Mother Goose: A Rappin' and Rhymin' Special (1997)

Actors: Larry Brown (composer), Jimmy Smits (actor), Denzel Washington (actor), Denzel Washington (actor), Kathie Lee Gifford (actress), Whoopi Goldberg (actress), Willard Carroll (producer), Regis Philbin (actor), Thomas L. Wilhite (producer), Carole Rosen (producer), Libby Simon (producer), Donna Brown Guillaume (producer), Meryl Marshall (producer), Barry Douglas (writer), Katy McLaughlin (producer),

Genres: Family,

Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme (1990)

Actors: Deborah Harry (actress), Teri Garr (actress), Ben Vereen (actor), Shelley Duvall (actress), Garry Shandling (actor), Little Richard (actor), Paul Simon (actor), Van Dyke Parks (actor), Woody Harrelson (actor), Howie Mandel (actor), Cheech Marin (actor), Harry Anderson (actor), Bobby Brown (actor), Katey Sagal (actress), Cyndi Lauper (actress),

Plot: There's a crisis in Rhymeland! All the Rhymies (the characters from Nursery Rhymes) are disappearing! Gordon Goose, son of Mother Goose, and Little Bo Peep set off across Rhymeland to find their missing friends.

Keywords: absent-mother, acceptance, banquet, bar, based-on-nursery-rhyme, blind, blind-detective, cape, carnival-barker, celebrity-guests
Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Mystery,

Quotes:

Gordon Goose: Why is everything in black and white?::Three Blind Mice: We're colorblind.::Gordon Goose: But I'm not colorblind.::Three Blind Mice: It's not your office.

Little Bo Peep: [after numerous accidents, Gordon wants to drive] Forget it! Nobody can drive my car!::[she drives off]::Gordon Goose: Especially her! [a few seconds later, Bo Peep drives back up again]::Little Bo Peep: I got lonely. You can drive. [Gordon gets into the driver's seat]

Jack: I need to stop falling down this hill and breaking my crown. This is the thirtieth something time I've done this!::Jill: Oh yeah? Well I am constantly the one who if forced to tumble down the hill following after you! Why can't it be Jill's turn to break her crown, and you come tumbling after for a change, huh!

Little Bo Peep: Nowhere's not such a bad place, I've been there.

Little Miss Muffet: Company! How nice. Please please come on in.::Gordon Goose: Uh, I think it may be a little crowded, not to mention anatomically dangerous.::Little Miss Muffet: No problem! You just have to think to shrink. Think hard. Think to shrink!

Simple Simon: [sings] On the road again... can't remember why I'm on the road again.::Gordon Goose: Hey! I'm gonna be off the road again if you don't get the guitar out of my face, I'm driving here!

Lou the Lamb: You know, one day when I was a kid my father ran off with a goat.::Mary: Shut up, Lou.

Little Bo Peep: Your Majesty, we're very sorry to interrupt your merrymaking, but we have something very important to discuss with you.::Old King Cole: [shouts] Important! You insult me by requesting that I, Old King Cole, the merriest of soul, discuss something of importance? HOW DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOU!::[Silence stirs as the Minister sits him down and puts on his crown, Bo Peep and Gordon bows to him, suddenly Old King Cole laughs along with everyone else]::Old King Cole: Oh, How about this! A practical joke! I just love practical jokes!

Little Bo Peep: It's time to boldly go where no cow has gone before.::Gordon Goose: Okay, hang on! Whoa!::[they speed off through space until Gordon screams seeing that they are headed into the Mother Goose book]::Little Bo Peep: Gordon, stop the cow! LOOK OUT!::[They head inside the book and find themselves in the real world]::Gordon Goose: Where the blazes are we?::Little Bo Peep: We're not in Rhymeland anymore.

Little Bo Peep: Mistress Mary Quite Contrary, how does your garden grow?::Mary Quite Contrary: Oh, it's a mess! The silver bells aren't ringing, the cockleshells are being eaten by aphids, and the pretty maids are getting uglier by the minute. Mm! Besides, the rototiller's on the blink and the gophers are the size of Buicks.

King Cole's Party (1987)

Actors: Dal McKennon (actor), Anne Gordon (miscellaneous crew), Susan Shadburne (director), Susan Shadburne (writer), Susan Shadburne (producer), Susan Hagen Nipp (miscellaneous crew), Susan Hagen Nipp (writer), Susan Hagen Nipp (writer), Susan Hagen Nipp (writer), Pamela Beall (miscellaneous crew), Pamela Beall (writer), Pamela Beall (writer), Pamela Beall (writer), Vincent Martinez (actor), Billy Scream (composer),

Genres: Family, Musical,
Taglines: A Merry Musical Celebration

The Mother Goose Video Treasury (1987)

Actors: Will Ryan (actor), Hal Smith (actor), Ron Gans (actor), John Lovelady (actor), John Lovelady (actor), John Lovelady (miscellaneous crew), Patty Maloney (actress), Patty Maloney (actress), Bruno Alexander (actor), Bruno Alexander (miscellaneous crew), Bruno Alexander (actor), Van Snowden (actor), Van Snowden (actor), Van Snowden (miscellaneous crew), Denise McKenna (actress),

Plot: In Gooseberry Glen, Mother Goose lives with her friendly gander, Bertram. She and Bertram help the community and interact with each other. Originally produced in 1987, the treasury uses puppets and live action to bring alive the famous characters.

