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Hey Duggee Series One #6 Rant

Reviewed: 05/23/2026

Ryan? 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 Puppet Show Badge", "The Submarine Badge", "The First Aid Badge", "The Story Badge", "The Sewing Badge" and "The Bird Watching Badge" are written by Grant Orchard. "The Be Careful Badge" is written by Danny Stack. "The Big Parade Badge" and "The Teddy Bear Badge" are written by Jo Clegg. "The Detective Badge" is written by Phillip Warner. "The Bubble Badge" and "The Surprise Badge" are written by Sam Morrison. I'm not going to do tributes here. The animation is done by Studio AKA.

Opening Moment #1: This opening features Tag playing with the toy robot as per a previous episode. The title card features the sockpuppet that turned on Duggee in "The Maze Badge"! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! It's a circular badge against a teal green background with red/cheese trim.

The Puppet Show Badge: Short opens in the clubhouse showing Enid on the sofa licking her paws. The narrator starts his spiel and then is confused because the kids are not here. The narrator decides that the kids are outside and he goes outside to notice a butterfly, blue bird, Delta Frog and Brown Cow shooting the breeze. Still no Squirrels, much less the kids. The Delta Chickens do their pecking spot as per their contract near the coop; but no kids. The narrator wonders where they went and then they just walk in chanting "wobble" over and over again. Yeah, they are fine and giggling. The kids explain that they went on a walk with Duggee and did stuff. Sadly, the kids say stuff back to back so quickly that the narrator is forced to cut them off and ask for one kids story at a time. Norrie claims that this is hard to explain, causing Betty to ponder this over. Norrie then proclaims that it's time to do a show like Tiger did. I'm guessing it's King Tiger whom has married Chew Chew since Series 2 #5 which should on my Rant Shack as I write this one. The animals approve of this show as Duggee literally teleports out of nowhere, just like that! SUZY SHEEP~?! Norrie asks if Duggee can help and Duggee points to his chest to reveal his Pupper Show Badge. And the badge image shows the infamous male sockpuppet. If that sockpuppet is involved, we got a load of dipshits here since in storyline, the male sockpuppet has turned on Duggee at least once, in "The Maze Badge". The kids all cheer as we get the badge scene changer of Duggee in a tuxedo with red bowtie being a dork. We head to the table as we are going to do crafts with the kids as the narrator asks if they have everything. I can say with certainly, yes. Including the scissors, glue sticks, a sewing needle and a feather. Only the glue stick is considered safe in pre-school shows. The feather is dangerous because Duggee is barefoot. The kids say "yes" as Roly includes a wobbly plate of jelly, which makes the scene of the kids chanting "wobble" make sense actually. Also, no one seems to be offended about the glitter they show, thus burying the adults in Peppa Pig deep within the earth and making environmentalist scream in agony. Everyone is ready to make puppets as we HIT THE MONTAGE~! At least with this, the male sockpuppet is not going to be in evidence and thus it won't turn on anyone.

Duggee is making the puppet show stage by sawing wooden planks for a while. By the way, they found a way to BS&P the scissors spots without having the kids nor the adults touch the scissors. I approve of this over letting Duggee do it for obvious reasons. Feathers and stars and buttons fall from the sky as Duggee is hammering nails into the wooden planks. Ditto for the sewing needle being BS&P'ed. Yes, the glitter gets involved as Duggee is painting the puppet stage in red and white stripes, but no blue; so this is highly Canadian. We finally finish the montage as the kids show off their puppets and they look like awkward puppets with sticks. Betty literally looks like a balloon, that was funny. It's looking directly at the hard camera, I expect it to point to the camera like a Bruce Hart promo. Roly's not much better and Norrie's looks like a mini-me version of herself. Ditto Tag, Happy is missing glasses on his. Everyone is ready including the animals, all four of them. Apparently, they must share one bag of popcorn and I doubt Delta Chicken #1 will share. Betty introduces the story and tries to act like a selfish squid, but the kids cut her off with seconds. HAHA! The show is called "Adventure With Tiger" and hopes we will enjoy it. Betty bounces behind the puppet stage as the narrator does this overbearing spiel about the power of the theater complete with public domain music. Even I'm saying: "GET ON WITH THIS SHOW~!" and it's not even ten seconds old. Then the curtain opens and the whole thing turns live-action with real sockpuppets, and Betty as a balloon. The background is water colored I should note and Duggee is a sockpuppet now! HAHA! The irony is so thick, you can cut it with a pair of scissors. Happy is literally floating on air, so the puppermasters have no idea what they are doing, and it makes it even funnier. Then the berry sucking bush appears as a monster is inside of it growling. I'm just going to explain the story, because you have to see this scene for yourself. It's amazing. This is a much funnier and hilarious puppet show than the one Cousin Chole did with Peppa and her family in Peppa Pig. Mostly because of the art style they went with.

