Shout Out / Hoodwinked!

• Lots of references are made to other classic fairy tale characters, their stories, and nursery rhymes.
  • Rumpelstiltskin: Flippers says upon seeing the Wolf, "I remember you! Three years ago on the Stiltskin case: you were snooping around for a lead on his real name." The Wolf matter-of-factly says, "I was close too. I was gonna go with Greg. Greg Stiltskin."
  • The Muffin Man: Never seen on-screen, but when Red runs into Boingo during her bike ride, he sadly states that his employer - the Muffin Man - was shut down last night by the Goodie Bandit. Also, when the Wolf's story begins, there's a quick shot of Boingo in the store holding a muffin tray out to a disguised Wolf during his investigation montage.
  • Little Bo Peep: When the Wolf interviews his informant Woolworth, Woolworth describes Red as a "sweet gal, not like that Bo Peep. That brat put up an invisible fence, I tasted metal fillings for a week!"
  • "Over the River and Through the Wood": When the Wolf and Twitchy have their encounter with Boingo, Boingo says he knows a shortcut to Granny's house. He quotes the song title, only he transposes the nouns - he says, "You go over the woods and through the river....No, you don't want to go through the river. You'll get all wet." Cut to the Wolf and Twitchy in a flooded tunnel.* Granny seemingly appearing as an ethereal vision and saying "Use the hood, Red!"
• Star Wars:
  • The "USE THE HOOD!!" moment when Granny appears to Red references "Use the force".
  • The scene where Twitchy and the Wolf fall into a hole while in the cave, and all you can see of Twitchy is his camera light, is similar to Luke and R2D2's arrival on Dagobah in The Empire Strikes Back.
• The Wolf says he will get Red, "and her little Granny too!"
• Granny's identity is Triple G, complete with tattoo - because she has three strikes against her, of course.
• Dolph seems like an expy of Ahnold and says of Granny: "She'll be back".
• When Twitchy is running interference with the cops, one of Stork's attempts to figure out what's wrong is "Timmy's stuck in the well!"
• Wolf dresses like, speaks like, uses the same exact disguises as, and even has the same Theme Song, as Irwin Fletcher.
• Twitchy reads the print on the side of a stick of dynamite: "DEE-NA-MEE-TAY. Hmm, must be Italian".
• The scene where the Wolf questions Woolworth is a homage to The Naked Gun. It even directly lifts some of its dialogue.
• The Wolf knocking on Granny's door and identifies himself with "candygram" in the same way the Land Shark did in the Saturday Night Live skit. Also a possible reference to the "Candygram for Mongo" scene in Blazing Saddles.
• The sign over Japeth's shack reads Pecos Mining Co., a clear reference to the mythical American cowboy Pecos Bill.
• Song of the South is referenced in the hummingbirds who appear in "Great Big World".
• Many of the scenes in the cable car (Red's aborted ride up and also the life-and-death finale) nod to the German war film Where Eagles Dare.
• Boingo says, "But I'm top of the woods now, baby!" which is a take on James Cagney's line "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" in White Heat.
• Red's fight with Boingo in the cable car loading dock is reminiscent of the training sequence between Neo and Morpheus in The Matrix. Especially with green monitors in the background.
• There is reference to Saturday Night Fever during "Tree Critter" prior to the ski race.
• The song "Critters Have Feelings" references The Cars.

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