The Messed Up Origins of The Three Little Pigs | Disney Explained - Jon Solo

Everyone has seen Disney's The Three Little Pigs... but how many have read the ORIGINAL tale by James Halliwell-Phillips? It's MUCH weirder than Disney's version and contains a TWIST ending that's guaranteed to shock you... ಠ_ಠ

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[icysquid]

"Disguised as a... **deep sigh"*

[sassynessislife]

Fun fact: The part about blowing down houses originated from wolves’ howls.

[-_--nvpe]

The “messed up” version is the story I was told when I was younger 🤷‍♂️

[zerofuku]

"Since dave doesn't want to waste food he proceeds to eat it."

Well kids, that's what you call circle of life.

[mosshivenetwork]

In my school, the "original" 3 little pigs story had the wolf actually being a nice guy and the only reason he blew the houses down was because he sneezed. He ate the pigs because they died when he blew the houses down.

[imaqtat]

Jon Solo: " Disguised as a...*deep sigh*
Me: *hits subscribe button*

[SaltyWound]

"Eyes, skin, lungs or soul." *SOUL?!*

[melindabond]

Then Dave ate his brothers when he ate the wolf.... *gags*

[candiigurl]

That "Father" portrait gets me every time. 😩😂

[papaG]

If the wolf ate the 2 pigs, and Dave ate the wolf, then Dave basically ate his digested brothers.

[learningwithlaila]

“Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf” was straight FIRE

[lexxisaur]

When I was a kid I had this book called "The real story of the three pigs" it was from the perspective of the wolf and explained that he wasn't really a bad guy, just misunderstood and had a cold.

[RyuB]

Oh, I remember when I was in kindergarden, our teacher asked us to re-write this tale! We only changed the end, in which the three pigs cutted the wolf in pieces *alive* and then put it in sandwiches to eat him in a picnic.
We were a lovely group.

[alexxxhofman]

Anybody else always groove out to the Disney Explained opening theme?? Lmao

[jhet]

You forgot that when Dave was playing the piano his head turns around 180 degrees like a ghost

[TwoCentReview]

I think that the supernatural lung capacity is linked to howling. As in, to be that loud they would need a really good set of lungs and it’s just an exaggeration of that trait.

[KKLaurelye]

The reason behind the Wolf's supernatural lung capacity is probably the wolf's ability to howl. People often came up with really weird answers to any questions they had, like the idea of the four humours and such.

[maggielong]

"Who we're also gonna call Dave because I think it's funny" Me too, Jon. Me too.

[SonicJrandSarah]

I had wondered how the first version of the Three Little Pigs had gone. I had seen many versions where sometimes Pigs 1 and 2 will live and sometimes they will get eaten by the wolf. I guess whoever did the adaptations where Pigs 1 and 2 are not eaten probably didn't want to upset any children or didn't like killing off good guys. As it just so happens, the whole part where the wolf tries to get Pig 3 to go out with Pig 3 waking up earlier than the wolf, with the butter churn at the end, I have only seen one other version of the story that brings in those parts. I don't know who made that version, but after watching this, I now know that version was the closest adaptation to the original story that I have ever seen.

I think that Pigs 1 and 2's houses getting blown down by the wolf was a good message to teach kids that work pays off. You can either not work and face the consequences later, or do work and be safe in the end. But what Pig 3 was doing with the Big Bad Wolf in the original story sounds more like there wasn't a lesson to be learned, the pig just already knew what to do to outsmart the wolf.

[darrylmallard]

Actually, the second version was actually the one my mother read to me as a kid. The first two pigs definitely got eaten and then the real story began as the wolf tried various ways to get the pig out of the house.