. . . who never seem to have heard of the "reindeer games" immortalized in song and film, despite the fact that zoologists generally consider Bambi and the Little Red Hen to be at least two degrees of separation closer than roosters and humans, no matter how native the latter are. Furthermore, the first and third survival skills demonstrated here involve fire. Why would a species famous for being roasted, fried and toasted as nuggets be dabbling with flames? And don't overlook the second and fourth challenges, which involve hunting and trapping. Since when are corn clucks carnivorous? Only the rain-making task seems somewhat realistic, as most viewers will be familiar with the chicken dance.
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oscaralbert11 October 2015. . . upon the quiet study time of a mute young nerd during the Warner Bros. animated short CROCKETT-DOODLE-DO. Sporting one of Davy Crockett's coonskin caps (which were quite popular with toddlers in the 1950s), Big Lummox Foghorn vows to school his tiny bookworm target on woodsmen survival skills. Predictably, the silent tot runs circles around Foghorn at every turn. Warner's message to kids here is to keep one's nose stuck in books. Furthermore, becoming well-read enables one to out-compete anybody frittering their time away in physical exercise, when they would be better served by enjoying their own private Read-a-Thon. The government does not shut down public schools because their kids cannot throw a Hail Mary or hit a fastball. However, they're shuttering the windows of institutions producing poor readers left and right nowadays. As CROCKETT illustrates, it's the wimps and insects who'll survive the Coming Storm--NOT the Blowhard Bullies!
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Horst_In_Translation10 September 2013In this short-film slightly longer than 6 minutes, Foghorn Leghorn once again decides to plays proxy dad to little Egghead Jr. and take him to the wilderness in order to teach him about how to survive without contact to fellow chickens. Oh Leghorn could have done without all the ensuing humiliations so easily had he just listened to Egghead who wasn't even interested in this lesson. It's basically the same story as in the other almost 30 short films starring the cocky cock, but I thought it was still fun, maybe because Foghorn Leghorn is one of my favorite animated characters.
Here he teaches us a.o. how (not) to make a fire, communicate via smoke signals and build traps for animals in order to avoid starvation. He's certainly right you don't learn stuff like that from reading the books, but sadly you'll learn it even less watching him in action. -
Chip_douglas18 February 2004In order to really get into character for `Crockett-Doodle-Doo', Foghorn takes to wearing a Davy Crockett raccoon-tail hat for almost the entire film. Having decided to go tramping through the woods, Foggy encounters Egghead Jr. reading Basic Research in the physical sciences' (by prof. Newt Ronn) and decides that a young boy like that should not spend his days reading such long haired gobbledegook. He should know better than to try and teach Egghead Jr. anything.
Foghorn has the only speaking part in this cartoon and he certainly makes the most of it (his Indian raindance being especially inspired). He teaches us how to light a fire in the woods, to create a duckwhistle and all about communicating by smoke signals. But Egghead knows better and improves upon his lesions each and every time.
The old Leghorner comes off a lot more lovable as a pushy father figure than as the violent prankster he usually portrays. At least this time he is not out to hurt anyone on purpose. The gag with the trap where the principle is all wrong' from `Henhouse Henery' (1949) resurfaces and naturally Egghead Jr. takes it a step further by making use of some strategicly placed forces of nature. So the moral of the story is: Read a book!
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TheLittleSongbird10 February 2013Foghorn Leghorn is not my favourite Looney Tunes character but he is very interesting and distinctive as well as always entertaining. Crockett-Doodle-Do has everything a good Foghorn cartoon is, and that's why I love it. Foghorn, the only character who speaks, is just great here just doing what he does best. The little chick is not as interesting a character, though it was nice once in a while to have a supporting character other than Barnyard Dog and Henery. The animation occasionally lacks finesse but on the most part it is colourful with some lovely detail, and the music is very catchy with lively orchestration and upbeat rhythms. The dialogue is hilarious, some of it is repetitive but that is part of Foghorn's charm, but these are far outweighed by the gems that are "Hey boy. Got any more of those long-haired books?" " I hadda ask! I hadda to ask!" and "I'm going to learn you a fire without matches". The gags are also entertaining and efficiently timed, not all are original with one admittedly amusing one that is lifted out of Henhouse Henery. Mel Blanc's voice work is as always brilliant. All in all, great fun. 9/10 Bethany Cox
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tadpole-596-91825620 June 2021. . . bread mold that led to the discovery of penicillin? Maybe such a metaphor would not appeal to the particularly squeamish, but such sensitive individuals probably are never going to go near a library, anyway, due to their fear of bookworms. So when FOGHORN LEGHORN continually refers to hairy tomes, doubtless most ordinary Americans can take his expression in stride, like an internet video of a two-headed school teacher. Speaking of whom, if one reads a long-haired spiel about the physical sciences while the other one is asleep, how much spillover--if any--will the rested one gain when she wakes up?