I love Foghorn Leghorn and his witticisms as he calmly rebuffs his antagonist in the most nasty way. I havebeen anxiously awaiting a collection since noticing that a lot of Foghorn cartoons were not included in thewonderful 'Golden Collection' series of releases. The way it should be done, by the way.There are 9 Foghorn cartoons and 6 "Friends" cartoons, which include a 1957 Honeymousers cartoon sendingup the 'Honeymooners' TV series. The Foghorn 'toons are from 1954 to 1964. The cartoons are presented inyour choice of either Standard or Widescreen version and is a total of 97 minutes of animation. The soundis presented in Dolby Digital Mono in English only. There are no special features on this disc.[Quick sidebar. If you want a very good book that will list ALL the cartoons and give a run down of each one,including accolades garnered, buy "Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies" by Jerry Beck and Will Friedwald. Aterrific reference guide to the Warner Brothers animated gang.]Anyway, receiving the DVD in the mail I noticed that it was given the cheapo-cheapo case treatment and noinsert. This gave me pause. Having seen the outside of this case in a store I would not have bought it. Thecase to me says, 'throwaway'.Upon watching these cartoons over the course of the next week I discovered that most of these are NOTfunny. A chuckle here, a chuckle there, but never a chuckle chuckle everywhere (and sometimes 'nary achuckle anywhere!). Indeed, I share the same criticism as other reviewers; Warner Bros. put out a bunch oflatent releases that were mining all the Foghorn Leghorn conventions of earlier years. Problem is that mostof the 'toons included in this release are just not that funny.There are some classic comebacks and observations from Foghorn but overall I am very disappointed with thisrelease and could have gone without it. I can understand helping us all become completests but how aboutsprinkling more of the classic Foghorn in among the cute or less funny ones. It's called sequencing and thereis not much of that here. Actually there isn't much of anything here.All but two of the early Foghorn (Pre-1955) are missing and, as far as I can tell, unreleased on DVD. 'CrowingPains' (1947), 'Hen House Henry' (1949), The Leghorn Blows At Midnight (1950), A Fractured Leghorn (1950),'Sock- A- Doodle Doo (1952), 'Egg-Cited Rooster' (1952), 'Plop Goes The Weasel'(1953), and 'Of Rice and Hen'(1953) are still in the vaults. Interestingly, most of those were released on VHS tape over a decade ago. Gofigure.I gave this "Barnyard Bigmouth" release 3 stars because there are a couple of very good pieces in the groupand the "friends" that are included are very amusing, especially the Honeymousers episode. Foghorn Leghornlovers steer clear of this one until they release the rest in a more appropriate format. Let's hope the FoghornLeghorn Blue Ray will get a better treatment.