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32-483: The cartoon opens with titles featuring an instrumental of " The Sailor's Hornpipe " (also one of the theme songs to the Popeye cartoon series ), seguéing to a scene of Sam as a pirate, who digs a hole to bury his treasure on a beach. Sam is singing the stereotypical pirate shanty Dead Man's Chest —on the second strain, Sam switches from the typical "yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!" to a decidedly more original "yo-ho-ho and

64-428: A bottle of Ma's old fashioned ci- der ", with a conga kick on the last syllable and a parody of " Dad's Old-Fashioned Root Beer " (a well-known radio advertising jingle at that time). In attempting to bury his treasure, Sam has unknowingly encroached on Bugs Bunny's domain, as Bugs happens to have his rabbit hole there. When Bugs asks him who he is, he responds in his typical way: "What's up, doc?! I ain't no doc! I'm

96-403: A convenient anvil over the side of the crow's nest—Sam catches it, and the anvil's momentum causes the entire ship (except for the crow's nest) to submerge. Sam mouths some apparent curses underwater, then tosses the anvil overboard and the ship resurfaces. When Bugs comes down to check on Sam, the latter proceeds to attack him with his sword, making Bugs mad that he's "sore again". Bugs crawls in

128-437: A fleeing Bugs, but crashes into the mast while doing so. In a side gag, Bugs tries to hide, but a pesky parrot keeps giving the rabbit away and crowing to Sam: "He's in there! He's in there! Awk!" Eventually, Bugs gets fed up with the parrot and asks him: "Polly want a cracker?" The parrot changes his tune: "Polly want a cracker! Polly want a cracker! Awk!" Bugs hands him a lit firecracker, which promptly explodes, blasting all of

160-403: A hatch in the ship's side, with Sam following with his sword: "Ooooh, I'll keelhaul you for this!". When he opens the board, he is blasted by a cannon. Bugs opens the hatch to Sam's left and calls: "Yoo-hoo! Mr. Pirate!". Sam opens that board and, again, gets blasted by a cannon. Bugs opens another hatch and calls: "Oh, uh, Redbeard!". Sam, trying to avoid getting blasted again, decides to open up

192-470: A lighted match into the powder room, which a panicking Sam swiftly retrieves (a gag that would later be recycled into 1954's Captain Hareblower ). After this is repeated, Sam threatens to not go after the match if Bugs does it a third time. Bugs obliges, and Sam tries to distract himself with first a yo-yo, then with jacks (all while Bugs idly files his nails), until he finally gives in and goes to run after

224-551: A partner, the dance was popular on-board ship. Samuel Pepys referred to the dance in his diary as "The Jig of the Ship" and Captain Cook , who took a piper on at least one voyage, is noted to have ordered his men to dance the hornpipe in order to keep them in good health. The dance on-ship became less common when fiddlers ceased to be included in ships' crew members. During the Last Night of

256-593: A pirate! Sea-Goin' Sam, the blood-thirstiest, shoot-'em-first-iest, doggone worst-iest buccaneer has ever sailed the Spanish main !" To protect the location of his treasure, Sam prepares to shoot Bugs, claiming "Dead rabbits tell no tales!" Bugs then temporarily tricks Sam into trying to shoot himself in the head by saying: "Now, just a minute, Red. Ain't you got that wrong? You mean dead men tell no tales." After realizing he's been tricked, Sam grinds his teeth together so hard they shatter before firing at Bugs. Bugs escapes in

288-445: A sea shanty into a rhumba and by gritting his teeth so hard that they break. The trappings of piracy become part of the show, with booming cannons, ascending crow's nests, and stoolie parrots, all of which deliver an in-your-face impact that few other Sam stories could offer." The Sailor%27s Hornpipe The Sailor's Hornpipe (also known as The College Hornpipe and Jack's the Lad )

320-419: A tied lifeboat, at one point he rows himself towards Sam's ship without said lifeboat. As for Sam, seeing the paddles are gone, he swims towards the ship to retrieve the paddles from where Bugs left them—carrying them in his teeth and swimming in a dog-like style, and oblivious that he doesn't even need them since he already made it to the ship without them—, then returns to the lifeboat, which he then rows back to

