Little Red Rodent Hood
Little Red Rodent Hood is a 1951 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated short directed by Friz Freleng.[1] The short was released on May 3, 1951, and stars Sylvester the Cat in a spoof of "Little Red Riding Hood".[2]
| Little Red Rodent Hood | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | I. Freleng |
| Story by | Warren Foster |
| Starring | Mel Blanc Bea Benaderet (uncredited) |
| Music by | Carl Stalling |
| Animation by | Arthur Davis Manuel Perez Ken Champin Virgil Ross |
| Color process | Technicolor |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
Release date | May 3, 1951 (USA) |
Running time | 6 minutes |
| Language | English |
Plot
A grandmother mouse is telling her grandson a bedtime story, and so tells of Little Red Riding Hood (with the mouse as Riding Hood), and his visit to Grandma's House, unaware that the wolf (Sylvester) is watching him. He takes a shortcut to Grandma's, only to find four others already there, who he forces out. Red comes along, and he speaks his cue line, ("The better to eat you with") starting the chase.
He pursues Red down the staircase, only to be propelled further than intended by a stick of butter. Sylvester then decides to blow the house up with dynamite, but accidentally sticks it into Hector's mouth, who then sticks it in the cat's mouth until it blows up. Sylvester next disguises himself as Red's fairy godmother, attempting to electrocute Red with a rigged wand. Sylvester's incantation is "R-A-G-G M-O-P-P" in reference to the 1950 pop song Rag Mop by The Ames Brothers. However, Hector unplugs the power so that it doesn't work. Sylvester wonders if the wand is faulty ("What's this? Must've blown a fuse or somethin'") but Red simply tells him that nothing had happened ("It's a fake; nothing happens"). Hector then plugs it back in just as Sylvester tests it on himself ("Whaddya mean, nothin' happened?"). He then tries to hit the mouse with it, but he escapes back to his mouse hole and he drops the rigged wand on the floor in frustration.
The mouse then tries to go outside, but is trapped once again. Underneath a cup, Sylvester watches as the mouse prepares something, revealed to be a miniature tank that packs a punch. He then traps the mouse by its hole. Back in reality, the grandmother describes how, to save herself, the mouse threw a stick of dynamite out, doing so to demonstrate. Her grandson claims that it must have blown the cat up, to which Sylvester replies, "You're not just whistling dixie, brother!"
Availability
- Laserdisc - Wince Upon a Time
- DVD - Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5/Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection: Volume 5
- Blu-ray & DVD - Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2
- VHS - Brivido Gatto
See also
References
- Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 235. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
- Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 140–142. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.