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Hey Duggee Series Two #6 Rant

Reviewed: 06/05/2026

Grandparents? Isn't It Time For... DUGGEE~!

Well, my hunt for some perverse entertainment struck again thanks to Family Junior up here in Canada. I had considered revewing "The Fabulous Show with Fay and Fluffy", but the cross-dressing angle is just there and it's just a storytime segment show for the most part. It's a fun show, but it isn't qualified to be an Easter Sadism show. You need perserve, creative entertainment, where the creators just don't give an elf. That's when I saw our following subject from the UK, only this time it's a BBC show. This show is an awesome fun mess of an episode that intentionally is trying to get onto the trainwreck scale. Welcome to the Rant Shack, Hey Duggee! Just watching this show made me giggle in an amusing way because the characters and everyone making the show is fully committed to make this story stand out. Hey Duggee started out in 2014 as part of a Christmas special for the BBC and then was made into a show. The premise according to Wikipedia (DANGER! DANGER!):

The programme's characters are talking anthropomorphic animals, with Duggee communicating in woofs. The episodes are based around The Squirrel Club, an activity club for children that Duggee leads. The children – the club's Squirrels – take part in all kinds of activities, have adventures and earn badges for their accomplishments. Each episode shows the Squirrels completing an activity or adventure relating to a badge that they earn at the end of each episode. There is no set formula for every episode, with many referencing or parodying pop culture.

I disagree with the last sentence as there is a sort of set formula to the episodes, but they often would go off-script in certain ways. For example, there are always at least FIVE opening sequences in the series, each assigned depending on the Squirrel member. Like Peppa Pig, the endings are sometimes different, although more visual than audio this time around. The finishing sequences are mostly similar, but the middle is clearly like a Peppa Pig episode even with the structure of the stakes being exactly the same in all episodes: The Squirrels do stuff to earn badges. Then you have the narrator who is voiced by Alexander Armstrong, the voice of Captain Dog, who talks to Duggee, despite Duggee being a full on anthro dog with clothes on, doing human things, but talks literally like a real dog. It's Koi Fish from Fish Hooks all over again, and yes; everyone in the show somehow understands him. To be fair, at least it's not Molang where every character does the Duggee/Koi Fish speaking and you have zero way of understanding what the hell they are saying regardless of language. I've been wanting to review a bit of this show since it looks perversely entertaining to me and finding episodes on Family Junior is easy, but those episodes are more recent. I want to do the early episodes and finding them is another matter. It's not as easy as Peppa Pig, let me tell you. The episode titles speak for themselves, except for the pilot episode "Chop! Chop!" which I couldn't find even partial footage of it. Believe it or not, there were supposed to be SIX Squirrels in the group, but that got cut down. Also, the hippo Squirrel was originally supposed to be an anthro pig. I wonder who was responsible for rejecting that one?! Anyhow, this should be a fun ride. How do these episodes fare?! Let's rant on shall we..?!

All episodes are directed by Grant Orchard. The Grandparents Badge is written by James Henry. The Comedy Badge is written by Danny Stack. The Looking After Badge and The Glasses Badge are written by Duggee. The Party Badge is written by Jo Clegg. The Fashion Badge is written by Jenny Landreth. The Playing Badge and The Key Badge are written by Phillip Warner. The Tour Guide Badge, The Sailing Badge and The Singing Badge are written by Sam Morrison, while The Organising Badge is written by Ian Skelton. I'm not going to do tributes here. The animation is done by Studio AKA.

Opening Moment #1: This opening features Tag making the face of Duggee with building blocks as per a previous episode. The title card features a really neat lace cloth badge, mostly white, with a cup of tea, books and glasses.

The Grandparents Badge: Short opens with the kids in a clubhouse playing with building blocks. Well, most of them. Roly is feather dusting blocks in an amusing spot, Happy and Tag are cosplaying tea with the blocks, Tag has blocks in his arms and Betty is looking at bird seed on a stool (NOT THAT ONE~!). Duggee is at a tray kart wearing a apron preparing tea. The Squirrels are preparing a party and a show and tell conference with their audience being their own grandparents. Tag has to ask if Duggee is okay with their presence and this is just an excuse for Duggee to point at his apron to reveal the Grandparents badge less than a minute in. The narrator explains that the stereotypical grandparents love peace and quiet and tea. Tag's response is that this is not their grandparents at all. When someone tells you what they are, believe them. When a kid tells you that your grandparents are not a stereotype, believe them even more, and don't bother verifying that fact. Especially in a cartoon when every cartoon episode is what Tag says. Welcome to hell, Duggee; welcome to hell. In a good way I might add. Then a red airplane arrives outside being flown by a green bird pilot, har har! Yes, Tag's grandparent loves to do parachuting and skydiving. At least he fully prepared for it, unlike Daddy Pig and Mummy Pig. Oh, and Tag's parent's pronouns are she/her. So, Tag's grandmother then. Why is there a stop light in the airplane door?! Tag's grandmother opens the parachute like 20 feet before hitting the ground, making the spot look more dangerous than it actually is. The Delta Chicken peak for their contracted appearance and do not care whatsoever. Then Betty's grandfather arrives as an admiral in a surprisely study wooden boat, with a less sturdy sail. Happy's grandmother is an elephant of course, who looks like a normal grandmother actually whom just got off the same bus Tag and his mother use on a regular basis. Delta Frog is also here, along with the purple bear whom was originally going to be the sixth Squirrel on this troupe. She forgot her bag on the bus; but she uses the LONG TRUNK OF THE LAW to bring the bus back. Roly's granddad drives in as he is a repairer who has not retired from the business, and looks half the age of everyone else. Outside of the truck that needs help, it's a decent job and Norrie's grandmother looks like a member of a biker gang. She might be the leader of the Naughty Mice and Johnny's the interm for all I know.

The kids bounce in happy stage left as the narrator calls them a lively bunch and Duggee can only woof in response. Translation: I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. The scene change is a Brady Bunch-equse sequence of an egg, Delta Chicken and Delta Chicken's grandparent, that looks almost generic as Happy's grandmother. Almost. Everyone enters the clubhouse as Duggee addresses the crowd in woofs as usual. Two parents and two kids are sitting down, the rest are standing. There is a chalkboard with stars and colored letters for Show and Tell of course. The narrator translates this as whom would love to go first, and both Tag and Tag's grandmother accepts. Tag and his grandmother's story involved a brooch shaped like archery. However, since BS&P cannot allow Tag to shoot legit arrows; they change the story to roller skating in the park. Why didn't they have a brooch of roller skates?! Tag's grandmother can roller skate, Tag cannot and lands on his ass with a fart thud. Then the BS&P move was actually worth it because the grandmother actually lost the brooch and bails to go look for it. Tag falls on his ass hilariously and then the brooch literally pins his ass and Tag finds it. Tag goes to her grandmother and suddenly he rollerskates properly. Tag's Grandmother proclaims that she never forgot and Tag doesn't either since he's rubbing his ass. The kids giggle because it was funny, since the brooch pinned his ass. Damn, Duggee should fix that clock in the background, it's still telling the same time. It's almost like life goes on, but not time itself, which is a part of life in real life. The narrator likes the story as Admrial decides to cut everyone off as he and Betty decide to go next. Well, Admrial anyway. The story starts underwater with Betty and Admiral walking on the ocean floor in the most orange diving gear ever. Betty actually saves herself and Admiral from walking off a cliff because the seaweed grows in a northwest direction to indicate when the cliff comes. Admiral admits she's right and they walk in the opposite direction. Jump cut to Admiral and Betty looking at fork and spoon fish, but no knife fish, since they would be sword fish, you see. Betty is acting like a clever clogs since cutlery fish exists during lunchtime and Admiral is slightly annoyed by this.

Jump cut to seafloor level with Admiral in tears because they are lost. Betty is giggling by his overdramatic behavior as there are schools of fish present surrounding the two from up top. Betty finds a rainbow marble and Admiral blows her off for being a showoff. HAHA! Wondered when Admiral would finally tell Betty where to park that smartass attitude. We return to reality (no, not really) as the kids and parents are amused. Enid and Delta Frog have joined in as Admiral pets Betty's head. Next up is Happy and his grandmother at the table with a picture covered in red cloth. They explain that Happy and his grandmother paint pictures of exotic locations in the flashback, which by the way, is ordinary in Duggee's world. Happy's grandmother is the definition of a stereotypical grandparent in this world compared to real life. Happy looks like an artist who just robbed a bank. The most interesting part is the Lex Luger-equse masucline bear as Happy don't care, he loves...water. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Yes, that was the picture Happy painted. He got that idea from Roly, I bet. Even funnier, Happy's grandmother thought Happy has talent and everyone is just confused as I cackled with laughter. Enid's like "what a bunch of wimps" and just sleeps. Enid and Evie seperated at birth! Next up is Roly's grandfather, whom might be the youngest male elder of this scene, brings out a giant metal clanking bolt, which looks rusty and green molded as hell. Roly's grandfather explains via the flashback that Roly was cutting the grass with a lawnmower and then the mower busts a nut and bonks off Roly's head. Roly's sell job was Lex Luger-equse as well. Grandfather wanted to fix this, but Roly basically went and took out all the stuff and they created a lawnmowing tractor that doubles as a mechnoid fire breathing dragon. I am not making this up! Roly is beaming at this spot as the narrator is being nice in stating that he does not buy this bullshit. Considering what this world is compared to real life, I wouldn't bet against Roly at this point, narrator. You'll lose that bet for sure.

Last up is Norrie and her grandmother as they show off a pirate model boat in a bottle. We discover that Norrie and her grandmother love to build boat in bottles and even subscribe to a magazine about building these model boats in bottles. They flip through the pages to show the steps in doing this and this is the only story that sounds realistic and creative at the same time. Tag's story was realistic, Happy's story was believable, Betty's story was believable and Roly's story is just Roly. Roly's grandfather bangs on the table and we get a marble run as I discover that Betty's round object is a bowling ball and these things bonk into the model boat and it falls onto the floor and shatters into dozens of pieces. Everyone gasps as the grandmother swears in DUBBED ANIME STYLE (oh, ship!) and Norrie overdramatically yells on her knees because it was her life's work. Roly's grandfather wants to make up for his banging as he has a whisper conference with the grandparents and they offer to fix it, but they'll need peace and quiet and a cup of tea. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Yup, Duggee was right all along about grandparents and now Duggee is smiling knowing that he was right in the end. Then we HIT THE MONTAGE~! The grandparents help the kids get the stuff to make it. BS&P alert: popsicle sticks are said instead of ice lolly sticks here. Happy's Grandmother finds a stick of glue, Norrie's grandmother uses her hankercrief as a replacement for the compromised sail and off-screen, Admiral pops the finished ship into the bottle. The ship in a bottle is placed on the wall with a wooden shelf as the narrator asks if the kids did well. Duggee returns with the badge and the kids cheer. Then the long run in for the DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug. The kids present the badges to the grandparents and they know it before hugging. Everyone leave in their vehicles, including the airplane from earlier. The narrator asks if this was fun and the mecha-dragon busts through the farm and breathes fire as Duggee cringes. At least his cringe is justified this time. It's a robot dragon breathing fire for crying out loud! That ends the episode at 6:45. Another really fun episode with a fire-breathing dragon. What more do you want?! *** 3/4 (75%).

Opening Moment #2: This opening features Betty's explorer sequence as per a previous episode. The title card is a rectangle badge with school supplies neatly organized (organisied in British English) against a yellow background with blue/yellow trim.

The Organising Badge: Short opens with mischief music and Roly in the clubhouse putting balls into a bucket which half of the ball are way too big to fit. I don't think that bucket has TARDIS powers, Roly. The narrator asks what Roly is doing and Roly shouts "I don't know!". Tag claims he's parking his cars with the bigger parking lot model as Norrie is drawing flowers in a vase, Happy is arranging flowers in a vase, and Betty is building a giant tower for a bunch of stuff she wants to. Now, since she built the tower, we all know where this is going and it's all her fault for building this creative disaster in the making and leading to the earning of this upcoming badge. Remember that. Happy asks about the tower and Betty shows off her nine lunch boxes which there are clearly six of them. SUZY SHEEP~?! Someone forgot to redo that line methinks. There is lots of stuff, as happadashery enters the word usage in a pre-school show chat, as the top is where the plushies are. There is her books and science stuff on the lower floors. Yup, this is going to be an un-natural disaster in the making, I can just see it now. Cut back to Roly insterting the giant ball as I discover that the bucket does have TARDIS powers, only even that is not enough. There are three balls on the floor. All Roly has to do is remove the big ball and two of the three fit in with ease, and maybe the third ball makes it before inserting the giant ball that doesn't quite fit. Roly bounces on the ball to stuff it in the bucket and it works. By god, it works! Roly is so happy and then it shoots out like a cannon pointing up. Come on now, I think Roly did that spot on purpose and knew this would happen. Although I don't think he expected it to become a marble run of a disaster when it destroys the entire clubhouse, and topples the entire tower of Betty's. Yup, everything crumbles and Betty does the greatest panicky, screaming yell of Roly of all time! She was beyond pissed off at this. I knew this tower was a bad idea and Roly proved it to me. No way I'm blaming Roly for sucking at probabilites, since everyone sucks at that anyway. Roly says sorry in response and the whole place is a mess as now they have to tidy up. I got to admit: Roly's mess was epic in it's own way and it makes Mummy Pig look like a geek who has never seen a really, really messy room like this clubhouse.

