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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.

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.

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!

Review Date 7/18/2019

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The big bad wolf invades a house Christmas morning but one little piggy is going to give him a very bad time! Funny. Not Great.

This cartoon, which I think is one of Tex Avery's best, features as its protagonist a little pig who seems to be a take-off on Red SKelton's Mean Widdle KId character-the voice, mannerisms and even on or two of SKelton's catch-phrases are present in this cartoon. The Wolf doesn't stand a chance! Junior isn't very well-behaved and is down-right dangerous. He makes Dennis the Menace look like Little Lord Fauntleroy! Typical Tex Avery sight-gags, but more verbal humor than usual for an Avery short. From downtown at the buzzer, he shoots, he scores! The Crowd goes wild! This is an excellent cartoon. Most highly Recommended!!!

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 cartoons ever made by anybody. 'One Ham's Family' is one of the earlier cartoons from Avery's finest period (1940s at MGM), and has all the Avery trademarks. It is a very well made, very funny, very wild and very clever and inventive cartoon, even if other Avery cartoons did all that even better and took more risks. Which is the sole reason why 'One Ham's Family' comes so close to being one of my favourites from Avery but doesn't quite make it.

It is no surprise that, as with a vast majority of Avery's cartoons regardless of the period, the animation is excellent. Very rich in colour, the backgrounds have meticulously good detail and the character designs are distinctively Avery in style and are fluid in movement. The music, courtesy of Scott Bradley, is typically lushly and cleverly orchestrated, with lively and energetic rhythms and fits very well indeed, even enhancing the action.

Can't fault Avery, whose unmistakable and unlike-any-other style is all over, nor the dynamic voice acting and the very engaging characters, especially the hilarious wolf (a classic Avery character). The pig is fun enough and the nastiness is not that over-the-top.

Overall, yet another winner from Avery. 9/10 Bethany Cox

'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.