Hamm
Hamm | |||||||
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Vehicle type | Porkster Baconbit | ||||||
Color | Pink | ||||||
Occupation | Lookout at Andy's Garage | ||||||
Main portrayer(s) | John Ratzenberger | ||||||
First appearance | Cars | ||||||
Latest appearance | Meet the Cars (3rd Edition) | ||||||
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- "Hey, I hate to break up the road rally, guys, but they're here! Birthday guests at three o'clock!"
- —Hamm, Cars
Hamm is a sly piggy bank who lives with other toy cars in Andy's Garage. He appears in the film Toy Car Story within the Cars universe, and is seen on the Drive-In screen in Cars while the residents of Radiator Springs are viewing the movie. According to the Car Finder Game, Hamm is a Porkster Baconbit, made out of pink ceramic armor. As a piggy bank, he has ears, nostrils, and a swirly tail, as well as an open coin slot and wooden cork above and below him.
History
Cars
In Cars, Hamm appears during the epilogue sequence that accompanies the start of the film's end credits. His film Toy Car Story is among three differents movies for which the Radiator Springs residents attend nighttime showings at the Drive-In Theatre. On-screen, Hamm is seen alerting his friends of incoming birthday guests. The performance impresses Mack, who praises the talents of Hamm's voice actor.
Hamm and the overall Toy Car Story movie are spoofs of the real-life Pixar film Toy Story, which features a toy piggy bank by the same name – The Cars clip and dialogue parody the respective scene where Hamm alerts the anxious toys in Andy's room of his birthday party guests' arrival. Both versions of Hamm are voiced by John Ratzenberger, with Mack's comment referencing how he himself also is.
Cars comics
Hamm makes an appearance in the Route 66 Dash mini-series published by Boom! Studios. In the comic, Mack has a nightmare where he and Gray are abducted by aliens. When he is brought into their mothership, he finds Hamm, Yeti, P.T. Flea, and a small car resembling Cliff Clavin, who appear to have shared the same fate. The UFOs circle Mack and welcome him to their "experiment," before Mack awakens, terrified.
Official profiles
Car Finder Game
Hamm Porkster Baconbit |
His story: |
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"Hamm is the slyest piggy bank on wheels. This ceramic armored car has an explanation for everything, though it may not always be the correct explanation. Hamm is the watch car for Andy's Garage, keeping an eye on the flow of traffic to see who's coming and who's going." |
His scene: |
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File:Hamm - HIS SCENE.jpeg |
The same bio and information appear in the 2011 and 2017 editions of Meet the Cars, with the exception of "Centercut" in his name.
Pixarpedia
Name | Bio | Image |
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Hamm Car | "Hamm Car is a ceramic piggy bank on wheels. A character from the movie Toy Car Story, when Hamm's full of money he certainly brings home the bacon." |
List of appearances
Title | Year | Notes |
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Cars | 2006 | |
Car Finder Game | 2007 | Identified as Hamm Centercut |
The World of Cars Sticker Album | 2008 | |
Route 66 Dash | 2009 | |
Pixarpedia | 2009 | Identified as Hamm Car |
Meet the Cars (2nd Edition) | 2011 | |
Meet the Cars (3rd Edition) | 2017 |
Gallery
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Hamm in Toy Car Story, as seen in Cars
Names in other languages
- Japanese: ハム
Trivia
- Hamm's name and make in the Car Finder Game both are puns related to the food obtained from pigs in real life: "Pork" and "Bacon" refer to the raw and cured meat, while "Centercut" alludes to a method of cutting steak.