- published: 18 Apr 2014
- views: 72110
The Big Bad Wolf is a term used to describe a fictional wolf who appears in several precautionary folkloric stories, including some of Aesop's Fables and Grimm's Fairy Tales. Versions of this character have appeared in numerous works, and has become a generic archetype of a menacing predatory antagonist, sometimes referred to as the Big Bad.
Little Red Riding Hood, The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids, the Russian tale Peter and the Wolf, reflect the theme of the ravening wolf and of the creature released unharmed from its belly, but the general theme of restoration is very old.
The dialog between the wolf and Little Red Riding Hood has its analogies to the Norse Þrymskviða from the Elder Edda; the giant Þrymr had stolen Mjölner, Thor's hammer, and demanded Freyja as his bride for its return. Instead, the gods dressed Thor as a bride and sent him. When the giants note Thor's unladylike eyes, eating, and drinking, Loki explains them as Freyja not having slept, or eaten, or drunk, out of longing for the wedding.
Actors: Dee Bradley Baker (actor), Rose McGowan (actress), Rose McGowan (actress), Jason Marsden (actor), Jason Marsden (actor), Dee Bradley Baker (actor), Travis Willingham (actor), Travis Willingham (actor), Fred Seibert (producer), Chris Diamantopoulos (actor), Kevin Kolde (producer), Eric Homan (producer), Stephen Worth (miscellaneous crew), Aliki Theofilopoulos (miscellaneous crew), Aliki Theofilopoulos (director),
Genres: Animation, Short,Actors: Shaun Springer (writer), Shaun Springer (director), Liam Rush (editor), Rachel Cox (actress), Pavel Skorn (actor), Leslie Spencer (actress), Ian Kelley (actor), McKenzie Marya (actress), Nancy Gasper (actress), Christopher Bishop (actor), Kevin Graham (composer), Julia Fox (actress),
Genres: Fantasy, Short,Actors: Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Arthur Q. Bryan (actor), Mel Blanc (actor),
Plot: Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are rival book salesmen from Rambling House. They each go their separate ways to sell books to folks, Daffy finds himself encountering Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig. Bugs gets forced by Sultan Yosemite Sam to tell stories to his spoiled-brat son, Prince Abba-Dabba. The stories are shown through clips of old Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.
Keywords: animal-in-title, animal-name-in-title, bird, cartoon-bird, cartoon-canary, cartoon-cat, cartoon-duck, cartoon-frog, cartoon-mouse, cartoon-pigActors: Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), John W. Dunn (writer), William Lava (composer), Robert McKimson (director), Treg Brown (editor),
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Family, Short,Actors: Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Tedd Pierce (writer), Milt Franklyn (composer), Robert McKimson (director), Treg Brown (editor),
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Family, Short,Actors: Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), June Foray (actress), June Foray (actress), June Foray (actress), Edward Selzer (producer), Warren Foster (writer), Milt Franklyn (composer), Friz Freleng (director), Treg Brown (editor),
Plot: Red Riding Hood is on her way from the city to the country and to her grandmother's house, and along the way she meets the Big Bad Wolf. Her grandmother is Granny, and she is bringing Tweety Bird to Granny as a gift, which attracts Sylvester's attention. Sylvester and the Big Bad Wolf join forces; he wants to eat Tweety; Big Bad wants to eat Red. But Granny is a match for them both!
Keywords: bus, city-country-contrast, grandmother's-house, little-red-riding-hood, looney-tunes, slingshot, sylvester-and-tweety, sylvester-the-cat, tweety-birdActors: Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Bea Benaderet (actress), Bea Benaderet (actress), Bea Benaderet (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Edward Selzer (producer), Warren Foster (writer), Milt Franklyn (composer),
Plot: The ultimate Warner Brothers "books come to life" cartoon. Parodies and caricatures of 'Harry James (I)' (qv), 'Frank Sinatra' (qv), 'Benny Goodman', 'Tommy Dorsey' (qv), 'Gene Krupa' (qv), 'Jimmy Durante' and, in a wild take-off on 'Danny Kaye' (qv), Daffy launches into a Russian-accented version of "Carolina in the Morning," then scat-sings his way through the tale of "Red Riding Hood" with 'Margaret O'Brien (I)' (qv) as Red.
