Mother Goose on the Loose (1942)
by Lowell Elliot, Ben Hardaway, Walter Lantz

Mother Goose on the Loose

Medium: source

Publication date: 1942

Publisher: Walter Lantz Productions
Written by: Lowell Elliot, Ben Hardaway
Directed by: Walter Lantz

32 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Big Bad Wolf (Zeke Midas Wolf)	anthropomorphic animal	wolf	, etc.	899
Little Boy Blue		[nursery rhyme: fell asleep, lost track of his sheep]	Mary Cooper	30
Little Bo Peep (Bo Peep)		[lost her sheep]		77
Old King Cole (King Cole)		[king]	Bernard Lintott	30
Mary (Mary Sawyer)		[from nursery rhyme; had a little lamb]	Marsh, Capen & Lyon	16
Little Lamb	N.A.	sheep [followed Mary to school one day]	Marsh, Capen & Lyon	4
Georgie Porgie		[kissed the girls and made them cry]	John Russell Smith	11
Peter Piper		[farmer; musician]	J. Harris	10
Three Blind Mice	anthropomorphic animals	mouse	Thomas Adams	48
Jack Be Nimble (Jack)		[1st app: Gammer Gurton's Garland (1815)]	R. Christopher	3
The Fiddlers Three		[played for Old King Cole]	Bernard Lintott	2
Little Jack Horner		[ate a Christmas pie]		28
Four and Twenty Blackbirds	N.A.	blackbird [baked in a pie; sang for king when pie was opened]	unknown	3
her sheep	N.A.	sheep [Little Bo Peep's lost sheep]	N.A.	24
the sheep in the meadow	N.A.	sheep [sheep Little Boy Blue is supposed to watch]	Mary Cooper	2
The cow's in the corn	N.A.	cattle	Mary Cooper	2
Ten Little Indians	Native American religion	Native American	Peter Pan Records	4
the rat that ate the malt	N.A.	rat [ate malt in house that Jack built]	John Newbery	2
the cat that killed the rat	N.A.	cat [killed rat that ate malt in house that Jack built]	John Newbery	2
the dog that worried the cat	N.A.	dog [worried cat that killed rat that ate malt in Jack's house]	John Newbery	2
the cow with the crumpled horn	N.A.	cattle [tossed dog that worried cat that killed rat]	John Newbery	2
the maiden all forlorn	Anglican	[milked cow that tossed dog that worried cat that killed rat]	John Newbery	2
Jack (cameo)		[w/Jill went up hill in famed nursery rhyme]	John Newbery	23
Jill (cameo)		[w/Jack went up hill in famed nursery rhyme]	John Newbery	23
The Crooked Man (Barnaby Crookedman) (cameo)		[1st app: Nursery Rhymes of England (1842)]	T. Richards	8
The Cat and the Fiddle (cameo)	N.A.	cat	John Newbery	2
The Cow (cameo)	N.A.	cattle [jumped over the moon]	John Newbery	1
The Dish (cameo)	sentient inanimate	[ran away with the Spoon]	John Newbery	1
The Spoon (cameo)	sentient inanimate	[ran away with the Dish]	John Newbery	1
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater (Peter) (visual reference)  Peter Pumpkin-Eater's pumpkin home is seen briefly at beginning of this cartoon, but he himself is not seen.		[nursery rhyme character]	Munroe and Francis	11
Mother Goose (mentioned)  named in film title		[imagined author of fairy tales, nursery rhymes]		49
Jack (mentioned)  Nursery rhyme "The House that Jack Built" is recited. Although many characters in rhyme are shown on screen, Jack himself is not seen. He is mentioned, however, in each verse.		[built "the house that Jack built"]	John Newbery	2

In addition to the nursery rhymes depicted with characters that can be named, the nursery rhyme "Pease Porridge Hot" is also portrayed, with two boys saying the rhyme over a pot of porridge and then deriding the nine-day old porridge as smelly.

Note that the opening verses of "This Is the House that Jack Built" are recited and illustrated, but the rhyme does not proceed past "the maiden all forlorn."

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