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25-483: Henery Hawk discusses his cravings with his father, who then reveals the reason behind them: "Your mother and I are outcasts, hated and hunted because of what we are: chicken hawks . And you, you, Henery, you're a chicken hawk too. And like all chicken hawks, you crave to eat - a chicken." More enthusiastic than his father, Henery sets out to find a chicken. Meanwhile, in a barnyard, the Barnyard Dawg deliberately throws

50-639: A cameo in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers on a box meal. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection Warner Bros. ' library of Oscar -nominated cartoons were showcased in a DVD set released by Warner Home Video on February 12, 2008 that included their own Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies , as well as Tom and Jerry , Droopy , and other classic MGM cartoons , together with entries from Max Fleischer's Popeye and Superman series (both originally released by Paramount Pictures ). All cartoons selected for this release were nominated for

75-480: A chicken, I'm a chicken hawk, and I'm gonna eat chicken!"). The Dawg realizes he has been the victim of Foghorn's prank and points out that Foghorn is the one he should be going after, being a chicken. Foghorn tries to deflect his argument by accusing the Dawg ("Don't you call me, I say don't you call ME a chicken, you...chicken!"), but by then, Henery realizes he has been tricked. Henery pays Foghorn back by releasing

100-407: A handful of others. The cartoons A Wild Hare and Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt , which were previously reissued as Blue Ribbons , have their full original titles restored, the latter having its original titles first restored on the 1995 Turner print. The cartoon From A to Z-Z-Z-Z , previously released as a Blue Ribbon but retaining its full slate of credits, is shown here in its original format. All

125-566: A high-pitched voice with a New York accent and perpetually angry temperament. (With these characteristics, he became the later inspiration for the Hanna-Barbera character Scrappy-Doo . ) In a typical Foghorn/Henery cartoon, Henery strikes out on his own for the first time, eager to capture (and presumably consume) a chicken . Having led a sheltered life, however, he does not know what a chicken looks like, only that chicken hawks eat them. Foghorn presumes that this diminutive, naïve troublemaker

150-431: A knight's helmet on the Dawg and whacks the Dawg in the side of the head many times, causing the Dawg's head to literally shake inside. Foghorn soon gives Henery an idea to "outsmart" the "foxy chicken". Henery lures the Dawg out with music, causing him to suffer mishaps culminating in him landing on a rollerskate. When the Dawg surrenders and asks Henery what he is looking for, Henery tells the Dawg his intentions (" You're

175-550: A real chicken; therefore, he would knock out and capture both, after threatening them with the catch-phrase "Are you comin' quietly, or do I have to muss ya up!?" Henery Hawk is also a supporting character in the Looney Tunes comic books; in pre-1970s stories, he often starred in features of his own, typically played against Oliver Owl as well as Foghorn. Henery was going to have a cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit , but

200-444: A watermelon on an unsuspecting Foghorn Leghorn , who is done filing his nails ("Every day it's the same thing!", complains Foghorn). As payback, just as the Dawg goes to sleep, Foghorn spanks the Dawg with a paddle , angering him into chasing Foghorn, but his leash stops him from going further. To add insult to injury, Foghorn slaps the angrily barking Dawg, while yelling at him to "AHH SHADDAP!!!". Henery meets Foghorn, who, seeing

225-522: Is Warner's only DVD release of classic animation to feature a variety of different cartoon studios. Warner has also released each of the discs separately. All 15 cartoons on this disc won Academy Awards All 14 cartoons on this disc were nominated for Academy Awards, but did not win (*): Original opening title card restored for this release, as the releases in The Golden Age of Looney Tunes and Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 borrowed

250-440: Is a chicken, where Henery believes Foghorn is merely a "loud-mouthed shnook," supposedly a separate kind of creature. Later, when Barnyard Dawg calls Foghorn a "good-for-nothing chicken", Henery finally wises up. Many cartoons ended with Henery capturing one (or both) of his tormentors, pragmatically shrugging his shoulders over whether his prey may or may not be an actual fowl. Typically, Henery would decide that one of them must be

275-409: Is a small, brown chickenhawk with a forelock of feathers. The young bird lives at home with his parents, speaks with tough-guy bravado, and shows surprising strength to pull or deadlift prey more than three times his size. He was played in the first short by Kent Rogers . Rogers died in 1944, so the role was then taken over by Mel Blanc (and later by Joe Alaskey and then Jeff Bergman ). Henery has

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300-529: Is an American cartoon character who appears in twelve comedy film shorts produced in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series. His first appearance is in the 1942 theatrical release The Squawkin' Hawk , which was directed by Chuck Jones and produced by Leon Schlesinger . Henery's second screen appearance, one directed by Robert McKimson , is in Walky Talky Hawky (1946), which also features

325-570: Is included, digitally remastered, in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 3 and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Academy Awards Animation Collection . It is also part of Bugs Bunny: Superstar Part 2 in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 4 . It is also in the Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3 Blu-ray and DVD and streaming on HBO Max. Henery Hawk Henery Hawk

