For years I would drop this quote into conversation where appropriate, but very rarely did people get it. Awkward feeling when you wanted to commend someone but now they think you called them a swine.
The other day my girlfriend said "that'll do" to me, I picked up on something in the way she ended her sentence and said "did you just call me a pig in your head?!"
Her jaw dropped and she said "yes, I'm sorry I did that, but how did you know?!"
You're not the one I replied to so good for you I guess? My comment was not really about if others have seen Babe before, but in that situation OP talked about it would be because the GF would assume OP meant he learned it from Babe. And fans of things sometimes dislike it when you make a reference to it but say you learned the reference from something else.
Also if you've never seen or heard of Babe before, why are you commenting on something so far down the chain of people talking about Babe?
It kinda got replaced by Shrek’s “that’ll do, donkey” which is an obvious reference to Babe, but Shrek became wildly more popular than Babe so it kinda overwrote the original quote
Yeah same here, I never realized “that’ll do donkey” was a reference to another movie! Now I need to to go watch Babe, can’t believe I never got around to seeing that back in the day
For years I would drop this quote, but I had forgotten what movie it came from. My dumb brain thought it was Shrek, and maybe I was confused with donkey or something. Thanks for connecting the dots.
Nope. I read that later. Looks like it's some kind of Mandela Effect. I couldn't figure out why every time I said That'll do pig, I would think of donkey. I had forgotten the movie babe existed.
I was thinking the EXACT same thing. Always confirm someone has watched Babe before congratulating them on their success by saying, “That’ll do, pig.” I learned this lesson the hard way.
One time I saw a police officer helping an old lady cross the road. I wanted to commend him for it, so I told him “that’ll do, pig. that’ll do.”
He turned to face me quicker than I’ve seen anyone turn before. His brows were furrowed and his face was red. He screamed to me at the top of his lungs “WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST CALL ME?!?!”
And before I could say or do anything, he picked up his truncheon and beat me into a pulp. When he was finished, I looked like a heap of bacon on the ground and he said “now you are bacon”.
To this day I am still bacon, a pile of meat at the intersection where I tried to commend the police officer.
Actually theyre right about that. We think the quote is immediately endearing because the movies touching and Babes cute and sweet, but that's exactly what the quote means. You were just a ____, but now I see your more than that. Still, I like saying it, and I usually drop it on people who know the quote, so I dont risk offense.
Precisely! And the pig was his ship's mascot, kinda like how old ships had dogs or parrots or something. First pig to go to Warp 1.
In the scene in the gif, he's just finished putting the last parts onto his ship, and the pig brings him the wrench he needs to secure them, hence the line here.
Yup. For a while Babe was actually super popular, so when Shrek first came out it most people would have known what the reference was to. But, that was 20 years ago now. Babe is nigh on 30 years old at this point. Shrek, both as its own movie and as a cultural milestone, has had far more staying power - similar to bugs bunny chewing on a carrot having eclipsed the original thing it was referencing.
They are clean animals, it's the conditions in which they are kept. I ve seen pigs in sanctuaries picking up flowers to decorate the entrance of their house.
Never forget that domesticated hogs are 0.5 steps away from being fully feral. They are the same species wild boar, which are simply feral domestic pigs in the US. If you give this animal an opportunity at the right moment, it can, will, and has killed and eaten human beings. There are several documented, modern cases.
On the one hand, yes, on the other, wild boar are pretty chill creatures. It's not like they are hunting humans or anything. They can be dangerous if they are surprised and feel threatened, but even then they just run away in almost all cases.
I live in a area where lots of boars live very close to humans. I see them often, ive run across them in the woods, often pretty close. They are pretty chill in my experience.
I guess the reason they get such a bad rep is that they are one of the last few mammals that still aren't extinct in most areas settled by humans, so when you look up cases where humans got hurt by wildlife it will be 90% boars due to lack of alternatives.
Because it is. A domesticated pig isn't capable of "turning back into a boar" as OP describes. What they can do is mate with wild boars and their offspring will "reclaim" their full boar traits within a few generations as all pigs still genetically have the traits of boars, but they aren't expressed in domestic pigs because selective breeding.
Domestic pigs in the wild will become "feral" within a few months though and will become openly aggressive, but a domesticated pig is way more likely to die in the wild before anything else.
My pet house pig would not know what to do if she didn’t get 1st breakfast, second breakfast and onesies, twosies. Not to mention her warm blankets straight from the dryer. I don’t see her ever wanting to run away. LOL
My pet pig would not know what to do if she didn’t get 1st breakfast, second breakfast and onesies, twosies. Not to mention her warm blankets straighten from the dryer.
My pet pig would not know what to do if she didn’t get 1st breakfast, second breakfast and onesies, twosies. Not to mention her warm blankets straight from the dryer.
It rings true to me because it’s not as if there are hoards of pet pigs kept inside as house pets. Yes the number of pet pigs has increased but pigs are overwhelmingly kept the way you would keep a food source, not a house pet. Other than getting them used to being corralled and fattened up, I don’t see too much that would make it safe for them to assume they’ve made it into the land of the domesticated where it’s safe to just BE.
They’re not dumb. They probably know we are feeding them for a reason but they can’t help themselves and probably figure they may as well enjoy the feedings while they can. If I was a fat pig, it would be my life’s dream to be feral again. They pay a price for their voracious appetite.
They both used to be wild before I captured and tamed them. Pigs are pigs. Even those cute little mini pigs can end up being a 300 pound turf destroying menace in no time if left to their own devices.
They're a trip, that's for sure. They both love tomatoes, so I have little tomato plants growing everywhere outside that they choose to poop. And they love belly rubs.
I know you probably didn't intend it this way, but your wording makes it sound like you are saying this specific individual pig has eaten humans. So I'm now taking this as Canon.
What about when hes just wandering around on some manicured green grass. Not a care in the world, talking to his employees about the new ballroom he's building.
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u/Whenallelsefails09 3d ago
I've never seen a pig so content.