Three Little Pigs

Three Little Pigs is a fairy tale featuring anthropomorphic animals. Printed versions date back to the 1840s, but the story itself is thought to be much older. The phrases used in the story, and the various morals which can be drawn from it, have become enshrined in western culture.

The Three Little Pigs was included in The nursery rhymes of England (London and New York, c.1886), by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps. The story in its arguably best-known form appeared in English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, first published in 1890 and crediting Halliwell as his source. The story begins with the title characters being sent out into the world by their mother, to "seek their fortune". The first little pig builds a house of straw, but a wolf blows it down and the pig runs to his brother's house. The second pig builds a house of sticks and when he sees his brother he lets him in, with the same ultimate result. Each exchange between wolf and pig features ringing proverbial phrases, namely:

"Little pig, little pig, let me come in."
"No, no, not by the hair on my chinny chin chin."
"Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house down."

'Three Little Pigs' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Donkey's Christmas Shrektacular (2010)

Actors: Cameron Diaz (actress), Eddie Murphy (actor), Mike Myers (actor), Conrad Vernon (actor), Antonio Banderas (actor), Jon Hamm (actor), Cody Cameron (actor), Cody Cameron (actor), Aron Warner (actor), Mark Moseley (miscellaneous crew), Daniel Inkeles (miscellaneous crew), William Steig (writer), Walt Dohrn (actor), Walt Dohrn (writer), Walt Dohrn (director),

Plot: Donkey suggests everyone sing Christmas carols. Donkey sings "It's the Most Wonderful Time". Shrek, Fiona, the Ogre children, and the army of ogres sing an ogre version of "Jingle Bells" (i.e. "Bug Cocoon, Lick the spoon. Try our cricket slurp). Puss in Boots sings "Feliz Navidad", although he titles it "Fleas Navidad". Then everyone sings "Jingle Bell Rock", but they title it "Fairy Tale Rock".

Keywords: christmas
Genres: Animation, Family, Short,

Shrek 4-D (2003)

Actors: Jeffrey Katzenberg (producer), Cameron Diaz (actress), Mike Myers (actor), John Lithgow (actor), Eddie Murphy (actor), Harry Gregson-Williams (composer), Philip R. Garrett (miscellaneous crew), Conrad Vernon (actor), Cody Cameron (actor), Cody Cameron (actor), Christopher Knights (actor), Christopher Knights (actor), Paul Cuoco (miscellaneous crew), William Steig (writer), Michael Cutler (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey are on their way to the hotel where Shrek and Fiona will spend their honeymoon when they encounter Lord Farquaad's ghost! Farquaad sends his henchman, Thelonious, to bring Princess Fiona to him where he will force her to become the queen of the ghostly world. Now, Shrek and Donkey must save the princess in this timeless tale that's filled with spooky-good fun

Keywords: 3-dimensional, 3d-sequel-to-2d-film, blind, character-name-in-title, comic-sidekick, computer-animation, digit-in-title, donkey, dragon, dreamworks-animated-film
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Short,

Quotes:

Donkey: We got a donkey driving a carriage made from an onion, it's dark, and our horses are wearing sunglasses. Hit it, boys!

Donkey: [after farquad grabs his tail] Uhhh, Shrek, I feel dead people.::Shrek: [trying to scare him] Don't tell me you have the willies, the shakes, the trembles, the heeeeeeeebie jeeeeeeebies.

Ghost of Farquaad: You might as well stop struggling, Princess. Soon you and I will be together forever. With you as my spirit-queen, I'll be King of the Underworld.::Princess Fiona: Over my dead body.::Ghost of Farquaad: Exactly.

Three Little Bops (1957)

Actors: Treg Brown (editor), Stan Freberg (actor), Stan Freberg (actor), Edward Selzer (producer), Warren Foster (writer), Stan Freberg (actor), Friz Freleng (director), Shorty Rogers (composer),

Plot: Three hip, Little Pigs are travelling entertainers, moving from straw to wood, to brick nightclubs, playing swinging tunes for high-class, "with it" crowds, but an uncool Big Bad Wolf keeps intruding on their act with with his "corny horn" and uses it to blow their nightclubs down when they throw him out- until they are playing in their brick club and the Wolf tries a more drastic, explosive method for destroying the "House of Bricks".

Keywords: banana-peel, battering-ram, cartoon-pig, cartoon-wolf, disguise, hell, jazz, looney-tunes, nightclub, number-in-title
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Family, Musical, Short,

Quotes:

Piano Pig: [the Big Bad Wolf goes to Hell and plays the trumpet well] The Big Bad Wolf, he learned the rule: / Ya gotta be hot to play real cool!

Wolf: I'll show those pigs that I'm not stuck. If I can't blow it down, I'll blow it up.

1st Pig: We've played in the west.::2nd Pig: We've played in the east.::3rd Pig: We've heard the most, but you're the least.

Narrator: Well, the Big Bad Wolf was really gone / And with him went his corny horn / Went out of this world without a trace / Didn't go to Heaven, was the other place.

Narrator: [singing] Well, the piano-playing pig was swinging like a gate / Doing Liberace on the eighty-eights.::Piano Pig: [imitating Liberace] I wish my brother, George, was here!

The Turn-Tale Wolf (1952)

Actors: Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Edward Selzer (producer), Tedd Pierce (writer), Carl W. Stalling (composer), Robert McKimson (director), Treg Brown (editor),

Plot: The Big Bad Wolf's proper little nephew has learned at school that his uncle was the fiend who blew the Three Little Pigs' houses down and is ashamed that his uncle, flesh of his flesh and blood of his blood, could have committed such a deed. When confronted by his nephew with this information, Big Bad pleads innocent. He tells a quite different story of how he was an innocent, nature-loving kid tormented by Three sadistic Little Pigs, who, upon reading of a 50 dollar bounty for a wolf's tail, chased him home and blew his house down!

Keywords: axe, big-bad-wolf, breaking-the-fourth-wall, cartoon-pig, cartoon-wolf, flashback, guillotine, merrie-melodies, pig, slingshot
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Family, Short,

'Three Little Pigs' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Donkey's Christmas Shrektacular (2010)

Shrek 4-D (2003)

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Three Little Bops (1957)

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The Turn-Tale Wolf (1952)

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