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Miss Prissy is a fictional character in Warner Bros. cartoons. She is typically described as an old spinster hen, thinner than the other hens in the chicken coop, wearing a blue bonnet and wire-rimmed glasses. She is often mocked by the other hens, who describe her as "old square britches". [4]
Of Rice and Hen is a 1953 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated short directed by Robert McKimson. [1] The cartoon was released on November 14, 1953, and features Foghorn Leghorn, Miss Prissy and the Barnyard Dawg. [2] The title is a play on John Steinbeck's 1937 novel Of Mice and Men.
Foghorn Leghorn takes pity on Miss Prissy, whom the other hens are ridiculing because of her inability to lay an egg. To give her confidence, Foghorn slips one of the other hen's eggs under Miss Prissy as she is sitting on her nest. This garners surprise and some admiration as the other hens realize the egg has hatched a rooster chick. Foghorn ...
Strangled Eggs is a Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon short directed by Robert McKimson. [1] The cartoon was released on March 18, 1961, and features Foghorn Leghorn, Henery Hawk and Miss Prissy. [2]
After Prissy cries, Foghorn consoles her and ropes her into thinking the Dawg is a rooster in disguise. Taking a melon over to the Dawg, Prissy then entices him to chase her, resulting in the dog getting the melon smashed on his head and kicked like a football by Foghorn. When Prissy tries to get the 'dog suit' off of Dawg ("Hey, wait a minute!
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Little Boy Boo is a 1954 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated short directed by Robert McKimson. [3] The cartoon was released on June 5, 1954, and features Foghorn Leghorn, Miss Prissy and Egghead Jr. [4]
The only child of Miss Prissy, a widow hen, Egghead Jr. was bookish and never talked (though he mumbled when he counted playing hide-and-seek with Foghorn in Little Boy Boo). Egghead Jr. has the strange ability to accomplish virtually anything, simply by writing out physics theorems, then performing the action proposed thereby.