Feather Bluster is a 1958Warner Bros.Merrie Melodies animated short directed byRobert McKimson.^[1] The cartoon was released on May 10, 1958, and featuresFoghorn Leghorn and theBarnyard Dawg.^[2]

The short is essentially aclip show, in that the majority of the footage is reused from earlier cartoons.

The story begins with an elderlyFoghorn Leghorn andBarnyard Dawg peacefully playingcheckers. Their respective grandsons are known to imitate their actions during their younger years; first Foghorn's grandson spanks Dawg's grandson (named Pup) with a tiny board, causing the latter to chase him unsuccessfully when he is jerked to a stop by his rope. Foghorn's grandson then yells "AHH SHADDUP!!!" while slapping Pup, enraging Foghorn upon hearing the noises and questions his grandson's actions towards Pup. Dawg then tells Foghorn that Foghorn's grandson takes up from him, and they begin to recount old stories of them pulling pranks on one another. Flashbacks between Foghorn and Dawg use footage from the following cartoons (in order of appearance):

• Henhouse Henery (1949): The scene where Dawg runs into the fence that Foghorn painted to make look like an open gate, and when Foghorn runs into a mill to create a baseball bat to use against Dawg who steals it; except it has some newly-made animation the appears just after the Dawg steals the bat, showing Foghorn coming out of the workshop apparently unscathed telling the audience "That, I say, that dawg keeps a-pitchin' 'em and I keep a-duckin' 'em!", only to prove himself wrong when after briefly going back in, he falls over in a daze after coming back out. It also makes up the final clip in the cartoon, where Foghorn scares Dawg out of his dog house and proceeds to paint his tongue green.
• The High and the Flighty (1956): The scene where Foghorn gives Dawg a rigged spring bone, only in this case, not sold to Foghorn byDaffy but rather, through new animation, received by Foghorn in the mail.
• All Fowled Up (1955): The scene where Foghorn tries to blow a stick of dynamite through a tube at Dawg, but it backfires.

Unbeknownst to Foghorn and Dawg, their grandsons had been listening to them the whole time, with Foghorn dismissing Dawg's concern when the latter inquires about it. Towards the end of the cartoon, they decide to check on their grandsons, when Foghorn's grandson asks Pup to play "doctor", essentially tricking Pup into having his tongue painted green.

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