Comments on: Red Riding Hood backwards?

Question: Red Riding Hood backwards?

DonnieSticks — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:24:28 -0800

Is anyone familiar with the comedy routine of Little Red Riding Hood told backwards? A teacher I had in jr. high just died and that was one of his trademark stories. I always thought it was an original, but then I heard it years later and now can't remember who did it. It basically involved telling the story straight but mixing up the sentence structure. At least that's what I recall some 22 years later.

By: freudianslipper

freudianslipper — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 22:54:09 -0800

i'm definitely not familiar but curious! So i googled and found this pdf. I don't really know if it's what you are referring too though.

Is it funny because it's told backwards or is it funny because it's an adaptation somehow?

By: DonnieSticks

DonnieSticks — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:05:29 -0800

Nope, I looked at that too. I googled this up and down before I posted, which makes me think I've got the wrong story, but I'm so sure of it.

I think the funny comes from the wordplay and delivery and being 13. Probably one of those things that's hi-larious as a kid but the jaded adult just gives it an "eh".

By: exceptinsects

exceptinsects — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:12:27 -0800

You're not thinking of Ladle Rat Rotten Hut, are you?

By: wsg

wsg — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:19:53 -0800

Archie Campbell was a comedian who many will remember from Hee Haw, the show that replaced Laugh In. What a rip! That's him on the right. A popular part of his act was doing "backwards" versions of fairy tales. Favorites are Rindercella, Pee Little Thrigs and Beeping Sleuty. This page makes no mention of a backwards Little Red Riding Hood, but it sure sounds like an Archie Campbell bit.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:01:01 -0800

Holy cow... I had a supply teacher (y'all call them 'substitute teachers' in the USA) in middle school who did the same with Cinderella. Called it something like Prindercella and the Muddly Uglers.

By: kindall

kindall — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:11:28 -0800

Yeah, it sounds like something from Hee Haw. My dad subjected us to that show every week.

By: wsg

wsg — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:14:16 -0800

I think it was the Rindercella and the Sisty Uglers, now that you mention it.

By: wsg

wsg — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:15:41 -0800

Extra "the" there...

By: Grangousier

Grangousier — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 03:30:17 -0800

Unhelpful aside: If you like this sort of thing, you might consider checking out Professor Stanley Unwin.

And I looked at the cast list for that Hee Haw thing for anyone I recognised and the only one was Felix Silla, which must be an obscurity record of some kind.

I now return you to the useful people.

By: ashbury

ashbury — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 05:51:44 -0800

The swapping of syllables is called "spoonerisms". It's a bad habit to get into...I find I can't stop doing them, now that I've started. The story of Sleeping Beauty. Three Little Pigs. And of course, the spoonerism generator.

By: DonnieSticks

DonnieSticks — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 08:00:04 -0800

It was Archie Campbell! Thanks. Boy, is my short term memory bad. I just saw it on a Hee Haw DVD I got from Netflix a few months ago.

By: ObscureReferenceMan

ObscureReferenceMan — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:34:00 -0800

A little late to the party, but is what you're thinking about "Little Red Riding Hood" told with words/phrases that are close, but not quite right? Not spoonerisms, pre se, but... Well, the easiest things to do is give an example, and the "translation". We pick up with the wolf, talking to Red:
"Whale, whale, whale. Effervescent laddle rat rotten hut."
("Well, well, well. If it isn't Little Red Riding Hood.")

Is that it?

By: kindall

kindall — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:32:21 -0800

Hee Haw DVD

*head asplodes*

By: KRS

KRS — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:52:42 -0800

Prinderella and the Since is my favorite. Now isn't that a shirty dame!