Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater

"Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater" is an English nursery rhyme. Unlike a good many other nursery rhymes, this has American instead of European origin [http://www.rhymes.org.uk/peter_peter_pumpkin_eater.htm] .

:Peter Peter pumpkin eater,:Had a wife but couldn't keep her.:He put her in a pumpkin shell,:And there he kept her very well.

Additional Verse

Another verse of unverified origin is listed [http://nurseryrhymes.allinfoabout.com/peter_pumpkin.html] as::Peter, Peter pumpkin eater,:Had another and didn't love her;:Peter learned to read and spell,:And then he loved her very well.

References in popular culture

One of Gary Larson's single-panel "Far Side" cartoons, Pumpkineater is in court, and a television reporter announces to a camera that his sister, Jeannie Jeannie Eatszucchini, is about to testify against him.

In Todd McFarlane's/Greg Parisi's "Twisted Fairy Tales" line, Peter is depicted as a ragged and crazed man and is stuffing his wife's bloody remains inside a pumpkin.

In the comic "Grimm Fairy Tales" annual 01 there is a depiction of Peter as a murderous hillbilly that has wished to get a wife, gotten one that cheated on him and then chopped her up and stuffed her into his pumpkins.

The Family Guy episode, Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater is a play on the nursery rhyme's title.

The Garth Brooks song "It's Midnight Cinderella" also mentions Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater

In the late night show The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson the episode name for the skit Murder, She Wrote 2008 is "Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater... OF DEATH!".

Notes

ee also

Eeper Weeper

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