The Substitute

The Substitute is the title of a story originally published in Magali #288 (Globo series) in June 2000. The story was later adapted into a cartoon episode in 2005.

## Plot

The story begins by showing Little Red Riding Hood running away from the Big Bad Wolf who is trying to steal the candies of her basket, the wolf grabs Red's leg but manages to catch only her shoe (which he uses to throw in Red), Red then stops and gives up on acting in the story. Red says that she is tired of repeating the performance of the same story all the time and wants to try to act in a different role. The wolf sarcastically then deduces that she wanted to be a character in some TV series, which makes Red create the idea of becoming a soap opera actress and become a Quitiquita (parody of the popular Latin American soap opera Chiquititas). The wolf is then amazed by Red's decision and asks if she goes out to become a Quitiquita who will take her place. Red ignores the wolf's warning and leaves excited to be able to become a Quitiquita, leaving the wolf, grandmother and hunter worried about how the story will continue without her.

The trio then decide to look for another girl to play Little Red Riding Hood, in the first house they find they are received by Maggy. The wolf introduces himself to Maggy self titling as a "candy thief". After hearing that the wolf is a candy thief Maggy passes out leaving the trio impressed believing that she was acting.

After the event Maggy (now as Little Red Riding Hood) wakes up confused in the middle of a forest and is received by the mother of Little Red Riding Hood who introduces herself as Maggy's mother and giving her a basket full of candies. Maggy thinks that sweets are for her (interrupting Red's mother's speech), but Red's mother ends her speech by saying that candies are for her grandmother. Maggy then goes towards the grandmother's house saying that this mission will be impossible for her, the wolf appears confirming that he is the reason for the mission to be difficult, but Maggy replies to the wolf that the reason why she considers it difficult is because she cannot stand to see food in her front. The wolf worries when he realizes that Maggy is a glutton girl and speaks the name of the candies in the basket which makes Maggy eat a lot of the candies. The wolf (afraid of Maggy eating all the basket before the story ends) takes the basket and takes it to Grandma's house saving the candies of Maggy.

Inside the grandmother's house the wolf puts on makeup and disguises itself as the grandmother waiting for Maggy to enter. After getting tired of waiting for Maggy, the wolf leaves the house and discovers that Maggy invaded the house of the 3 bears eating the soup and breaking the chair instead of Goldilocks. The wolf then rescues Maggy from Goldilocks and the 3 bears (angry that she made him have problems with the "neighbor actors") and takes her inside the grandmother's house. The wolf asks Maggy to start the questions: "What big nose you have, Wwat big eyes you have, what big mouth you have...", Maggy then answers the questions by saying that it is because the wolf is ugly making the wolf angry. Maggy then realizes that the wolf disguised as grandma and panics until she sees that the wolf will eat the candies of the basket and asks him for some.

The wolf gets tired that Maggy continues to ruin the story and decides to start chasing her until they hear someone knocking on the door. The wolf tries to open the door (believing that it's just a seller), but ends up being crushed by the door that is opened by the hunter entering the house. When the hunter realizes that he has knocked out the wolf in the wrong way he decides to remake the scene following the script. Maggy and the wolf then hear someone knocking on the door again, the wolf believes to be a salesman claiming that the hunter does not knock, just invades, but ends up being crushed again by the door that is opened by the hunter that says he doesn't knock, just invades. Maggy then asks the hunter about the noise at the door and the hunter replies that the sound came from his wellies recently bought at the mall. The wolf then screams angrily at Maggy and the hunter because they are ruining the story, the wolf hears the voice of someone agreeing with him who reveals to be Little Red Riding Hood.

Red reveals that she returned because she found it hard to work as a soap opera actress, giving up being a Quitiquita. The wolf and the hunter cheerfully welcome Red back to the cast at the same time that Maggy is kicked out by the wolf. In the end Maggy is seen back to her normal life, but when she visits the Aunt Nena's candy store she ends up winning the job of making candy deliveries for her aunt.

## Characters and Voice Cast

* Maggy - Tara Strong
* Little Red Riding Hood - Kathleen Barr
* Wolf - Sam Vincent
* Little Red's Mother - Tabitha St. Germain
* The Hunstman - Scott McNeil
* Little Red's Grandmother - Maryke Hendrikse
* Goldilocks - Tabitha St. Germain
* Papa Bear
* Mama Bear
* Baby Bear - Tabitha St. Germain