Happy calls tidying up difficult and Roly says it's easy. Roly is dumping stuff into a giant box and Betty is panic striken and screaming at Roly to stop. At this point, Roly should just be in time out for a long time until the mess is clean or he starts learning how to do it properly because his tidying up skill sucks. Finally, Duggee teleports in as he knows since he points to his chest to reveal the Organising Badge, since this is British English we are talking about. His badges on his chest are well-organized, which is to force the point of this episode. Hey, at least it made sense here, unlike those other times where it was just done for the sake of it. The narrator explains the term and Roly is not thrilled to hear that, but Betty is clapping and so happy to hear that. Because you see, Betty loves order and Roly loves chaos. The narrator continues showing off the way to organize stuff as the badges are organized just as I already found out about ten-fifteen seconds before the narrator actually mentions it. He also shows his right arm and his back to demonstrate color and size while the front is by shape. Those badges sure love to teleport in and out during this sequence. Wonder if that outfit is made from SUZY SHEEP~ wool?! POW! OUCH! Ummmm.... Betty is yelling and jumping up and down for joy because she loves organization, you see. She's so happy. The rest are like shocked and in Roly's case, maybe appalled. Scene changer shows a Minecraft-equse soil version of Duggee put together properly against a cyan blue background. With the usual winking eyes. We return with Betty wanting to organize the pencil as a learner's course before the big tidying up spot. The colored pencils are in the right color, but Roly's a dumbass because he put a red pen in the container, instead of a red colored pencil. Betty corrects him as we next organize the blocks, I betcha by shape. Roly just dumps blocks into the box which are also green, purple and orange; even though the box clearly says "blue square, red circle and yellow triangle". There's a reason I mention both shape and color here. This is not working for Roly as Betty jumps in and stops it. The blocks are organized by shape, whatever.

Next up is the toy locker to organize the toys by size as Roly plays with the saddest slinky ever. Roly gets it wrong because he assumes it's shape and Betty -- whom in the previous scene looked happy and desperate at the same time, probably knowing Roly cannot get this -- corrects him again because it's by size. The kids organize the toys small, medium and large. Yes, there are models of those gaslighting Hippie Rabbits, brown cow, goldfish, Super Puppy and even Happy himself. So, everything is clean inside, so the kids decide to go outside as a blue bird sings on a tree in a clear shot of the window. Scene changer shows legit real world dolls of Duggee in large, medium and small. They start with the plants as Roly brings in a Venus Flytrap which eats a bee. Roly is sort of getting it now despite the plants being completely different. Roly says "oww" in the most weirdest thing ever as we scene change to shapes of Duggee's face, as real world colored blocks. I'm saying it this way in order to bring context to the difference between Duggee's world and the real world. I'm not pretending that Duggee's world is a ficitional world, this is for the fools whom cannot tell the difference. Betty, Happy, Roly do their spiel as Roly yells "round" and a giant tractor tire destroys the work. You cannot blame Roly for that one, he merely did the promo. Next scene changer: Color, with skins of Duggee's face that look like shells for mobile phones. Poor Roly, he gets it right and the world screws him because Roly's gimmick is so loud, his blue clothes somehow untangle from the clothesline and drop onto the ground covered in mud. And people are shocked when I say that this show is taking potshots at Peppa Pig?! Roly calls it brown and Betty panics even more because she's got a lust for organizing. The disturbing part is this is much less disturbing than Roly's lust for them birds! More to come in Series 3 because there is an opening sequence that is so amazing that it puts Roly into Pedro Fucking Pony terrority. Roly is looking at Delta Frog all confused and asks about animals, and then Betty hugs Roly and calls it a great idea. Okay, this next sequence is 100% Roly's fault! We HIT THE MONTAGE~ only with animals this time. Sheep get chased away by wolves, Delta Frog gets rejected by the Delta Chicken who leave in disgust, and Ladybird wants to be square, as Mr. Crabs and Mr. Turtle are like "whatever". Mr. Crabs is pissed and runs off stage left to find Nigel.

Duggee is confused as the sheep bail stage right, as Duggee cuts wolf off, woofs at him and wolf backs ups looking screwed. Woofs To English: Go eat Daddy Pig! Norrie ponders the next sequence, which the kids yell "color". Yellow is Enid, yellow bird and goldfish as both enemies of Enid find a way to bail. Grey is Johnny, Hippie Rabbit and Ethel as Ethel screams and runs away. Hippie Rabbit for maybe the only time where he wasn't trying to gaslight anyone calls it not cool. He's right for once. Roly is screaming at catepillar because this one is a rainbow collection of colors. That was funny. Next up, by size. By the way, they are using the same scene changers against different colored backgrounds. Brady Bunch-equse sequence ensues with the large ones having to be compact size to fit. They should be lucky Hennie is not part of the gig, this would have been trouble. King Tiger is complaining, Ethel and Enid do double duty along with Delta Frog and Delta Chicken, for no reason. This causes a massive explosion as all the animals are disorganized because living ceatures are impossible to contain in a box, of course. Roly should have zipped his lips on this one. Betty is panicking as Roly ponders it over and decides that there is another way to "organize" them, which is where they live. Yes, the narrator had to prep the promo for Roly, but when Roly gets it over the clever clogs, it's time for Betty to pack this idea away for a while. Betty having Tag's slug on her head while being happy by Roly's suggestion was also funny. Brady Bunch-equse sequence of the animals being put in their proper place of living and that is that. Nigel and Mr. Crabs reunite in the sandcastle to pay off the angle, which is good. We return to inside the clubhouse as Betty is happy, goldfish in the bowl is happy and Enid don't care because she's sleeping. The narrator asks if the kids did well today as Duggee returns with the badge and the kids all cheer. Enter the parents in their vehicles in time for the DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug. The kids bail stage left giggling as they present the badges to their parents, and the parents hug the kids. The parents and kids leave in their vehicles as the narrator asks if this was fun. The Venus Flytrap shows up and bleches out the bee and the bee is alive and buzzing. The bee says "yes", everyone including the bee laughs to end the episode at 6:45. This was a fun episode and it's all Betty and Roly's fault as usual. *** 1/2 (70%).

Opening Moment #3: This opening features Norrie doing the snake charming spot on Worm as per a previous episode. The title card is an octogon badge with a watering can, sun and flowers in a potted plant against a blue background with blue trim.

The Looking After Badge: Short opens with the Red Ant Musical Band playing public domain music as the animals, the Squirrels and Duggee are watching the launch of a hot air balloon in person. Duggee is waving a green flag as the narrator is confused by this for some reason. Betty explains that Maurice The Flea and formal Delta Frog are going on an adventure as Maurice is explaining that Delta Frog is going around the world. The balloon launches and then Maurice panics because he failed to bring Bipi with him. Not Fifi, the another flea from the circus. Bipi, the potted plant on the ground as Roly bounces in and offers to look after it much to the animals' shock and appallment, because this is Roly we are talking about here. Maurice is so happy; but they won't be back for a little while. 2:1 odds that they return in 80 days. Everyone cheers as the balloon flies away as we jump cut to the kids with Bipi as Betty is wondering how to take care of this plant. Some clever clogs you turned out to be, Betty. Roly is confused as Duggee points to his chest to reveal his Looking After Badge as the narrator has to talk over the music still being played. The kids all cheer as the scene changer this time involves a world globe spot that is straight out of the Peppa Pig show with Captain Dog. It's much more detailed than Captain Dog's version that is for sure. Surprisely, the globe doesn't show Duggee's face this time. We return back to outside the barn as the Delta Chickens are being themselves as usual and the blue bird is on lookout from the roof. Jump cut to inside with the kids, the plant and Duggee wearing summer clothes. Why the summer clothes instead of the farming clothes?! I have no clue. Norrie I think is asking about Delta Frog and Maurice as the doorbell rings and Duggee answers it to reveal Eugene the Post Chipmunk..AGAIN! I am so sick and tired of this guy who mispronounces names. The kids correct him nicely again as they have a postcard which apparently doubles as GPS because they are talking as if they are live through the snowy mountain area instead of just doing the flashback sequence. They are over the snow cone mountains, which some of the mountain literally look like ice cream. I'm guessing Ice Cream Mountains is trademarked by someone, I don't know. They also show the two in the balloon shivering and freezing not to death because this is dumb. The kids decide to give Bipin some sunshine and run out stage right with the plant.

We return to the scene changer of the global progress of the balloon, which they are approaching a forest of sorts. It's now sunset as it's also fall for some reason when we return to the barn as Bipin's leaves are falling off the plant inside and the kids are panicking. Duggee is wearing Kit Cloudkicker's sweater with orange pants and I approve of this look. I would love to see Kit and Duggee do a duet together, and I mean that in the nicest way possible. Roly doesn't know what to do, like the dork that he is and then the doorbell rings away. Give me a break here, it's Eugene again! He is serious "go away" heat at this point. I wish the kids would punch him in the nose like Eugene from WWE did to Marko Stunt recently, and those smiles indicate to me that they want to, but cannot. It's a pre-school show, what can you do?! The jounery through the jungle in the post card was better as it included a double almost got chomped by animals spots, including a giant alligator stick insect, which was funny. The payoff is that Maurice and Delta Frog are bigger than they are and they all bail. Also funny. Yes, this is a Delta Frog focused episode believe it or not. Also, Bipin losing leaves is nothing to worry about because it's normal, you see as they have to flee from a large tree monster. Okay, then. Happy consoles Bipin as we continue the scene changer from around the world with the balloon nearing another jungle area and an upcoming desert. We head outside the barn as it's AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) and snowing. Wait, so have the kids been in the barn all this time and not go home?! I don't think the parents were approve of such a thing, especially for caring for a plant. Everyone is wearing winter clothes inside, for no reason and Bipin looks better now and Happy acts like nothing is okay with it. Okay, now the logic is screwed up. The doorbell rings and I kindly tell Eugene to fuck off. Not you Nick Dinsmore, you're fine. Now the kids are annoyed at him for mispronouncing their names and I say good for them! This angle is television death now. Happy reads the postcard as Maurice claims that traveling is hard work as we cut to Delta Frog and Maurice relaxing on the beach during this promo. HAHA! Betty calling them brave is comedy gold to me. To be fair, the balloon adventure segments are way better than the looking after segments and it helps Delta Frog's character a lot. The problem is that the stake looks stupid now because the kids haven't really done anything to earn the badge yet. The other note is to keep Bipin warm and Duggee offers his scarf to keep Bipin warm. Happy calls this moment nice and cozy. Okay, whatever; do the next scene changer to the desert.