Tag is claiming that he wasn't scared, Betty claims that he's lying. I think Betty is lying because anyone who watches this show knows that all the scares are fake and the kids are self-aware of this. Then King Tiger pops out of nowhere, looking more orange than Donald Trump is. I get that he is a tiger; but I don't recall him being this dark of a shade of orange in Duggee's world! Roly screams and this causes the popcorn eating Delta Chicken to be legit scared and fall off the log. I howled with laughter. It wasn't because King Tiger popped up, it was because Roly screamed. As you have deduced, Roly has a bloodlust for them birds! Worm and Ladybird join the audience for no reason. Betty explains that King Tiger was collecting fruit in a barrel from the bushes and trees. The fruit drops from the tree when he roars. SUZY SHEEP~?! King Tiger claims to be collecting fruit for some thing, I couldn't make out what he said. But he does offer the Squirrels to come to his castle as we change backgrounds on the fly to King Tiger's castle. Betty explains that the castle is massive, and the audience has to act like they never saw a castle before. Hedgely, Hippie Rabbit and two more birds join the audience in awe. Betty explains that King Tiger put the fruit in a teapot. There is just one problem: No one bothered to create a teapot for this scene. What's wrong with you dipshits?! Don't you know every major moment has to be visualized?! We then discover that they do have the teapot and teacup because Happy is cosplaying a teaparty with his own sockpuppet. HAHA! Betty scolds Happy for this and Happy apologizes. So the teapot is teleported into the scene and I think it's fruit candy being thrown into the teacup since none of the fruit crushes and shows water during this scene. Apparently, DUGGEE makes the tea, instead of King Tiger because it was Duggee's hand stirring the tea. Some things never change. Everyone drinks the tea, which is basically a way to BS&P the tea by having it with fruit, I don't know. There is a recipe for fruit tea online though and it uses tea leaves anyway.

Roly screams "Jelly" and Betty has to talk him down since they are not there yet. Norrie and company than introduce one of my favorite sight gags on the show: The Jelly Belly Dancers. Yes, I have already mentioned them in "The Wedding Badge" and this scene was better than the one in The Wedding Badge. It's a great moment and it sets up Roly's "jelly" and the wobble at the beginning of the episode perfectly. You set up the joke and then you pay it off. This show more than gets it. The Jelly Belly Dancers dance with the kids and Duggee in a Brady-Bunch-equse sequence for a while. Brown Cow, Sheep, Spider and Blue Bird join in to bop to the beat with the rest of the audience. Sadly, the Squirrels have to go home with Duggee, but they dance all the way home to complete the story. The curtain drops and the audience claps and love it. Wait, when we saw the kids first, Duggee didn't appear until seconds later. So, what happened to Duggee inbetween?! In any case, we hear someone say "bravo" and then pan left to see King Tiger in a director's chair praising the work! Damn, I wasn't expecting that one. King Tiger proclaims that this is exactly what happened as the kids pop from the curtain and realize that King Tiger was there all along. King Tiger is a better hider than anyone on this show and Peppa Pig combined. The kids run in as we make small talk. King Tiger thanks them for the show as the narrator asks if the kids have done well today. Duggee bails on all fours and returns with the badge as the kids cheer. In comes the parents in their vehicles, 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 their kids in their vehicles. Yes, King Tiger leaves in his limo and his limo did arrive with the parents. Implying that the limo driver is a parent. Whom is the white haired penguin, I should note. King Tiger also does the goodbye promo as the narrator asks if this was fun and we end with Duggee as a puppet bouncing around. The narrator laugh as this drum beat plays to end the episode at 6:45. The end credits feature the Jelly Belly Dancers wobbling for my pleasure. This was a great episode and a better use of the dancers to boot! **** (80%).

Opening Moment #2: This opening features Betty reading her book as per a previous episode. The title card is a circular badge featuring a bunch of birds against a blue background with yellow trim. I think you can guess the plot without me telling you, because there is a certain hippo kid with a lust for them birds!

