The Butcher, the Baker, the Ice Cream Maker (1955)
by Ruth Ratney, Ed Aardal, Don Williams, Rudy Cataldi, etc.

25 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
the butcher		three men in a tub	John Ebers and Co.; William Blackwood	6
the baker		three men in a tub	John Ebers and Co.; William Blackwood	6
The Ice Cream Maker		[replaces the candlestick maker in Three Men in a Tub]	Kling Film Productions	1
the candlestick-maker (details)  When the Candlestick Maker resigns from his famous storybook trio, the Butcher and the Baker seek a new member for their group.		three men in a tub	John Ebers and Co.; William Blackwood	6
Little Tommy Tucker		[from nursery rhyme; sings for his supper]	Mary Cooper	9
The Doctor		[doctor]	Capitol Records	1
The Druggist		[business owner; pharmacist]	Kling Film Productions	1
The Merchant		[business owner; merchant]	Kling Film Productions	1
The Indian Chief	Native American religion	[tribal chief]	Capitol Records	1
Eskimo ice cream makers	Inuit	[factory worker]	Kling Film Productions	1
Humpty Dumpty (cameo)	sentient inanimate	[egg from nursery rhyme; sat on a wall, had a great fall...]	Macmillan	40
Little Bo Peep (Bo Peep) (cameo)		[lost her sheep]		77
Little Miss Muffet (Patience Muffet) (cameo)		[1st app: Songs for the Nursery (1805)]	Benjamin Tabart	41
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe (cameo)		[had so many children...]	R. Christopher	26
The Cow (cameo)	N.A.	cattle [jumped over the moon]	John Newbery	1
Little Jack Horner (cameo)		[ate a Christmas pie]		28
her sheep (cameo)	N.A.	sheep [Little Bo Peep's lost sheep]	N.A.	24
The Lawyer (cameo)  Seen briefly, nailing a note over his sign explaining he has gone to Washington for lunch.		[has gone off to Washington]	Capitol Records	1
Liberace (Vladziu Valentino Liberace) (cameo)	Catholic; LGBT	[famed pianist]	RKO Radio Pictures	139
unnamed witch (cameo)	witch	[briefly seen picking up ice cream at store]	Kling Film Productions	1
children who lived in a shoe (cameo)		[1st app: Gammer Gurton's Garland (1794)]	R. Christopher	6
Mother Goose (seen in picture and mentioned in dialogue)  Story takes place in "Mother Goose Land." Mother Goose's name and likeness is seen on a sign.		[imagined author of fairy tales, nursery rhymes]		49
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater (Peter) (visual reference)  Peter Pumpkin-Eater's pumpkin home is seen briefly at half-way through this cartoon, but he himself is not seen.		[nursery rhyme character]	Munroe and Francis	11
My Fair Lady (visual reference)  The Butcher and the Baker fly in a helicopter past a bridge labelled "London Bridge." This is a reference to the nursery rhyme "London Bridges" which refers to "my fair lady" in each verse.		[1st app: Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book Voll. II (1744)]	Mary Cooper	2
Old King Cole (King Cole) (business/store name)  A castle is seen with a sign out front that reads "King Cole."		[king]	Bernard Lintott	30

Animated short film.

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