The Wacky World of Mother Goose

The Wacky World of Mother Goose is a future remake of the 1967 Rankin/Bass animated film based The Tales of Mother Goose by Charles Perrault.

Plot
Mother Goose has gone to take care of her sister who lives on the moon while Count Walktwist, the Crooked Man, has plans for the kingdom and will stop at nothing to take over it. Little Jack Horner, Mary Quite Contrary, Old MacDonald, and his animals must stop the Crooked Man before he gets away with his terrible crime.

Differences between the original and the remake
Old MacDonald did not appear in the original film, but will appear in the remake as a kind, reasonable farmer who is Mother Goose's apprentice in magic, longs for a family, sides with his own farm animals, and comes equipped with a magic rake. He comes up with his own plans to help save the land from treason without anyone knowing until the final battle with the Crooked Man. Despite his name and looks, he has the skills of a young person and is quite young on the inside. He and his animals successfully capture, defeat, and change all of Walktwist's men from bad to good. When nobody listens to reason, he is left no choice but to use his magic rake with his magic words, E-I-E-I-O. In the end, he learns that the other characters and his animals have been his family all along and he becomes a celebrity as well as his animals, Mary, her lamb, Jack, and Mother Goose.

Count Walktwist reveals that the reason he wants to take over the land is that no one ever shown him any love, affection, appreciation, respect, or anything nice ever since he arrived. Instead of fighting Mother Goose in the air on Goosey Gander and drowning in the ocean, Old MacDonald takes away all his black magical powers with the magic rake and help from the good characters, disenchanting him and turning all his henchmen from bad to good. Old King Cole banishes Walktwist from the land until he is to find some good in him; but accepting himself for who he is and never believing that anything good come from being good, the Crooked Man refuses to change his ways and vows that there will be others like him, but the good guys vow that they will be ready for the other bad guys as long as there is goodness, happiness, harmony, and the good guys have each other by their side.

Brutus the magic evil living candlestick is extinguished with rain from a cloud that Mother Goose lassos and is exiled in the original film, but he is extinguished with water from a pail that Old MacDonald throws and becomes good, siding with Jack Horner to light people's way in the dark and for Jack to jump over in the remake.

It is unknown what happens to Goosey Gander in the end of the original film; but in the end of the remake, he becomes a nice, ordinary gander and ends up living on Old MacDonald's farm.

It is unknown where the lamb came from in the original movie; but in the remake Old MacDonald explains to Mary that the lamb was his and sent him to hide in a mulberry bush, in which Jack and Mary met the lamb. But once he sees how much the lamb likes and follows Mary, Old MacDonald allows her to keep the lamb.

In the original film, Princess Harmony is Old King Cole's daughter and Prince Robin becomes his son-in-law. In the remake, Robin is the king's son and Harmony becomes his daughter-in-law.

It is unknown what Zigzag does at the end of the film, but in the remake he becomes Old MacDonald's new farmhand once disenchanted from Walktwist's magic.

It is unknown what happens to the Dish and the Spoon at the end of the original movie. In the remake, after spying on the other good guys and tattling to the Crooked Man what is happening, they are dismissed and Old MacDonald successfully catches them both in his hat, then takes them out locked in a birdcage. Deciding that he actually likes the Dish and the Spoon, the farmer plans to redeem them once Walktwist is taken care of, which successfully happens. At the end, the Dish and the Spoon end up living on Old MacDonald's farm accompanied by the Cow that jumps over the moon, who is given to Old MacDonald by Mother Goose as a reward for saving the day, the Cat with the fiddle and the Little Dog, both of whom say that they are to go with the Cow which Old MacDonald agrees to. The Cat, the Cow, the Dog, the Dish, and the Spoon all agree that they make a great team.

In the original film, Mother Goose's sister is not seen any further. But in the remake, she becomes a frequent visitor of the land.