We head back to the barn as it's spring outside and inside the kids are confused because the plant has sprung a pink bulb. Plus, it's inflating like a balloon. GO THE FUCK AWAY, EUGENE THE POST FUCKER~! Find a new post officer, show! This time, Delta Frog and Maurice are travelling the desert for a while while Maurice cuts his promo. The camel is wearing an Ash Ketchum hat with a raindrop and shoes, that was funny and there was a lot of beige in Maurice's promo. Yes, Bipin have bloomed into a beautiful flower, it looks great. Everyone cheers and then the POLLEN OF STINK shows up and everyone's nose wants to flee and never see this flower again. I laughed and laughed and laughed some more. Roly now wishes he sreeched "no". Even funnier, Betty is the only one who doesn't sell it, the smartass wins it all as she says that this flower's smell is not to everyone's liking. Roly is a glorious buffoon. By the way, in Series One I do believe; there is a stinky lion anthro in rich person's gear that causes problems with the Squirrels. Shot to outside of the barn as Duggee opens the window to let in air and Duggee hangs on the window to relieve himself from this stink. Scene changer to the balloon reaching the barn soon as we head outside with Duggee drying the clothes on the wash, probably to get rid of the stink from earlier. Although, the kids are still wearing their normal gear anyway. GET EUGUNE OFF MY SCREEN, YOU FUCKING SHOW~! Oh, and now Eugene almost gets it right, just the weird accent made it otherwise. I never want to see this post officer ever again on this show. The kids cheer as Tag does his pogostick cheer promo. Roly reading the postcard was funny as Maurice recaps the rest of the trip as he breaks a puzzle cliff, and sees a drop of water fall which he calls a bit disappointing. Har har! Finally, the balloon arrives at the barn as Maurice finishes his promo and lands harder than the balloon should be allowed to land. Maurice leaves the balloon addressing the kids as he asks about Bipi and see Bipi is bloomed and Maurice loves it. Delta Frog ribbits as Duggee bails on all fours and returns with the badge. The kids all cheer as the parents arrive in their vehicles, just in time for the DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug. The kids present the badges and get hugs from the parents; and then leave with the parents in their vehicles. The narrator asks if this was fun and Bipi farts more pollen, Duggee is ready to vomit and Maurice scolds Bipi to end the episode at 6:45. By the way, the Delta Frog's name in this episode was called Phileas Frog. Okay, then. This was a tale of three whiplashes in one: The postcard reading segments were great, the looking after stuff was merely okay; but had a hilarious payoff and Eugene was television death to me. Call it *** 3/4 (75%).

Opening Moment #4: This opening features Tag's infamous backpedalling on his ten-speed bicycle as per a previous episode. The title card is a circular badge of Duggee's face laughing until he cried with a yellow ring surrounding it along with red/yellow trim.

The Comedy Badge: Short opens in another part of the clubhouse as the kids play as usual. No tea party this time and Betty decides to read about shapes instead as the narrator asks what Duggee has planned for them today. The kids run stage left and Tag, for the second time in this series, trips over something like a dork, and falls flat on his face. Tag is injured...AGAIN! He is Pedro F'N Pony! Except, Pedro broke his leg twice and was in hospital, that ballsy pony. The kids hear Tag sound like Lex Lugar selling punches. Betty panics on cue as she needs medicine. Out of context, Betty needs a certain kind of medicine. as in therapy. Happy claims that his mum claims that laughter is the best medicine. Someone get Happy's mum a case of root beer and a box of steaks. It's time for an awesome BBQ! Betty is surprised about this and while it is not science evidence by any stretch, Duggee's world is magical so why not?! The kids decide to make Tag laugh. Sadly, BS&P is not going to allow tickling Tag, which would be funny because Tag did the same thing to Catepillar in The Catepillar Badge. It would be way too soon to do it anyway because no one can stand Senor Tickle. Literally no one. The kids wonder how to do this and Duggee points to his chest making the most absurd funny face he can and I didn't laugh. The clown horns don't work on me because I hear this in Peppa Pig episodes involving Mr. Potato and Mr. Zebra's post office truck and those sounds like theme songs. Badge scene changer of doom shows Duggee doing Gruncho Marx, and it doesn't work on me. I'm old and this show is way too hilarious on it's own to be pulling off cheap crap like this. This show has the opposite problem Teen Titans Go does: TTG's humor absolutely sucks and trying to force it makes it suck even more, as demonstrated in the Return of Slade, where Beast Boy and Cyborg hire the most generic clown in existence to make them look funnier than they actually are and it sucked. Hey Duggee has 94 episodes at this point: Their humor is awesome and it's a pre-school show. I laugh so hard at nearly half of the stuff that is funny and half of the spots are funnier than they were intended to be. The most recent one was Roly yelling "DINOSAUR CAN HELP HER~!", and I laughed because I understood that this was a rib on George's love for dinosaur and Peppa Pig is basically Cookie in "The Story Badge". It also helps when Duggee's reactions make him look like he is wrecked.

Here, they are trying to earn a badge that they have earned in almost very episode this show has had. Too long, don't care: There isn't a lot of inventive for this outside of cheering Tag up here, thus not much heat nor conflict. We return as we are in a classroom and Duggee is the most happiest teacher I have ever seen. Again, this is funny; but why bother teaching the lesson?! Just be yourselves. Of course, that would end the episode way too quickly so we have to do the educational part of this deal. Of all the educational stuff they do, this is totally acceptable and can be done on this show. Problem is, why bother when the show is a pre-school comedy act to begin with?! Duggee woofs out the definition of comedy and the narrator translates as there is a chalkboard in the background. I'm not angry that they are doing this episode, I'm just bored of it. The show is better off not teaching this since they already do it and the kids notice it because comedy is awesome when done properly and this show does it properly for the most part. Okay, doing calculations with yellow chalk on frown to smiles was funny in itself. The kids just stare at the narrator like "what is this?!" That made me laugh. They are realizing just how stupid this badge is now. Duggee realizes he has been had and erases the chalkboard. See, that's funny. The historic claim is that the first joke happened in Ancient Egypt, like the cassette player. Two naughty mice squeak and then one of them does the backsplash laugh, so yes; this was a rib on Peppa Pig's backsplash laugh. HAHA! Also funny. The kids reaction is the exact same as in the first attempt to explain the comedy. They do not care about the history or science of comedy because comedy is either an art form, or an assault weapon. Even the kids understand that one. Duggee continues the history lesson not getting that this is a lost cause now. More naughty mice in 1503 as someone draws a funny painting and another backsplash laugh. The kids are like "you just dissed a good gimmick in other show, show." This is funnier than any of the intentional jokes in this episode. More history with words and stage as there were more backsplash laughs than the entire Series 8 and 9 of Peppa Pig. Then the narrator finally kills the whole "realism" angle of this education by showing off cinema with a mouse with clothes on a stick walking, as the narrator calls him the first comedian known as Stanley Squeak. This has to be a rib on Mummy Mouse in Peppa Pig now, with Mandy Mouse as the female Stanley Squeak.

Stanley smacks a conveniently placed police officer and runs away as the police chases him down and the mice laugh at this assault with a weapon. Even worse, the clothes on a stick hit him in the head and keep in mind, they are considered live-action actors in Duggee's world despite the chalk art. The officer got a head shot and that's not funny. No wonder mice are so naughty and Duggee laughing at this made me cringe, and the kids side with ME on this one. Happy then says that comedy is supposed to be funny, and Happy doesn't see this as funny. Neither do I, Happy; neither do I. Duggee is confused as the narrator conceeds Happy's point. Betty then claims that what she finds funny is a book called "Dr. Pluto's Fun Facts!" Dr. Pluto I believe is the teddy bear's name of Betty whom has his own book. Basically, the book opens to show off fun facts which makes Betty laugh. I don't laugh, but it is good to know, so this book is still okay. One of pictures involves a feather and I was expecting the CGI Dr. Pluto to arrive to tell me that you cannot tickle yourself; but instead it's licking your own elbows. He's correct of course as everyone fails at it. The kids love it; but it's not funny because no one is laughing. Narrator: Something that is fun doesn't mean it's funny. (Paraphrasing here.) Word. Roly then reveal a television show called the Buzzy Bear Show, and they show a demonstration of a combination CGI/Claymation show. The main character is cutting promos while literally looking into the hard camera. It's like thinking you are ribbing Peppa Pig, but end up ribbing yourself instead. Bizzy Bear opens the door (the yellow Care Bear, Buzzy's the blue Care Bear, I think...) and they blow each other off for a while. Roly giggles on cue, but no one else does and neither do me. Norrie and Tag are the only one trying to not prove my point about ribbing self here. They failed. Roly then realizes no one buys it and groans, that was funny. Happy claims that his cousin Eric is funny. Wait, so your mother claims that laughter is the best medicine...why isn't it your mother being a comedian instead of your cousin?! Or even your cousin saying that laughter is the best medicine?! SUZY SHEEP~?! Cousin Eric is like at least 3/4's the height of Hennie here as they are at the beach. The art style for this is the best part of this scene, I should note. It looks like the same style used in the story book of Cookie, the one where Duggee suffered Death Of An Author in real time!

The guise of this is that Eric is so tall, the water comes up to his knees. Yeah, so?! Hennie's probably comes up to her ankles or lower. Not funny and not even impressive. Happy does not know humor, I don't know about his mum and I don't think Eric cares either way because he cannot help himself since he's tall. Betty rightfully blows it off because it's not a joke as Norrie has a joke. This might be good. Personally, I hope Norrie did Sally Struthers peanut joke from The Incredible Shrinking Molly, because it was bad it was funny. What do you get when you cross a elephant and a potato?! Mashed potatoes. Okay, that joke made sense and it's true; but I didn't laugh. Nice try, Norrie. Should have stolen the peanut joke there, that might have gotten some laughs. Hey as long as there are no headshots, a-salted is fine. Tag sides with me on that one. Norrie then explains the joke with Ethel and the potato with mobile graphics. It's official: We found a moment where explaining the joke was much funnier than the joke itself. Memo to people who use The Joker's words: The Joker lies to himself and others to justify his horrible actions and crimes. Don't take advice from him! Furthermore, he likely stole that promo from someone else anyway. Quote the original author if you want to go for easy shots. Then we discover that Happy's mother hates potatoes and doesn't allow them in the house. Probably because she was defamed since there is such a thing as an elephant potato in real life. Known as a white spotted giant arum, which resembles an elephant's real foot! Damn. Now, every kid gets into an argument as they are all shocked and appalled by Happy being denied by their potatoes and I'm laughing because this is so dumb and getting dumber. Roly in the middle claims that chips are not potatoes, so he's a food luddite for some reason. This argument ends with Norrie blowing everyone off and now she's pissed off. I laughed, this joke has finally made her more rude than Peppa Pig ever was. Peppa's rudeness was with glee, Norrie's rudeness was with total disgust because Tag still is not laughing, which was the point of this episode! Even Norrie realizes that no one cares anymore. The other kids then get pissed off in kind and now they are beyond rude as Duggee now has rollerskates on his feet out of nowhere. Uh-oh! Trouble.

Duggee is trying to calm then down, somehow, a bunch of blocks appear out of nowhere. SUZY SHEEP~?! Three of them appear behind Duggee as Duggee rollerskates backwards unintentionally and then trips backwards. We get Hanna Barbara sound effects out of nowhere as Duggee faceplants on a desk which somehow turns on the fan. Duggee flies backwards as we get the most Rube-Goldbergish comedy spotfest in about a week on this show. Duggee turns into an old school comedy geek bump machine, complete with the pinball spot. The only reason for this is to cameo Brown Cows, Delta Chickens, Sheep and Delta Frog because they are in a per-appearance deal and they want to appear all the time. Into the barn where Angry Bull is in the most safest head butt lift away spot of all time. Duggee takes about eighteen shots to the head upside down and that yellow bucket provided zero protection. This all ends in the kitchen as Duggee at least lands on his ass. Duggee takes off the yellow bucket and water splashes on him, which at least was funny. This causes the kids to laugh because it was all unintentional, unlike Stanley Squeak assaulting a police officer in the face. Tag is laughing and then walks up and admits that his knee was fine all this time. Now THAT was funny and the kids agree with me. The narrator proclaims that it was physical comedy that won the day as Duggee is panting and now loaded with hay. SUZY SHEEP~?! Then they DID THE WHOLE FUCKING SEQUENCE unintentionally, AGAIN; only in time lapse mode~! Duggee presents them the badge and at least this time, he didn't land on his ass. Enid then shows up out of nowhere, not laughing, but smiling. Ah, close enough. The kids laugh as Duggee literally farts. Damn, they are milking this joke to the ground now. In comes the parents in their vehicles in time for the DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug with clown horns. The kids bail stage left as the laughing is more justified than ever. They present the badges to their parents and stereo hugs ensue. The parents leave with the kids in their vehicles before Duggee gets even more wrecked as the narrator asks if it was fun and Duggee lefts his rollerskates beside him. Duggee, the biggest geek of the show now, somehow gets into the rollerskates and he bumps off-screen as the narrator protests this outrage to end the episode at 6:45. The comedy music continues into the credits and Duggee doesn't appear in the doghouse as they do the final bump of this episode: Duggee lands on top of his own doghouse concussed as the kids yell his name. Okay, this episode was really, really good; but the whole notion of earning a badge based on something that everyone on this show has earned is Darkwing Duck levels of stupid. Call it *** 1/2 (70%).

Opening Moment #5: This opening features Norrie painting the birdhouse as per a previous episode. The title card is a circular badge of a bird singing in striped white/red clothing on a tree branch against a sky blue background, with matching candy cane colored trim.

