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The Three Little Pigs

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The Three Little Pigs	comment	The Three Little Pigs is a landmark animated short film released on May 27, 1933. It was produced by Walt Disney (though distributed through United Artists). Based on the fairy tale of the same name, Three Little Pigs won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons. In addition to critical acclaim, the cartoon was a smash hit, so much so that it was still running in theaters months after its debut, and became Disney's biggest financial success. To this day, it remains the single most successful animated short ever made.Animator Chuck Jones said, "That was the first time that anybody ever brought characters to life [in an animated cartoon]. They were three characters who looked alike and acted differently". The film is also notable for being the first animated short to be musically scored like a feature, rather than the standard cartoon scores of the time, which tended to be stitched together from staple songs.A few follow-up shorts were made in the following years, but none of them ever matched the original in popularity. The characters also made appearances in other Disney media, including many comic books, which gave the Big Bad Wolf the name "Zeke" and also starred his White Sheep son, Li'l Bad Wolf, who was friends with the three pigs and would often stop his father's schemes from trying to eat them.In 2007, The Three Little Pigs was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".Has no relation to the 1995 feature-length animated musical adaptation, The 3 Little Pigs: The Movie.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Three Little Pigs / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: In The Big Bad Wolf, when Red says, "Grandma, what a big nose you've got", the Wolf does an imitation of Jimmy Durante.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_14e41a53	type	A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
The Three Little Pigs / int_14e41a53	comment	A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: The wolf pretends to be an orphaned sheep to get the first two pigs to open the door. It doesn't work, which arouses his blustery wrath.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Three Little Pigs / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The characters' names are given in supplemental material of the shorts, but not in the actual cartoons.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_1994ba0b	type	Gone Horribly Right
The Three Little Pigs / int_1994ba0b	comment	Gone Horribly Right: The Practical Pig's lie detector works a little too well, as he learns the hard way while admonishing Fifer and Fiddler: "This hurts me worse than it does you."
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The Three Little Pigs / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
The Three Little Pigs / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: Three Little Wolves has "Li'l Pigs Is Good To Eat", where the Big Bad Wolf waxes harmonic about all the delicious things made from pigs.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Three Little Pigs / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: A literal example, as the Big Bad Wolf becomes the father of three cubs, as seen in Three Little Wolves and The Practical Pig, the cubs having just as big a taste for pig as their pop.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Three Little Pigs / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: There are two pictures on Practical's wall labeled "Mother" and "Father". "Mother" shows a picture of a sow with a bunch of piglets. "Father" shows a string of sausage. And "Uncle Otto" is a football.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_2260cfe3	type	Like Father, Like Son
The Three Little Pigs / int_2260cfe3	comment	Like Father, Like Son: Both the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Wolves are evil scheming wolves interested in eating the pigs.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_255cc9bd	type	Nephewism
The Three Little Pigs / int_255cc9bd	comment	Nephewism: Averted. The Li'l Wolves are stated to be Zeke's sons.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Three Little Pigs / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: A picture of sausage links on Practical's wall is labeled "Father". Another picture labeled "Uncle" shows a football.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
The Three Little Pigs / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Practical outwits the wolf in every way.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_35fb9016	type	Gratuitous German
The Three Little Pigs / int_35fb9016	comment	Gratuitous German: The Wolf's song "Little Pigs Is Good to Eat" from Three Little Wolves is based on the German folk song "Schnitzelbank". Also doubles as Rule of Symbolism in that the wolf in that short was meant to be a parallel to Hitler in various ways.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_383fe1b8	type	Embarrassing Old Photo
The Three Little Pigs / int_383fe1b8	comment	Embarrassing Old Photo: In a 1946 comic story, the Big Bad Wolf is trying to show his son in a photo album how being bad has run in his family for a long time. But then they come across a picture of when he himself was young, dressed in a stereotypical "good boy" sailor suit with a flower and a pull-string pig toy, with "Our Little Zeke" written on it. Naturally, Li'l Bad Wolf has a good laugh about this.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_3b4b7b79	type	Ass in a Lion Skin
The Three Little Pigs / int_3b4b7b79	comment	Ass in a Lion Skin: The wolf becomes (literally) A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
The Three Little Pigs / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: One of the Big Bad Wolf's favorite methods. Fifer and Fiddler Pig usually fall for this, but unusually not in the first short where he tried disguising himself as a lamb while wearing a sheepskin.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
The Three Little Pigs / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: In the Sing Along Songs video series, this happens during Fifer Pig's and Fiddler Pig's song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf". During the moment when the Big Bad Wolf finally appears before them, the lyrics start wobbling and developing Flop Sweat at the same time as the pigs' Oh, Crap! moment.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_505ff63	type	Bag of Kidnapping
The Three Little Pigs / int_505ff63	comment	Bag of Kidnapping: The Wolf captures Fiddler and Fifer Pig with this method in "The Practical Pig" after first luring them over with his mermaid disguise and then scooping them up in a net, he later tries to do the same to Practical Pig, but Practical sees through his disguise and turns the tables on him with his trapdoor and puts him through his lie detector machine.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_51a12a6f	type	Hong Kong Dub