The Bird Watching Badge: Short opens in the clubhouse with the kids doing the usual stuff. Norrie and Betty are having the tea party this time and after the last episode, it might be legit fruit tea. The narrator says his usual spiel and the kids run away smiling and giggling stage right. We head outside with Duggee using binoculars to watch them birds! Uh-oh! Them birds are not going to like where this is going. Duggee is looking at blue bird and purple bird doing what I generously describe as a mating dance. The kids run in asking Duggee what he is doing. Duggee turns around looking at the kids with the binoculars with winking eyes, that was funny. Considering that this is a magical world in it's own storyline, I have mellowed out on the winking sound effect being used here. The kids giggle and Duggee is so confused of this that he looks into the hard camera with the binoculars. Also funny. Are those binoculars stuck to his eyeballs for some reason?! The kids think Duggee is funny. Word. Norrie asks why is he looking with binoculars, and Norrie actually pronounces it correctly. Duggee continues to look at the birds with the binoculars as the birds do a legit kiss on the lips, and none of the kids sell it. The kids just stand there smiling, just making Peppa, George and most of the kids all look like wimps. The only one who gets it is Evie Pig. Like these kids, she didn't give a fuck. And Mummy and Daddy Pig's kiss on the lips was fake because it didn't touch lips. Ditto for Mr. Bull and Mrs. Cow during their wedding. Even the narrator cannot seem to get to Duggee, so he asks if this is fun and Duggee woofs. Probably the first time the narrator asked the question at the beginning of the episode, rather than the end of it. Duggee points to his chest to reveal his Bird Watching badge. This is weird because in Peppa Pig, this past time is called "bird spotting", which means the same thing. Ditto for "birding". The kids are in awe of this and Roly breaks the ice and screams "birds". This is going to be a dumb episode, I just know it. The birds on the branch fly away in terror on cue because they know that Roly has a bloodlust for them birds. You know this is trouble when the narrator is channeling the narrator from Peppa Pig. Keep in mind, Alexander Armstrong, whom is the narrator's voice in this show, is Captain Dog in Peppa Pig! Duggee tries to shhh Roly. Good luck on that one, Duggee!

The narrator whisper yells that they must be quiet to the kids. 80% of the kids get this, Roly of course does not because his gimmick is that he's very loud. In addition to having a lust for them birds! A deadly combination for birds I do say! The kids whisper to each other as Duggee nods in approval from the narrator. This leads to the badge scene changer of the sun rising in the sky with Duggee's face on it. We return outside to see the Squirrels sneaking in the most unconvincing sneaking up spot ever seen. It's literally them walking slowly while looking down at the ground. Betty then screams and turns around to see a bird. She is pointing at the bird while being loud. Betty is a hypocrite since she scolds Roly for stupid crap on this show. Duggee turns around, doesn't scold her for it and looks in the binoculars to see Delta Chicken peaking the ground as per it's contract. Now, this is acceptable because Delta Chicken is technically a bird. Still, this is way too easy; but at least it gives the kids incentive to continue the spotting further. Roly then screams "BIRD!" and Delta Chicken literally poops out an egg and runs away stage left! You know what, I don't blame Roly for what he did here. Betty yelled first! Methinks, it's not the volume of Roly's yells; it's the fact that Roly's bloodlust for them birds is a clear sign here since Delta Chicken didn't flee when Betty was yelling. Roly needs help at this point, because in Series 3; he is starting to dig mass graves. Roly points and lowers the volume as Betty scolds him like the hypocritical clever clogs that she is. The narrator reminds the kids to be quiet so the birds are not frightened. Delta Chicken returns, grabs her egg, acts all offended and walks stage left in a huff. I don't blame her, she knows Roly is a meance to birds everywhere. Badge scene changer ensues with an egg and Duggee hatches out of it. After Happy asked Duggee in The Egg Badge about laying an egg, I'm about to lost my shit again. He's an egg-hatching dog, literally! We return with the Squirrels next to Hennie as Duggee is looking skyward with his binoculars. That is a stupid move by Duggee because looking into the sun is a bad thing to do to your eyes. Roly is distracted and looking to his right. When Roly is smarter than the adult, Duggee is our GEEK OF THE WEEK~! The rest of the kids are looking at her feet, but that is due to them being small and Hennie being fifty feet tall!