Keywords: big-nose, book-comes-to-life, cartoon-duck, celebrity-caricature, hell, judge, life-magazine, little-red-riding-hood, looney-tunes, reference-to-daffy-duckActors: Treg Brown (editor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Carl W. Stalling (composer), Friz Freleng (director), Mel Blanc (actor), Lillian Randolph (actress), Edward Selzer (producer), Tedd Pierce (writer), Ernest Whitman (actor), Ruby Dandridge (actress), Vivian Dandridge (actress),
Plot: An all-black cast, featuring the Three Bears as a jazz combo, combines the stories of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" and "Little Red Riding Hood."
Keywords: animal-in-title, anthropomorphic-animal, anthropomorphism, bear, bed, big-bad-wolf, cartoon-bear, cartoon-wolf, censored-11, chandelierActors: Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Bea Benaderet (actress), Sara Berner (actress), Leon Schlesinger (producer), Friz Freleng (director), Treg Brown (editor),
Plot: Dressed in a tuxedo, the Big Bad Wolf announces the evening's program: the tale of the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs, set to the music of Johannes Brahms's Hungarian Dances. Queue the fairy tale: we watch each pig build his house, the first two pigs dance and play, the wolf arrives and, wearing a gypsy woman's disguise, almost catches them. They run to hide in the brick house, where the wolf tries various ruses to gain entry, including dressing as a poverty-stricken old woman reduced to playing a violin for donations. He fools the two simple pigs and gets inside. Will he dine on pork? The house has an elevator, the wolf gets the shaft.
Keywords: animal-as-human, big-bad-wolf, brick, bricklayer, construction-in-time-to-music, dance, dancing, disguise, elevator, elevator-shaftActors: Treg Brown (editor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Robert C. Bruce (actor), Sara Berner (actress), Bernice Hansen (actress), Bernice Hansen (actress), Henry Binder (producer), Leon Schlesinger (producer), Mel Blanc (actor), Carl W. Stalling (composer), Tex Avery (director),
Plot: A collection of short gags based on classic nursery rhymes and fairy tales. Mary, Mary Quite Contrary, in her best 'Katharine Hepburn' (qv), tells us how her garden is really doing. Humpty Dumpty doesn't completely crack up. Jack and Jill go up the hill and have too much fun to come down. Little Miss Muffet frightens the spider off. The Three Little Pigs give the Big Bad Wolf a bottle of mouth-wash. A parade of wooden soldiers, in perfect formation from the waist up. Starlight, Starbright: A dog gets his wish a tree. Jack be nimble but not quite nimble enough. The old lady in the shoe made the old man very happy. (A gag involving Hiawatha, trimmed from the TV version.) Finally, the night before Christmas, and one stirring mouse tells the other to be quiet.
Keywords: based-on-fairy-tale, big-bad-wolf, cartoon-dog, cartoon-pig, cartoon-spider, cartoon-wolf, character-name-in-title, christmas, dog, gardenI told you not to go into the woods,
I told you that he wasn't any good.
I told you not to go into the woods,
I told you that he wasn't any good.
I'll take the wrong PATH,
I think I'll go a little off track.
And now there's no way back,
YOU took all the apples that I had.
But I heart you and I wanna be YOUR girl.
I heart you and I know you'll rock my WORLD.
'Cause you rock, rock, rock, rock, rock
You know that I want what YOU got.
You rock, rock, rock, rock, rock
Big bad WOLF come on and eat me up, up, up.
(I told you not to go into the woods)
Big, bad, naughty rock star
Your claws are shining bright in the dark.
Lifting up my little red skirt,
I know you'll leave me here in the dirt.
But I heart you, and I wanna be YOUR girl
I heart you, so come back and rock my WORLD!
'Cause you rock, rock, rock, rock, rock
You know that I want what YOU got.
You rock, rock, rock, rock, rock
Big bad WOLF come on and eat me up, up, up.
(I told you not to go into the woods)
Life is like, like a little game,
That we like to play, just for fun, just for fun
Yeah, we take nothing seriously, nothing's wrong, make me run, all night long.
Hide and seek is how you play with me,
Oh, you're tempting me, just for fun, just for fun.
I hear you calling me over city streets, through the trees, mess with me, then you'll leave.
Oh, be still my heart, escaping in your cherry red car.
(X2:)
'Cause you rock, rock, rock, rock, rock
You know that I want what YOU got.
You rock, rock, rock, rock, rock