THE FOGHORN LEGHORN - Charles McKimson, Carl Stalling, Mel Blanc (1948)

It's a fact, I do prefer 1940's cartoons over 1980's movies! To me, it's a no brainer! So, welcome to another installment of cool cartoons from the depths of The Dungeon, and one of the coolest logos of all time!

 Tonight's feature was the third appearance of Foghorn Leghorn, preceded by "Walky Talky Hawky," and "Crowing Pains," and as much as I hate to admit it, this cartoon was released about a week after I was born! No wonder Foghorn Leghorn makes me laugh to this day, and here's the proof, please check it out! Foghorn Leghorn's voice characterization by the genius Mel Blanc was based on the radio character Senator Claghorn played by comedian Kenny Delmar when radio was the rage!!

 Memorize all these names! This was pure genius from a mere handful of players! I can only hope all the descendents of these guys are millionaires, because, unlike the Kardashians, they sure deserve it!

 This was the fifth appearance of little know-it-all wiseguy Henery Hawk! Henery's career began in 1942 in a short titled "The Squawkin' Hawk!"

Henery's Pops explains to him that chickens are giant monsters that need to be dealt with very carefully!

When indeed, Henery's Dad is himself the monster, and about to go on a killing spree!

All the chickens are scared out of their wits! Like chickens have brains!

And then Pop Hawk is confronted by the master of the chicken kingdom, Foghorn Leghorn, and gets his ass kicked half way past the exterior of the chicken yard!

In order to cover his posterior, Pop Hawk tells his son that he got his butt kicked by a "loud mouthed shnook"................................

.......................So when Henery confronts Foghorn Leghorn, he doesn't even realize that he is a chicken!

Henerey's just a little more than mixed up! He thinks Foghorn is a shnook, and he thinks this dog is a chicken!

Foghorn explains to Henery why he's not getting his jokes! 

"You're built too low son, the fast ones keep going over your head!"

But nothing will convince Henerey that Foghorn is anything but a schnook, and certainly not a chicken!

Foghorn tries every method in the book to convince Hernery that he's a chicken!

Henerey makes one last attempt at getting the chicken!

But Foghorn is the one who ends up getting the blame!

In the end, Henerey finally figures it all out, and bags himself a chicken!

Well. almost anyway! You know Foghorn is going to get in the last word!

Literally, "That's All Folks!"

THE HOWLING / AVCO Embassy Pictures - 1981

Let's get this show on the skids... Eegah!! is out of town today fulfilling a dream of his so we can salute him for that. I'm stuck at the Dungeon doing what I do, this post! We have a werewolf movie that employs the same transformation effects as in AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. Also, check out all the greats appearing in this flick... Kevin McCarthy, Patrick Macnee, John Carradine, Slim Pickens, Kenneth Tobey, Dick Miller, Forrest J Ackerman and Roger Corman!!

I have a sound clip for your approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button located there by our mean little midget wolfman, NOW, Ralphie The Tarantula!.. Here's a bloody taste of... THE HOWLING!

By the early eighties guys were very style conscious and looked dapper indeed in their threads!

Our heroine gets a call from an old 'friend' and goes to see him at a porno parlor, you can hear the dude get shot six times by the cops in the sound clip. Thing is, you can't kill a werewolf with regular slugs, which, everybody except these guys already knows!

John and Slim are out hunting for werewolves, pretty funny since they're both old wolf monsters themselves!

If you want to make my day, just show me a picture of Dungeon Gods Dick Miller and Forry Ackerman together!!

One of our heroes gets bitten by a werewolf and turns into one of them hisself.

Here's the room that this werewolf seems to feel comfortable in, there are also nude photos of women tacked up amongst the litter.

Well, you can chop off a werewolf's arm but the sucker will just grow the damn thing back!

Our real hero shows up and takes on the wolf pack and burns down the barn with them inside.

The two barely escape the community and when they get back to LA, our newswoman goes on TV to show the people watching at home that she's now a werewolf and that everyone better be concerned about them!

I'll end with this parting shot of burgers on a grill, m-m-m-m.. Nothin' better than a good old wolfburger with cheese!

BIMBO in THE ROBOT - Max Fleischer (1932)

83 years ago there was a cartoon dog named Bimbo! B-I-M-B-O, B-I-M-B-O, B-I-M-B-O, and Bimbo was his name-o!

Bimbo is an inventor, and is pretty smart for being a dog!

It's hard for me to realize that the concept of television even existed back in 1932, but then that's how far Bimbo was ahead of his peers!

Bimbo uses his television to spy on his girlfriend! This is not her, but in later cartoons, Bimbo's girlfriend was Betty Boop! The boy gets around!

Bimbo's girlfriend thinks it would be a good idea for him to enter this contest!

He's not called "One-Round Mike" for no reason! Here's the rest of his victims!

One-Round Mike is ready to take on the next challenger, Bimbo!!

Bimbo comes up with a quick plan on how to turn his car into a robot!

At first, Mike gets the upperhand!

But the robot car comes back with a vengeance and kicks Mike's butt all over the place!

The title Bimbo in "The Robot" has double meaning since that's exactly where Bimbo was the whole time, inside the robot! What a weirdo!!

ALIEN FROM L.A. / Golan-Globus Productions - 1988

here we go with an unlikely little flick starring the very cute Kathy Ireland as mousey girl, Wanda Saknussemm. After appearing on CHARLES IN CHARGE in 1985, Kathy landed this role and also did the follow up feature as Wanda in JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH the same year.

It's all about a girl named Wanda! Yeah, big deal, I have a cousin named Wanda too.

Anywho, Wanda wants to know why handsome surfer dude Robbie doesn't like her and you will hear what he has to say about that in the sound clip...

I've got a little sound clip for your approval, sooooo, you can push the big red 'GO' button over by our underground fort, NOW, Rufus The Gnat!.. Here's a sample of... ALIEN FROM LA!

Believe it or not, Wanda discovers a hidden world with the help of some writings by her uncle or something (it's sooo hard for me to try and follow lame stories like this).

She falls down a cavern (I think) and lands in a big pile of sand. There, a weirdo in a weird vehicle gives her a ride to wherever the Hell she's going...

The underground world she discovers looks like an excuse to show off the contemporary LA music and art scene at the time. You don't have to spend money on costumes because the extras just show up as is..

Okay, this shot I like! I swear, I would give my left elbow for a home like this, no kidding!!

This is my favorite part of the movie. They crop the shots to make it easy to imagine that Wanda is nude, even though she has a towel around her. At least they did something right!

Anyway, Wanda is starting to feel sexy and all... Hoo-ray!!!

This jerk is a big shot in Stupidville, he has Wanda drugged, wonder what's on his mind.

Here you go, three too happy inhabitants showing off their chops!

Some science geeks (I believe) shoot Wanda back up to the land of suntans... Whoosh!!

Robbie is intrigued by the new Wanda, and, why not!?.. Tune in tomorrow when we're back with more fun just for you!