any connection to futurama?

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I have seen every episode of Futurama and seem to be slowly working my way through very movie made in the 30's and 40's. So there are definitely others with eclectic tastes out there. I didn't think about it at the time, but looking back, the tall tales, look, and voice are definitely making me think of the polygamous Old Man Waterfall now. There have been other "frontiersman-looking" people in film before this, but what really gets me is the voice. Whoever does Old Man Waterfall sounds like they're doing an impression of James Barton in this movie.

I have never seen Futurama, but Cheers seems incredibly based upon this movie.

Have you never seen the Warner Brothers cartoon character "Foghorn Leghorn"?

The character of Foghorn Leghorn was directly inspired by the popular character of Senator Claghorn, a blustery Southern politician played by Kenny Delmar who was a regular character on The Fred Allen Show, a popular radio show of the 1940s. The rooster adopted many of Claghorn's catch phrases, such as the repetitive "Ah say, that's a joke, ah say, that's a joke, son."

Not only is he *also* a chicken, but a parody of a SOUTHERN "colonel" plantation-type, and mostly nothing to do with the the old west.

The visual caricature / vocal mannerisms are practically identical.