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Messy Pig
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There's one thing most people know about pigs: they are messy as hell. In times past, in some rural 3rd-world areas, pigs would even consume the waste from the outhouse.note It was Fair for Its Day; it solved the problem of eliminating waste (similar to how in other places, the pigs were fed not bodily waste but garbage), and the pigs got food and shelter. This Animal Stereotype is so prominent, it lead to pigs being almost invariably portrayed as filthy dirt-lovers. Actually, pigs are instinctively clean animals, but their habit of rooting the ground and rolling in whatever moisture is available creates messy results in confined spaces. Despite not having that much hair, pigs aren't able to sweat, meaning that they have to roll around in cool and damp places frequently to prevent themselves from suffering heatstroke. Also, thanks to their omnivorous instinct to probe and explore everything around them for traces of food, pigs love to make a mess by chewing things to bits and rooting around in the pieces. Rotten wood, sofa cushions, or especially straw are bound to wind up in a million tiny fragments when a pig can get at them. For a human observer, such behavior creates a strong impression of a messy, dirty, unhygienic animal. There is also quite a common subversion of this trope: when the pig is obsessively clean, proper and hygienic, in a somewhat exaggerated way. Note that to count as a subversion, the pig shouldn't just be clean; tidiness should be one of the main defining traits of its personality. There's also the so-called Babe Syndrome: the tendency of city folk who have never seen a live pig in the flesh to think that pigs are small and cute and pink and make good pets. While pigs are very intelligent and can be trained to do tricks and such, the average barnyard porker isn't particularly cuddly. They can also weigh up to a few hundred pounds and occasionally be quite aggressive. There are a few breeds bred specifically as pets, such as pot-bellied pigs, but even these require specialized care that most people cannot meet. For non-porcine characters who are messy as pigs, see The Pig-Pen. For another common pig-related trope, see Gluttonous Pig (and its Darker and Edgier subtrope, Fed to Pigs), along with Brainy Pig. For a trope related to boars, pigs' big and scary cousins, see Full-Boar Action. For pigs being figuratively dirty, see Perverted Pig. For domesticated pigs kept as pets, see Housepet Pig. |
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As a pig, Pig from Back at the Barnyard likes both himself and his stall dirty. In "Home Sweet Hole", after Otis accidentally destroys Pip's mouse hole and Pip keeps Otis up all night with his wild parties, Pip moves into Pig's stall, since Pig can sleep through anything. To thank Pig for being a wonderful host, Pip decides to clean his stall for him. Pig is horrified when he finds out about this, as it took him years to get it dirty, and he kicks Pip out. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Alluded to in one Sunday strip where the title pair are wallowing in a muddy puddle. Susie comes along and asks Calvin if she can play with them. When Calvin refuses and says they're doing very important business that an ignorant girl wouldn't understand, Susie compares him to a pig. Calvin is furious at this insult, which simply spurs Susie on further, saying she can see his curly pink tail and letting out mocking 'oink's. | |
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The Shaun the Sheep movie show us how messy the Pigs are when unsupervised once the Farmer is missing and the Pigs took his house. Of course when they see the Farmer coming back they have to clean all their mess quickly and Hilarity Ensues. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life: In "Unbalanced Load", Rocko sees all the dirty laundry in his bedroom and complains that the place is a pigsty. An angry pig eating pizza responds (in a distinct New Jersey accent) "You got a problem with that?" and is kicked out by Rocko. | |
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Discworld: Gouger, Snouter, Rooter, and Tusker, who pull the Hogfather's sleigh. The Hogfather himself was described as intensely smelly while in pig form, too. |
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Total Drama: A multistep dare Heather fulfills in "I Triple Dog Dare You!" is to have a bucket filled with pigsty mud dunked over her head. The bucket next serves as a helmet when she's loaded into a cannon and shot into the rest of the mud pile at pointblank range. Courtney hits a landmine during the race in "Chinese Fake-Out" and is knocked off the Great Wall of China right into a pigpen. She comes out covered in mud and goo, smelling awfully, and severely annoyed by the pigs' curiosity in their visitor. |
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In The Yum Yums, the Sourpusses are boar-like creatures who hate fun and love messing up the Yum Yums' sweet rides, with one of them taking special care to make sure a delicious candy river tastes disgusting. | |
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His Uncle Stinky from the Summer Vacation Movie plays this trope straight. | |
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The Rashberry species in Viva Piñata. Their house is covered in mud, and eat rotten food. And when you cross-romance them with their polar opposite — the perfect, dainty Swanana — you get something completely different. | |
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Kemono Friends: Domestic Pig inverts this. She loves cleaning things, based on the fact pigs are clean animals, and works as a housekeeper at a hotel. | |
