Three Little Bops
| Three Little Bops | |
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| Production company | Warner Bros. Cartoons |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures The Vitaphone Corporation |
| Release date | January 5, 1957 |
| Run time | 6:43 |
| Starring | Stan Freberg |
| Narrated by | Stan Freberg |
| Producer(s) | Edward Selzer |
| Music composed by | Shorty Rogers |
| Story by | Warren Foster |
| Animation | Gerry Chiniquy Bob Matz |
| Director(s) | Friz Freleng |
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Three Little Bops is the three hundred and sixty-ninth Looney Tunes theatrical short. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and The Vitaphone Corporation on January 5, 1957. It was written by Warren Foster, produced by Edward Selzer, and directed by Friz Freleng.
The Three Little Pigs are a hip jazz band known as the "Three Little Bops," who perform regularly at nightclubs. The Big Bad Wolf – a square trumpet player – attempts to join the group with backfiring results.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Narrator: Remember the story of Three Little Pigs? One played pipe while the others danced digs. The Three Little Pigs were still around, but the music they played was the modern sound.
Narrator: The Three Little Pigs were really gassed, They’d never heard such a corny blast.
Drummer pig: We've played in the west.
Pianist pig: We've played in the east.
Guitarist pig: We've heard the most, but you're the least!
Narrator: Well, the Big Bad Wolf was really mad. wanted to play music and he wanted to play bad.
Big Bad Wolf: They stopped me before I could go to town. So I’ll huff and puff and blow their house down!
Pianist pig: The Big Bad Wolf, he learned the rule: ya gotta get hot to get real cool.
Characters
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Locations
Objects
- The Three Little Pigs
- Banana peel
- Plunger
- Dart
- TNT canister
- Cauldron
- Three Little Pigs Plus One
Production
Development
Filming
It was copyrighted in 1956 (MCMLVI).
Music
The music was composed by jazz composer/trumpeter Shorty Rogers,[1] while "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" opening title was done by Milt Franklyn.
Crew credits
- Layouts: Hawley Pratt
- Backgrounds: Irv Wyner
- Film editor: Treg Brown
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: January 5, 1957 in theatres
Behind the scenes
- The MPAA certificate number is 17902.
- It is one of two Warner Bros. Cartoons shorts to feature on-screen credits to an actor other than Mel Blanc, during a period of Blanc's exclusivity contract for the studio; the other one is A Mouse That Built Jack, which featured the cast of The Jack Benny Program (in addition to Blanc).
- It is one of the few Warner Bros. shorts the doesn't end with the "That's all folks!" tagline. It ends abruptly with just an iris out and the words "The End" on-screen.
Errors
- The lobby card of the short calls the title "The Three Little Bops", although "The" is not present in the title card.
Everlasting Influence
- The short was featured in slightly edited format in the third act of The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie, with brief interviews of the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs during the pre-show.
- The short's version of the Big Bad Wolf made an appearance in Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island, as one of the people standing in line of the wishing well.
- The Three Little Pigs and the Wolf of this short made cameo as one the bleachers in Space Jam.
Critical reception
In other languages
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Home availability
- In the United States:
References
- ↑ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 294. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
