Three Little Wolves

And here we see the transition of the Big Bad Wolf from Depression-era troubles to Germany's impending onslaught across Europe in WWII as "Three Little Wolves" opens with Big Bad teaching his three little offspring in German. Not to mention that he sings a song about cooking and killing Fifer and Fiddler pig with his three little kids in German, "Iss Dad Nicht Ein Schnitzelbank?"

Out of the three cartoons in the trilogy of battles against Practical Pig and Big Bad, this one is certainly the darkest. Where the second one saw Red Riding Hood thrown into the mix, this one sees the two brothers play the Pigs Who Cried Wolf, Big Bad and his sons dress like Bo Peep and her lost sheep and ends with a pretty hilariously gruesome machine to beat, tar and feather the wolf. Not to mention a glimpse of battle-scarred pigs marching out of his liar as the final image we're shown.

It's a solid cartoon, just not as good as the preceding ones. Uncle Walt wisely decided that three was more than enough to move on to bigger and better ideas for his animated shorts. But these three cartoons definitely makeup some of the best that Disney has to offer.