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Generally averted in Peppa Pig, except for the Running Gag that "everyone likes jumping in muddy puddles". | |
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2 episodes of the 1999 version of Woody Woodpecker on Fox Kids features a pig character as an antagonist. | |
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In one episode of Ivick Von Salza: The Little Lumberjack, Malta decides to relax in a mud puddle, but refuses to wash the mud off afterwards. Ivick and Vigoras spend the episode trying to bathe her, but to no avail. In the end, Malta becomes clean after she falls into a puddle. | |
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The Lion King (1994): Pumbaa, though he's only smelly and farts/burps a lot. Then again, he's a warthog, not a domestic pig. You should call him "Mr. Pig". | |
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Animal Inn: Discussed in book 6 by Mr. Pollard, owner of a pig farm, who comments on how people think pigs are messy animals, but they really aren't — they roll around in the mud because it helps them keep cool. | |
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Gouger, Snouter, Rooter, and Tusker, who pull the Hogfather's sleigh. | |
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A variant regarding dead pigs in Saw III. The Pig Vat slowly drowns Halden in macerated, decomposing pig carcasses. | |
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Dennis the Menace (UK): Rasher, Dennis's pet pig, spends most of his time wallowing in mud, occasionally with sufficient force to send large waves of it towards other characters. He also eats large amounts of garbage. | |
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Invoked in U.S. Acres when Roy asked Orson why pigs were so messy, and he gestured at the mudhole and said "We bathe every day!" While this is Played for Laughs, it's true; mud-bathing does keep pigs clean. | |
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The villains of Mother 3 are based around pigs. They wear pig suits, their symbol is a pig snout, and their capital is even called "New Pork City". They're dirty because they wreak havok on the flora and fauna. | |
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This tradition can also be traced back to the Old Testament period of The Bible, notably the Book of Leviticus, which stated that several animals are considered unclean, including pig. This is abandoned in the New Testament, which states all foods to be edible and heavily condemns sects which forbids the consumption of some foods, notably in the Book of Timothy. | |
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The Warrens of Darkest Dungeon are filled with malicious man-sized pigs (and the occasional boar) living in their own filth and the remains of humans they've eaten. Justified in that they only physically resemble pigs; they are actually fleshy confines for creatures beyond understanding, who don't particularly care about their cleanliness. | |
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In C. W. McCall's "Convoy", Rubber Duck repeatedly complains about the odor of Pig Pen's truckload of hogs, insisting that the other trucker keep well ahead of him to minimize exposure. By the end of the song, Pig Pen's all the way back in Nebraska, while the rest of the convoy is in New Jersey. | |
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The pig-people from the Invader Zim episode "Gaz, Taster of Pork". Dib has to be used as their toilet brush… and heaven knows when the last time their communal toilet was scrubbed! | |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Hamton J. Pig is an aversion, as he's actually a Neat Freak. His Uncle Stinky from the Summer Vacation Movie plays this trope straight. |
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Roys Bedoys: Discussed in “Roys Bedoys & the Three Little Pigs”, where Maker and Wen are playing two of the Three Little Pigs and claim they are going to play in the mud. | |
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Pig from the comic strip Pearls Before Swine. While he may be messy, or not the sharpest tool in the shed, he's actually one of the nicest characters in the strip. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The pig that Manny and Susan accidentally win at the country fair and are stuck with, which they then leave at a petting zoo, then eventually come back for in The Long Haul. It becomes the family pet, though it's never named. By The Meltdown, it runs away over being excluded from the Heffleys' trip in the previous book The Getaway. | |
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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: Aphrodite transforms a pig into a woman. She still think like a pig and dove into the mud in one scene. The episode before that has Hercules turned into a pig and he rolls in a mud puddle. |
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In Astro City story "Pastoral", Cammie sends an email to a friend in the city with a comment about how unpleasant real pigs are. | |
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While Piglet from Winnie the Pooh is much less messy than other examples, it is still made clear in one story that he Hates Baths. | |
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Normally averted with Mabel's pet pig Waddles on Gravity Falls. However, when a "Freaky Friday" Flip swaps the minds of Soos and Waddles, Soos goes out and finds a mud puddle; "Do I dare live out the cliché?" | |
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