Disney’s successful Silly Symphony, 1933’s Three Little Pigs, led to three little sequels. The third, The Practical Pig, first danced onto screens on this day in 1939. When the pig who built the wolf-proof house is working on his latest practical invention, a lie detector, the other two pigs laugh and make sport of the clever swine. Despite the Practical Pig’s warning, the two go swimming and are soon captured by the Big Bad Wolf and brought home to his sons, who first appeared in 1936’s Three Little Wolves. The wolves pop the pigs into a crust, hoping to make a pork pie and wolf it down.