The Singing Badge: Short opens in the grassy knolls under the sun with the kids and Duggee wearing a hat with a leaf symbol on it. There's a lot of white thistle flying around as the narrator asks what is happening. The kids say it all as butterflies fly, Worm nearly gets stepped on off-screen by Tag, which makes sense since the grass here is up to the kids necks. Ditto Happy and his love for puddles, becoming the B Level-Peppa Pig now. The kids claim that they love the countryside, and the countryside acts like God who sees the kids and Duggee as licking the boots of the creation and not itself and therefore starts messing up the kids good graces with nature. The kids ask if they are nearly home as Duggee checks the map and Duggee says "no" in woofs. You know, I wouldn't put it past this show to have Duggee take a pot shot at Daddy Pig and read the map sideways instead of upside down. Not yet as Duggee woofs that it's time to sing a song and Tag claims that they know no songs at all. Actually, they do know one song; but they'll get sued by Gigi Gazelle if the Bing Bong Song, the only song that matters in pre-school shows, is sang in any context on other shows. Pedro gets a free pass since he's a student of Gigi Gazelle and thus got permission to become Pedro Fucking Pony. Duggee knows because he can sing, and point to his chest to reveal a badge. Yes, they do a march, Duggee sings in woofs, the kids sing in English and the English singing is much worse than the woofs. All the animals see that as an assault on their ears and hide. Hedgely cameos, so he can go pound sod. The squirrel is literally nude and taking a bath on a tree branch. The birds hate this more than Roly, I didn't think that was possible. Then someone says "shhh" and the kids all stop, except for Roly who bumps into Betty like a geek. Are they going to do an angle with Roly having hearing loss, too?! I hope not, because it would not be funny. Roly is concussed as usual. We discover that there is a female beaver in pink named Mrs. Weaver The Beaver, whom was responsible for shutting them up, even though everyone is shouting at normal volume and no one cares. It's not that they are loud, it's because their singing sucks! At least Duggee's singing is so bad it's funny; the kids do not have that excuse going for them.

Then we discover that it is the noise because Mrs. Weaver is complaining about the noise since three baby beavers show up in diapers, the third one looks like a beaver version of Digger from The Adventures Of Teddy Ruxpin. The cubs seem to not care about sleeping and are nice to the kids at least. Norrie is in awe as the brown haired cub cuts a promo on Norrie because they want to sleep and Mrs. Weaver is angry now because this noise sucks! Tag claims that they were singing, and I believe that more than when the kids of Peppa Pig try to play music and Gigi calls it noise. Mrs. Weaver changes her tune and loves singing after being accused of hating singing. Apparently, she's a professional singer who suffers from Imposter Syndrome, although not as profound as Ladybird as she does the Kit Cloudkicker finger points together spot. The kids, especially Roly, dare her to sing a song as Mrs. Weaver is hesistant. Uh-oh! Trouble. Then the kids say "please" and Mrs. Weaver is screwed, she must accept the terms. Mrs. Weaver then decides to sing and she's much louder than anyone on this show, because that's what this episode needs: more windbags. Worse off, more singing windbags. She would fit rather well with DARKWING... DUCK, now I have thought about it. She sings about herself, showing off her cartoonish brain and heart. This song is great, but it doesn't have the hook feel that "The Stick" song had in it's favor. I'm surprised that they allowed the word "soul" in this show; although Duggee's world is magical, so okay then. The kids all sing and play musical instruments. The hook haired beaver cub loves to bang on the drum all day. Digger Beaver is on the wooden saxophone, the Teddy Beaver is on the stick-less violin. By the way, the beats do not match the playing of the instruments, which makes sense since they are cubs. All the kids, Duggee and somehow Enid are musical notes now. SUZY SHEEP~?! Montage of locations to sing ensue as there is more spots and I'm not calling it anymore. The song is great and I enjoyed it, that's all you need to know. Roly turns into a baby, literally in one scene. Roly becomes George Pig Series Two when Cousin Chole and Peppa Pig put George in the baby carriage. Roly takes this better than George Pig. The animals are dancing to the beat now, which means that the kids singing did in fact suck.

The Squirrel DJ can spin in this world, just not on the American Football field. Gemstones ensue in the background as Mrs. Weaver is singing on the microphone on what is literally a soapbox. Then the kids singing no longer sucks as Norrie loves the Japanese plum, which I believe is the first time that made it onto western children's media without being censored. Roly gets the "fuck you Peppa" moment with singing on the moon while wearing a spacesuit. Happy breaks notes for fun as more dancing and singing. By the way, this might be the shortest rant I have ever done because there's nothing to say other than highlighting the best spots. Betty apparently found the DNA Splitter somewhere in this world. Then after nearly TWO AND A HALF MINUTES of this awesome upbeat song, Mrs. Weaver sings a lullaby to the cubs with the kids backing her up on vocals while the birds wear candy cane outfits and Duggee simply rocks to simulate rocking the cubs to sleep. The beaver cubs are rocked to sleep and that is that as the animals show up in the foreground to rock and it officially ends with the forest closing in as curtains. Yes, folks; this song lasted almost as long as a Peppa Pig Tales episode! And it was better than the majority of those Peppa Pig Tales episodes! Apparently, the kids backed up and then marched out of the forest after this as the kids love singing. Now the kids and Duggee are at the clubhouse as the narrator asks if the kids did well today. Duggee bails on all fours and returns with the badge as the kids all sing decently. In comes the parents in their vehicles as it's time for the DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug. The kids bail stage left to present the badges to their parents, and the kids hug the parents. The kids leave with their parents in their vehicles as the narrator asks if this was fun. Okay, here's how this episode ends: Duggee is waving goodbye as Hedgely, Hippie Rabbit, Blue Bird and the Delta Chickens are on the scene. On top of Duggee's head is a yellow bird in the candy cane striped gear from the badge as Duggee howls like a dog shattering windows and everyone's ears within a forty mile radius to end the episode at 6:45. Half of that running time was literally one continious musical. It was great, and the finish was lovely. **** 1/2 (90%).

Opening Moment #6: This opening features Roly looking at the upgraded pinwheel contraption as per a previous episode. The title card is a square badge with lots of toys against a blue background with red/white trim.

The Playing Badge: Short opens as they literally pay off the badge within seconds. HAHA! Yes, the kids are playing and they have earned the badge outright BEFORE the narrator can ask what Duggee has planned for them today. HAHA! Roly is building a tower out of rainbow colored chess pieces, which shows he's more creative than actual chess players. Betty is doing literal infinity math on the chalkboard, that was funny. I think Norrie is making a bead necklace from a jar of beads, Happy is building a tower out of blocks and Tag is the least creative being spinning a top. Still a lot more respectable and a lot less douchy than Top Man from the Ruby Spears Mega Man cartoon and Lex Lugar late-1999 WCW. From the window in the background, pops the dreaded Naughty Monkey. Uh-oh! Trouble. We have already seen Naughty Monkey wreck havoc on this clubhouse and it's about to happen, again. Naughty Monkey does his heelish run-in and he wrecks havoc on everyone. In Roly's case, he didn't touch him, just to make Roly look like a bigger geek than he would be if Naughty Monkey had touched him. Naughty Monkey then bounces out of the clubhouse as the kids protest this outrage and I howl with laughter. Naughty Monkey then wrecks the animals outside, messing with the boom box of the Delta Chickens because when music is played, you must obey the beat. Except, Naughty Monkey disobeys anyway, because he's naughty, you see. And he's the one who is getting character development in this show?! Enid gets roll yarned, literally, Worm gets concussed, Brown Cow and Sheep get off easy. Naughty Monkey runs away free from punishment, and makes it to his apartment house with an elevator, just to make Norrie and her family look poor and geeks at the same time. The elevator door opens and Naughty Monkey steps into the elevator and goes up into his treehouse. This looks totally out of character for Naughty Monkey as the building looks like Naughty Monkey is a Nice Monkey. This is a SUZY SHEEP~ moment if I ever saw one. Naughty Monkey puts a vinyl record on and takes a bath off-screen. Yes, the Naughty Monkey is only acting naughty, he's not really naughty. He's working us. You trolls on this writing team!! I could not contain myself! This made the whole Comedy Badge episode look even worse in hindsight! He goes into the kitchen with towels on his head and body and makes a banana smoothie, banana peel and all in the blender. Then jump cut to him swinging from the tire while drinking his banana smoothie in regular gear. SUZY SHEEP~?!

Naughty Monkey is loving life and then the doorbell ring. He's not going to like where this is going. He answers the door and in comes four hillbilly monkeys who can speak perfect English! They are wearing overalls, red shirts and speak in a southern accent. We now have five rednecks on this show, and somehow Hyena is in fact, the best of the the lot, and only because he got kidnapped by a spaceship literally on this show, making him the most interesting by default. Of course the Redneck Monkeys all wreck havoc on Naughty Monkey for a long ass whomping time. If the kids had done this, at least it would be a proper comeupperance, even if the kids shouldn't be doing it, but this is sad because Naughty Monkey's naughtiness does have a naive charm to it, as if Naughty Monkey is crying to help because he's actually classy and it's his outlet to relieve the pressure of his even worse cousins. These cousins have zero charm to them, they are just home wreckers and I have zero degrees of sympathy nor empathy for them! They cannot even do the "monkeys jumping on the bed" gag properly. This is so bad, although the monkey shaking the lava lamp was amusing in a really stupid way. By the way, the tire swing's tire is now red. SUZY SHEEP~?! I'm no longer calling this and it doesn't have the awesomeness the Singing Badge did, and it's shorter. Even the narrator has had enough of this nonsense and actually empathizes with Naughty Monkey as Naughty Monkey needs help. Jump cut to a shot outside the barn and then inside as the Squirrels have tidied up the place. Then the doorbell rings and the Squirrels answer it. They make small talk for a while which is the best Naughty Monkey could have hoped for because he's still naughty in everyone else's eyes, you see. The kids do somewhat distrust Naughty Monkey by praising his cousins and happy to see them. That's one way to not trust Naughty Monkey without being mean, I guess. Oh, and here come the Redneck Monkeys to prove Naughty Monkey right. One of them is wearing a Pikachu hood as Naughty Monkey's frown is coming dangerously close to 1.0 Rock Lobster Yeti's. The kids do not care as the Redneck Monkeys literally bounce off their heads and the kids no sell the shots. Oh, you Squirrels are going to be the biggest GEEKS OF THE WEEK~! I have no sympathy nor empathy for you. This hurbis is on you this time, not Naughty Monkeys. Yup, the Redneck Monkey trash the barn, YEE-HAW! The kids don't care as Naughty Monkey gets bashed in the fact with a clock key frog ball. I have never defended Naughty Monkey before, but after this, I feel sorry for him.

Naughty Monkey at least tries not to be naughty and can restrain himself. He can regulate his emotions somewhat. His cousins have absolute zero impulse control, the worst lack of impulse control. Ironically, the kids finally realize how stupid they are when TOYS get bonked off their heads, which are less weight than the Redneck Monkeys, whom bounced on their heads before this. SUZY SHEEP~?! Delta Frog also gets wrecked on the sofa as Enid runs to Naughty Monkey as Duggee woofs for them to STOOOOOPPPPPPPPPP! Basically, the woof version of Mr. Bull's "stop" command. The narrator says that everyone needs to calm down and the red freakled monkey claims that they were only playing. While looking like he was taking a bath in the kitchen sink. Nice try, you lying redneck! Happy says that this playing is wrong, you see. Word. The monkeys asks how to play and Duggee offers to help them because he points to his chest to reveal the badge four minutes into this episode. This causes the Redneck Monkey to turn into balls and bounce off of walls and people literally. Zero...impulse...control. These monkeys need therapy a lot more than Naughty Monkey ever did. We get the badge scene changer of a rainbow top with Duggee's face on it, spinning and winking eye sounds of course. We return with Betty and Happy playing dolls in the dollhouse with Green Hat Monkey. That's my name for him and I'm sticking to it. He wrecks the doll area of the tea table, thankfully, none of the stuff was fragile despite using the glass breaking sound effects. Again, zero impulse control. The kids say you must play more carefully. Naughty Monkey to a certain extent, took this to heart as his naughtiness is more reeled in and calculated. Like Peppa Pig's trolling in Peppa Pig, which made Peppa Pig a better character in hindsight without destroying the gimmick. Next up is Norrie teaching Hook Hair Monkey painting a flower. By the way, George Pig has better impulse control than the monkeys and in fact, does a better job of trolling Peppa in painting. See the debut of the Playgroup in Series One of Peppa Pig. Norrie states that it must be done calmly. That would require impulse control and these monkeys are incapable of that. If they were capable, this would be easy. See Naughty Monkey. Next up is Roly and Black Hair Monkey on drums, as BH Monkey just bangs on anything that is nailed down or not nailed down. He is the literal definition of seeing everything as a nail and he has the hammers. Which drum sticks are sort of hammers! How about a toy that doesn't require you to have a bloodlust for violence?! Roly proclaims that they should play quietly. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Projection much there, Roly?!

