The Practical Pig
| The Practical Pig | |
|---|---|
| Silly Symphonies series | |
| Directed by | Dick Rickard |
| Produced by | Walt Disney |
| Story by | Larry Clemmons |
| Voices by |
Billy Bletcher Pinto Colvig Dorothy Compton Mary Moder |
| Music by |
Frank Churchill Paul J. Smith |
| Animation by |
Preston Blair Ollie Johnston John Lounsbery Frank Thomas |
| Layouts by | Thor Putnam |
| Studio | Walt Disney Productions |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
| Release date(s) |
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| Color process | Technicolor |
| Running time | 8 Minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Practical Pig is a Silly Symphonies cartoon. It was released on February 24, 1939, and directed by Dick Rickard. It was the second-to-last Silly Symphony made, and the fourth and final cartoon starring The Three Pigs. Like its prequels, "The Practical Pig" incorporates the song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?". Unlike the previous Three Little Pigs Silly Symphonies, this was released as a standalone "Three Little Pigs Cartoon", suggesting that they were to get their own series of cartoons.
While Practical Pig is hard at work building a new anti-Wolf contraption, this time a lie detector, his two brothers Fiddler and Fifer Pig laugh at him and decide to go swimming despite their brother's warning not to as the Wolf is lurking near the local pond. Oblivious to their danger, they are followed to the lake by the Big Bad Wolf, who disguises himself as a voluptuous mermaid to entice them and then traps them in a net.
While the Wolf plans to entrap Practical Pig as well using a fake letter requesting help by his brothers, he tells his sons, the Three Little Wolves not to eat until he captured Practical. They then lie that they'll wait until the Wolf returns with Practical. But as soon as he leaves, they prepare to make Fiddler & Fifer into a pie.
The Wolf's messenger boy disguise is seen through when he blows the fake letter under Practical's door and the latter sees an excellent chance to try out his new invention. The welcome mat drops in beneath the Wolf's feet, and he falls, screaming, into the pit below. He is next seen strapped into a chair in Practical's house, helpless against the technology of the resourceful. When interrogated by Practical about the whereabouts of his brothers, the Wolf first claims to have never heard of the two missing pigs and the lie detector goes into action; a needle on the machine's indicator points to "LIE", two steam whistles blow in the manner of a wolf-whistle to signify the claim as such and the machine washes the Wolf's mouth out with soap. Then the Wolf claims to have not seen the two pigs and he gets a spanking from the lie detector. Lastly, the Wolf tries to fool the machine into thinking he and Practical are "pals" but the lie detector is able to detect that as a lie and the Wolf ends up getting the works (with his mouth washed out and a spanking, as well as having his knuckles whacked with rulers).
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