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Fan Works

  • Pack Street: In the chapter B.R.E., Marty's heckling of Remy (A sheep) ends by tauntingly reciting 'Baa, Ram, Ewe, Sheep be true' at him. Remy gets him back by immediately getting dead serious, pretending he's accidentally unveiled a conspiracy of sheep who use the term as a password to share secrets. In-Universe, it's actually just a schoolyard song commonly sang by sheep children.

Film -- Animated

  • Shrek: "That'll do, Donkey, that'll do."

Literature

  • In My Dark Vanessa, Vanessa's parents adopt a yellow Labrador puppy whom her father names Babe, because she looks like a piglet with her fat belly and pink nose.

Live-Action TV

  • Married... with Children: In "T*R*A*S*H", Al taunts Griff, "That's a good one, coming from a guy whose girlfriend starred in Babe."
  • In an episode of The X-Files, of all places, Scully does the "Baah-Ram-Ewe, Baah-Ram-Ewe" when she and Mulder have to struggle through a crowded pigpen when sneaking toward a farmhouse of suspects.
  • In the Broad City episode "B&B-NYC," Babe is one of the "kickass DVDs" Trey brings to cheer up Abbi after she's robbed.
  • Gilmore Girls: after Emily stands up to her mother-in-law, Lorelai says to her, "That'll do, pig."

Web Original

  • Half-Life but the AI is Self-Aware: In the introduction to the commentary of Act 1, The G-Man tells Gordon Freeman that the theater they're at is the same one where he watched Babe: Pig in the City, which Gordon also seems to have enjoyed.
  • The Nostalgia Critic:
    • At the beginning of his review for Star Trek: Insurrection, Critic goes over First Contact and says contact was made by "the farmer from Babe".
    • At the beginning of his his review for Gordy, he accuses the movie of ripping off Babe before discovering that Gordy actually came first. Near the end, he nicknames the film "Pig in the Shitty".
    • In his review of Mad Max: Fury Road, Critic mentions Pig in the City as part of director George Miller's resume.
    • In his review of The Black Cauldron, the Critic thinks that the Horned King's voice, provided by John Hurt, is supposed to sound threatening, but just sounds too funny to be so when using certain words, like "pig".
      Critic: I just keep expecting to see him in Babe, like (as the Horned King) "That'll do, pig. That'll do. Now die."
    • In his review of The Brave Little Toaster, when the appliances reach the City of Light, the Critic compliments the city's design, saying it looks like a mix between St. Canard and Babe: Pig in the City.

Western Animation

  • 101 Dalmatians: The Series: in "Hog Tied", Dumpling wants to join Lucky, Cadpig, and Rolly on their adventures, one of which is herding sheep who are in the process of getting their wool sheared. When Dumpling asks if she can help them, Cadpig tells her, "A pig herding livestock? No way, Babe!" This counts as an Actor Allusion, since both works featured Christine Cavanaugh voicing a pig.
  • In the cold opening of the Arthur episode "Just Desserts" when different fairytale characters are shown, a pig says "I was doing this long before Babe!"
  • Family Guy:
    • In "Peter's Two Dads", Peter says goodbye to Meg with "That'll do, pig, that'll do."
    • In "Airport '07", the mouse chorus appears on a time card reading "Three weeks later..."
  • Freakazoid! has in one episode the title character and his friends leaving to watch Babeheart, a violent epic about a pig fighting for Scotland's independence.
  • Futurama: In "Overclockwise", after Cubert Farnsworth once again snarkingly punctuates a sentence with a pig snort, Judge Ron Whitey bangs his gavel and says, "That'll do, pig."
  • At the end of the Gravity Falls episode "The Time Traveler's Pig", Mabel uses her new pig, Waddles, to get revenge on Robbie. As he watches, Dipper says, "That'll do, pig. That'll do."
  • In the HouseBroken episode "Who's A Winner?" Max mentions starring in a gritty reboot of Babe.
  • Looney Tunes Cartoons: In "Love Goat", after Goatie, Daffy's pet goat eats a sandwich with Porky inside it so Porky can extract the ring he was going to propose to Petuina with from inside his stomach (It Makes Sense in Context), Daffy says "That'll do, Goatie. That'll do."
  • The Simpsons:
    • In "Bye, Bye, Nerdie", Milhouse says of Francine, "Who does she think she is? Babe: Pig in the City?"
    • In "Bart Has Two Mommies", the pig who played Babe resides in an animal retirement home.
  • South Park: At the end of "An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig", Cartman says the "That'll do" line to his pet pig for birthing a breed of Mr. Garrison-like piglets.

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