352-537: Is a traditional hornpipe melody and linked dance with origins in the Royal Navy . The tune was first printed as the "College Hornpipe" in 1797 or 1798 by J. Dale of London. However, versions of the tune are found in earlier manuscript collections – for example, a syncopated version in the William Vickers manuscript , written on Tyneside, dated 1770. Due to the small space that the dance required, and no need for

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384-450: Is depicted as a spindly-legged, obnoxious and loudmouthed teenage bobby soxer. Granny is working the swing shift at the factory, and the Wolf is more interested in eating Bugs rather than eating Red. The Wolf in fact kicks Red out of Grandma's house. He and Bugs are engaged in games of chasing and toying with each other. Their games are constantly interrupted by Red, who knocks on the door to ask

416-521: The Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 2 and Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 3 . This was not the only depiction of Little Red Riding Hood in an animated short. Others include Little Red Riding Hood (1922) and The Big Bad Wolf (1934) by Walt Disney , and Little Red Walking Hood (1937), Red Hot Riding Hood (1943), and Little Rural Riding Hood (1949) by Tex Avery . another Warner Brother cartoon,

448-420: The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. Little Red Riding Hood is depicted as an exaggerated parody of a 1940s teenage girl, a " bobby soxer " with an extremely loud and grating voice (inspired by screen and radio comedian Cass Daley ) voiced by Bea Benaderet , bringing a rabbit to her grandmother in a basket. As she skips along singing the first verse of "Five O'Clock Whistle",

480-474: The Bob Clampett -directed Book Revue (1946), would also feature Red Riding Hood and The Big Bad Wolf playing alongside Daffy Duck . Another Warner cartoon, The Windblown Hare (1949) is primarily about The Three Little Pigs but takes a brief segue into a Red Riding Hood parody, with the Wolf playing the antagonist in both stories. Friz Freleng had already directed four fairy-tale films: Beauty and

512-568: The Proms in London, when the tune is played as part of Sir Henry Wood 's Fantasia on British Sea Songs , the spectators bring miniature foghorns and party horns and blow them along to the music, creating a loud, frenetic finale as the music reaches its fastest speed. The tune was played in the animated Popeye cartoons beginning in the 1930s, usually as the first part of the opening credits theme, which then segued into an instrumental of " I'm Popeye

544-460: The Sailor Man ". This tune has been recorded by: Little Red Riding Rabbit Little Red Riding Rabbit is a 1944 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Friz Freleng , and starring Bugs Bunny . It is a sendup of the " Little Red Riding Hood " story, and is the first time in which Mel Blanc receives a voice credit. In 1994, Little Red Riding Rabbit was voted #39 of

576-505: The bird's feathers off, leaving him dazed, smoldering and complaining before he passes out: "Me and my big mouth!" For the next part, Bugs poses as the now-unconscious parrot to lead Sam into a cannon. The rabbit then lights the fuse, the cannon explodes and Sam falls out of the barrel. Bugs then gets into crow's nest , which works like an elevator, but when Sam tries to use it, the crow's nest squishes him. After popping back to normal, Sam orders Bugs to come down. Bugs mockingly tells him that

608-414: The burning match, but the powder room explodes before he can make a step, and pieces of the ship land on the beach, including the part of the ship with Bugs and Sam, with Bugs commenting that Sam "didn't make it." On his last nerve, Sam furiously chases Bugs with his gun ("Ooooh, I'll blast your head off for this!"), and Bugs flees back into his original rabbit hole. Sam gloats to Bugs and sticks his head into

640-431: The elevator is out of order and tosses him a rope. But when Sam climbs up the rope, the rope is now hanging on a pully, making Sam climb back down and slamming on the deck. For his next attempt, he tries to use a cannonball on a plank as a makeshift catapault, but it throws him right up into the bottom of the crow's nest. In another gag that skirts the laws of physics, Bugs tells Sam he's going to jump, though he instead drops

672-419: The floor to burn him when he lands, but the wolf manages to avoid them by doing a split and bracing himself between a bench and a chair. Trying to weigh the wolf down and make him fall on the pile of coals, Bugs proceeds to dump various heavy objects into the wolf's arms, finally planning to drop a single piece of straw on top of the pile of heavy objects as he is on the verge of falling. Just before Bugs drops

