Appearance in Popular Culture

The pied piper was animated in the 1933 adaptation of Walt 
Disney's Silly Symphonies short.

















In 1945 an adaptation was made as an animated swing symphony version of the pied piper made by Walter Lantz Production called The Pied Piper of Basin Street.

The Pied Piper Of Hamelin was a musical in color made for television in 1957.

In 1972 a film called The Pied Piper was produced which had a dark and realistic tone, with music from Donovan,who also plays the titular role

The Pied Piper is a 1986 Czechoslovak stop-motion animated feature film directed by Jiri Barta, notable for its unusual dark art direction

In 2000 a direct to video cartoon called It's The Pied Piper,Charlie Brown was made.In the special, Charlie tells Sally a less scary version of the tale  of the pied piper

In the 2010 animated film Shrek Ever After, The pied piper appear as a character who was hired by the main villian to use his music to stop the rebeling ogres

The Warner Bros cartoons have occasionally reference the story of the pied piper.Pied Piper Porky cast porky in the role of the piper.Probably the most famous one would be Sylvester taking the role of the piper in the animation The Pied Piper Of Guadalupe.

The Piper Piper appears as an antagonist to the anime Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they?

In the 2011 episode of Grimm,the Pied Piper was re-imagined into a teenage music prodigy who is also a famous underground DJ name 
Retchid Kat.

In the season 3 of Once Upon A Time, Peter Pan was a name given to Peter Pan where he attract a the children of a close by village to join the lost boys.

In the poem The One Who Stayed, tells the story of the child who stayed behind while the other children followed the piper out of the village

The Ratastrophe Catastrophe which was written in 1990 is a parody based on the piper where a boy named Diek who takes children away from a town because of a voice in his head told him to.

In 2000, a book named After Hamelin was made written in the point of view of the deaf child named Penelope who was left behind in Hamelin

In 2001, a book was written which was named The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rats which portray the Pied Piper in a humorous ways.

In 2005,A father-son writing team,published The Rat Of The Hamelin in which the eighteen years old pied piper face an enemy with powers similar to his own.

Pay The Piper:A Rock N Roll Fairy Tale tells the story of the pied piper in an urban fantasy setting.

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