The Big Bad Wolf

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Fairy Tale Slapstick Adventure Animation Comedy Family Fantasy Musical Short

Red Riding Hood is accompanied by Fiddler Pig and Piper Pig as she takes a shortcut through the forest to deliver food to her sick grandmother.Red Riding Hood is accompanied by Fiddler Pig and Piper Pig as she takes a shortcut through the forest to deliver food to her sick grandmother.Red Riding Hood is accompanied by Fiddler Pig and Piper Pig as she takes a shortcut through the forest to deliver food to her sick grandmother.

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6.9/10

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Billy Bletcher

Big Bad Wolf
(voice)
(uncredited)

Pinto Colvig

Practical Pig
(voice)
(uncredited)

Dorothy Compton

Fifer Pig
(voice)
(uncredited)

Mary Moder

Fiddler Pig
(voice)
(uncredited)

Shirley Reed

Little Red Riding Hood
(uncredited)

Director
- Burt Gillett
Writer
- Ted Sears
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Trivia
The first time you get to see Little Red Riding Hood

Goofs
As the wolf chases Red Riding Hood around the table, his laughs and her screams do not match the on-screen action.

Quotes
Fifer Pig: Where are you going, Red Riding Hood?
Fiddler Pig: What's in the basket? Something good?
Little Red Riding Hood: I'm bringing Grandma cakes and wine. She's awful, awful sick. I'm in a great big hurry, too. I gotta get there quick.
Fifer Pig, Fiddler Pig: You'll get there quick, Red Riding Hood, if you take the shortcut through the wood.
Practical Pig: There's danger in them woods. Beware! The Big Bad Wolf is lurking there. Better to be safe than sorry. Shortcuts are not always good. Take the long road 'round the forest while the Wolf is in the wood.
Fifer Pig, Fiddler Pig: [laugh] That old wolf is just a sissy.
Fifer Pig: All he does is huff...
Fiddler Pig: ...and puff.
Fifer Pig, Fiddler Pig: We'll go with you and protect you. Come along, we'll call his bluff.

Connections
Edited from Three Little Pigs (1933)

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Review

Featured review

7/10

Blows the House Down

The next short film on Disney Plus is "The Big Bad Wolf" one of the Silly Symphonies from 1934, whilst it's not exactly a laugh riot, it's charming enough to win me over.

Little Red Riding Hood (Sara Berner) is heading to see her grandmother. She's joined on an ill-advised short cut through the woods, by two of the three little pigs. They encounter The Big Bad Wolf (Billy Bletcher) but manage to escape. The Wold beats them to Grandma's house and, having trapped her in a closet, gets in bed disguised as her. The two pigs get back to their third brother, who decides that it falls to him to save Hood.

I understand, from the other reviews, that this is supposed to be a follow up to "The Three Little Pigs" which, given that I'm going through these in alphabetical order, I haven't come to yet. I don't think the context was lost on me though, as it's essentially just an animated version of the classic fairy tale.

Given that It's coming up on being a century old it's obviously understandable that it's pretty basic, both in terms of animation loops and backgrounds. That in and of itself is a pretty charming and it hard not to watch the short with a warm smile on your face. Admittedly, it's not funny, barely converting that smile to a giggle until the final moments of slapstick violence.

Hard not to appreciate, if maybe not quite adore.