The Three Little Pigs / int_51a12a6f	comment	Weirdly, current European releases, plus one Japanese LaserDisc release, restore the footage of the original Jewish peddler disguise but continue to use the redubbed audio, resulting in a clear lack of lip sync.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_55af5099	type	Rube Goldberg Device
The Three Little Pigs / int_55af5099	comment	Rube Goldberg Device: Practical became quite fond of these in the follow-up shorts.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_580be152	type	Adaptational Modesty
The Three Little Pigs / int_580be152	comment	Adaptational Modesty: The theme park costumes of Fifer and Fiddler Pig are Barefoot Cartoon Animals like Practical Pig instead of Half-Dressed Cartoon Animals.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_64f3ea6e	type	Disneyfication
The Three Little Pigs / int_64f3ea6e	comment	Disneyfication: In Disney's version, the first two pigs manage to escape the Wolf after he destroys their houses, and they seek refuge in Practical's house. Several other retellings of the story, such as the Richard Scarry version, also went with this.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_669c4caa	type	Produce Pelting
The Three Little Pigs / int_669c4caa	comment	Produce Pelting: In Three Little Wolves, Practical Pig, disguised as an Italian peddler, offers the Wolf a tomato as a free sample. The Wolf says "Free sample? Well, let me have it." And Practical does. Right in the face.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_6a4f3cf7	type	Took a Level in Dumbass
The Three Little Pigs / int_6a4f3cf7	comment	Took a Level in Dumbass: Fifer and Fiddler in the sequels, not only suffering from instant Aesop Amnesia but also completely falling for tricks and disguises of the sort they were able to see through at once in the first cartoon.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Three Little Pigs / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: In the original fairy tale, the first two pigs are killed and eaten by the wolf — who, in turn, is killed by the boiling pot, while in the short the two pigs manage to save themselves by going to the remaining pig's brick house and the wolf flees the house in pain after burning his butt with boiling water and turpentine.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_76b05d16	type	Spotlight-Stealing Title
The Three Little Pigs / int_76b05d16	comment	Spotlight-Stealing Title: The cartoon was such a hit that many cinemas took to billing it higher than the feature presentation!
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The Three Little Pigs / int_78d0ebcf	type	Crying Wolf
The Three Little Pigs / int_78d0ebcf	comment	Crying Wolf: Part of the plot of Three Little Wolves. Fifer and Fiddler discover their brother's wolf alarm (a horn) and start blowing it, ignoring his warnings that overusing it may cause him to ignore an actual alarm which he does when they're captured by the wolf. The only reason Practical goes to rescue them at the end is that they trick the wolf into blowing the alarm with his powerful breath.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_7b454a57	type	White Sheep
The Three Little Pigs / int_7b454a57	comment	White Sheep: Li'l Bad Wolf, who, unlike his dad, is friendly with the pigs and often protects them from his dad's appetite.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_7c4f6612	type	Comic-Book Adaptation
The Three Little Pigs / int_7c4f6612	comment	Comic-Book Adaptation: There are many comics starring the characters, usually focusing on Zeke Wolf's never-ending schemes to catch the pigs.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_85b1e741	type	Creepy Crossdresser
The Three Little Pigs / int_85b1e741	comment	Creepy Crossdresser: In Three Little Wolves and The Practical Pig. The former has the Big Bad Wolf disguise himself as Bo Peep, while the latter has him dress up like a mermaid, all to catch two unsuspecting pigs in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_8841192a	type	Like Father, Unlike Son
The Three Little Pigs / int_8841192a	comment	Like Father, Unlike Son: Unlike his father, Li'l Bad Wolf is kind-hearted, doesn't seem interested in eating the pigs, is on good terms with them, and antagonizes his dad when he tries to eat them.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Three Little Pigs / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: Practical does this to the Big Bad Wolf every time, resulting in his defeat. This is most prevalent in later shorts, where Practical invents machines (a Wolf Pacifier in Three Little Wolves and a Lie Detector in The Practical Pig) designed especially to torture the wolf should he ever get caught in it.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_8fe62fe3	type	Popping Buttons
The Three Little Pigs / int_8fe62fe3	comment	Popping Buttons: The Wolf pops the buttons on his overalls when he huffs and puffs, causing his pants to fall down.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_91ba819e	type	Chimney Entry
The Three Little Pigs / int_91ba819e	comment	Chimney Entry: At the end of the first short the wolf tries to enter the brick house like this, but falls into a cauldron full of boiling water and turpentine that the pig had prepared at the bottom for him, sending the agonizing wolf back to the top of the chimney, resulting in him giving up.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Three Little Pigs / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: In The Three Little Pigs, after the wolf's Fuller Brush Man disguise (or Jewish peddler disguise, depending on when or where you see the film) fails. In the process, he loses all his clothes and reverts to a normal wolf.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_97928805	type	Barefoot Cartoon Animal
The Three Little Pigs / int_97928805	comment	Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Practical Pig and the Big Bad Wolf in the original short and its spin-offs. Li'l Bad Wolf also falls under this category.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_9874f2ab	type	All Work vs. All Play
The Three Little Pigs / int_9874f2ab	comment	All Work vs. All Play: Practical's All Work while his brothers, Fiddler and Fifer, are All Play.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_9ccedbed	type	Single-Minded Twins
The Three Little Pigs / int_9ccedbed	comment	Single-Minded Twins: Subverted. Fifer and Fiddler aren't twins, yet they have the exact same personality and tend to speak in unison.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_a236dd4c	type	Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal
The Three Little Pigs / int_a236dd4c	comment	Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Fifer and Fiddler only wear shirts and hats.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
The Three Little Pigs / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: The three little wolves as they want to eat the pigs and scheme like his dad.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Three Little Pigs / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: (Duh!)
