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''Banty Raids'' is a 1963
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'' animated short directed by
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. The cartoon was released on June 29, 1963, and features Foghorn Leghorn and the
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. The voices were performed by
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. This cartoon marked the last "classic-era" cartoon starring Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg. Foghorn would make a cameo appearance in ''
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'' in 1964, but his next appearance after that was in 1980's '' The Yolk's on You''.


Plot

A curmudgeon old rooster expels a young, pint-sized ( bantam, aka "banty") rooster — who fancies himself as a hip
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and ladies' man — from the barnyard after repeatedly disturbing the peace with
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. The banty, after regaining his senses (and shooting his guitar), sees the neighboring barnyard is full of hens and is immediately overcome with lust. But to gain access to the barnyard, he needs to get past its superintendent, Foghorn Leghorn. The young rooster disguises himself as a baby and Foghorn takes the bait. Adopting him as his "son," Foghorn immediately shows the beatnik how to keep Barnyard Dawg in his place, using a rubber band contraption to punch the dog square in the head before tossing him in a garbage can. The beatnik rooster constantly sneaks away to dance with the hens and kiss them. Foghorn eventually catches on that his young visitor is attracted to the "fairer sex", and decides to run a test on him. He shows the beatnik pictures of the Dawg, himself and a lady hen in an evening dress, the latter of which gets a wild reaction out of the banty ("''Yahoo! Wildsville!''") and confirms Foggy's suspicions ("''Hah, just like I thought! He's wacky over females!''"). The Barnyard Dawg also learns of this and, seeing an opportunity to get back at Foghorn, offers to aid the hip rooster. After the hen-obsessed rooster agrees, the dog has him stand in a nearby circle and sends a toy tank to seek out Foggy ("''Uh oh. Looks like one of that silly dawg's booby traps!''"). After dodging a shot from the tank, he is then kicked violently by a bull (the real target of the tank), launching and trapping him in a converted thresher retooled for the sole purpose of transforming Foghorn into a hen forever. After Foggy lands in the thresher, he disappears from view as a rope laden spindle revolves at high speed, ensnaring Foggy within an undetermined length of rope. Once Foggy pops out of the thresher landing on a conveyor belt, his arms are bound to his sides giving Foghorn a bustline, and his beak was also tied shut to prevent speech and to alter said beak into a fluted shape, adding to his new henlike appearance. While Foggy rides the conveyor belt, he is subjected to a "makeover" which begins when eyelids with blue eyeshadow and long thick eyelashes are literally glued on, continues when a plunger with red lipstick smacks into Foggy's beak, coating his beak with the lipstick, a blue bonnet with a redhead wig is put onto his head, and ends when Foggy drops headfirst into a blue dress, bounces off a makeshift trampoline (a corset), gently floating down to earth as his dress functions like an umbrella a minute later, the busty redheaded hen landing between the dog, and the banty rooster, as his feet slide into a pair of blue heels. The banty rooster demands an impromptu marriage ceremony and Barnyard Dog readily obliges, donning a preachers hat and declaring them husband and wife, "or somethin...". Foggy tries to protest ("''But I'm a rooster!''", which the beatnik rooster doesn't understand because Foggy's speech is obscured by his beak being tied shut); the banty rooster however, is willing to accept his shortcomings. Mimicking the final scene of ''
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'' the banty closes the cartoon carrying Foggy away, telling him "Don't let it bug ya ma'mm. Like, we can't all be perfect!"


See also

*
List of American films of 1963 A list of American films released in 1963. ''Cleopatra'' - the highest-grossing film of 1963. __TOC__ A-C D-G H-M N-S T-Z See also * 1964 in the United States External links 1963 filmsat the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSO ...


References

* Friedwald, Will and Jerry Beck. "The Warner Brothers Cartoons." Scarecrow Press Inc., Metuchen, N.J., 1981. .


External links

* {{Robert McKimson 1963 films 1963 animated films 1963 short films Merrie Melodies short films Warner Bros. Cartoons animated short films Films directed by Robert McKimson Films scored by William Lava 1960s Warner Bros. animated short films 1960s English-language films Foghorn Leghorn films Barnyard Dawg films