Last March, I remarked that Elmer Fudd was not a modified version of his fellow Warner Bros. 'Here, though, is one bit of unfinished business I can sort of finish. Hollywood cartoons : American animation in its golden age. Elliott, Duong Van Mai Barrier, Michael (1999). No kidding.ġ970s staff interviews blurred the two together into one, leading to the old-time CW that Egghead became Elmer. ^ on Vintage Cartoon Ice Cream Packages on in the comments section 'Elmer and Egghead *are* different characters.Įlmer, before 1940, has squinty eyes, a bald head, and what would be the later Elmer's 'non-hunting' outfit (derby hat, coat with high starched collar).Įgghead has wide, reflective eyes and (in DAFFY DUCK AND EGGHEAD, A-LAD-IN BAGDAD and COUNT ME OUT) bowl-cut black hair.īoth have the huge nose and the Joe Penner voice, but this was intentional â€”, though the two were never seen together, they were originally promoted as brothers.There's actually a fair amount of 1938-39 publicity material and early merchandise showing the original Elmer as Elmer.'. Regardless of popular opinion, it isn't necessarily so.

Schlesinger publicity actually stated that Egghead and Elmer were brothers.Įssentially, Egghead disappeared in fairly short order while Elmer, as a separate character, evolved into the Elmer we know â€”, but he was named Elmer from near the start, in 1937.ĭecades later, Tex Avery evidently blurred Egghead and the original Elmer together in his mind giving rise to the conventional wisdom that one evolved into the other, with the renaming coming after the physical transformation. 357-358), the hair growing, wide-eyed Egghead of DAFFY DUCK AND EGGHEAD, COUNT ME OUT and others actually coexisted with squinty eyed, bald, derby-hatted Elmer, introduced in LITTLE RED WALKING HOOD and named on the lobby card for ISLE OF PINGO PONGO. ^ on Rare 1939 Looney Tunes Book found! on in the comments section, 'As clarified by Barrier (Hollywood Cartoons, pgs.: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link) Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoon Voices from the Golden Age, 1930-70. This cartoon was re-released into the Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodies program on August 17, 1946.According to David Gerstein (an animation historian), Eliza on her ' Eliza’s Review Blog' for this cartoon, and Michael Barrier in his 'Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age' book on his website, this is actually the first appearance of the early prototype of Elmer Fudd.DVD - Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 5, Disc 2 (original opening, credits and closing titles restored).LaserDisc - The Golden Age of Looney Tunes, Volume 2, Side 7.Elvia Allman as Little Red Walking Hood, Granny.As the 'iris' comes back, Elmer is shown repeatedly kissing Red. They resume fighting until Elmer shows up a sixth time and hits the wolf over the head with a mallet. Two silhouettes of patrons who are late to the screening show up and the wolf asks Red to wait for them to get seated. When Red exclaims, 'Oh Grandmother, what large teeth you present' the wolf lunges at her and they start fighting in the corner of the room. The wolf hops into bed and asks Red to come closer. As the characters begin chasing each other again, grandma hides in the closet and the wolf asks her for her clothes as Red is at the door. She uses the phone to make a grocery order while the wolf waits impatiently for her to resume the chase. He chases grandma around the house until she hops on a chair and crosses her fingers declaring King's X. He pulls the back doors knob and in a pinball reference, the door opens. This proves unsuccessful when he subsequently crashes through all the doors in the house and ends up in the backyard with his hat over his feet. The grandma tells him to stay away but the wolf decides to burst through the door. As soon as the wolf arrives at grandma's house he knocks on the door and imitates an impression of Elmer Blurt from The Al Pearce Show. His advances fail and he decides to take a shortcut to her grandmother's house after being given the route by Elmer J. He notices Red walking by outside the window and drives after her along the sidewalk in his car.

The cartoon opens with the wolf playing on a vintage pinball machine. The cartoon features the basic plot of Little Red Riding Hood, with a few twists and oddball Tex Avery-like gags, such as Red displaying a Katharine Hepburn persona, or Grandma ordering a case of gin, while the wolf waits impatiently for her to get off the phone so he can chase her again. The short was released on November 6, 1937, and features the first appearance of an early character who later became Elmer Fudd. Little Red Walking Hood is a 1937 Merrie Melodies cartoon supervised by Fred Avery.

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