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These are the three words to a song about pork that is played throughout the short Three Magic Words. It's about a newlywed known as...Mrs. Newlywed (what, was Smith or Jones taken?), who goes to her local butcher shop with a dilemma: her husband is bragging to his co-workers that his wife is the best cook so he places a bet with them and she has no clue on how to cook anything, especially pork. Okay, maybe I'm reading too much into this, but how does a husband not know that his wife can or can't cook? And how has she managed to get away with it this long? Have they been living on Swanson TV dinners all that time? Anyway, the butchers are three men that are known as The Jesters, who assist Mrs. Newlywed with her predicament. She has the voice of Shirley Temple and the brains of sandpaper. How does one think that pork comes from sheep or cow? And apparently she's never looked at a map since she doesn't know that Des Moines is a city in Iowa. So what do the butchers do? They break out their (musical) instruments and...start singing. Yes, singing about pork. Singing about how pork goes from the pigs to traveling in trains to inspected and stamped to the butcher shop. After the singing, they hand her some pork chops and she's told to "follow a good recipe" and "just cook the dinner", all the while she looks terrified. When she gets home, she hears singing coming from her kitchen. And who's singing "Cooking Is Not A Chore"? The Jesters...dressed as chefs. They give her an overly-involved menu to prepare, but guess who does most if not all the work? That's right, the Jesters. So she throws her apron at the quacking cat (?), gets the door since Mr. Newlywed can't be bothered using a key, and who are his guests with him singing? Yup, it's the Jesters again. So everyone sits down to feast on the pork, and the butchers and the chefs start singing the Quality Freshness & Flavor song, really screwing with Mrs. Newlywed. Mr. Newlywed wins the bet, but in the future he may want to either get his wife in cooking classes or hire a housekeeper. At the end, it's just a quick advertisement from the John P. Squire Company promoting their pork products. Weirdest way to promote the other white meat.