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704-483: The hatch with his sword from a safe distance. Suddenly, just as he opens that hatch, another hatch opens in his face and a cannon blasts him once more, much to his annoyance. Sam now chases Bugs again, and is now subjected to the lots-of-doors in-and-out routine (previously used in Little Red Riding Rabbit ), which ends with Sam getting blasted yet again by a cannon. After that, Sam confronts Bugs, who throws

736-417: The house dressed as Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother, the wolf dresses as her grandmother and climbs into bed, hoping to eat the girl when she arrives. When Little Red Riding Hood does arrive, she tells her “grandmother” that she brought a rabbit for dinner, prompting the wolf to turn his appetite toward Bugs instead. She then begins to remark on the wolf's large eyes — only to be impatiently interrupted by

768-498: The latter of which also incorporated the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Like other Bugs Bunny shorts released during World War II, this film features "a more violent rabbit with a more sadistic and mocking agenda". Cartoon Art Museum curator Andrew Farago writes, “What makes this cartoon stand head and shoulders above the 300-plus others Freleng directed is the music. Carl Stalling kicks things off with ‘ The Lady in Red ’ playing over

800-426: The opening credits, which is fun and all, but when Red first appears onscreen, belting out her unforgettable rendition of ‘Five O'Clock Whistle’, you know you're in for something special. Bea Benaderet nails her performance, and within a few ear-splitting notes, you know everything you'll ever need to know about Red." This cartoon is found on the 1989 MGM Home Video release Bugs & Daffy: The Wartime Cartoons ,

832-448: The piece of straw, however, Little Red Riding Hood once again loudly barges into the room. Finally sick of Little Red Riding Hood's interruptions, Bugs frees the wolf and puts her in his place. The short ends with Little Red Riding Hood desperately trying to hold her backside over the pile of hot coals while weighed down with the pile of heavy objects, while Bugs and the wolf share a carrot while watching in amusement. Little Red Riding Hood

864-464: The rabbit hole ("Alright, now! I got ya cornered! Come out and meet your doom!"), a cannon blasts him once more from the rabbit hole. Finally, Sam raises the white flag in defeat; whereas Bugs turns to the audience, puts on an old-style ship captain's hat , and paraphrases John Paul Jones by saying: "I have not even begun to fight!", before laughing. Animation historian David Gerstein writes, "In Buccaneer Bunny , Sam out-Sams himself by turning

896-407: The rabbit pops out of her basket, revealing himself to be Bugs Bunny . The "Big Bad Wolf" tricks Little Red Riding Hood into taking an unnecessarily long mountain path to her grandmother's house by switching a "Shortcut to Grandma's" sign, and sneaks into her grandmother's house while she is away "working the swing shift at Lockheed ". After kicking out a group of rival wolves who are all waiting in

928-576: The ship. As Sam searches for Bugs on the ship, he sees Bugs disguised as Captain Bligh , affecting the voice and thick-lipped appearance of Charles Laughton in his portrayal of Bligh in Mutiny On The Bounty . Sam takes criticism from "Captain Bligh", who then orders him to do a bunch of chores on deck, then turns to the audience and calls Sam a " maroon " (a play on the words "moron" and "marooned"). Sam soon realizes he's been tricked again, and follows

960-561: The wolf the appropriate questions of the standard storyline. The Wolf and eventually Bugs are sufficiently irritated to keep her suspended over burning hot coals. She is punished for her "crime" of being obnoxious and exasperating. Warner Brothers often parodied Disney cartoons. Billy Bletcher parodied his own Disney performance in this cartoon, voicing Big Bad Wolf, just as he did in Walt Disney 's Academy Award-winning classic, Three Little Pigs and its later spinoff, The Big Bad Wolf ,

992-413: The wolf, Bugs irritates him by mimicking his speech and gestures, finally tricking him into singing " Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet " (prompting Bugs to hold up a sign saying "Silly, isn't he?"). After once again evading the wolf, Bugs sneaks up on him by hiding in his nightdress and scorches his backside with a hot coal. As the wolf howls with pain and leaps into the air, Bugs dumps a shovelful of hot coals on

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1024-430: The wolf, who quickly shuffles her out the door so that he can eat the rabbit. Bugs slips out of the basket and evades the wolf, but the wolf chases him through the house. The wolf, however, is constantly interrupted by Little Red Riding Hood, who continues trying to act out the original story, oblivious to the chase. The wolf begins to flirt with her in a faux French accent before yelling at her to get out. When cornered by

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