Little Bad Wolf (episode)

**Little Bad Wolf** is the first episode of *Jack's Big Music Show* and its first season. In this episode, the little brother of the Big Bad Wolf learns about music at the clubhouse.

## Plot

Jack, Mary, and Mel are playing a song about Mary and her accordion, with a Venus flytrap watching from the window. After the song is over, the flytrap breaks free from his pot and introduces himself as Sleezo. There's only one problem: Jack and Mary can't understand what he's saying, so Mel has to translate for him. After introductions, the gang gets a call from the Big Bad Wolf from *The Three Little Pigs* on Mel's Marvelous Music Machine. He tells them that his brother coming by for the day while he is on vacation and asks if they can teach him music. They agree, and he hangs up... right before the gang begins to notice strong winds blowing everything down at a site to behold.

The winds turn out to be from The Little Bad Wolf. The wolf mistakes the gang (minus Sleezo) for the Three Little Pigs before being whacked by Sleezo for getting it wrong. Jack then tells Sleezo to put the (caveman) club back where he got it from (probably the museum given its condition), and introduces each one of the clubhouse's members. Sleezo then apologizes to the Little Bad Wolf, then introduces him to the concept of music. The gang then decides to spend the whole day teaching the Little Bad Wolf to music, much to the wolf's excitement.

After a song by the Laurie Berker Band on Mel's Marvelous Music Machine, Jack and Mary watch as the Little Bad Wolf tries to do music. After singing, Jack tells him that your voice is one way to make music. There's just one problem: he's singing too loud, so Jack, Mary, and Sleezo try to teach him how to sing quietly to the song "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." At first, the Little Bad Wolf sings loudly again, but then, he sings quietly. Pleased, the trio then teach him how to sing at medium noise (not loud, but at the same time, not quiet), to which Little Bad Wolf gets it right the first time. Just then, the Schwartzman Quartet comes by and sings the song along with the others.

The Little Bad Wolf then sings "are" loudly and blows the quartet away, blowing Jack, Mary, Sleezo, and the instruments along with them, just as Mel plays a song by The Dirty Sock Funtime Band on his music machine. After being introduced to a piano, harp and timpani (A.K.A. the kettle drum), the whole house starts getting its instruments blown away; as a last-minute effort, Sleezo quickly puts the mouthpiece of a tuba into the wolf's mouth, producing a low sound. Mary then tells Little Bad Wolf that it's an instrument you blow into to make sound, much to his excitement. The gang then ask him if he would be willing to play a song with them, exciting him even more!

The song in which they sing is a reprisal of the song about Mary and her accordion, but now with Little Bad Wolf and his tuba mixed in. After the song, Little Bad Wolf decides to take his tuba home with him, saying that his brother would be proud of him. Jack and Mary then sing their goodbyes to the audience, and Jack takes Sleezo home with him to tell his mom about their day.

## Cast

### Puppeteers

* Pam Arciero, Cheryl Blaylock, Robert Bowker and Jim Kroupa as the Schwartzman Quartet
* Stephanie D’Abruzzo as Mary
* Eric Jacobson as the Little Bad Wolf
* John Kennedy as Mel
* Tim Lagasse as Sleezo
* Noel MacNeal as Jack/the Big Bad Wolf

#### Assistant Puppeteers

* Frankie Cordero
* Joey Mazzarino
* Matt Vogel
* Myf Warhurst
* Melanie Zanetti

### Voice Talent

* Danny Cooksey, Paul Langford and Jeffrey W. Morrow as the Schwartzman Quartet
* Alice Dinnean as Mary
* Tom Kenny as the Little Bad Wolf
* Kathryn Mullen as Jack's Mom
* Jerry Nelson as Sleezo
* Burt Reynolds as the Big Bad Wolf
* David Rudman as Jack
* Frank Welker as special vocal effects

### Special Guests

* The Laurie Berkner Band
* Dirty Sock Funtime Band

## Trivia

* At the time of this episode's premiere, it was the highest rated premiere of any Noggin show, with a 7.8. However, in 2006, that record was beaten by "Art Museum" from *The Upside Down Show*, with a perfect 10.
* Chronologically, this is the second episode of the series, the first being the next episode.
* This episode premiered on the same day as the *Go, Diego, Go!* episode "Journey to Jaguar Mountain".
* American actor Burt Reynolds guest stars as the voice of the Big Bad Wolf.