"What big eyes, nose, and sharp teeth you have, Grandma!"
"Red Riding Hoodwinked" is a 1955 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng and starring Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird.
This parody of Little Red Riding Hood is set in (for its day) the present day. Grandma and The Big Bad Wolf are present as always, but now (especially as this Red Riding Hood is taking Tweety on her bus trip) Sylvester is getting in on the act.
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- Badass Boast: When Grandma gets tossed out of her cottage in the woods. "One of these days, POW! Right in the kisser!"
- Battering Ram: How the Big Bad Wolf uses a small tree log on the back door of Grandma's House.
- The Big Bad Wolf: As with other Looney Tunes portrayals, the Wolf isn't particularly competent at being a Big Bad.
- Boss Subtitles: When the Big Bad Wolf appears, a sign appears saying just that. The Wolf shoos it away because the audience already knows who he is.
- Bowdlerization: On ABC's The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show, the part where the Big Bad Wolf beats Sylvester with a bucket (after Sylvester splashes the Wolf with water from it) was cut from five times to one and a half.
- Brick Joke: When Sylvester and the Wolf get punched out of the bus, we learn that Grandma made good on her vow.Grandma (now in bus driver uniform): "I told him, one of these days..."
Tweety and Red Riding Hood (in unison): "POW! Right in the kisser!" - Determinators: Sylvester and the Wolf let nothing stand between them and their prizes, not even locked doors.
- Damsel in Distress: Well, downplayed on Red Riding Hood's part. While nowhere near Little Red Fighting Hood status, she proves very helpful in the crisis she and Tweety face as Sylvester and the Wolf chase them throughout the house. They sidestep their pursuers, rush back into the house, and lock the door. While their pursuers are distracted by their objective, she hightails it out of the house with Tweety in tow.
- Forgetful Jones: A Running Gag for the Wolf. He has trouble remembering Red Riding Hood’s name and other details from the story. A hanging sign covers the first one ("you mean Red Riding Hood?"), Tweety the next, and Sylvester the remaining two.
- Get Out!: The wolf occupies the house by pushing Grandma out.Wolf: Out-out-out-out-out-out-out-out! Aaannnnd stay out!
- Improvised Weapon: Sylvester hammers a long piece of rubber material on each side of the front door and places a boulder within. He hasn’t realized that the Big Bad Wolf has already hammered down the back door when he launches.
- Never Mess with Granny: Par for the course in these cartoons. In this case, Granny, having been evicted from her house by the Wolf, threatens to give him what for if she sees him again. In the end, she takes a job as a bus driver, and when the Wolf and Sylvester try to get on in pursuit of Red and Tweety, Granny punches Sylvester and the Wolf off the bus.
- "Open!" Says Me: It takes a while, but the wolf’s improvised Battering Ram works. Too bad he didn’t take Sylvester’s slingshot into account.
- Paper-Thin Disguise: As usual, Red Riding Hood doesn’t appear to see through the wolf's disguise, at least at the start.
- Shout-Out: Granny borrows Ralph Kramden's Catchphrase from The Honeymooners for her Badass Boast. In the end of the cartoon, she's revealed to be a bus driver, same as Ralph. She makes good on her threat related to the catch phrase there.
- Villain Team-Up: It's a stretch to call Sylvester a villain, but the Wolf continues to be portrayed as such.
