Robin Hood in popular culture the anonymous "Robin Hood: A Tale of the Olden Time" (1819), and a few months later "Ivanhoe" by Walter Scott, 1819. "Ivanhoe" was Scott's first novel where history and romance is combined. Robin Hood in this book is the saviour of the nation. The Upper classes need the working classes as much as the working classes rely on their 'betters'. Scott's tale is significant because it is the first time that Robin is presented as an Anglo-Saxon freedom fighter, a theme which many later Victorian Robin Hood novels would utilise. The next novel following Scott was Thomas Love Peacock's novella
Rabbit Hood shorts included as special features on the 2014 DVD release of Rankin/Bass Productions' animated version of "The Hobbit" (along with "Knight-mare Hare" and "Knighty Knight Bugs"), made possible by Warner Bros.' acquisition of much of the Rankin-Bass home video library. "Robin Hood Daffy" (1958), in which Daffy Duck played Robin Hood with Porky Pig as a Friar Tuck-like character. "Wagon Heels" (1945), another cartoon (also a Merrie Melodies cartoon) [but featuring Porky Pig instead of Bugs Bunny] which has a reference to "London Bridge Is Falling Down" (Sloppy Mo singing 'I know something I won't tell' to the tune of