Little Red Riding Hood
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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 attends Storybook Community School. She has a sister named Little Green Riding Hood.
Screen appearances
- In Episode 3977 she appears in Musical Fairy Tales
- She has appeared in two skits of the Sesame Street News Flash series. In one skit, she was performed by Richard Hunt, and in the other by Fran Brill.
- In a third episode of "Sesame Street News Flash", Cookie Monster dressed up as Little Red Riding Hood, posing as Cookie Red Riding Hood. The Big Bad Wolf also appears in this sketch, but he appears as a doctor taking care of Granny, who is sick.
- Cookie Monster assumes the role again in a Monsterpiece Theater segment, "Little Red Riding Cookie."
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 also 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.
Parodies and Mentions
- 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".
- In the version of "The People in Your Neighborhood" that was heard in The Sesame Street Book & Record, when Bob asks one Anything Muppet who he would be if he wore a firemans hat, the Muppet guesses that he would be Little Red Riding Hood.
