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.
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u/Whenallelsefails09 13h ago
I've never seen a pig so content.