Okay, this next spot is so bigoted and stupid: Roly is screaming "birds!" in the opposite direction of Hennie. That is merely stupid. Hennie then does the worst scream ever and then bounces away into the mountains! WHAT?! Hennie is fifty feet tall, is much bigger than Roly even if Roly as an adult AND has a nasty windmill kick as shown in The Football Badge?! You are telling me that she's scared of Roly because she's a bird?! This is spiecism and sexism and shame on this show for this bigotry!!! I don't care if Roly is loud, this is logically bigoted and stupid! This episode and show was doing so well, too. This puts the "firefighter" incident in "The Dressing Up Badge" in it's proper prespective. Of course, it's all Roly's fault, too as Hennie cannot sell fear well either. Just buries Hennie even more as a character. Roly apologizes in the most obvious whisper yell ever, the only one willing to apologize and even then it wasn't loud enough. The narrator does apologize to Hennie though, so he feels some shame and informs her of the bird spotting stuff. Hennie stops selling and likes it. The Squirrels leave as the kids wave goodbye,as Hennie does not have bad feelings for anyone. It's not her fault that Grant Orchard wrote that horrible spot. Badge scene changer ensues as Duggee pops up with the binoculars from the berry bush, probably trying to spot Roly and stop him before the screaming turns into a bird genocide. Good luck on that one, Duggee. The winking doesn't help his cause any as we see a binocular shot of Mr. Grey Bird building a nest in a tree. I was hoping that Duggee would be bird spotting hiding in that berry bush, but it's in a forest. Sigh. The kids are whispering at each other for a while, the only legit noise in this scene. The narrator whisper yells about the situation as the grey bird puts the final stick on the nest with his wing, and then someone sneezes and the nest collapses. Roly is the prime suspect, but the sneeze has a "woof" sound in it, so Roly is cleared as a suspect. If this were a big kids show, they would spend minutes of Roly being accused of this sneeze, until it was proven that it was Duggee. Literally seconds later, we hear and see Duggee blowing his nose. This was unintentional at least as the narrator says "bless you". Keep in mind, the show has a badge for choir music. I wish I was making that one up. The second the narrator says "bless you", Duggee looks at the hard camera, confused. I don't know if it's because he sneezed, or he was confused that an obvious Christian reference slipped by in a secular show?! Either way, it was funny.

Then Mrs. Bird walks in with a branch and she is shocked and horrified that this nest has collapsed. I betcha they blame ROLY for this one and not Duggee. Because you see, Duggee does not have a bloodlust for them birds, and Roly does have a bloodlust for them birds. Mrs. Bird is shedding a tear and Mr. Bird is angry beyond belief at DUGGEE~! We have the smartest bird in the show and it just buries Hennie even further. Duggee and the kids decide to make up for this by building a new nest because the narrator said so. The narrator asks how to do this as the kids ponder this over. This goes on for seconds until Duggee shows off a stick. The kids get it, Roly gets it a second later and then they run stage left smiling and giggling. Mr. and Mrs. Bird waddle in as the narrator is consoling the two off-camera. Off-screen the kids are building a nest and the narrator is asking Duggee to check to see how they are getting on, and I fear that they are in a fighting with Roly, who was totally innocent of all charges related to the nest collapse. Duggee bails on all fours to investigate and we see the kids have completed a new nest which looks like it was designed for Hennie, or Hennie's underwear. Okay, that was at least funny and I could laugh at it. They have more than earned the badge in my eyes after this one. The bird family don't care as they bounce towards the nest, Roly opens the door and go upstairs. The birds approve of the nest and celebrate with a tea party of their own. Somehow, the nest is transferred to the branch during this as the kids and Duggee have their own binoculars now watching the birds have their tea party. The narrator is happy, the kids are happy as the narrator ask if the kids have done well today. Duggee bails on all fours and returns with the badge as the kids cheer. Here come the parents in their vehicles in time for the DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug. The kids bail stage left to present the badges to their parents, some calling it "Bad Watching Badges". That was funny. The parents hug the kids and then leave with the kids in their vehicles. The narrator asks if this was fun as the blue bird sings opera and the two idiots laugh to end the episode at 6:45. This was a really fun episode with a really awful Hennie spot, so call it *** 1/4 (65%).

Opening Moment #3: This opening features Betty reading her book as per a previous episode. It's rare to see the same opening sequence back to back on this show. The title card is a circular badge with a parade leader's hat and baton against a yellow background with yellow/brown trim.

The Big Parade Badge: Short opens with the usual stuff in the clubhouse as Norrie is having the tea party this time. Roly is drawing a picture of Duggee of course as the narrator asks what Duggee has planned for them today. The kids bail stage left as we jump cut to Duggee looking concerned over a chipmunk in a red outfit pacing around not liking some idea I don't know about. Apparently, the chipmunk is dressed in a conductor's outfit. In runs the kids who are almost as large as this chipmunk asking Duggee what he is doing. Then I realize that the post officer chipmunk is not Eugene, as Duggee presents Eugene, the leader of the big parade. I profusely apologize for mixing Eugene with that horrible post officer from earlier rants. The consequences of ranting the episodes out of order. Tag wonders what a parade is and Eugene is annoyed when he answers as we get a montage of birds playing drums while wearing conductor outfits. The naughty mice are basically dancers who might be this world's version of the Rockettes. Eugene has his staff as he's the conductor and he still says it with a level of disgust. A bear dressed in cyan blue playing a tuba and a giraffe in red playing a trumpet hands free are in step with Eugene of course. Apparently, Eugene stalls in this sequence and we have a pileup on route one! The most contrived pileup sequence I ever saw and Eugene blames this for his panic. Tag is looking at the hard camera like to say "can you believe this?" I certainly don't Tag, this is not believable. Eugene is a horrible conductor. I know this because he lost his hat, too. That is grounds for termination as conductor right there. Tag then tells Roly that Eugene needs help and Roly says it literally one word at a time. Might as well clap between words there, Roly. Same thing basically. Eugene says he needs help, the kids say "okay" and then bounce away stage right smiling and giggling. The kids return with various hats, with Roly being the only one that is within the bounds of what a conductor's hat should be. Which indicates that he trolls very wrong. By the way, Eugene rejects all the hats, except the one that he magically written in by teleport which is his legit hat. SUZY SHEEP~?! Eugene thanks the kids anyway while putting on the hat. Apparently, he didn't lose his conductor stick as he does his walking sequence with public domain music being played in the background for no reason whatsoever. Eugene leaves stage left and slams the door.

