A Gander at Mother Goose

A Gander at Mother Goose is a 1940 Merrie Melodies short directed by Tex Avery. 
== Title ==
The title has a double meaning; "gander" can mean a look at something, or a male goose.
== Plot ==
A collection of nursery rhyme and fairy tale spoofs:
* Mary, Mary Quite Contrary, in her best vocal impression of Katharine Hepburn, tells how her garden is really doing, which she replies that it stinks, due to it being littered with garbage.
*Humpty Dumpty falls off the wall, but doesn't completely crack up, save for his buttocks.
*Jack and Jill go up the hill and are having too much fun to even care to come down.
*Little Miss Muffet frightens the spider off with her hideously ugly face.
*The Three Little Pigs give the Big Bad Wolf a bottle of mouth-wash.
* A parade of wooden soldiers march in perfect formation...from the waist up.
* Starlight, Star Bright: A dog gets his wish.
* Jack be nimble, but is not quite nimble enough to jump over the flaming candle stick.
*The old lady in the shoe deals with her many children, while the old man in the shoe sits back and does nothing.
*Hiawatha's arrow hits an angry eagle (see "Censorship" below)
*Finally, on the night before Christmas, one stirring mouse in a very loud voice tells the other to be quiet.
==Caricatures==
*Katharine Hepburn
* Mischa Auer - "Confidentially, it stinks"
==Censorship==
Versions of this cartoon shown on the Ted Turner-owned networks in the United States (TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network and Boomerang) cut the entire scene of Little Hiawatha shooting an arrow into the air and being yelled at by the eagle he hit. International Cartoon Network and Boomerang feeds outside the United States however, left this scene uncut.
==Availability==
Golden-Age-of-Looney-Tunes-2-F.jpg|(1992) LaserDisc The Golden Age of Looney Tunes Volume 2, Side 7, Fables and Fairy Tales
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5.jpg|(2007) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5 Disc Two
===Streaming===
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==Notes==
*In spot gag #8, Jack Be Nimble's voice is very similar to that of Bugs Bunny, who'd later officially debut that same year in Tex Avery's "A Wild Hare". Co-incidentally, they're both voiced by Mel Blanc.
*The gag with the soldiers is reused from “Detouring America”.
*In spot gag #5 involving the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf, the Three Little Pigs resemble Porky Pig, but are not the same characters. 
**A similar mouthwash gag involving the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf from this cartoon would later be re-used in Friz Freleng's Oscar-nominated Three Little Pigs musical parody cartoon "Pigs in a Polka" three years later.
==Gallery==
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==References==
es:A Gander at Mother Goose
Category:Cartoons directed by Tex Avery
Category:Shorts
Category:1940
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:Cartoons animated by Charles McKimson
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Spot Gag Cartoons
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons produced by Leon Schlesinger
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Robert C. Bruce
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