Pikachu Hood Monkey at least is creative as he drag races wearing toy cars on his feet. As stupid and dangerous as this is, it looked really cool. At least this monkey has that going for him, despite his lack of impulse control. Tag gets in front, puts his arms out and yells "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO~!", and Pikachu Hood Monkey stops on a dime. This is the first sign of actual impulse control by these redneck monkeys. They are refusing to control themselves which makes them WORSE! Tag tells him to play gently as we jump cut to Duggee and Naughty Monkey playing chess properly. The only one of the monkeys that got it the first time and did not lose control. This leads to all the monkeys playing properly as Hook Hair paints a picture of the redneck Monkeys wearing candy cane bathing suits shooting the breeze in a G-rated way on the river side. The redneck monkeys are still full of energy, so Roly screams that they play outdoors. Okay, the payoff to this was almost perfect: Head outside as Roly is rolling a bed and three of the redneck monkeys, Norrie and Betty are jumping on the bed! This is a great "fuck you finish" and it made sense because the properly playing monkeys have at least improved on properly excuting the sight gag. This would have been perfect if all five monkeys were jumping on the bed while the kids wheeled them out. So close show, so close. By the way, Betty and Norrie jumping on the bed despite being the nice ones on this show...that's bullshit. They play leap frog for awhile, do stereo running for a swim and then bail because the lake is freezing cold with the footage being half of the framerate it is supposed to be. They cosplay a train using the board as tracks, as Brown Cow, Delta Chicken and Sheep are involved. Delta Frog becomes a matching green hat for Brown Cow, that was funny. Surfboaring, swinging, trampoline bouncing and doing a concert on the beach with more cameos as the kids all jump up for joy over the rainbow to finally finish this montage. The kids and monkeys all run to Duggee as the narrator asks if they did well. Duggee bails on all fours and returns with the badge as the Redneck Monkeys join Naughty Monkey in earning the badge. Here come the parents in their vehicles in time for the DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug. The music stops as the kids present the badges to their parents and hug. The kids and parents leave in their vehicles as the redneck monkeys bounce off the bed to leave stage left. HAHA! Yes, they paid off the joke finally. The narrator asks if this was fun and Naughty Monkey runs around Duggee to make him dizzy to end the episode at 6:45. This was an okay start, a disasterous sequence before Naughty Monkey must get help and then it ended up being a really awesome episode at the end. Naughty Monkey didn't need the character development though, seriously. *** 3/4 (75%).

Opening Moment #7: This opening features Roly meditating as per a previous episode. The title card is a circular badge with birthday trappings against a purple background with red trim as the narrator sound way too excited and wooden at the same time. You would think this is Roly's birthday, but you would all be wrong...

The Party Badge: Short opens with Duggee at a table in the clubhouse assembling something for some model product that I don't really care about. Duggee cannot seem to get the pieces to fit properly, despite the fact that the pieces don't look like they fit properly regardless of said pieces on the finished model, thus making Duggee look like a dork. The narrator calls it complicated, I call it frustrating and Duggee's expressions add credence to my theory. The narrator decides to bail to check on the kids as the kids are doing the usual in the clubhouse. Happy is playing with a yo-yo, Norrie and Roly are building with blocks and Tag and Betty are playing with the parking lot and toy cars. The narrator tries to get in a word, but the doorbell rings and the kids run stage right to answer it. The door opens to reveal a large parcel, and oh damn, it's the post chipmunk who mispronounces names worse than George and Peppa combined! Yes, he cannot pronounce Duggee still, the kids correct him, the post chipmunk says "whatever" and walks off stage right without any signature. He needs to be fired, STAT! There's no "l" in Duggee, you bigot! The kids run in to inspect the parcel, which is like a present because the white string is wrapped like a bow on a present. The kids exchange notes and Roly looks so giddy that he wants to exchange presents. Yup, Roly is self-aware that this is someone's birthday, somehow. The kids deduce that the present is for Duggee, therefore it's Duggee's birthday. Huge, if true. The kids decide to throw a surprise party for Duggee as Betty has to shh them because it's supposed to be a secret. Roly: "From whom?!" I howled with laughter. Roly has a point there, Betty. The narrator is watching all this and his job is to narrate the story while everyone can hear. Even ROLY knows that keeping a secret on this show is a fools errand. And after watching Peppa Pig, I wouldn't trust these kids to keep their attention straight to even zip their lips. Might as well tell Duggee and get it over with. Besides, you only have to earn the badge for the party. It doesn't even have to be a secret. Happy then asks a great question: Does Duggee like secrets? Roly decides to play the role of the NSA to find out. The loudest guy in the world has to practice the fine art of not being seen is hilarious.

Jump cut to Duggee again assembling, Roly pops up screaming, Duggee woofs and then Roly walks away saying nothing. What did you expect?! Have Norrie be the spy, if you want information on weither or not Duggee likes surprises or not?! This by the way makes me hate surprises even more than I do already. Roly then walks in and claims that Duggee loves surprises. Those damn gaslighting Hippie Rabbits have taught Roly how to gaslight us all. There was no evidence Duggee even answered the question, let alone said "yes". Norrie then notices that Duggee has a picture of a previous party with his friends and neighbours, as Norrie points to Duggee's picture and shows off the Party Badge. The kids are all happy as they bounce stage left to talk to Duggee, but Tag cuts them off because it's supposed to be a surprise, you see. Tag then proclaims that they will have to do it themselves, and they all look into the camera with this show's version of the "Da! Da! DAAAAAAAAA!" sounds. Sadly, the lack of martial arts zoom in to Tag's face ruins the effect. Badge scene changer ensues as it's the one where Duggee pops out of a present with a blue crown on his head. Next up, you HIT THE MONTAGE~! What is Roly doing?! Because it ain't setting up the surprise party, that's for sure. Delta Frog makes his contracted appearance inside a locker. Roly is actually pouring from legit tea pots and cups, since there is liquid inside the tea pot. Roly then runs over to Duggee trying to glue a piece and asks where the balloons are, and Duggee woofs that they are in the balloon box. Roly then whispers yells that they aren't doing a party and bounces off. Well, we have seen the kids do other things with balloons that weren't party related, so this is not snitching, you see. Duggee is shocked and then just continues on working. Roly works on the balloons for a while as Betty and Tag are determining the invitation list. Apparently, Betty is not amused by inviting the Delta Chickens to the party, implying that they are either party crashers or party poopers. That one might be an actual toss up or a combination of both actually. Norrie and Happy are making paper chains as Happy is happy. Roly using a weed killer pump to blow up balloons is somehow funnier than it ought to be. Norrie's Duggee chain looks fine, but Norrie has imposter syndrome. At least they didn't crumble like Happy's and Happy is no longer happy.

Norrie and Tag ask Duggee for assistance and it actually makes storyline sense, because BS&P won't allow the kids to use scissors, so Duggee creates the Teddy Bear chain and that is that. Norrie and Happy bounce away stage right without taking the chain with them. Huh? That was odd, considering the storyline is that it's supposed to be a secret party. There is a pile of balloons on the floor as Enid walks and buries herself, and then comes out and apparently ate a balloon to inflate herself. Oh, TAG! By the way, when Betty and Tag complete the invitations, which looks fine, they give one to Enid, who is back to normal now. They didn't even have the gall to extend the gag that they shouldn't have. Cowards! Anyhow, Betty tells her to dress to impress, Enid is annoyed, and the kids leave not caring that Enid meowed "no". That part was funny. If Roly is trying to overflow the clubhouse with balloons, you are not beating Miss Rabbit's record on Peppa Pig Tales. Delta Chicken blows off her invitation at the chicken coop and slams the door. Tag says "RSVP" and Betty yells "ASAP", which Tag's line is correct and Betty's is being an asshole. Betty and Tag run back in as Duggee is getting mad as hell with balloons bouncing around. For those who wonder: He's mad at the model something because he cannot assemble this thingie to save his life nor his brain. Betty and Tag run to the right to give Delta Frog -- whom was in the locker earlier mind you -- his invitation and the frog rabbits as the invite is now on a lillypad. Next up is Sheep, whom I bet eats said invite. I check the video...Nope, still eats grass as Betty presents one to Brown Cow. Ah, it's Tuesday who eats his invite, so he's not invited. Why doesn't that surprise me?! The Hippie Rabbits of course get the invite since the can provide cool music, man! Back to Duggee still working on that damn model something-a-bob as I discover that it's a model of Duggee's barn! It took almost four and a half minutes for me to figure it out. Balloons are everywhere in the area; but the area where the kids are, all the balloons are gone and it's mostly a lot of paper on the floor and walls. Tag is wearing a Mickey Mouse ear hat, because Norrie is a mouse, you see. Trying to be subtle in this way makes you look like the subtly of a jackhammer.

More balloons by Roly as Spider is trapped like a dead spider now, as it's time to make a birthday cake. Uh-oh! Now, if you have watched Peppa Pig with Peppa and George making a cake, you have a pretty good idea where this is going. Only, it's less excusable, because they did a Cake Badge episode back in Series One, Episode #2! It's made of just bread, and all the stuff Duggee likes...and sprinkles. Roly is still trying to break Miss Rabbit's record for stuffing a building with balloons. Restraint?! What's that?! Roly not know how to, for if he did, those birds would be safe! Blue bird watches from the roof, and somehow doesn't give an hippo. The kids, after all the talk in a normal volume throughout this sequence, whisper yells that they are finished and then they yell for Duggee. Duggee stops, turns around and he's shocked to see balloons and all the invites have arrived to have a birthday party. Tuesday is chewing up scenery, what a surprise as Roly has a poop balloon hat on screaming "Happy Birthday". Duggee woofs and shakes his head, because you see....Plot twist! It's not his birthday! In fact, there is no birthday for anyone. Damn, I was hoping the plot twist was that it was Roly's birthday, just to make Roly the GEEK OF THE WEEK~! The kids point out that he got a present from the delivery bigot...ERRRR...I mean, delivery chipmunk. It turns out it was not a present, it was a bunch of wooden figurines. Now suddenly, Delta Chicken being annoyed makes storyline sense. It was for the model clubhouse, you see. They then have enough time to eat cake and spit it out because the kids are complete geeks as the narrator asks if the kids did well. Duggee bails on all fours to bat some balloons, and then returns with the badge. Here comes the parents in their vehicles with balloons hitting Norrie Dad's car in time for the DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug. The kids bail stage left to present the badges to their parents. The parents hug the kids and then leave with the kids in their vehicles. The narrator asks if that was fun, and all but one balloon pops as Enid runs out of the barn in a panic. Duggee woofs to end the episode at 6:45, as there are more balloons present during the end credits. None of them popped, sadly as this was a fine episode with a funny finish. *** (60%).

Opening Moment #8: This opening features Betty in her explorer's gear as per a previous episode. The title card is a rectangle badge with various landmarks (including a holiday tree) against a purple background with green trim.

The Tour Guide Badge: Short opens outside with Duggee watering the flowers with a garden hose on a lovely sunny day. The kids run in and want to have a go in watering flowers. Duggee agrees to the terms and the kids have a go. Most do it right, except for Roly. I'm surprised Happy showed a lot of restraint during this as Tag runs out of water because Roly has to do the cartoonish "step on the hose to create a giant water bubble" spot. Roly steps off as Tag is the GEEK OF THE WEEK~ because they forgot to turn off the water first because Tag goes flying as water sprays everywhere, and I do mean everywhere! Oh, TAG~! Duggee panics, and turns off the water from the barn as Tag stops, drops and lands on his ass on the ground, probably breaking his tailbone in the process. Tag teases selling an injury and then calls it brilliant as Happy is jumping up and down in puddles, because of course! Norrie loves nature and Roly loves sliding on green and orange grass. Oh wait, Roly is sliding on a giant snake, whom looks straight out of BC's Quest For Tires. Except, this snake is not deadly and is looking friendly. The snake identifies itself as Gerby and the kids wave hello, while Duggee isn't too happy about this. Roly slides off as we meet and greet. Gerby needs help because he's a tourist and sounds like a redneck, so Gerby is from Duggee's America. Honestly, I would love to see Duggee's America, that would be money! Duggee offers help in the form of showing the sights of Duggee's Area, because he points to his chest to reveal the Tour Guide Badge. Betty asks what a tour guide is and the narrator explains slowly. By the way, another sign that Gerby is a redneck: He interrupts the narrator's point by saying "like me!". Gerby then ties the Squirrels up and the kids all giggle, Duggee is like "This is a pre-school show?!" confused look. Scene changer shows what appears to be a map of Duggee's world and somehow, the barn is not in the center, but northeast of an outline of Duggee's face. Happy's appartment building is directly north, I should note. The two tree eyes wink of course.

