Line #33 WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePups


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3	''The Three Little Pups'' is a 1953 [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons MGM Pictures Cartoon]], directed by Creator/TexAvery and starring WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}.
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5	The film takes place within a small urban yard, where three young pups (Snoopy, Loopy and Droopy) are building their doghouses. Being based off the story of Literature/TheThreeLittlePigs, the pups respectively build houses of straw, sticks and bricks.
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7	Of course, TheBigBadWolf is prowling around, today acting as a dog-catcher. Droopy, the only one who built a practical doghouse, must act to keep the Wolf from capturing Snoopy and Loopy.
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9	!!Tropes:
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11	* AffablyEvil: As mellow and humble as the Wolf is, he's still trying to break into dogs' homes and kidnap them to take to the city pound for no discernible reason.
12	* AnimalJingoism: The Wolf attempts to use this by donning a handpuppet of a cat and meowing at the pups from behind a fence. Droopy turns this back on him with a wind-up mousetoy, which the cat-puppet immediately goes after, dragging the Wolf along. A few seconds later, the cat-puppet almost runs into a large bulldog, and in fright climbs to the top of a power line pole.
13	* AshFace: After the keg of dynamite explodes, the Wolf comes back with the whole front of his body covered in soot.
14	* BatteringRam: The Wolf tries using a large log to break down Droopy's doghouse door, only for the actual wood to slide out, leaving the cloth-like bark in the Wolf's hands.
15	-->'''Wolf:''' Mighty poor grade of logs this year. Green lumber.
16	* BehindAStick: More like Behind a Telephone Pole, but the Wolf and his vehicle do this twice in quick succession.
17	* TheBigBadWolf: Tex debuts a new version of his wolf character; this one has a Southern drawl (provided by Creator/DawsButler) and a deadpan demeanor matching Droopy's.
18	* BratsWithSlingshots: Droopy uses one to shoot the Wolf down from the power line pole.
19	-->'''Droopy:''' Eight ball in the hip-pocket.
20	* BrickJoke: After being bitten by the bulldog, the Wolf changes pants and leaves his old pants hanging on the changing screen, with the dog still attached. Then the Wolf needs to change pants again and goes back to the changing screen, where the bulldog is ''still'' clinging to his pants.
21	-->'''Wolf:''' Break it up, son. Joke's over, hear?
22	* ButtBiter: The bulldog not only latches onto the Wolf's rear end, but remains attached to his pants even after the Wolf changes them.
23	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Played with for the Wolf, who starts off with the persona of a sadistic dog-catcher, only to immediately revert to a MellowFellow after Droopy's doghouse of bricks proves impenetrable.
24	* FooledByTheSound: The Dogcatcher attempts to blow up the brick house with dynamite. Droopy use a paper bag to pop near the Dogcatcher. He thought he blew up so he checked, but the dynamite blew up right in front of him.
25	* HomingProjectile: The artillery, shell the Wolf tries to use follows the target. Too bad Droopy moved the target to the Wolf's butt.
26	* KnowWhenToFoldEm: When the Wolf last explosives doesn't leave even a single scratch on the doghouse, he decided to go into television.
27	* {{Leitmotif}}: The Wolf can be heard whistling the old Civil War tune "Kingdom Coming" on an almost-constant basis.
28	* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Not matter what the Wolf goes through - being blown up, bitten, hit with cannon fire, etc., he hardly ever changes expression or raises his voice.
29	* MediumBlending: The pups are watching a live-action Western on their television. In the end, the Wolf [[RogerRabbitEffect appears in the show]] after vowing to go into television if his last plan failed.
30	* MellowFellow: The wolf is strangely laid-back and calm even when beset with constant failure, which sticks throughout all shorts featuring him.
31	* TheNameless: The Wolf goes unnamed throughout the cartoons.
32	* NotHyperbole: "This here's the last straw, man. I'm telling yall right now. If this don't work I'll...I'll go into television!"
33	* PainToTheAss: The Wolf gets hurt on the butt twice, first when a bulldog bites it, then when he's hit by an artillery shell. In both cases, the cause of the pain stay attached to the Wolf's pants, even after he's taken them off.
34	* PaperBagPopping: Done by Droopy to trick the Wolf into thinking his explosives went off, only for the Wolf to then run into said explosion.
35	* PinPullingTeeth: The Wolf attempts this with a grenade on a stick, only to end up with both pin and grenade in his teeth. When it explodes in his face, he loses at least seven teeth (which Droopy catches in a bin).
36	* TheStoic: At last, Droopy gets an antagonist that's as deadpan as he is.
37	* SurprisinglySuperToughThing: "The Three Little Pups" has Droopy’s brick doghouse. While it obviously holds against the Wolf trying to blow it down, it also manages to survive against an axe, hammer, having its door rammed by a log, and enough explosives to level a town. Lampshaded by the Wolf in the cartoon.
38	-->'''Wolf:''' Now there’s a well-built doghouse, man.
39	* VerbalTic: The Wolf tends to add "man" to a fair number of his sentences.
40	-->'''Wolf:''' Now there's a well-built doghouse, man.\
41	Meow! Meow! Meow, man!
42	* WorthyOpponent: The Wolf compliments Droopy both in how well the doghouse is built and how smart he is after the paper bag gag.
43	* YouDoNotWantToKnow: After the Wolf sucks up the pups' TV with a giant straw and it ends up in his stomach, it mysteriously reappears inside the house later, with Droopy making the comment:
44	-->'''Droopy:''' Now don't ask how we got the television set back.

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