The kids ask if they can see the parade and Duggee then bails on all fours and returns wearing a conductor's outfit to let you know that he accepts. Something tells me Duggee knows that he's going to have to be the backup conductor because Eugene is either going to be sick, injured, dead, or all three. The kids jump for joy and put on their headgear, just to be little kids. When Roly looks like the classiest guy in the group, the other kids are dorks. Badge scene changer of Duggee's one dog band playing, which does amuse me. We head outside for band practice with Eugene, Ethel, Bear, Giraffe, Katerina, The Penguins, Naughty Mice and a few others. There are instruments scattered around and everyone appears disorganized. In comes Duggee in his conductor's outfit with the kids wearing their hat with Duggee being a transport dog of course. Oh, hello there LadyBird. Betty asks for Eugene and Tag spots him on his own as Eugene is at the big drum, sulking in some form of defeat. The kids greet Eugene as Eugene sighs while Betty notices that Eugene is worried about something. Apparently, it's because the performers suck at regulating their behaviour, you see. Naughty Monkey is eating his fruit lady costume, Baloo would have been pissed off at this. That's why you use plastic fruit, Eugene! Ethel is sick and blows away a Naughty Mice, which was funny. Eugene then makes the stupid mistake of saying that it cannot get worse, then the trumpet player pushes the pipe too far, clips Eugene in the back, Eugene takes a bump onto his ass on the ground, and now his knee has been screwed up, so he cannot do the march. Geez, glad to see Duggee was on the ball wearing his own conductor's outfit know wasn't it?! This was dumb. Duggee of course steps in, points to his to reveal the badge. Come on, now! Maybe Duggee should have waited until now to put on the conductor's outfit, because THAT would have build up some suspense. Once the outfit was on much earlier, the suspense was gone and everyone can see it coming! Would have been better if ROLY was the conductor, that would have been buys! Duggee woofs it all as he brings out his conductor stick and we do that march! Yup, they are doing a dress rehersal for the parade as the narrator calls it a good show. I'm not going to bother listing the animals who do this crap, it's not worth it anymore.

I should note that Norrie is one of the ten dancers shaking their feathers, even though Norrie doesn't have tailfeathers, and her tail is too short to shake. Norrie waves to the hard camera and greets the narrator on the way out. Next up is nine punky penguins as the narrator is shocked about them doing the punk lifestyle. Next up is eight walking clowns, complete with square wheels bicycle and Tag of course. Yes, they are counting backwards in an educational spot that doubles as mass teleportation of characters. Six Hippie Rabbits plus one white rabbit do magic tricks on a parade float, with the white rabbit doing their catchphrase. I don't need to tell you what it is, so next up is six Naughty Drummers, five of them are Naughty Monkeys and one of them is a bloodlusting birdfucker wannabe. Roly, everyone. They are called chefs by the narrator, I should note. Next up is Mr. Stinky Lion doing a tapdance and then multiplying into clones on a float. They do a hats off florish and we next go to four horse riders, with three of them riding stick horses, and one of them is Happy playing a cowboy. BS&P Alert: They actually allowed them to use water guns and the narrator was allowed to say "pistol", which is still considered a legit gun. Now, I know it's no AR-15 or AK-47; but still. Yes, this background has cacti in the background, and Happy seems to have a bloodlust for water. That's okay, because having lust for something that everyone needs is A-OK! Just don't overdo it, since water can kill you too. Yes, they actually shoot their water guns in the air. Okay, just to make the critics look even dumber in hindsight during the firefighter incident: Next up, is three astronauts doing a lunar walk. Okay, them wearing actual space suits is fine because the scene is fake in Duggee's world anyway. They are not on the moon at all. Two of the astronauts are the Naughty Mice and one of them is Enid. The narrator calls them "spacemen". There's one problem: When Roly dressed up like a firefighter; I mention that his pronouns are he/him. Therefore, even if "firefighter" is a better term for inclusion purposes, calling Roly a "fireman" was perfectly all right. Not here! Enid's pronouns are "she/her". Therefore, calling her a "spacemen" with the mice excludes her, therefore you must call them "astronauts". Why did the fireman incident cause angry letters, but not this spot which is more problematic?!