We return to Duggee dressed up like a boy scout pretending to be a tour guide, even though he is supposed to be the tour guide in storyline. He opens a magazine called "Squirrel Club", which is basically a tour guide book of Duggee's world basically. The narrator is translating Duggee's woofs as the narrator cuts promo on areas such as the water drop fall, with some animal cameos which I refuse to dignify here. Yup, the gimmick of this waterfall is that it has one water drop falling at a time. There is a carrot museum as well as those damn gaslighting Hippie Rabbits continue to mark their grounds thinking that they own the world. I think you can guess whom I am comparing this to without me telling you it. Also, the Hippie Rabbit has a son as they cut a promo. Gerby is not impressed with this. When the redneck doesn't think this is great, then this museum sucks! Apparently, Super Mario Brothers 3 was in the idea bucket last time, since there is a giant fruit tree. An apple drops, Brown Cow dodges. Pfftt, whatever. Gerby then proclaims that he just wants to spend a day in the life of the Squirrels and the locals. Oh, this guy would go along well with Hyena and Naughty Monkey's cousins, I assure thee! Gerby does about four different ways to both impress up; but annoy my eyes with different color backgrounds. Roly is giddy about smells and then bounces off. He returns with a smelly green sock and Gerby likes it. Betty doesn't because Roly collects them. Not as funny as the smelly cheese from Peppa Pig. Norrie claims that Roly collects the odd ones as Gerby and the kids go into the barn upstairs to show off the box of socks from Roly. Duggee panics because there is a giant snake in the barn! Me, I'm like "Is it because some country that has deadly snakes is going to ban this episode?". Tag shows off the toy cars to Gerby, Duggee is acting like the worst window peeper of all time. Betty shows off a red balloon, Norrie shows the doorbell and the door, but ignores Duggee, that was funny. Gerby is getting happier as time goes on. Roly shows off floorboards, Happy shows off the water tap just to shock and appall Duggee.

If you recall; they did the Water Badge to show how to not waste water. Gerby acts like he has never seen running water before, and proving that he's a redneck. Happy runs away as Duggee turns off the tap water. Gerby wants more and the kids accept without question as everyone goes out. Let's introduce Enid, who hisses better than Gerby, actually. The kids are on top of Gerby's head during the tour as the Delta Chickens are involved, Blue Bird is involved. The narrator tells the kids to be careful a good thirty seconds too late. Duggee chases after the kids with a ladder on the roof, because Blue Bird was on the roof. Delta Frog is next on the window sill of the barn as this was done to buy time for Duggee to come down the ladder. Roly is sliding down with his helmet on as the narrator yells "Health & Safety" as Duggee climbs a ladder on Gerby. Roly does some flips, lands on his bicycle and rides away. IN YOUR FACE KICK BUTTOWSKI~! Soccer ball gets involved, lands on the roof, Duggee climbs up the roof with the ladder, AGAIN! Betty shows off Duggee's fine china and this was the point where the kids went way too far here. Duggee panics as the china didn't break, thankfully. More spots by the kids as Gerby is coiled around the house as this is basically a maze game now. Hello, Worm; didn't see you there. Drums get involved and that somehow causes Duggee to bounce like a pogostick off the roof, Gerby makes the save. This goes on for a while until the kids slide down Gerby's tail to end the entire sequence of unfortunate events on Duggee, whom had to make the save. Gerby is so happy about this tour that he's the one who asks if the kids did well today. Duggee looks like he's wrecked for real and slowly walks in to present the badge to the kids...and then falls flat on his belly because he is concussed now. In comes the parents in their vehicles as Gerby sadly doesn't narrate here. DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug. The kids bail stage left to present the badge to their parents and get their second hug. The parents leave with their kids in their vehicles as the narrator asks if this was fun. A giant apple misses Duggee by about five feet as the narrator and Duggee laugh to end the episode at 6:45. This was an okay bunch of spots. *** (60%).

Opening Moment #9: This opening features Happy in the bathtub as per a previous episode. The title card features a sailing boat with an anchor as the image of the sail on the sea against the sky background with yellow/red trim.

The Sailing Badge: Short opens at the beach with the Squirrels wearing their swimming gear as Duggee is shooting the breeze in a G-rated way and the kids are making sandcastles. The narrator says it all and Duggee woofs in agreement, then the area goes into shadow and a pirate ship runs aground. The scene is staged so poorly that there's no way the Squirrels should be in shadows. This is a SUZY SHEEP~ moment if I ever saw one. The narrator calls it a funny place to park a ship. I love real comments that aren't supposed to be real comments. The Squirrels board the ship to investigate as there are moans coming out and I assure Happy that they are not funny noises. The Squirrels open the door to the brig and out comes the Penguins from Series One! Oh, they are dressed up like pirates and have a red parrot that looks like the Peppa Pig meme. It involved Peppa Pig getting two eyes on each side of the head and it's not cringeful, and it makes the insult "four eyes" not an insult. By the way, on the closeup shot of the penguin pirates, the parrot has two eyes now. SUZY SHEEP~?! The red dressed penguin with the mustache is called Captain Red Mustache and his crew. There is "One Eye", "Four Eyes", "Yellow Beard" and "Purple Hands". These pirates were on a "very important mission", but got sick. But not sea sick, because they were ice cream sick. Not just ice cream sick...fish flavored ice cream sick; which the kids are repulsed by. Red Mustache shows off a map of an island containing a palm tree, a path and an X that marks the spot. Red parrot claims it's treasure and the other penguin mates are telling red parrot to shut up, so it's that parrot's fault that the ship got run aground. Apparently, loose lips aground ships and not sink them in Duggee's world. Okay, good to know. Bad sign: Red Mustache hiccups, so I'm guessing that fish flavored ice cream was laced with some "Rum & Raisin", if you know what I mean?! I'll get my coat...They need help in this mission and somehow Duggee during this whole sequence was off-screen dressing up like a sea captain, in order to point to his chest to reveal the Sailing Badge.

Amazing that Duggee was on the ball here, as this is our third SUZY SHEEP~ moment in less than two minutes! The kids cheer and the parrot mimics as we head to the badge scene changer, which is basically spinning the WHEEL OF MORALITY with Duggee's face on it. Ding! Ding! We return as the pirate ship is not damaged and sailing the seas. The narrator is lamenting on how to be sailors and everyone on board literally has their backs to the hard camera. Wait, are they telling the narrator to sod off, or somehow the narrator is in the background of the shot not being seen. SUZY SHEEP~ moment number four! This leads to a montage of the kids learning to be sailors as Roly is way too excited to spin the wheel and sway the boat, much to the kids chargin. Happy plays the role of the mate in the crow's nest as Happy sees a lot of water. Yip! Yip! Norrie finds the plank and is willing not just to walk it, but jump off of it and that shocks and appalls Duggee. Tag then finds a cannon, which he somehow thinks it's a telescope. So, he has forgotten about the Castle Badge. Tag gets his head stuck in the mouth of the cannon as the kids find the dressing up box and dress up like pirates. Duggee is confused about this. Stop right there! Captain Red Mustache didn't pretend to be a pirate and this is clearly a pirate ship! Are you telling me that Duggee thought this was a fake pirate ship?! In a world of magic?! Duggee is our GEEK OF THE WEEK~! Even the writers were self-aware about this because Duggee has been downgraded to just another pirate mate with a map in the background. Then Happy spots a pea green fishing boat arriving with three beaver anglers. The kids greet them like kids, the beavers panic and then the boat bounces away stage right in fear. The fact that the beavers were not smiling and giggling on the way out demonstrates that this pirate boat is real, in Duggee's world. Another sign: The front of the boat contains a statue of a giraffe with a unicorn horn as it's nose. The Captain is confused as well as an orange giant octopus is spotted and the kids greet it.

The giant octopus suddnely walks like a human being and runs away stage right like it can walk on water. Ah, so Jesus Christ was reincarnated as a giant, orange octopus in the world of Duggee! Okay, good to know. The Captain literally calls the octopus "anti-social", which is odd to say in a pre-school show. Happy's next spot is a dog shark, who also flees stage right. The whale is spotted and the whales dives underwater, clams clam up on the rocks,literal flying fish turn around and leave, to this music of a drunken sailor. Yes, the background music is basically about a drunken sailor without the lyrics. I'm not surprised, since BS&P allowed Captain Red Mustache to hiccup, a sign of drunkeness. The kids are confused and the pirates refuse to answer Tag's question as the captain wants Happy to find that island. Happy says "land, ahoy", so "ho" is not allowed on this show. Far shot of the island is shown as the boat bumps into the island, and everyone is poured out like a teapot. Red Mustache checks the map and proclaims that this is the island they left the treasure according to the parrot. I don't know why they shh the parrot, these kids don't care and Duggee doesn't know how much of a geek he is at this point. The captain claims that this is medicine to make them feel better. I guess that "Rum & Raisin" left a bad taste in his mouth and this "medicine" is "Red Rum", backwards for "murder". I'll get my coat....AGAIN! It's buried treasure, you see; and the kids must be the diggers. Roly don't care because he's already to dig a hole because he has a lust for them birds! He digs, finds the CHEST OF DEMONS within seconds and throws it up onto the sand with ease. Just like that! I hope it's the wrong box, because we still got less than two minutes to go before earning the badge. Red Mustache does the ROB Smash Bros clap as he wants the thing onboard the ship, which means Roly and Tag have to carry it. This is so stupid, because if you watch enough Hey Duggee, you know Tag is clumsy. As suspected, he trips on the sand, falls flat on his face. The CHEST OF DEMONS is the most insecure box in the entire world of Duggee, because it opens up and there is clearly riches. The parrot was telling the truth it wasn't supposed to. That parrot is cooked, and probably will be Roly's last meal soon to plump him up before Roly gets keelhauled.

This is the moment where the Squirrels finally get it and we get a recap, including Tag calling the cannon a telescope, AGAIN! Captain Mustache kills off his accent, which didn't matter because it was still a pirate's accent. The pirates steal treasure and the kids all order the pirates to give it back because that is what Squirrels do. Squirrels, you are dressed up like pirates. I cannot take anything you say seriously. That promo sucked and those poses make them look like complete fools! Then, in one of the stupidest moments ever: The pirates give up on the spot! WHAT?! Yes, the flag is changed to the Squirrels flag and we get a sequence where the Squirrel give all the riches back to everyone that was scared off earlier! This is so stupid! Even the Naughty Mice put up a better fight than this, and they needed a Trojan Cheese Block to be defeated. These pirates lost on a promo that sucked! By the way, the skull and crossbones are kept, except the design of the skull is Duggee wearing an acron top with the crossbones being sticks. That was funny, but for goodness sakes, I cannot take this finish seriously. Yes, the pirate stole three goldfish in a bowl of water. Octopus is basically King Neptune, Dogshark wears golden fake dentures, the whale wears the most feminine glasses you will ever see, and the flying fish get their scarves and hats back. We do the teapot spot again, only the pirates stay on the boat. Betty hopes that they learned their lesson about stealing, and the Captain learned about no more fish ice cream. I like the Captain's lesson better because they would stop being pirates if they weren't stealing. Besides, there was no comeupperance for stealing in the first place, but being drunk was sort of one to learn the lesson. The pirates decide to run a cruise tour and charge a lot of money. Okay, sounds like a steal to me. The pirates bail on their pirate ship stage right as the narrator asks if the kids did well today as Duggee bails on all fours and returns with the badge. Here come the parents in their vehicles, in swimming gear no less, in time for the DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug. The kids bail stage left to present the badges to their parents, getting their hug. The kids and parents leave in their vehicles as the narrator asks if this was fun and the parrot responds with the whale in the background. Everyone laughs to end the episode at 6:45. One of the characters is Furious Francias and Grimacing Gary, whom were not named during the episode. Okay, this episode was fun, but that finish with the kids defeating the pirates with a promo and pose was REALLY STUPID! Even Kit Cloudkicker would have laughed this one out of the hanger. *** 1/2 (70%).

Opening Moment #10: This opening features Roly with the Rube-Goldbergish straw as per a previous episode. The title card is shaped literally like a gold key with orange trim around it.