Genres: Family, Fantasy, Musical, Short,

The Magic Land of Mother Goose (1967)

Actors: Herschell Gordon Lewis (director), Linda Lee (actress), Linda Lee (actress), Robert Flaxman (editor), David Hammond (actor), Roy Huston (actor), Judith Snow (actress), Judith Snow (actress), Valerie Lynne (actress), Steven J. Conners (miscellaneous crew), G. William Shallop (miscellaneous crew), J. Edwin Baker (producer), Irving D. Reinhart (producer), Roy Flubrer (writer), Eve Weiher (writer),

Plot: Shot entirely on a high school stage, a group of storybook characters emerge from the book of Mother Goose leading to Old King Cole walking out of the book and into our world, followed by Raggedy Ann, while other characters, including Merlin the Magician pop out of the book with the help of Mother Goose to bring her flock back into her book world.

Keywords: based-on-play, fairy-tale, filmed-play, illusion, independent-film, levitation, low-budget-film, magic-trick, storybook, surrealism
Genres: Family, Fantasy,

Musical Movieland (1944)

Actors: Scotty Beckett (actor), John Carroll (actor), Jerry Colonna (actor), Warren Douglas (actor), Richard Erdman (actor), Jack George (actor), Bud Jamison (actor), Dickie Jones (actor), Harold Miller (actor), Jack Mower (actor), Craig Reynolds (actor), Bess Flowers (actress), Lottie Williams (actress), Gordon Hollingshead (producer), LeRoy Prinz (director),

Genres: Musical, Short,

Have You Got Any Castles? (1938)

Actors: Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Leon Schlesinger (producer), Carl W. Stalling (composer), Friz Freleng (director), Frank Tashlin (director), Treg Brown (editor), Tedd Pierce (actor), Delos Jewkes (actor), Jack Miller (writer), Georgia Stark (actress), Georgia Stark (actress),

Plot: Another entry in the "books come alive" subgenre, with possibly more books coming alive than any other. We begin with some musical numbers, notably the various pages of Green Pastures all joining in on a song, The Thin Man entering The White House Cookbook and exiting much fatter, and The House of Seven (Clark) Gables singing backup to Old King Cole. The Three Musketeers break loose, become Three Men on a Horse, grab the Seven Keys to Baldpate, and set the Prisoner of Zenda free. They are soon chased by horsemen from The Charge of the Light Brigade and Under Two Flags and beset by the cannons of All Quiet on the Western Front. All this disturbs the sleep of Rip Van Winkle, who opens Hurricane so that everyone is (all together now) Gone with the Wind.

Keywords: book-comes-to-life, chase, fight, horse, jail-break, merrie-melodies, musketeer, question-in-title, singing, snake-charmer
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Family, Musical, Short,

Quotes:

Rip Van Winkle: Old King Cole is a noisy old soul.

Babes in Toyland (1934)

Actors: Zebedy Colt (actor), Baldwin Cooke (actor), Eddie Baker (actor), Richard Alexander (actor), Ernie Alexander (actor), Frank Austin (actor), Billy Bletcher (actor), Eddie Borden (actor), Scotty Beckett (actor), Henry Brandon (actor), Georgie Billings (actor), Tommy Bupp (actor), Bobby Burns (actor), William Burress (actor), Charles Dorety (actor),

Plot: Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby into marrying Stanley Dum instead of Bo Peep. Enraged, Barnaby unleashes the bogeymen from their caverns to destroy Toyland.

Keywords: bridal-veil, eviction, fairy-tale-land, false-accusation, false-report-of-death, forced-marriage, good-versus-evil, goose, kidnapping, king
Genres: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical,
Taglines: 1 and 1/2 hours of laughter!

Quotes:

Ollie Dee: So far so good.::Stannie Dum: It wasn't so far. We just came across the street.

Stannie Dum: I've got a Christmas present for you.::Barnaby: A Christmas gift in the middle of July?::Stannie Dum: Well we always do our Christmas shopping early.

The Toy Maker: What do you think of the wooden soldiers?::Santa Claus: They're nice but they're not what I ordered. I ordered 600 soldiers one foot high.::Stannie Dum: Oh I thought you said 100 soldiers six feet high.

Ollie Dee: Goodbye Stannie.::Stannie Dum: Well aren't I going with you?::Ollie Dee: Why no. You've got to stay here with Barnaby. You're married to him.::Stannie Dum: I don't want to stay here with him.::Ollie Dee: Why not?::Stannie Dum: I don't love him.

Barnaby: Big bait catches big rat!

Ollie Dee: [Bo Peep is being forced to marry Barnaby] Stannie's so upset he isn't even going to the wedding. You're upset aren't you Stannie?::Stannie Dum: Upset? I'm housebroken!::Ollie Dee: Not housebroken!::Ollie Dee: [to Bo Peep] He means 'heartbroken'::Ollie Dee: [scoffs] Housebroken.

[Stannie nibbles on pig sausage evidence]::Stannie Dum: It doesn't taste like pig sausage to me, it tastes like pork.::Ollie Dee: [Taking bite] Why this isn't pig nor pork. It's beef. I smell a rat.

Old King Cole: I'm offering a 50,000 guineas reward for Barnaby's apprehension, dead or alive.::Stannie Dum: Can't you make up your mind how you want him?

[Barnaby disappears down well. Stannie and Ollie corner him]::Stannie Dum: You better come up dead or alive!::Ollie Dee: Now, how can he come up dead when he's alive?::Stannie Dum: Let's drop a rock on him. That'll make him dead when he's alive.::Ollie Dee: Now you're talkin' sense.::Stannie Dum: [into well] Look out!::Ollie Dee: *Don't* tell him to look out!::Stannie Dum: Well, it might'a hit 'im.::Ollie Dee: That's what we *want* it to do!::Stannie Dum: [into well] Did it hit ya?::Ollie Dee: Not a sound.::Stannie Dum: It musta got 'im.

Ollie Dee: Why should you worry? You and he are just like THAT.::Stannie Dum: But that was before we were married.