$50 they are on a trampoline on a float. I check the video...They didn't zoom out. My point still stands due to the trampoline bounce sounds, but still. Next up is two snorkeling superstars, which are Ethel and Betty. Ethel is on rollerskates and Betty has an umbrella. Betty dances on a colorful water spout, Ethel's water and blood must contain Kool-Aid. I don't think Flavor Aid would make this look colorful. Duggee marches to the music and then we get a back crowd shot of the parade as everyone has changed positions with the kids leading behind Duggee. It's a logic break, but I'm done with this because the suspense is gone and it's just one long spotfest that wasn't all that exciting to me. There were a few instances where they could have pulled back the curtain to pay off the backgrounds, but never bother to do so, thus the giggles are reduced. The foreground shadow are waving flags, maybe for surrender, who knows. Jump cut to all the parents as Roly's parent looks exactly like Roly. WHAT?! Also, somehow Enid, three Delta Chickens, Delta Frog, Mr. Bird, Sheep and Brown Cow are in the crowd. Wait, Enid has a stunt cat?! Huge, if true. Enid is waving her tail with the flag as Norrie is maybe the only one who has a legit nuclear family of the outfit. I'm fine with that. Almost forgot about blue bird waving the flag in mid-air and Eugene is with them. Eugene has crutches and yes, his leg is broken. Eugene walks in as Duggee finishes the parade perfectly with the stop. Eugene praises Duggee for his efforts and I'm guessing Eugene is going to retire from this parade because no one can top Duggee in that department. Eugene actually sells the leg, sort of. The narrator asks if the kids have done well today as Duggee bails on all fours and returns with the badge. The kids cheer as Tag's clown ears are funny as clown horns blow to reveal the parents and Naughty Monkey eating a banana. Time for the DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug. The kids bail stage left and present the badges to their parents. By the way, Norrie's dad and Happy's mother for some reason changed their clothes back to normal gear since Happy's mother was wearing blue pants during the parade. SUZY SHEEP~?! The kids hug the parents and then leave with their kids in their vehicles. The narrator asks if this was fun as the square wheel bicycle rides in and then falls apart with a fart. Duggee and the narrator laugh to end the episode at 6:45. This was okay. ** 1/2 (50%).

Opening Moment #4: This opening features Roly blowing bubbles as per a previous episode. The title card is a triangle warning badge informing you the viewer, that bananas are dangerous. Yeah.

The Be Careful Badge: Short opens with guitar music outside of the barn as Duggee is arranging flowers with Delta Chicken doing something and Blue Bird doing lookout. Duggee takes a purple flower and sniffs it as the narrator talks about a lovely sunny day in Duggee world. Then the music really starts humming as a butterfly flies from the flower as the flower. The butterfly flies around showing Roly looking at the pinwheel like he does in the opening sequences early on. Betty and Norrie are creating daisy chain necklaces. Happy is having fun with Cappee and Tag and a boombox which I hope is playing that music because that would be buys! Cappee does some tower spinning for their and my amusement as we see the butterfly flying towards Enid who is sleeping as usual. Strangely, it doesn't land on ther nearby flowers, as it flies over three Delta Chicken sunbathing and shooting the breeze in a G-rated way. Next up is Worm giggling at a book about chickens, even though Worm is their natural predator. I think. Worm also has a glass of water with a straw. Hennie has a vanilla ice cream cone with sprinkles on it. I guess this is her cheat snack for the week. Hey, it's still better than a smoke pipe in the mouth, as per the "Dressing Up Badge". Delta Frog is doing his latest adventure in a hot air balloon, and ribbits. Then we head to the tree to see Naughty Monkey on a branch eating banana that he probably stole from Duggee's farm. Naughty Monkey throws a banana peel down and this offends the narrator so much that it causes a literal record scratch to ensue. Damn, the narrator needs to be scolded by Stephen Fry. However, his offense does in fact have some merit because the banana peel falls to the ground, the squirrel from "The Acorn Badge" is whistling with his eyes closed like a complete stupid idiot, he slips on the banana peel, does a wheel animation, and lands on his ass as the banana goes flying stage left. Listen, I agree that Naughty Monkey was naughty and should have thrown his peel in the compost bin, instead of throwing it on the ground. But for goodness sakes, look where you are going at all times! It might be nature, whom you cannot hold to account, pulling that trick with an actual banana. You never know! Act like you have been there, don't act like this cocky squirrel! And I don't mean Betty!

