in reference to Humpty Dumpty. In 2016 film of Alice Through the Looking Glass, Humpty Dumpty was voiced by Wally Wingert. In the 2011 film Puss In Boots, Humpty Dumpty was voiced by Zach Galifianakis. In 2021, American band AJR released a song titled "Humpty Dumpty" on their album OK Orchestra. The song uses the nursery rhyme as a parallel for hiding one's true emotions as things, typically unpleasant, happen to the singer. Jasper Fforde's 2005 British novel The Big Over Easy is an exercise in absurdity, in which Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III has been murdered and Detective Jack Spratt of the Nursery Crime Division is set the task of solving the mystery. Taylor Swift references it in her song "The Archer", the fifth track on her album Lover, modifying it slightly and turning it into "all the king's horses, all the king's men, couldn't put me together again". In science Humpty Dumpty has been used to demonstrate the second law of thermodynamics. The law describes a process known as entropy, a measure of the number of specific ways in which a system may be arranged, often taken to be a measure of "disorder". The higher the entropy, the higher the disorder. After his fall and subsequent shattering, the inability to put him together again is representative of this principle, as it would be highly unlikely (though not impossible) to return him to his earlier state of lower entropy, as the entropy of an isolated system never decreases. See also List of nursery rhymes References External links Library of Congress' Facsimile of the 1899 illustrated edition of Through the Looking-Glass The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly Lewis Carroll characters Riddles Eggs in culture English nursery rhymes Songwriter unknown Year of song unknown English folk songs English children's songs Traditional children's songs Songs about fictional male characters Action songs