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

Mother Goose on the Loose

Medium: source

Publication date: 1942

Publisher: Universal Studios 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 Big Bad Wolf (Zeke Midas Wolf) villain
CBR Scale: I anthropomorphic animal
wolf Walt Disney Pictures Disney Comics, etc. 899
Little Boy Blue Little Boy Blue lead character
  [nursery rhyme: fell asleep, lost track of his sheep] Mary Cooper 30
Little Bo Peep Little Bo Peep (Bo Peep) lead character
  [lost her sheep] Walt Disney Pictures 77
Old King Cole Old King Cole (King Cole) supporting character lead character based on a real person
  [king] Bernard Lintott 30
Mary Mary (Mary Sawyer) lead character real/historical person
  [from nursery rhyme; had a little lamb] Marsh, Capen & Lyon 16
Little Lamb Little Lamb supporting character
CBR Scale: D N.A.
sheep
[followed Mary to school one day]
Marsh, Capen & Lyon 4
Georgie Porgie Georgie Porgie non-feature lead character
  [kissed the girls and made them cry] John Russell Smith 11
Peter Piper Peter Piper lead character
  [farmer; musician] J. Harris 10
Three Blind Mice Three Blind Mice supporting character group
CBR Scale: D anthropomorphic animals
mouse Thomas Adams 48
Jack Be Nimble Jack Be Nimble (Jack) non-feature lead character
  [1st app: Gammer Gurton's Garland (1815)] R. Christopher 3
The Fiddlers Three The Fiddlers Three supporting character group
  [played for Old King Cole] Bernard Lintott 2
Little Jack Horner Little Jack Horner lead character
  [ate a Christmas pie] MGM 28
Four and Twenty Blackbirds Four and Twenty Blackbirds supporting character group
CBR Scale: D N.A.
blackbird
[baked in a pie; sang for king when pie was opened]
unknown 3
her sheep her sheep supporting character group
CBR Scale: D N.A.
sheep
[Little Bo Peep's lost sheep]
N.A. 24
the sheep in the meadow the sheep in the meadow supporting character group
CBR Scale: D N.A.
sheep
[sheep Little Boy Blue is supposed to watch]
Mary Cooper 2
The cow's in the corn The cow's in the corn supporting character
CBR Scale: D N.A.
cattle Mary Cooper 2
Ten Little Indians Ten Little Indians supporting character group
CBR Scale: D Native American religion
Native American Peter Pan Records Universal Studios 4
the rat that ate the malt the rat that ate the malt supporting character
CBR Scale: D N.A.
rat
[ate malt in house that Jack built]
John Newbery 2
the cat that killed the rat the cat that killed the rat supporting character
CBR Scale: D N.A.
cat
[killed rat that ate malt in house that Jack built]
John Newbery 2
the dog that worried the cat the dog that worried the cat supporting character
CBR Scale: D N.A.
dog
[worried cat that killed rat that ate malt in Jack's house]
John Newbery 2
the cow with the crumpled horn the cow with the crumpled horn supporting character
CBR Scale: D N.A.
cattle
[tossed dog that worried cat that killed rat]
John Newbery 2
the maiden all forlorn the maiden all forlorn supporting character
CBR Scale: S Anglican
[milked cow that tossed dog that worried cat that killed rat] John Newbery 2
Jack Jack
(cameo)
supporting character
  [w/Jill went up hill in famed nursery rhyme] John Newbery 23
Jill Jill
(cameo)
supporting character
  [w/Jack went up hill in famed nursery rhyme] John Newbery 23
The Crooked Man The Crooked Man (Barnaby Crookedman)
(cameo)
supporting character
  [1st app: Nursery Rhymes of England (1842)] T. Richards 8
The Cat and the Fiddle The Cat and the Fiddle
(cameo)
supporting character
CBR Scale: D N.A.
cat John Newbery 2
The Cow The Cow
(cameo)
supporting character
CBR Scale: D N.A.
cattle
[jumped over the moon]
John Newbery 1
The Dish The Dish
(cameo)
supporting character
CBR Scale: D sentient inanimate
[ran away with the Spoon] John Newbery 1
The Spoon The Spoon
(cameo)
supporting character
CBR Scale: D sentient inanimate
[ran away with the Dish] John Newbery 1
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater (Peter)
(visual reference
lead character
  [nursery rhyme character] Munroe and Francis 11
Mother Goose Mother Goose
(mentioned) 
supporting character
  [imagined author of fairy tales, nursery rhymes] Dell 49
Jack Jack
(mentioned) 
supporting character
  [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."