Looney Tunes knows Best

As I continued my search through my childhood for fairy tales, I happened to come upon this Looney Tunes clip. It's titled "Little Red Riding Rabbit," and makes a complete mockery of the Fairy Tale with the not to distant title. There appears in the cartoon a Little Red Riding Hood, but she is loud mouthed and slightly stupid. Also, she doesn't contribute much to the rest of the story. So I assume that the role of Little Red Riding Hood is adopted by Bugs Bunny. Plus, the Wolf (who appears here in a masculine light) wants to eat Bugs Bunny, and not LLRH. Therefore, one can assume that LLRH is represented in this story by Bugs, and not the actual LLRH, who is there for comedic relief to the cartoon (a feat which sounds paradoxical). Bugs aka LLRH is true to one of the original forms of LLRH, that is a trickster who gets the best of the bad ol' Wolf. The entire cartoon runs as if Bugs knows all, and is just waiting for the Wolf to catch up.

The appearances that the actual LLRH have, seem to confirm the other standard idea that she is a defenseless moron. So the viewer gets the best of both fairy tale worlds, and it's up to them to decide who to take favor in more (but we all know the answer). As far as anything gender related, one could make an argument that Bugs, the Wolf, Looney Tunes and their male agenda like to stick to the woman. She's the dumbest one, and in the end, the one the Wolf and Bugs turn against collectively. I, however, see it that, like I said before, LLRH is just there to be a running gag, and she comes off a little like Elmer Fudd, the huntsman.

The cartoon works really well in their adaptation of the story, and then the complete destruction it takes to it. The fact that LLRH acts as if she has memorized her "Grandma, what big feet you have" lines, is waiting for the oportune time to say it. Or the fact that the long distance to Grandma's house is over treacherous mountain terrain, while the short path is merely 10 feet to the doorstep.

Throughout the cartoon Looney Tunes does an excellent job of taking the fairy tale we all know, and turning it completely on it's head, all the while giving us all a good laugh.


P.S. here is the link to view the Cartoon. If that doesn't work, just go to youtube.com and search for "Little Red Riding Rabbit."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-m5N4-x3wc&feature=related