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 the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. Plot 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's introduced singing the first verse of "Five O'Clock Whistle", the rabbit pops out of her basket, revealing himself to be Bug 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's away "working the swing shift at Lockheed". After kicking out a group of rival wolves who are all waiting in the house dressed as Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother, the wolf dresses as her grandmother and climbs into bed, hoping to eat the rabbit when she arrives. When Little Red Riding Hood arrives, she begins to remark on the wolf's large eyes—only to be impatiently interrupted by 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 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 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 the floor to burn him when he lands, but