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"Little Red Riding Rabbit" is a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation 1944]] Creator/WarnerBros Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Creator/FrizFreleng, and starring WesternAnimation/BugsBunny. This is the first time Creator/MelBlanc receives a credit for a cartoon.

It is a parody of "Literature/LittleRedRidingHood", in which Red, a typical 1940s teenage bobbysoxer with a very loud, grating voice, is bringing a rabbit [Bugs] to her grandma "to have". Of course, a big bad wolf is waiting for them.

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!!"Little Red Riding Rabbit" provides examples of:

* AdaptationalHeroism: A slight variation of the Big Bad Wolf, as while normally wanting to [[EatingTheEnemy devour]] Red and/or her grandma, here he's more interested in eating a more appropriate prey animal (i.e. Bugs); even after revealing that he's a wolf to Red, he refuses to eat her and instead throws her out of the house.
* AssholeVictim: While Red's not a bad person per se, she's incredibly annoying (and that's putting it ''mildly'').
* TheBadGuyWins: Bugs, annoyed by Red's interruptions (and her overall obnoxious behavior), climbs down the pile of stuff he's making the Wolf hold over a shovelful of coals and shuffles it around so it's now with Red split over the coals holding everything. The two then watch Red about to get 'redder', Bugs happily sharing bites of a carrot with the Wolf.
* CuteButCacophonic: Red, owing to her bobby-soxer personality, bad singing, and NoIndoorVoice.
* TheDitz: Red attempts to show Bugs to himself and has some trouble remembering her lines to the Wolf.
* EnemyMine: Bugs and the Wolf team up against Red at the very end.
* GetOut: After the Wolf chases Bugs around the house, Red comes back. The Wolf shouts this before forcing her back out the door, though Bugs takes advantage to shove him out, as well.
* GettingTheBoot: The bum's rush variant. When Red tries to stick to the story by asking the Wolf about his big eyes and nose, he grabs her and rushes her out the door so he can get to eating Bugs.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: TheBigBadWolf, as he usually is in ''Looney Tunes'' shorts.
* TheLastStraw: There's a literal one and metaphorical one--Bugs is about to add the ''literal'' last straw on the pile the wolf is holding while perched over a fire when obnoxious Red interrupts to ask Grandma just one more thing...which to Bugs is the ''metaphorical'' last straw.
-->'''Bugs:''' I'll do it...but I'll probably hate myself in the morning.
* NeverMessWithGranny: Though unseen, Red's grandmother is implied to be a Rosie the Riveter type who was out working a "swing" shift at Lockheed (an aircraft manufacturing company, now merged with rival Martin Marietta to create Lockheed Martin).
* NeverTrustATitle: Bugs isn't in the Little Red Riding Hood role as the title (and title card) would imply.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed
** Red's voice is inspired by Cass Daley, a comedic actress from screen and radio.
** At one point, the wolf does an impression of French actor Creator/CharlesBoyer to get rid of Red.
* NoIndoorVoice: Red. No matter what she says, it's loud and obnoxious. ''"HEEEEY GRANDMA!!!'' I BROTCHA A LIL' BUNNY RABBIT! ''TA'' '''HAVE!!'''"''
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Bugs was still in his more heckler-like persona at this point in his filmography, but to switch the Wolf with Red, an annoying but innocent character who never directly threatened or disrespected him--just got in the way of his gag--is extremely rare for him to do (''WesternAnimation/BuckarooBugs'' being a similar example), and would be downright unthinkable in his later characterizations.
* RoadSignReversal: The wolf sends Red on the long way to Grandma's house, which weaves around an entire mountain. Funny enough this only gives him enough time to read the note Grandma left on the door, change clothes, and kick some other wolves out of the bed.
* RumpRoast: Bugs pokes the Wolf in the butt with a hot coal from the fireplace, and as he [[PainPoweredLeap jumps up in pain]], Bugs lays down a whole shovelful of them underneath him. The Wolf manages to do a split between two chairs to avoid the coals, so Bugs starts piling up stuff on top of him to weigh him down. When Red interrupts the gag, Bugs--saying he'll hate himself in the morning for it but doing it anyways--decides to make her switch places with the Wolf, putting her over the coals holding everything.
* RunningGag: Red interrupting Bugs and the wolf's shenanigans by trying to say her lines about Grandma.
* TheRuntAtTheEnd: The wolf finds a bunch of other wolves in Grandma's bed and tells them to beat it. After he lies down he feels something stirring behind the pillow,--and a small wolf left behind comes out and leaves.
* ScoobyDoobyDoors: The Wolf and Bugs wind up chasing each other through several doors in Grandma's surprisingly roomy house.
* StopCopyingMe: Bugs mimics the Wolf to annoy him, only to trick the Wolf into mimicking himself, and eventually lead into a rousing rip-roaring rendition of "Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet" complete with dancing--letting Bugs hold up a sign saying "Silly, isn't he?" (A gag reused from "Heckling Hare", and later repeated in "Stage Door Cartoon" and "WesternAnimation/HareWayToTheStars").
* SureLetsGoWithThat:
-->'''Red:''' HEY GRANDMA, WHAT BIG EYES/EARS YOU GOT?\\
'''Wolf:''' ''[sending Red out]'' Yeah yeah, big eyes/ears, big eyes/ears! ''*[[GettingTheBoot bum rush out the door]]*''
* TheUnreveal: Red has already questioned the wolf on his big eyes, big nose, big ears and sharp teeth, and one wonders what she was planning to ask Grandma next when she interrupted for the last time.
* VerbalTic: Red ends a lot of her lines with the exclamation "Ta' ''Have!''", just another thing that makes her so very ''irritating''.
* WartimeCartoon: Red's grandmother is apparently working the swing shift at a Lockheed aircraft factory.
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