The Key Badge: Short opens with the kids outside playing. Uh-oh! Roly is already digging a hole. I do not like where this is going. The fact that Norrie is looking at Roly while playing cars is a bad sign right from jump. Tag is playing with his robot Duggee toy, while Betty and Happy are playing with building blocks. The kids are boring except for Roly when the narrator asks what they are doing, which doesn't help Roly beat my allegations of bloodlust and possible genocide...of them birds! Roly strikes metal with a plastic shovel. SUZY SHEEP~?! Somehow, Roly plucks out the infamous WCW KEY OF DOOM and everyone is confused. Duggee offers to show him where the key is used because he points to his chest to the most obvious badge even on far shots barely a minute in. The kids are in awe as the narrator explains what keys do and Duggee woofs as we hit the montage of examples: One involves a Naughty Mice starting up his drag racing car. One involves the Pirate Penguins opening the CHEST OF DEMONS on a snowy mountain. One involves the bees from the Honey Badge locking up a honeycomb. Apparently, there is a Winnie The Pooh bear in Duggee's world because we zoom out to see him and he sulks in defeat. We return to reality (no, not really) as Norrie asks what does this key do. The narrator doesn't know and I'm not sure even Duggee knows. The narrator does the old police method of trial and error. Betty, the clever clogs for the second time in this series alone, asks what this is. The narrator then says the stupid promo of the week: It's like a game. This causes the kids to cheer and raise the roof so hard that the world turns into a literal video game. I am not making this up! It's a 3D-top down adventure game, it looks like something either Nintendo and Grezzo stole for their Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, or vice versa. I don't care which, this was great. This is exactly what I would expect to happen when I watch this show, and anything video game related is actually in my wheelhouse, so let us go. We hit the montage as the video game music is so absurd here as some perform the trials and some perform the errors. Like Happy trying to open a giant sized key which houses a gorilla whose house is still too small for it. Roly tries to open a pineapple, which means he watched Spongebob Squarepants before this episode started. Considering the accusations of making kids dumb, this might partially explain Roly actually.

Tag flees after a robotic voice shouts error over and over again with flashing red lights. At least the lights were controlled and did not annoy my eyes this time. Norrie tries the key inside the clubhouse, and it opens a small purple/pink box. Everyone runs in wondering what it is. I was fully expecting them to do the slow "Link opens the treasure chest" spot from Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, because it was so obvious to use here. Nope, she opens the chest normally to reveal a key shaped like a goldfish. Happy deduces that they search for a fish and they bounce throughout the barn, which is now in a angler-top-down perspective, similar to Breath Of Fire III. The goldfish literally speaks and has a Marx's look as it cuts a promo about telling them three seconds ago. The kids deduce that it opens the treasure chest in the tank, which they toss the key into the fish tank. The goldfish turns around and is now confused. Even this goldfish is self-aware of this SUZY SHEEP~ moment! The goldfish opens the chest and then he is so confused that the moment causes him to look at the contents, turn to try to tell them and then return to the chest. Rinse, lather, repeat. This is so annoying that even Duggee just puts on purple rubber latex gloves and fishes the Duggee shaped face key out of the chest. By the way, there is an indicator on the top right to indicate their level. I don't know why they bother, it doesn't mean much of anything. We are at level 3 now. They did the spinning around effect Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time on the key as Tag grabs the key and puts it into the toy robot. He cranks the key and the robot walks away stage right. The kids follow it to the area where all the stuff from "The Scarecrow Badge" was and the toy robot is in front of a treasure chest. The toy robot opens the chest after Tag asks what is this, with a key inside the toy robot. Keep in mind, this is Tag's toy robot from the opening sequence. The chest opens to reveal a purple bear like ballerina with a crown and a wand rising from the chest. She does a dance and then uses the wand to magically poof another key. This time, it's made of wood. Betty deduces that the > on it signals that it's a clock key. Norrie deduces that it might be for a clock as Roly points and screams that it's a conveniently placed cuckoo clock. Probably the one Mummy and Daddy Pig donated after getting fed up with Peppa and George annoying them with those cuckoo sounds. Cuckoo Clock was one of the pretty bad episodes in Peppa Pig, mostly for Peppa's really cruel antics on George.

Roly and Happy do the human ladder spot to turn the key on the cuckoo clock, it strikes midnight, the cuckoo bird comes out and gives them a red key. The key slot is shaped like a "D", We are stooping to making jokes about "Eye Spy", another game Peppa Pig did in their early seasons. This leads to a red Duggee bust that looks like the Monopoly man. This guy's name is Duke Duggee The Third, who is related as a grandfather. I do question how great he is, but I don't question the grandfather part. Duggee looks like he doesn't want anything to do with him, but we have a badge to earn, so the key must be inserted into the conveniently placed slot on the bust. Duggee inserts the key and this bust is a lock to open a safe (with the stuff being the door mind you) and we see that it's a hallway with shelves of stuff lined up on each side. Everyone runs in as the narrator declares that this is the Duke Duggee III's long lost room of games! We do the 360 camera turn to waste more time in a seven minute episode as the kids are in awe. The game is over now because when we return from the jump cut, we are back to the original Duggee style artwork. Norrie is playing with the roundabout with the Delta Chickens and Delta Frog. This is a twist key roundabout, I should note. Happy is playing with a toy cruise ship that is barely big enough to fit a puddle, with the bugs. I should note that in storyline, the bugs are supposed to be afraid of Happy. SUZY SHEEP~?! Betty is playing with a classic pinball machine with Enid and the bees watching on. Tag is driving a toy car, acting like a heel hog on the Naughty Mice as they protest. That was funny. Winnie and Duggee are playing pattle ball and there's no winner in sight yet. The narrator asks if the kids have done well today as Duggee bails on all fours, conceeding to Winnie. Duggee returns with the badge as the kids cheer, meaning that the parents have arrived in their vehicles. Roly is knocking over pins with a swinging ball I should note. DUGGEE HUG~! Complete with Super Game Boy border! Duggee hug. The kids bail stage left to present the badges to their parents, and get their hugs in. The parents leave with the kids in their vehicles as the narrator if this was fun. The conveniently placed pineapple on the ground opens to reveal that it's a cookie jar containing a pineapple styled key with sparkling stars and a flashlight effect. Duggee is confused and then he and the narrator laugh to end the episode at 6:45. This was a fun video game romp and not much else. *** 1/4 (65%).

Opening Moment #11: This opening features Tag bouncing on the bed as per a previous episode . The title card is literally a yellow coathanger with Duggee's face against a blue background.

The Fashion Badge: Short opens with the kids dancing to the beat of the boombox while Enid is sleeping on top of said boombox in the clubhouse. The narrator has to talk over the music, but somehow finishes his spiel and the kids bounce stage left anyway. Their hearing is fine. Enid then turns off the music while sleeping as we jump cut to Duggee polishing stuff on a desk near the window. The kids run in and ask what is Duggee doing. Duggee proclaims that he's repairing and polishing the antiques because the narrator states that you must take care of them since they are old. The kids then point out the logical fallacy in this because Duggee's scout outfit is patched up. Apparently, if the kids dance around Duggee in a circle pointing out patches and repairs, they magically appear out of nowhere. SUZY SHEEP~?! Even the narrator has to admit that it's time to make new clothes and Betty is shocked and appalled by this. Even though in The Sewing Badge, they made panchos themselves and even repaired Duggee's pancho after a sick polar bear anthro blew it's nose. How could these kids make that kind of mistake?! Happy is drooling while his jaw dropped while the narrator explains it all. Duggee's fashion sense is mostly just there to suck, actually. His "Give Peace A Chance" outfit looks like someone a rich dood would wear, which contradicts Duggee's character. In fact, all the outfits look like that as Duggee points to his chest to reveal the badge. Of course, the repairs keep changing shot to shot, I'm done yelling that sheep's name. Tag asks if they can help and Duggee relucently agrees to it, which causes the kids to cheer. This is going to be a disaster that contradicts the Sewing Badge, I just know it. Scene changer of doom ensues as it's basically an animation shot pose of Duggee drawn up with pencils, crayons and repairs on a white piece of paper. We return as Duggee opens his sewing closet full of sewing items, as if the Sewing Badge never happened at all. I get that this show is episodic, but this episode sounds like a rejected Series One pitch that they brought back in Series Two, for no reason at all. The Super Mario Brothers 3 memory music is back, adding credence to my theory as the kids don't care about the fabric Duggee brought out as the other stuff is what the kids are interested in. They head into the room and are in awe of this room. Tag is already hugging a big ball of cotton I do believe because it's soft and cuddly, as Tag demonstrates.

Everyone is cuddling up to the stuff except for Betty, who is thinking about ideas while writing. Never a good idea. Think the idea through, then write it. They are throwing stuff out like a Wuzzle, Duggee just stands there wondering where it all went wrong. Considering the Drawing Badge, the first episode of the series, what did Duggee expect?! More Squirrels hijinks with the sewing stuff for a long ass whomping time as the kids show off their fashion designs superimposed in the background. Tag wants softness, Betty has a pocket fetish, Happy wants to make his clothes water-logged. Yes, not water-proof, not water resistant, water logged. The kids are wrecking Duggee, again. Roly at least doesn't care, so it's everything. Norrie wants to accessorize, sounding like a stereotypical girl. Oh wait... The kids run out with their materials as the place is a mess and the narrator acts like this is perfectly okay. He is Gigi Gazelle after accepting Peppa's drawing of Daddy Pig sitting on the sofa watching television for a piece of artwork about vegetables. Even Daddy Pig wasn't this wrecked when Peppa was trolling her. Duggee is like "why are doing this to me" as the narrator informs us that Duggee has to help them make the clothes, so in essence, The Sewing Badge never happened at all. This is so stupid, but not surprising. Scene changer of doom this time is the triple twisting block spot of Duggee wearing clothes which ends up him wearing a lavander fur coat, a red beret and a dress with star boots. This is actually one of the more stylish outfits Duggee has wore actually. It's time to HIT THE MONTAGE~! Again, BS&P will not allow anyone to use scissors so that they avoid being wimps in not allowing the kids to use them. Which they completely destroy because they show Duggee and Betty using scissors to cut the fabric. What was the point of the magic scissors if you are going to allow BETTY to cut fabric?! Don't get me wrong, good for this show to allow kids to use scissors, but for goodness sakes, why bother with the magic scissors, then?! Happy is sewing buttons, just to show that indeed, they did remember the Sewing Badge and they were just making the kids watching look dumb. The kids are still not allowed to use the sewing machine though as Duggee demonstrates. Probably for the best, knowing these trolls. Tag is like a cheerleader at this point as Betty is mixing genres while acting literally like Velma, or a Tezuka Productions character. It's hard to tell nowadays with my addled brain. Look, it's a montage and I'm through doing play-by-play to something that I stopped caring about.

The kids yell "finished" and they have the clothes for Duggee to try out and Duggee is panicking because he knows he's about to get wrecked. The badge scene changer features Duggee from The Sewing Badge again. Then it gets even more absurd: We return with Tag in front of a curtain on a wooden stage introducing his own fashion show, complete with fashion runaway. All the animals that are fit to appear are here. Oh, Hynea is back after being abducted by aliens in The Detective Badge, how very nice, how very deranged. Everyone in the audience looks like a geek, I should note. Naughty Monkey and Chew Chew at least try not to look like geeks, but failed here. The animals boo when Tag introduce this fashion show, implying that Tag has done this before and everyone hated it. Tag backs up off-screen as the curtain opens and out comes Duggee wearing the most absurd winter gear I have ever seen. He looks like someone who is outside while wearing sleeping gear that doubles as winter gear. Why is everyone surprised?! These kids are wrecker trolls, even Peppa Pig would have been appalled by this treatment of the male adult. Duggee walks on the runway as Tag is claiming that these are pjs, and the crowd pops and cheers! They love it, because it's DUGGEE, and he's the biggest geek on the show. Next up is Betty's which is the most colorful artist gear in history. It looks like a computer nerd designed this, right down to the hat having pockets. The crowd pops for this, they love it. I'm mocking this because Duggee is such a dork in that outfit. Betty of course lies and claims that there are 365 pockets, when there are clearly about 36 of them. The pockets cannot contain the stuff inside and it's falling on stage while Duggee is parading this. Tino loves this as Eugene calls it passe and Tino blows him off. I am too, for a different reason than Tino. Then I realize that Happy made swimming gear and Duggee looks like a duck and an angler complete with repaired overalls. Happy makes quacking sounds while the crowd pops as bubbles are a popping. Delta Frog and a French seal in pink love this as well. Norrie made a dancing outfit as Duggee is walking dressed up like a giant brown Mickey Mouse in wacky suit and tie, wearing more facepaint than the Road Warriors pre-1986. That green paw print looks like the peas the Road Warriors' squished in fact. Suddenly, Duggee just gives up and starting smiling and dancing as the crowd is chanting his name. Yeah, Duggee is super over now despite being the biggest geek on this show!

