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[[File:Spirited away messy pig.jpg|frame|link=Spirited Away]]
''Stirring up the dirt?''
▲{{quote|''Have you seen the little piggies''<br />
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▲''Life is getting worse...''<br />
▲''Always having dirt''<br />
''To play around in!''|'''[[The Beatles]],''' ''Piggies''}}
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Pulp Fiction]]''
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'''Jules:''' Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfucker. Pigs sleep and root in shit. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got sense enough to disregard its own feces. }}
* Though not really the (dead) pigs' fault, the carcass-grinding Vat-of-Guts trap in ''[[Saw]] III'', which threatened to drown a man in macerated, decomposing hog residue, was one of the more revolting mechanisms in the series.
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## The prohibition relates to the propensity of pigs to harbor trichinella worms, which cause painful muscle disease, and can only be killed through thorough cooking, which (goes the theory) was not always possible in ancient times. Whether this is God protecting His people with his timeless wisdom or cultural wisdom being reinforced by (supposed) word of God is entirely a matter of faith. This theory, however, doesn't hold up to more recent archaeological evidence.
## The prohibition relates to the way of life of the Hebrews and Arabs. Both peoples originated in the desert and remained for the most part in arid climates, i.e. places where human vegetable food is scarce. Cattle, sheep, and goats do not eat human vegetable food, but pigs do; therefore, keeping pigs is wasteful, and ought to be avoided. Contemporary scholars favor this theory.
## The prohibition is to set Jews/Muslims apart from their neighbors. While this is likely for Judaism (a common theory goes that the point of ''all'' Kashrut is to keep Jews separated from the Gentiles), it's less likely for Islam (which for one thing is a proselytizing religion, and for another thing
## The prohibition is basically inscrutable, because [[Because I Said So|believers must obey God no matter what]]. This is a common position among rabbis and some Muslim scholars.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Pey'j, Jade's [[Boisterous Bruiser|lovably obnoxious]] pig uncle from ''[[Beyond Good
* The Rashberry species in ''[[Viva Pinata]]''. Their house is covered in mud, and eat rotten food. And when you cross-romance them with their polar
* The villains of ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* Once, [[Rocko's Modern Life]] complains that his house (which has reached [[Trash of the Titans]] uncleanliness levels) is a pigsty. An angry pig eating pizza responds (in a distinct New Jersey accent) "You got a problem with that?" and is kicked out by Rocko.
* The pig-people from the ''[[Invader Zim]]'' episode "Gaz, Taster of Pork". {{spoiler|Dib has to be used as their toilet brush...and heaven knows when the last time their communal toilet was scrubbed!}}
* In ''[[Pigs Next Door]]'', the Stymington family are messy pigs who like to roll around in the mud, which annoys their human neighbor, Ike Stump.
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[[Category:Mammal Tropes]]
[[Category:Messy Pig]]
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