Pig wrestling

In the most common version, a team of four members chases a domestic pig around a fenced-off mud pit and attempts to place it in a barrel, in a race against the clock.

[8] The television show Family Guy parodies this concept with the Greased-up Deaf Guy; a recurring character that first appears in "The Thin White Line" as the quarry of a company picnic event.

[9] In a 2014 episode of the Discovery Channel series MythBusters, the Build Team investigated the difficulty of catching a greased pig, both with and without technological assistance.

In 2019, the former British prime minister David Cameron famously referred to the then prime minister Boris Johnson as "the greased piglet" in talking about Johnson's chances of getting Brexit legislation passed through parliament, saying "The thing about the greased piglet is that he manages to slip through other people’s hands where mere mortals fail".

"[11] In June 2022, former Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable, referring to Johnson's success in a confidence vote, wrote: "The greased piglet has escaped from his tormentors again ...