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This 43 short "One Ham's Family" may not be one of the best known or popular cartoon shorts still it's a fine Christmas themed cartoon. In somewhat of a "Three Little Pigs" parody it involves a mama and daddy pig who have a little pig son, and it's set on Christmas Eve. All is quite not even a creature is stirring except the big bad wolf who comes down the chimney! And the short is clever with wit and funny chase scenes as the wolf dresses up as Santa to try and lure the little pig son to gifts on Christmas Eve! Never fear this little pig is smart the big bad wolf is outmatched and outsmarted. As Mamma pig big gets a surprise fur coat with some wolf hid from the little pig son! Overall well done Christmas cartoon watch it before the holidays!

When Mr. And Mrs. Porker go to sleep on Christmas eve, their piglet stays up to see Santa Claus. What he sees is the Wolf, whom he proceeds to torment. This is a Tex Avery cartoon, after all.

It's another variation on the sort of cartoon in which Avery piles gag upon gag, until he runs out of time, because cartoons last that wrong. Avery had learned how to fill up the scenes with a variety of gags, including breaking the fourth wall, that would not get past the censors in today's kid-friendly environment in which children must not see anything that might ever frighten the most psychotic of dweebs. This state of affairs would have astonished contemporary animation people, when Disney might shoot Bambi's mother or Avery might pull a wooden mallet out of nowhere to pound on the wolf. Because none of it is real. This was something I understood as a small child, even though the thought seems to confuse modern adults.

'One Ham's Family' is a twist on the Three Little Pigs story. Here the wolf attempts to catch the pigs on Christmas Eve by dressing up as Santa Claus. There are some funny bits here, I mean it is Tex Avery...you were expecting a tear-jerker? However, the little pig that does battle with the wolf is a thoroughly unlikeable character with a voice that is at times very difficult to understand. I guess I've always felt that Avery was more successful with characters who, though they did some nasty things, still had a sense of innocence to them...like Droopy. Here, the pig is just plain nasty.

Even though I was born in the late '60s, I recognized the Jr. pig as the Mean Widdle Kid character of Red Skelton based on what I remember hearing of him on the radio as depicted in a late Our Gang short. This Jr. is the son of the Third Little Pig-the one who made a house of bricks-and his wife. Yes, the Wolf is here, too, in once again trying to terrorize them during the Christmas season. With the parents asleep, the kid is waiting for Santa but guess who arrives. This being a Tex Avery cartoon, I'm sure you won't be surprised to see the mayhem that ensues during most of the short. So on that note, One Ham's Family is highly recommended.

This is after the story of the Three little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf. The pig in the brick house would go on to have a family. Their boy is desperate to find Santa Claus and the Big Bad Wolf sees an opportunity. Although it never goes well for the wolf.

This is a fun little Tex Avery cartoon. The concept is good although the premise doesn't really need the opening. It all boils down to the kid's voice. It's an adult being sarcastic and pretending to be a kid. It needs the higher pitch of a boy or a female adult. This is a pig versus wolf cartoon.