Little Red Riding Hood

Little Red Riding Hood in "Musical Fairy Tales."

Ernie as Little Red Riding Hood.

Wilkins and Wontkins reenact the story in a Wilkins Coffee commercial.

Little Red Riding Hood is the central figure in the classic fairy tale of the same name. In the most common version of the story, she goes into the woods to take food to her grandmother's house. Along the way she meets The Big Bad Wolf who convinces her to stop and pick some flowers. The Big Bad Wolf then runs ahead, eats her grandmother, and disguises himself as her grandmother. When she finally arrives at her grandmother's house she in turn is eaten by the wolf. A friendly woodsmen rescues them, and helps them kill the wolf.

On Sesame Street, she has attended Storybook Community School. She has a sister named Little Green Riding Hood. In some of her appearances on Sesame Street, she often mistakes everyone she meets for her grandmother and continuously calls them that.

Screen appearances

• She has appeared in two Sesame Street News Flash installments. In one skit, she was performed by Richard Hunt, and in the other by Fran Brill.

• In a third "Sesame Street News Flash," Cookie Monster dressed up as Little Red Riding Hood. The Big Bad Wolf also appears in this sketch, but he appears as a doctor taking care of Granny.

• In Episode 2442, she was performed by David Rudman.

• In Episode 2646 and the video Rock & Roll!, she was performed by Camille Bonora.

• Cookie Monster assumes the role again in a Monsterpiece Theater segment, "Little Red Riding Cookie."

• An animated insert features Little Red Riding Hood (voiced by Fran Brill) following the path on a map to get to her grandma's house, only to find the Big Bad Wolf in grandma's clothing. (First: Episode 2686)

• In Episode 3977 (2001), she appears in "Musical Fairy Tales," again played by Fran Brill.

• Elmo and Abby Cadabby attended Little Red Riding Hood's birthday party in the direct-to-video release Elmo and Abby's Birthday Fun! with Jack and Hansel and Gretel. Brill again played the part.

• She appeared in Episode 4318, performed by Stephanie D'Abruzzo.

• She appeared in a segment with Big Bird, Elmo, and Ava DuVernay. (First: Episode 5316)

Print appearances

• Little Red appeared in a maze in "The Sesame Street Treasury Volume 1," and she was the featured character for July in "The Sesame Street 1977 Calendar."

• Little Red appears in Grover's Little Red Riding Hood based on the Sesame Street News Flash sketch.

• Little Red appeared at the Easter picnic in Rosita's Easter on Sesame Street, with her Storybook Community friends Baby Bear, Abby Cadabby and Little Bo Peep.

• She also appears in Elmo Visits the Dentist, where she's startled to see the Big Bad Wolf in the dentist's waiting room. While she's waiting, Little Red leafs through an issue of Goodies magazine.

• Little Red can be spotted shopping for plates at Hooper's Store in the 2002 book Look and Find Elmo.

• Bert, Ernie, Betty Lou and Roosevelt Franklin dress up as characters from "Little Red Riding Hood" in the 1976 paper doll book Paper Doll Players.

• Little Red and the Wolf dressed as her Grandmother appear in Elmo's Lift-and-Peek Around the Corner Book.

• Little Red feeds birds with Bert, while the Big Bad Wolf lies in wait with a snowball, in the book Friendly, Frosty Monsters.

• Little Red and the Wolf appear on a parade float in the book Big Bird's Red Book.

Parodies and Mentions

Wolle imagines the role on Sesamstrasse.

Eine Möhre für Zwei has Little Red Riding... Wolf?

Little Red Riding Fork, as referenced by Rizzo on Muppet Babies in 2020.

Sesame Street

• In an Ernie and Bert sketch, Ernie shows Bert his collection of Rs. One R he claims to have gotten from Little Red Riding Hood.

• In the version of "The People in Your Neighborhood" that was heard on The Sesame Street Book & Record, when Bob asks one Anything Muppet who he would be if he wore a fireman's hat, the Muppet guesses that he would be Little Red Riding Hood.

• Bert plays the titular character on a cover of Epi, Blas y los demás (1970s).

• Maria reads "Little Red Honkinghood" in Sesame Street Episode 1739.

• Oscar the Grouch reads Irvine a Grouch retelling of the story entitled "Little Red Riding Grouch," with Grundgetta playing the title role. (First: Episode 1826)

• Mrs. Libby tells the story of Little Red Riding Hood with the aide of a puppet in the book A Visit to the Sesame Street Library.

• In episode 2321 of Sesamstrasse, Wolle imagines what it would be like to be Little Red Riding Hood, with Nils as the huntsman, Pferd as the stand-in for the Big Bad Wolf who was on vacation in the Bahamas, and Rumpel as the grandmother.

• Zoe plays both Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother in the 2004 Sesame Street coloring book, Big Bird's Favorite Fairy Tales. Cookie Monster takes the role of the Wolf. At the end of the story, the Wolf convinces Red and Granny that they should all have a picnic, and share the basket together.

• During the quiz portion of the Elmo's World episode "Eyes," Elmo tells Oscar what big eyes he has, and he responds with, "The better to not see you with!"

• Zoe also appears as Little Red Riding Hood in the 2008 book Storybook ABCs. Elmo appears as the Big Bad Wolf's replacement.

• The story was referenced twice in season 11 of Plaza Sésamo: In episode 945, Pancho and a Multimonstruo audition for the part of the Big Bad Wolf in Federico Pelini's film adaptation and in another episode where they make up their own version.

• In a 2010 storybook, Big Bird plays the part of Big Red Riding Hood.

• Wolf ironically dresses up as Little Red Riding Hood for a costume competition on the Eine Möhre für Zwei episode "Der Kostümwettbewerb" from 2016.

Other

• Wilkins plays the title role in a Wilkins Coffee commercial. Wontkins plays the part of the Big Bad Wolf, who has already eaten Red Riding Hood's grandmother. Red Riding Hood recommends some Wilkins to wash her down.

• In The Muppets on Puppets, Rowlf the Dog starts out telling the story of Cinderella, which quickly turns out to have the plot of Little Red Riding Hood.

• In the Muppet Babies episode "Adventures in Muppet-Sitting," Baby Piggy spoofs the fairy tale as "Little Pink Riding Hood," with her as the main character.

• Dinosaurs: Classic Tales featured a parody of the story, "Little Red Riding Horn," featuring Charlene Sinclair in the title role, Ethyl Phillips as her grandmother, and B.P. Richfield as the "Wolfedon."

• On The Hoobs, Iver, Groove, Tula, and Roma set up a play based on the story called "Little Pink Riding Hoob."

• In the Muppet Babies episode "The Spoon in the Stone," Rizzo compares the titular "classic story" to two other classic tales: Goldilocks and the Three Spatulas and Little Red Riding Fork.