Mr. Krabs and Nigel are screaming, mostly Nigel. King Tiger has to bury Duggee while praising him because he's now married to Chew Chew. Chew Chew claps and her hat is gone. Okay, who stole Chew Chew's hat?! Anyhow, King Tiger wonders what's next and it's now time for Roly's presentation. I am waiting with baited breath to see what the loud mouth bird brain came up with. Roly looks like a fashion designer who loves to show his hair chest, on a pre-school show no less. That was a wee bit creepy there. Roly does the pose of doom pointing at Duggee dressed up like the biggest geek king of the world. He looks like a clothing mosaic, in the most contrived and convoluted way possible. I was sobbing with laughter watching this. The only thing that looks normal is the cyan-blue rimmed glasses Duggee's wearing. By the way, the last episode of Series Two is "The Glasses Badge" and that is next! This makes the adults in "Really Big News" look like cowards in comparison. The crowd still loves it, they are into Duggee being buried into the earth and Duggee has stopped caring as well. Then the narrator interrupts the proceedings because there is one more outfit left to show. Now the kids are confused, which I'm not because there are thirty seconds left before earning the badge. We find out that Duggee created a new outfit, or more precisely, remade his old outfit, which sadly will never be used outside this episode because details cost too much budget, even for this show. Duggee does his opening sequence, and kicks out! I was expecting the crowd to boo this out of the building, but they didn't. They cheered anyway, which kind of killed the effect there. Yes, the new coat contains an acorn symbol on the back during the showing of the coat as the kids love Duggee's work. The narrator praises the Squirrels as Duggee tip-toes stage right and then returns with the badge. I just realized that Norrie is wearing a gummi raspberry on her head as the parents arrive in their vehicles. Yes, the kids get to keep their outfits as it's time for the DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug. The kids bail to present the parents with the badge and get their hugs. The parents leave with the kids in their vehicles as the narrator asks if this was fun. This fashion music is way too subdued to be of any value at this point. Duggee's left sleeve rips and falls down. Yes, the golden remake coat has turned on Duggee! That's the fourth heel turn by someone, three of them inanimate objects! The narrator scolds Duggee and they both laugh to end the episode at 6:45. This was the best fashion show ever! Episode was very fun, but these treasonous object are just making Duggee look sadder in hindsight. Call it *** 3/4 (75%).

Opening Moment #12: This opening features Happy looking for bugs in a pot as per a previous episode . The title card is literally red rimmed glasses with blue eyes and whites inside the glasses.

The Glasses Badge: Short opens outside with Duggee holding a soccer ball as the kids bounce in and then stop. Then they keep bouncing like early episodes of Peppa Pig, only these kids are doing it in rapid succession that it's annoying me. Duggee kicks the ball high into the air as the narrator explains the obvious to us. Happy goes to fetch the ball and it lands and bonks into Mole, whom looks like a log-driver without his glasses on. Happy arrives and they exchange notes and small talk for a while. Mole explains that he's basically the best digger in the world, burrowing through soil underground, with bugs and worms watching. Mole looks like a pirate without his glasses in these sequences and his accent sounds like a subdued Irish man. Mole claims that he holds the record for the most molehills dug in one night, and that flashback with Duggee in his night gear yawning as morning arises is funny though. Unrealitistic, but funny. Best part is, the Mole showed a lot of respect and kept the flowers intact during this record. Blue bird does not give an elf about this. But wait, Mole has dreams, and ambitions that are so absurd that Happy might laugh at him for it. Happy claims that he will not as Mole wants to be...wait for it...Mole Buttowski: Duggee's World Daremoledevil~! Seriously, his promo including all the trappings of Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil! Except Mole is more likable than Kick. I'm so sad that this Mole didn't get his shining moment, especially after getting his cake stolen by Happy being gaslighted by the Hippie Rabbits. By the way, the roman numbers indicate that this was released in 2018, long after Kick Buttowski was released. Yes, they did show Mole doing stunts on a motorcycle leaping over the gorge. Kit is like "wimp". Happy can only ask why didn't he persue the dream and Mole proclaims that life intervened. Happy's response is that his cousin Eric tried cucumber for the first time. Is Cousin Eric this shows' version of The Undertaker?! Happy is trying to encourage Mole to do this stunt, but Mole declines because the world is fuzzy to him, but he's fine in the underground.

There is a flashback of him opening his curtains to see the ground surround it and Worm makes a cameo. One logic break: If it's because he cannot see the light, the room he was in should not be lighted up. Cartoon lighting in darkness would have done wonders here, but this show didn't even try to sell that this Mole has issues with his eye sight. Happy of course can relate to him because Happy has bad vision as we debut I do believe Happy's mother speaking on this show after TWO SERIES~! Happy's Mum claims that he needs glasses and Happy claims that he can't see her despite hearing her clear as day. Happy claims it was a joke, it wasn't funny because Happy clearly cannot see without glasses. Happy wipes his glasses when we return to reality (no, not really) as his eyes do not stay on his head during this. Also a wee bit creepy. Happy is also sitting on the soccer ball when he's explaining himself to Mole. Happy's idea is to get Mole a pair of glasses to make his dreams come true. I'm actually all for it. However, Mole seems to not want to do it. Mole has to make the decision for himself and not be peer pressured into it, because it makes the kids look horrible here. The rest of the kids all run in and we exchange notes on the situation as Mole is trying to say no, but the kids keep cutting him off. That annoyed me, although Betty pointed out that Mole cannot wear someone else's glasses, which is in fact a factual statement. Roly mentions that Happy should let Mole wear his glasses as Duggee finally cuts the kids off with his woofs. Duggee arrives as he points to his chest and you know this is the last episode of Series Two because he points at the wrong badge. HAHA! Even Duggee is shocked at this. Duggee is our GEEK OF THE WEEK~! Now Duggee has to put his blue glasses on out of nowhere, which he never wears and then giggles. This was stupid as he points to his chest to reveal the right badge. Mole protests this as he finally gets a word in and shows off his pink rimmed glasses that he wears. You see, he cannot persue his dreams because his glasses always seem to fall off his face. We discover that he has been practicing these stunts all along, but the glasses keep falling off. He misses the ramp, goes up a tree, smashes into a branch and scares the squirrel taking a bath. Take that bath thing inside, you stupid squirrel!

Anyhow, Mole bails underground declaring this impossible and loses his glasses again. The kids offer to fix his glasses to at least help Mole keep his glasses on and Duggee agrees to it. Badge scene changer involving a wrench tightening up a Duggee faced nut. What else can I say?! It's now time to return with the montage of doom as Happy and Duggee are opticians now. What a bunch of quacks?! No Duggee, wearing green rimmed glasses will not help your status as an eye doctor any. Neither will Happy being giddy with the clipboard. Meanwhile, we head outside with Mole wearing green boots kicking a rock in the field. I wrote that five seconds before it happened, it's so obvious. I'm guessing that Mole hates glasses, because he acted like his eyesight was normal here. The logic of this episode is terrible and looked BS&P to death here. Jump cut back to Duggee using a welding torch to design new rims for the glasses, which looked stunt themed, Roly is now giddy while hiding behind a metal shield during this. Jump cut to Mole skipping rocks on the water at the beach and this music is clashing with the fact that Mole is perfectly all right without his glasses. I mean, sure the rock sinks, but that happens to me without glasses, too. My eye sight is fine, his skip technique sucks like mine. Jump cut to Duggee and Norrie using robots and levers (CLEVER CLOGS~!) to screw the glasses legs, even though they already were done in the previous segment. You couldn't just paint the glasses instead?! Jump cut to Mole on the fence kicking his feet around while the two birds arrive to do their mating dance and be prepared to assist in animating concussion spots. Somehow, their new dance makes a clouds of glasses. SUZY SHEEP~?! Who do these birds think they are, the SeaDuck from Vowel Play?! Oh wait...Jump cut to the kids doing test runs of the glasses with Duggee as the test subject. They used a wind tunnel as the glasses are fine but Duggee is totally wrecked. Why doesn't that surprise me?! Betty writes the results on the red clipboard because of course she does. The kids are happy as we jump cut to Mole watching the sunset sitting on the bench in shadows. The seagulls fly away in the background as we see Mole on the bench in full view now sighing.

Then the kids and Duggee finally do a run in and show off the new glasses to Mole. Mole isn't so sure; but decides to try them on. He tries them on and he suddenly gets a eureka moment in that he can clearly see now. Okay, this is the point where the writer of this episode completely gave up: Mole sees Duggee. I'm mocking this. When Mole sees Duggee, we see a legit brown dog wearing Duggee gear, panting while Duggee does the woofing dubbed in. I lost my shit after seeing this. This was so idiotic, but I couldn't contain my laughter. It was so absurd! Yes, everyone has bad vision without glasses now, including the audience! This is much funnier than the glasses attempt with Peppa Pig, both times combined! The glasses don't wobble anymore and now it's time to become Mole Buttowski: Duggee's World Daredevilmole~! I'm not going to call the final spot because Mole nails the stunt perfectly, other than to point out that Mole has a cheering section. Only Duggee has bothered to really dress up for the moment, of course. Oh, by the way; when I meant that Mole nailed the stunt perfectly, the ramp was literally six inches off the ground. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Now THAT was a funny "fuck you" finish right there. This episode is growing on me after a really bad middle and I thank the writer for the legit dog spot that turned this episode around. Even better: the crowd is confused...and then they cheer like crazy. I howled with laughter. Mole finally stops and brakes his bicycle as the kids run in and call it amazing. It really was, actually. Tag calling him brave is comedy diamond as Mole thanks the kids for fixing his glasses. Duggee is wearing a "Stunt Mole" t-shirt, just to rub it in. HAHA! The narrator asks if the kids did well today as Duggee bails on all fours and returns with the badge as the kids all cheer. Here come the parents in their vehicles, in time for the DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug. The kids bail stage left as they present the badge to their parents and get hugged. The kids leave with the parents in their vehicles, while the narrator asks if this was fun. Here's the end of the episode and Series Two at 6:45: Mole rides his bicycles, crashes into the barn, claims that his glasses are still on and Duggee is giddy. Also, in the credits, the legit dog's name is Zeylo. Yeah, and Zeylo saved this episode from a thumbs down and turned it around into one of the funniest climaxes and finishes I ever saw in a pre-school show. *** 3/4 (75%).

THE REVIEW LINE

Well, we have finally gotten through the first two series of Hey Duggee, which is 104 episodes now. The Singing Badge was the only really awesome episode and it was awesome because Mrs. Beaver's singing was awesome and half of the episode was one giant musical that made sense and it ended with a great finish. The Glasses Badge was a mess of logic break and some really piss poor decisions booking wise, until the writer just gave up and it turned around the moment Mole saw a legit dog on-screen. It also had a funny finish and the climax that built it up was hilarious in hindsight. The Fashion Badge had some logic break, but overall it features my favorite gimmick of this show: the kids wreck Duggee and still everyone loves it as demonstrated by the over the top fashion show the kids put on. Although Roly shouldn't be showing off his chest hairs on a pre-school show, that wasn't a good idea. The Playing Badge would have been a classic if the redneck monkey had better impulse control and to be honest, Naughty Monkey did not need character development since others outside the main six were more deserving. However, the help came and that part was great. The Grandparents Badge was also really fun with a fire breathing dragon and excitable grandparents help a lot as the rest were okay to decent. Overall, no clunkers and one great episode make me a happy ranter. Also, a legit dog in Duggee's uniform made me lose my ranting composure, if you know what I mean.

That's it for Series Two as we have 11 thumbs up, 40 thumbs in the middle and one thumbs down. Overall, it's 27 thumbs up, 74 thumbs in the middle and three thumbs down. I would like to give my overall opinion about the show, but not much has changed compared to Series One. The various artstyles are still there, the lack of character development outside the main six is still there, although they are trying in spots; and most of all, the logic is still wonky. It was mostly clear in The Glasses Badge where I couldn't tell if Mole was vision impaired or not. I realize that this is a magical world, but there are moments where the show breaks even it's own internal logic and it's becoming less funny as time goes on. Right now, my sources do not air any of the Hey Duggee Series Three and beyond, and right now, I want to take a break from reviewing this show in order to refresh myself and be prepared for the show to get more absurd. I mean, the last episode had a real dog for goodness sakes. I need time to recover from that one. I'll be continuing Peppa Pig Tales and the mainline series might have new episodes coming up. We'll see. So...

Thumbs up for The Singing Badge. Thumbs in the middle for the rest, and I'll see you all next time.

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