The squirrel is now pissed off because he broke his tailbone like Kurt Angle did against Shane McMahon in that bloodbath match they has at King Of The Ring 2001. Naughty Monkey eats another banana, and the banana peel is thrown right in front of Katerina who is doing the exact same thing as that cocky squirrel with exactly the same results. What is wrong with these dipshits?! Did they watch WCW with Kevin Nash and the riot squad and thought it was a good idea?! At least Duggee was smart enough to just have a badge image of the sockpuppet that turned on him in the "Maze Badge" and didn't bring it back fully. Yes, Ethel does the same thing as well, same results. Ethel oversells this like Charlie Brown wiffing on the football being pulled away by Lucy in Peanuts, except Ethel is literally a ferris wheel and he's much larger than Charlie Brown. This is totally absurd and it makes me hate Naughty Monkey less, not more! The giant bump somehow manages to kill Roly's buzz, that was funny at least. The kids are all confused now. The kids decide to run in and find out as we get the music, but no badge scene changer. Jump cut to Ethel with a concussion that the birds comically oversell by literally flying around his head. I shouldn't laugh at this, but I did. The kids all run in and notice the birds flying away as Roly asks if Ethel is okay. Ethel nods that he's fine, I doubt it. Norrie asks what happened and Ethel uses the trunk to point down with a literal arrow to the banana peel. Betty asks who would be evil enough to put that banana skin (as they say in British English) there, and a banana peel lands on Betty's head. HAHA! Come on now, Betty! Why would you ask that question when you know that even the Naughty Mice do not stoop to childish lows like that. Naughty Monkey acts like he's been caught and then starts not caring anyway. Norrie then says that you cannot throw banana peels on the floor. First of all: It's the ground. Second of it: Naughty Monkey responds by throwing a banana peel right on Norrie's head. HAHA! Hey, it wasn't the floor nor the ground, Norrie. Norrie is our GEEK OF THE WEEK~! Then Naughty Monkey makes the fatal error: He slips on a conveniently placed banana peel on the branch, he falls out of the tree and pinballs for a long ass whomping time and lands on his ass off-screen in the giant hole. Uh-oh! In more ways than one. ROLY~?! If I find out that Roly has dug that giant hole, it's time for Roly to be sent to therapy and never come back.

Norrie and the kids run in as Norrie, despite getting banana peeled by Naughty Monkey asks if he is all right. The answer is that Naughty Monkey is bawling his eyes out. He's not fine, but he's not physically injured. At least Naughty Monkey got his comeupperance and is forced to learn his lesson now, and I'm perfectly fine with that. Sadly, everyone else except the kids and Duggee need the lesson too. As in, keep your eyes open at all times. The kids decide to bail to get help from Duggee as Duggee is watering the flowers. The kids run in yelling for Duggee as Duggee turns around. The kids exchange notes on the situation as I should note that Roly screaming "a big hole" does not help his alibi any. Anyhow, Naughty Monkey wasn't careful, so Duggee points to his chest to reveal the badge, which is a warning sign that banana are still dangerous. Okay, the skin is understandable; but the banana itself. That's defamation to me. The kids offer to help, and everyone is fine with that as long as they be careful. This leads to a sky shot of circles as they walk in as they stop at a red prickly bush. So, "prickly" is fine, but "prick" is not. The kids decide to be careful and dodge to the left before moving on to the next obstacle to be careful with is a snail that smaller than the kids. The snail needs to be even more careful than the kids here, but that's fine. They also dodge to the left after snail and the kids cut promos. Then they stop at the angry bull as Roly makes small talk with it like a goofball. Angry Bull is so gravely offended at Roly for calling him a cow that he sees red and chases the Squirrels around in a disorganized fashion as the kids yell to be careful. Geez, I don't know what is worse: Roly calling Angry Bull the wrong spieces or Angry Bull being so angry for no reason. I'm going to say the later because if Roly called him a bull, I betcha the same result happens anyway. This bull needs Anger Management classes...with Mr. Bull from Peppa Pig being the teacher. Roly yells "why me" at the end as the kids run in and stop at the hole along with Duggee, they look completely blown up. Ethel is also here, probably the one who has to rescue Naughty Monkey, the poor elephant. The kids and Duggee scout the hole to waste more time in a nearly seven minute episode, and even Naughty Monkey is bawling his eyes out as he feels my pain now.

