The Three Little Pups

Love animation, it was a big part of my life as a child, particularly Disney, Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry, and still love it whether it's film, television or cartoons.

Also have much admiration for Tex Avery, an animation genius whose best cartoons are animated masterpieces and some of the best he ever did. Generally like the Droopy cartoons and the character himself a lot, his best cartoons are classics and among Avery's best. Both are true for 'The Three Little Pups', one of many variations of the old 'The Three Little Pigs' story but one of the best, funniest and most imaginative along with Friz Freleng's 'The Three Little Bops' from 1957.

Droopy, as usual, is so well established in personality and is high on the humour and charisma scale. Stealing the cartoon from under him is the uproariously funny but also subtly menacing dog catcher, up there as one of the best adversaries in a Droopy cartoon.

Typically, Avery (returning after Dick Lundy did a surprisingly good job with the still very good 'Caballero Droopy', that just suffered from inevitable comparison to the previous Avery cartoons so lacked the unique wildness and wackiness, while still being very well made and funny) does a wonderful job directing, with his unique, unlike-any-other visual and characteristic and incredibly distinctive wacky humour style all over it as can be expected.

Once again there is nothing sadistic or repetitious, instead it's imaginative and hilarious (especially that razor sharp in wit dialogue). It is no surprise either that the animation is superb. The character designs are unique, Avery always did have creative character designs, and suitably fluid. The music, courtesy of Scott Bradley, is lushly and cleverly orchestrated, with lively and energetic rhythms and fits very well indeed.

Can never fault the voice acting in the Droopy cartoons, and Daws Butler particularly excels.

Summing up, wonderful. 10/10 Bethany Cox

Snoopy, Loopy, and Droopy are the three little pups. It's the story of the Three Little Pigs but this time, the Big Bad Wolf is a dog-catcher.

I can't believe that this has a Snoopy although the Charlie Brown Snoopy came out a few years before this. It's interesting as a quirk of animation history. It's a solid Tex Avery cartoon. Droopy is Droopy and the Big Bad Wolf is a great antagonist for him.

This is the tale of Snoopy, Loopy and Droopy. In other words, a twist on The Three Little Pigs. Instead of the big, bad wolf we have the city dog catcher as the villain, coming to blow their houses down and take them to city dog pound.

I enjoyed seeing Droopy make a brick dog house; the dog catcher's unique "sneak" system on his truck; When the dog catcher first spoke, I almost fell over: it was Daws Butler, doing the slow drawl voice he made so famous in cartoons a decade and more later, such as "Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound."

Anyway, this character - and his truck - are flat-out hilarious. His "asides" lines to us, the audience, almost had me in tears laughing. The man was unflappable, with a funny remark after each disaster.

This is the best "Three Little Pigs" story I ever saw.

Two of the three little pups have built their houses of straw and and sticks, and the Wolf has no trouble dealing with them. Droopy, however, has built his of brick, so the other two move in. There follows a typical funny series of Tex Avery gags as the Wolf tries and fails.

I think the Wolf, as voiced by Daws Butler, is supposed to be based on Jubilo the classic Will Rogers comedy.

This is a bit unusual for an Avery cartoon, in that the funniest bits are not the sight gags, but the dialogue, particularly the commentary done by the wolf, a recurring character in Droopy cartoons, very Southern and so laid-back you almost feel you need to check him for a pulse. His asides to the audience and his interactions with a bulldog are hysterically funny. The same wolf appears in Billy Boy and Blackboard Jumble as well, among others. One of the funniest foils Droopy had. Spike was just relatively stupid and very greedy, with limited comedic potential. The wolf here was smarter and offered more of a challenge. Also, pay attention to the names of the other two dogs in this with Droopy. Well worth the effort to get. Most highly recommended.