A Broken Leghorn

[Timber Wolf]

Did anyone else notice that in this cartoon, when Foghorn Leghorn takes the egg and puts it under Prissy, he laughs, but his beak doesn't move?

[Sogturtle]

Did anyone else notice that in this cartoon, when Foghorn Leghorn takes the egg and puts it under Prissy, he laughs, but his beak doesn't move?

Hmmmm... Maybe Jack Mercer was doing Foghorn's voice then!! :D

[J Lee]

Hmmmm... Maybe Jack Mercer was doing Foghorn's voice then!! :D

Bugs pulls off the same trick in "Easter Yeggs", when he tells the little kid "Somebody may get hoit ... probably me" without moving his mouth (considering what McKimson thought about the Fleischer amination, it's ironic his cartoons would contain the non-animated vocal assides ;) )

[Thad]

Bugs pulls the ventriloquist act off again in "Robot Rabbit", when he's being chased by the robot for the first time. "I can tell that this cigarette machine is gonna give me no end of trouble!"

-Thad

[LooneyFan]

AW! Daggnat it! I just gave my cousins my GC to borrow!:(
But, I can't wait to see it!:foggy:

[UncleJunior]

Maybe those were animation mistakes.

Hanna-Barbera had a zillion of those in the 60's-70's with characters doing the same thing.

[oldgreypole]

I can think of a couple more Robert McKimson cartoons where there are no lip movements during talking:

Bugs Bunny in "Pre-Hysterical Hare" when he says something like "I hope I can make it in one piece..." just before he falls through the ground.
Foghorn Leghorn in "Raw! Raw! Rooster!" when he says, "Some, I say, something went wrong," during the scene with the rocking chair that is supposed to fall into a big hole, with a big rock to follow.

[UncleJunior]

I just thought of another one.


After Foghorn says "like a mouse in a burlesque show" (forgot the cartoon name. I know it was in "Feather Bluster" as a flashback) he laughs but his mouth doesn't move.

Perhaps these weren't mistakes.

[Marty26]

I actually noticed that also when watching Swing Ding Amigo. When Daffy's about to drop that grenade in Speedy's nightclub, you can hear him laughing but his beak doesn't move.

[Marty26]

I just thought of another one.


After Foghorn says "like a mouse in a burlesque show" (forgot the cartoon name. I know it was in "Feather Bluster" as a flashback) he laughs but his mouth doesn't move.

Perhaps these weren't mistakes.

They were probably corner-cutters because laughter is so difficult to animate.

[Daffysleftfoot]

I thought of two more Foghorn Leghorn lip sync goofs:

1. Weasel While You Work (by Robert McKimson c. 1958) Foggy says "my corn hurts, it must be going to snow" before a big snowball lands on him. His mouth stopped moving part ways through the sentence.

2. Feather Dusted (by Robert McKimson c. 1955) Foggy shoots a cannon ball from his wooden raft. Unfortunately for him it bounces off some trees and then goes down his throat as he shouts "BROADSIDE OFF THE PORT BOW! ALL MEN ON.......*gulp*" In this case, Foghorn's mouth doesn't start moving until partway through the sentence.

[oldgreypole]

I can think of a couple of Daffy Duck cartoons where there are animation goofs when he speaks:


In "The Daffy Doc," when he says, "Hello, chum," his mouth stays wide open throughout without moving.
In "Duck Soup to Nuts," when he says, "Wait," his mouth is out of sync.

[UncleJunior]

Another Daffy Duck mouth doesn't move moment is when in "Boobs of The Woods.", "So Long, Rembrandt." gets the silent treatment from the animators.

[absolutpaul]

Did you ever see the redrawn version of Daffy Duckaroo? He freezes throughout the whole line of "Stick em up or I'll blow your brains out".

But getting back to the originals, in baby Bottleneck Daffy and Porky temporarily switch voices due to a Mel Blanc flub.
"Awe, cut it out, l-l-l-et go of my leg"

[Chow Hound]

But getting back to the originals, in baby Bottleneck Daffy and Porky temporarily switch voices due to a Mel Blanc flub.

Since Mel Blanc apparently recited his lines without regard to continuity (as heard in the voice sessions in the LTGC extras), I would say it isn't exactly his error. Whoever edits them together would be to blame, but I don't know who that would have been.

[Howard Fein]

Other instances in which characters don't move their lips when speaking:

HAIR-RAISING HARE:bugs1: : "Look- out dere- in de audience!"

DAFFY DUCK SLEPT HERE:daffy: : "Pleased to meet'cha, chubby!"

CORN ON THE COP:ham: : "If there's one thing I can't stand, it's sloppy carpentry."

It seems just the opposite in HARE REMOVER: After :befuddled 's formula goes through its conniptions, he appears to do his trademark embarrassed 'waugh'- there's even a Stalling 'laughing' cue accompanying. Likewise, in BEWITCHED BUNNY, Hazel grabs an axe and appears to do her maniacal laugh, complete with similar Stalling sting.

If mixed-up voices are your thing, there are many TV cartoons- particularly those with multiple characters of similar size, gender and/or species- that fill the bill: THE BEATLES, PAC-MAN, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, numerous H-B SUPER FRIENDS permutations. Even Wilma and Betty commit said offense in the Season 1 FLINTSTONE episode "Rooms for Rent". And there's said to be a drinking game in which the indulgents watch a CBS (made from 1969 through '73) Scooby-Doo episode and down one every time Daphne or Velma speak for each other.;)