Little Red Rodent Hood

Little Red Rodent Hood is a 1952 Merrie Melodies short directed by I. Freleng.
== Plot ==
A grandmother mouse is telling her granddaughter Teeny a bedtime story, and so tells of Little Red Riding Hood (with the mouse as Riding Hood), and her visit to Grandma's House, unaware that the wolf (Sylvester) is watching her. 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 small 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 him with a rigged wand. However, Hector unplugs the power so that it doesn't work. He then plugs it back in just as Sylvester tests it on himself.
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. The grandmother describes how, to save herself, the mouse threw a stick of dynamite out left from the Fourth of July, doing so to demonstrate. The mouse claims that it must have blown the cat up, to which Sylvester replies, "You're not just whistling 'Dixie', brother!"
== Caricatures ==
* Jimmy Durante - "Everybody wants to get into the act!"
== Availability ==
W UK10552 LooneyTunesVideoShowNo17The.jpg|(1984) VHS The Looney Tunes Video Show, Volume 17
lt wince.jpg|(1994) LaserDisc Wince Upon a Time: Foolhardy Fairy Tales and Looney Legends
ClassicCollection.jpg|(1995) VHS Classic Collection (WHSmith Exclusive Video)
Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 5.jpg|(2007) DVD Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5, Disc Two
Lt spotlight 5.jpg|(2007) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection: Volume 5, Disc 2
LTPC VOL 2 Blu Ray.jpg|(2012) Blu-ray Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2, Disc One
LTPC VOL 2 DVD.jpg|(2012) DVD Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2, Disc One
lt spotlight df2.jpg|(2014) DVD Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volumes 4-5 Repack
=== Streaming ===
lt boomerang.jpg|Boomerang App (2017 - )
lt hbo max.jpg|HBO Max (2020 - 2022)
== Notes ==
* A small scene from this cartoon was used in Friz Freleng's Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie.
* Both the grandmother mouse and Teeny's voices are very similar to those of Granny and Tweety (both voiced by Bea Benaderet and Mel Blanc, respectively).
* The gag where the "grandma's house bed" is packed with four big bad wolves (in this case, portrayed by four cats) was previously used in "Little Red Riding Rabbit".
* As the Fairy Godmother, Sylvester says the magic words "R-A-G-G M-O-P-P", a reference to the 1950 hit song "Rag Mop", by the Ames Brothers. In the song, the words are spelled out as spoken by Sylvester.
* Although Sylvester claims to abstain from smoking in this cartoon, he did smoke cigarettes in "Life with Feathers", and would do so again in "The Last Hungry Cat".
== Gallery ==
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Little Red Rodent Hood back.jpg|Irv Wyner background
Little Red Rodent Hood ground.jpg|Irv Wyner background
== External links ==
* "Little Red Rodent Hood" at the SFX Resource
Category:Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng
Category:Sylvester Cartoons
Category:Shorts
Category:1952
Category:Merrie Melodies Shorts
Category:Cartoons written by Warren Foster
Category:Cartoons with music by Carl W. Stalling
Category:Cartoons with layouts by Hawley Pratt
Category:Cartoons with backgrounds by Irv Wyner
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Mel Blanc
Category:Cartoons with characters voiced by Bea Benaderet
Category:Cartoons with orchestrations by Milt Franklyn
Category:Cartoons with film editing by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons with sound effects edited by Treg Brown
Category:Cartoons produced by Eddie Selzer