Ellis Manny Gould Charles McKimson
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)	July 12, 1947 (USA premiere)
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	7 min (one reel)
Language	English

Crowing Pains is a cartoon in the Looney Tunes series that was released in 1947. The cartoon, directed by Robert McKimson, stars Henery Hawk, Sylvester, and Foghorn Leghorn and The Barnyard Dawg, all of whom are voiced by Mel Blanc. It is also the first cartoon to feature more than two Looney Tunes characters since A Corny Concerto.

This cartoon entered the public domain (the latest-released WB cartoon to do so), as United Artists (successor-in-interest to Associated Artists Productions) failed to renew the copyright in time. It is the only cartoon starring either Foghorn Leghorn or Sylvester to enter the public domain.

It is featured, fully restored (including original titles), on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6. As a result of the title restoration, this is the earliest Foghorn Leghorn cartoon to survive with its original technical credits intact, surpassing 1948's The Foghorn Leghorn (which inheritied the "title" in 2003 from Hen House Henery when its credits were restored for its own DVD release) - Walky Talky Hawky (from 1946), on the other hand, exists only as a Blue Ribbon reissue. On television, however, for unknown reasons, the Blue Ribbon reissue still airs.

Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Censorship 3 Goofs 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Plot summary

Foghorn convinces Henery that Sylvester is a chicken. Foghorn sticks Henery in an egg and places it under Sylvester. Sylvester attempts to detach himself from this egg that suddenly appeared while he was sleeping. He runs from it and does all sorts of things...including running into the dog box belonging to the Barnyard Dawg. The dog pulls the cat out and stomps all over him and walks off...Henery, still in the egg, runs into the dog, which causes the dog to trip and fall over. The dog looks at the egg and then at the camera and ponders "just like that, I lays an egg!". The egg/Henery finally discovers Sylvester's hiding spot and he starts to attach himself to Sylvester's skin.

Reaching a breaking point Sylvester comes close to smashing the egg...just as the egg is about to be smashed Henery pops out and hollers "STOP!!" to which Sylvester, in a classic scene, grabs his tail and yanks on it, causing his head to pop up and down on his shoulders. Henery, seeing enough, clobbers Sylvester with a mallet and drags him off. Henery warns the "chicken" to not give him any back-talk and Sylvester realizes that he's been part of a trick and he leaps up and shows Henery that the actual chicken, "a rooster in fact", is Foghorn himself. "Rooster? I'm no rooster!" bellows Foghorn and an argument arises between Sylvester, Foghorn, and the Dog. Finally, Henery decides the only way to settle the matter is to see who crows at dawn. The scene fades and it's dawn the next morning...a sun pops up...and rooster crowing is heard...but from who? Sylvester has his mouth open because he typically always has his mouth open, looking dumbfounded...but Henery mistakes this for the sound of the rooster and he drags Sylvester away. The scene ends with Foghorn crowing...out the side of his mouth...holding up a how-to book on ventriloquism.

[edit] Censorship

• When this cartoon aired on The WB television network, the part where Barnyard Dawg is hanging from a tree branch by his leash and Sylvester, armed with an axe, is about to swing it at him, was cut [1]. The cartoon jumps from Barnyard Dawg chasing Sylvester to Foghorn telling Sylvester, "Let's bury the hatchet, but not in anyone's head".

[edit] Goofs

• The Turner dubbed version (sourced from the reissue) mistakenly uses the Merrie Melodies end music rather than the Looney Tunes end music.

[edit] See also

• List of films in the public domain

[edit] External links

• Crowing Pains at the Internet Movie Database