Talk:The Three Little Pigs

message: Hey!  There's no spoiler warning!  I was innocently reading along, and suddenly, the whole plot was revealed!  Ortolan88
:This article is about a story which is too simplistic to rate a "spoiler" warning. There isn't much of a plot. KillerChihuahua?!? 00:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I see someone added a spoiler warning. I couldn't believe there's a spoiler warning on a story like 3 little pigs. Is there anyone on earth over the age of 5 who doesn't already know the story by heart??? Cypherswipe 21:57, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "I read somewhere" that this story actually started out as a government-sponsored handbill in England back in the 1600s.  The Great Fire of London had just happened and the government was trying to build support for a law requiring all new buildings in town to be of brick or stone (such a law actually was enacted). -- Cranston Lamont 22:50, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Some quick searching on google and google books didn't net me a reliable source for this. —Bunchofgrapes  (talk) 23:30, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's why it's in the talk section and not in the article. -- Cranston Lamont 03:30, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep :-) Well, it had be a great fact fr the article if it were verifiable, anyway. —Bunchofgrapes  (talk) 04:26, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: (old)

message: he huffed and he puffed and he blew his house 'in'
i am really sure that it is blew his house 'Down'
: The passage you're referring to doesn't cite a specific version of the story, so your question can't be answered either way. Since it's a quote, I suppose it should get a "citation needed" tag. GMcGath 21:24, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Every version I've heard uses 'in'. 'Down' wouldn't rhyme. The house is blown 'in', because the walls are blown 'in', causing it to crumple and collapse. To me, blowing down suggests a tall house that fell over with the force of the wind. Skittle 14:06, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are you sure that it is... 

message: "In the online Chinese idioms dictionary in Taiwan, there had had one of the idioms called "三隻小豬" (Three Little Pigs). However, after found and reported by some news channel, it has been removed."
This makes absolutely no sense to me. Anyone know what it's talking about? Skittle 14:32, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed 'works influenced' sentence 

message: I heard recently that the story is allegorical to some sort of political situation in Germany, but I haven't been able to find any further information on this other than a vague reference. Does anyone know anything about this? If true, I think it would be worth including in the article as it would give the story some depth beyond a mere children's tale. croll 14:40, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Allegorical? 

message: The article mentions when the tale may have originated, but does not mention in what country it originated. Someone should include this information in the article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.27.119.90 (talk) 04:38, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origins of tale 

message: Someone please explain how on earth this helps? Stop it please!--Docg 00:25, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not by the hair on my chinnie-chin-chin! --Tony Sidaway 00:29, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Looks like fallout from Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Policies/Wikipedia:Spoiler warning.  But seriously folks, I think Three Little Pigs is past the statute of limitations on spoilers.
TWO HOUSES DESTROYED, LOCAL PROWLER KILLED. MAYOR CALLS LATEST HUFFING INCIDENT "FAMILIAR". InedibleHulk (talk) 08:24, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  {spoiler} 

message: This fable (in a modified form) was also used as propaganda against nazism.This site: [] has this cartoon with this fable used as a tool against Adolf Hitler.In fact Hitler is the bad wolf in this fable. Agre22 (talk) 14:41, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually the fairy tale itself is an example of hidden fascist propaganda.
dumb  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.78.116.12 (talk) 19:02, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Used as a propaganda against nazism

message: How about a section discussing the perceived morals from the story? I would like to propose a few:
- Share what you have with those in need.
- Love thy neighbour as your own
- If you live in an area which is populated by wolves who constantly attempt to blow down houses, make sure you live in a house made of bricks. (62.56.97.86 (talk) 01:04, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Great, do you have a reliable source you can cite which discusses these lessons, or do you intend to just insert your own original ideas as to what those morals should be? --Jayron32.talk.contribs 01:24, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Morals 

message: Does anyone still remember that rock song based on the Three Litle Pigs? The one with the claymation video shown on MTV? If anyone can find any references to it, please include that in--Alphapeta (talk) 01:39, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops, sorry...found it.--Alphapeta (talk) 01:43, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Three Litle Pigs in popular culture 

message: I am surprised that only Disney was cited as a produced film version, when Looney Tunes also produced a version using the Hungarian dance musical.  MPA 21:04, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Looney Tunes? 

message: "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. [...]
The third pig builds a house of hard bricks and when he sees his brothers he lets them in. [...]
Retellings of the story sometimes omit the attempts to trick the third pig, or state that the first pig ran to the second pig's house, and then both of them ran to the third pig's house of bricks. The latter is often an attempt to write out death or violence in the story"
It seems the retelling where both pigs run to the brick house is the only one that made it into the article in its current form. If this isn't the original story then that should be changed. --Mudd1 (talk) 14:35, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original story has been messed with? 

message: The second sentence (quote): "Printed versions date back to the 1840s, but the story itself is thought to be much older."
The lead should summarize but the earliest date in the article is 1881 (Uncle Remus version) and the History section begins c1886. If I glance correctly, there is no allusion to any 1840s edition and essentially no discussion of its traditional status ("much older"). 
Some preceding Talk is pertinent. --P64 (talk) 19:05, 19 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Or you could just fix it. Unsourced is unsourced. Less huff, more puff! InedibleHulk (talk) 08:29, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: History

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thread_title:  [[:File:Three little pigs 1904 straw house.jpg]] to appear as POTD soon 

message: The three little pigs are also in the movie "March of the Wooden Soldiers" starring Laurel and Hardy. They go by the names of Elmer, Willie, and Jiggs.
JohnSHicks (talk) 12:47, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Refered to in March of the Wooden Soldiers 

message: Yesterday's anonymous revision is almost null but the edit summary mentions publication in the August 1879 Wide Awake (publ. Daniel Lothrop), which is earlier than any particular publication we cite. 
"Printed versions date back to the 1840s", we say in the WP:LEAD but do not support. The entire second half of the lead paragraph evidently belongs rather in the body of the article, with support. --P64 (talk) 18:34, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wide Awake, August 1879 

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message: The truth is that thewolfde had foresight and knowledge and the capability; devided the pigs separately worked toward their own peril, manipulated by External Forces - the same force which twist and warp history and Story in to their own planned devices - all for huberis and greed. 
In to one house commanded thewolfde, or the end of you will come. And so I will, even without their cooperation. Thewolfde (talk) 15:05, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: What do you know, you were right, we all went home together. InedibleHulk (talk) 04:55, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The truth