Frank Underwoods ruthless quest for political supremacy on House of Cardswas crossed with the timeless saga of the the Three Little Pigs ina delightful, and educational, Sesame Streetparody sketch called House of Bricks.
The bitperfectly pokes fun at the high stakes melodrama of House of Cards, with Frank Underwolf divulging to the camera his nefarious plan to blow down thepigs houses and overtake the strongest of them all: the White Brick House. Underwolf also rattles off plenty of silly Three Little Pigs-inspired jokes delivered likeclassic Underwood-isms like, In this town, you have to know which way the wind is blowing and right now its about to get very windy and, Some people say theres too much pork in this town I could not agree more!
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After taking down the straw and stick houses and offering a quick lesson in subtraction Underwolf sets his sites on the White Brick House, which the three little pigs surrender far more quickly than expected. But while Underwolf basks in his glory, the trio huff and puff and blow the house down. This wasnt a house of bricks at all, one pigexclaims, setting up the best gag of them all: It was just a house of cards!
The actual House of Cards returns to Netflix for its third season on February 27th and finds the Underwoods in complete control of the Executive Branch. Not much is known about whats to come, but afew plot pointswere leaked earlier this monthwhen Season Three accidentally went live onNetflix. Despite the spoilers floating around online,House of Cards creator and showrunner Beau Willimon did not seemphased by the online chatter.
Theres plenty of speculation on the Web in terms of what people gathered from watching those first 20 minutes or people who scrubbed ahead to subsequent episodes, Willimon told The Hollywood Reporter.And all I will say is some of that speculation is right and some of it is wrong. But I wont tell you which is which.