350-412: Is no real threat; however, seeing the potential for annoyance, he points and manipulates Henery in the direction of Barnyard Dawg . The remainder of the cartoon is usually consumed by Dawg and Leghorn alternately assuring Henery that the other is a chicken and encouraging him to attack the "chicken" mercilessly. In a reversal, the cartoon The Foghorn Leghorn has Foghorn wanting Henery to believe Foghorn

375-657: The Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film , with the exception of the film So Much for So Little , which won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject . A total of 41 cartoons (completely uncut and unedited) were chosen for this set, 15 of them being Oscar winners. Many of the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies shorts featured on this collection have also been released on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD sets, but this set includes

400-420: The Dawg in the head like he is playing croquet with croquet mallet and runs with the Dawg angrily barking again, only with a headache. Henery is still running, but Foghorn tells Henery not to give up, and Henery literally carries the dog house with the Dawg in it like a train while the Dawg investigates with a mirror, sees Henery, and lifts up his house and gives chase, but is choked and falls again and Foghorn puts

425-453: The Dawg on Foghorn, who barely manages to escape and is chased by the angry Dawg into a barn , where an actual horse forcibly ejects them, clunking their heads together in the process. The two foes, shaking hands to prove solidarity , re-enter to double-team the horse. Henery marches in after them and, in a few seconds, captures Foghorn, the Dawg, and the horse, with the hapless rooster vainly trying to escape. Mimicking Foghorn, he tells

450-545: The Tom and Jerry shorts have been previously released on the Spotlight Collections , but most of them here are presented restored and remastered, previous copies, as for Mouse Trouble and Quiet Please! , being poor transfers of Turner broadcast TV prints. Three MGM cartoons, Touché, Pussy Cat! , Good Will to Men , and One Droopy Knight , are presented in their original Cinemascope aspect ratios. To this day, this

475-461: The camera that "One of these things, I say, one of these things , has got to be a chicken!" as he walks off with his prizes. After Robert McKimson was promoted director in late 1944, writer Warren Foster developed a story about a large rooster, a barnyard dog and the inclusion of Henery Hawk (a character created by Chuck Jones ). Dialogue was recorded on January 13, 1945. Animation producer Paul Dini writes, "Bugs and Porky — indeed, most of

500-496: The characters Foghorn Leghorn and Barnyard Dawg in their first cartoon roles. The last Warner Brothers theatrical short to showcase the little chickenhawk is the 1961 release Strangled Eggs in which he co-stars again with Foghorn Leghorn as well as with another popular character of that period, Miss Prissy . Following that production, Henery continued to be seen periodically in other animated presentations such as The Looney Tunes Show and Looney Tunes Cartoons . Henery

525-479: The classic Warner Bros. characters — underwent years of refinement before they became stars. Not so Foghorn Leghorn, who exploded fully formed and bellowing in Walky Talky Hawky . Though he soon lost his realistic chicken squawks, Foghorn retained his bellicose personality and barrel-bellied design for the remainder of his theatrical career... McKimson's comic equation of rooster plus board plus dog's butt may lack

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550-467: The father figure of Henery Hawk who wants Porky to get him chicken. In 2011, Henery Hawk appeared in a commercial for GEICO along with Foghorn Leghorn . In the commercial, Foghorn was serving as a reader for a "book on tape" version of the Charles Dickens novel A Tale of Two Cities when Henery—sick and tired of Foghorn's ad-libbing—takes a club and hits Foghorn with it off-camera. Henery makes

575-432: The hawk as a potential pawn against the Dawg, convinces Henery that he is a horse, while the Dawg is a chicken, and Henery goes up to the Dawg and bites his tail, causing the Dawg to wake up from his nap in pain. The Dawg grabs Henery and growls at him. Henery warns the Dawg, "Are you coming quietly or do I have to muss ya up?!", but the Dawg chases Henery, but gets choked on the leash again and falls again while Foghorn whacks

600-423: The poetic elegance of comic-strip artist George Herriman's mouse plus brick plus Krazy Kat's head. However, the merry brutality worked well enough to ensure seventeen years of constant laughs — and in the case of Walky Talky Hawky , an Academy Award nomination." The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Short Subjects, Cartoons , losing to MGM 's Tom and Jerry short, The Cat Concerto . The short

625-579: Was later dropped for unknown reasons. Henery Hawk made a brief cameo appearance in the bleacher scenes of the 1996 film Space Jam , and has a supporting role in the 2000 film Tweety's High-Flying Adventure . In the 2010s series The Looney Tunes Show , Henery Hawk appeared in the episode "Fish and Visitors", in the Merrie Melodies segment "Chickenhawk" (sung by Barnyard Dawg ) where he tries to eat Foghorn Leghorn while Foghorn tries to break him of his craving. In "Father Figures," Porky Pig becomes

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