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The Three Little Pigs / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
The Three Little Pigs / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Whereas Fifer and Fiddler are usually the ones to fall for the Wolf's lies, in the first short it's the other way around, with Practical deliberately falling for the Wolf's Fuller Brush Man disguise so he can demonstrate the security of his brick house even before the Wolf threatens to huff and puff and blow his house in.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_ab497c22	type	Predators Are Mean
The Three Little Pigs / int_ab497c22	comment	Predators Are Mean: The Wolf wants to blow down the pigs' houses and eat them.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_ae372576	type	I Warned You
The Three Little Pigs / int_ae372576	comment	I Warned You: Practical warns Fifer and Fiddler about the Wolf early on, but they laugh him off. But when the Wolf blows down their straw and stick houses, they flee to the safety of Practical's brick house, where he chides them in rhyme:
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The Three Little Pigs / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Three Little Pigs / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Practical doesn't have time to sing and dance while working on his house, a fact that he recites as a song verse while bouncing to its rhythm. Fifer and Fiddler like to think they're not afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, but they panic and hide whenever they become aware of his presence. Practical has a little fun with this at the end, knocking on his piano to imitate the Wolf knocking on the door and making his brothers run for cover one last time.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_b7b1aa73	type	And Then What?
The Three Little Pigs / int_b7b1aa73	comment	And Then What?: A comic story in which the Wolf finally catches the pigs and sends him through this.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_b8e2b4b7	type	Bravado Song
The Three Little Pigs / int_b8e2b4b7	comment	Bravado Song: Before facing The Big Bad Wolf head-on and losing their confidence, the first two little pigs sing a song called "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?", about how they don't fear him.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_c1d57cf7	type	"The Villain Sucks" Song
The Three Little Pigs / int_c1d57cf7	comment	"The Villain Sucks" Song: "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
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The Three Little Pigs / int_c335b301	type	Cute Little Fangs
The Three Little Pigs / int_c335b301	comment	Cute Little Fangs: Li'l Bad Wolf in the self-titled cartoon short.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_d238fd9d	comment	Shapeshifting Excludes Clothing: The Big Bad Wolf on two legs becomes enraged at not being able to enter the brick house of the third little pig. In a Villainous Breakdown, Animorphism kicks in. Gloves and his hat fly off, and desperate breaths to blow the brick house down break his suspenders. Ultimately, he steps out of his pants, completely naked, and acting fully like a wild four-legged wolf for the rest of the cartoon.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
The Three Little Pigs / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: The Big Bad Wolf falls to this several times. Practical also ends up falling to this at the end of The Practical Pig: when his brothers are being punished by his Lie Detector, he claims "This hurts me more than it does you..." and the Lie Detector reacts accordingly.
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The Three Little Pigs / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: The pigs went through this in the sequels. The All Work vs. All Play dynamic gets taken up to eleven, with Fifer and Fiddler becoming totally incapable of taking anything seriously, displaying Aesop Amnesia several times in the same single cartoon, and completely losing whatever intelligence and competence they had (see Took a Level in Dumbass below). Practical, meanwhile, became not only a Gadgeteer Genius but also a self-righteous workaholic who couldn't string two sentences together without admonishing the other two or giving an I Warned You speech. This was, however, reversed in the comics, where the pigs would work together and get along more often than not — Practical's Gadgeteer Genius trait remained, and he was still usually the most level-headed of the pigs who was least likely to fall for Zeke Wolf's schemes, but his self-righteousness was dropped, and he became more willing to take a break and relax once in a while. Fifer and Fiddler were still mainly the goof-offs but were actually willing to listen to reason and would occasionally display some Hidden Depths.
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