One Ham's Family
A hungry wolf with ham in the shape of a pig kid stands in for Santa Claus.
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"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 psych..."
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When the wolf looks through the window and sees the little pig looking up the chimney, he is shown imagining the little pig as a pair of hams. A sign stuck into one of the hams reads "48 points". This indicates the number of red food rationing points to purchase this item, as this film was made and released during World War II. 48 points was a lot, equaling three-fourths of a person's red points (for meat, fish and dairy) for a month.
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A hungry wolf with ham in the shape of a pig kid stands in for Santa Claus.