Duggee and the three kids are wondering how to get Naughty Monkey out and then we hear Roly yell "skip" which sounds like "kicks" to me. Yup, Happy and Rolly are playing skipping rope with Ethel, with the trunk being a skipping rope. Jump cut to a close up of Duggee's mug as he points a finger up to reveal that he has a plan. It's obvious: They will use Ethel's trunk to fish Naughty Monkey out. That makes sense, it's weither or not Ethel will agree to do this because earlier in the episode, he nearly got killed by slipping on a banana peel by Naughty Monkey. The kids say it all as we cut to Naughty Monkey bawling his eyes out and then Ethel uses his trunk as a staircase. Okay, this is the right booking decision and Ethel did the right thing here, but for goodness sakes; just like that?! No tease of Ethel refusing and you had like forty seconds left in the episode to do a tease and then Ethel does the right thing?! This is the second straight episode where the suspense was gone, although this one isn't nearly as bad since there wasn't much time left, so I'm fine with it. Naughty Monkey climbs up after the kids tell him to be careful and Naughty Monkey sits on Ethel's back and that is that. With twenty seconds to spare I might add. So, they spend almost all that time with the cast eating bananas to music and then Naughty Monkey throws his banana peel backwards, which causes Tag and the music to suffer from a record scratch. That face Tag did I admit was funny, as we jump cut to the snail looking around as the banana peel somehow lands in the compost bin as it should be. That Naughty Monkey has awesome aim, proving that he was in fact doing this on purpose and being naughty. He's the second biggest heel on the show now, next to the Stinky Lion I keep confusing as King Tiger. Naughty Monkey is gleefully happy to be doing this as the narrator and kids say it all. Duggee than bails on all fours and returns with the badge. Despite all this, Naughty Monkey didn't earn the badge, despite the whole episode being built on him learning his lesson. That was bullshit. In comes the parents in their vehicles in time to see the DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug. The kids bail stage left to present the badges to their parents. The kids hug the kids and then leave with them in their vehicles. The narrator asks if this was fun and Duggee is in the background being chased by the Angry Bull to end the episode at 6:45. It's time for Angry Bull to get that overdue treatment of his anger issues, STAT! This was a really fun episode, although I'm worried about Roly's future now. *** 3/4 (75%).

Opening Moment #5: This opening features Tag playing with a toy train as per a previous episode. The title card is a circular badge of a plaster/bandage against a white background with red/white trim.

The First Aid Badge: Short opens in the clubhouse as only Enid is playing with a ball of yarn. Somehow the Squirrels are not present, but the toys are on the floor! The narrator is confused by this as Enid meows because Enid don't care. Head outside with Tag wearing a crown leading the walking team of the rest of the kids following him. They are basically following Tag's commands of hop, skip, tippy-toes. The name of the game is Copy The King, which I'm sure Americans are seething right now. Which Tag says and the kids copy to sell the gimmick. Norrie speaks, then Tag says he's the king and the kids repeat what he said and Tag don't care. The narrator does not follow the rules at all, that was funny. The kids also copy when Tag giggles softly. Then the plot starts with Tag tripping over a rock and falls flat on his face, which the kids copy because of course they do. The landing sounds like a fart. The kids laugh and then Tag says "ow" and the kids stop selling because Tag has apparently injured his knee. The narrator says it all as Tag's selling of this knee is terrible. It's almost like a Lex Luger sell job, at least Tag is a kid. Tag tries to walk on it, but he is in pain. This shows that the knee is hurt, but not broken. Well, that's a relief. The last thing Tag needs is to Pedro Pony himself...oh wait, I forgot about the Comedy Badge. More on that one in future. Tag sits down on the tree stump while Betty checks out the knees. Betty has no idea what to do, so the rest of the kids scream for Duggee. Which is a valid reason to do so anything, only they should have had Betty do it at once. Jump cut to Duggee washing windows outside with a cloth and bucket as Enid is now playing with the yarn outside, for no reason. Duggee hears the war cry and then bails on all fours stage right doing an awesome cloth flip into the bucket. Enid don't care about anything at this point as Duggee runs in as Roly proclaims that Tag has hurt himself. Roly then whisper yells that it was bad as Happy is like "Yeah". I shouldn't have laughed at that, but I did. Badge scene changer ensues with Duggee turning his back and then turning around on camera pondering what to do while dressed like a doctor. Duggee returns checking the knee as the kids wonder if Tag is all right. Duggee then woofs reassuring them that Tag's all right. The narrator proclaims that it's just a graze which is a scraped knee. In other words, Tag is about to Peppa Pig himself.

Duggee brings out his first aid kit and in a really awesome move to assure the Red Cross symbol is not used, the symbol is in fact the First Aid Badge. The kids are in awe as Tag asks what is that, which the kids do not copy. I realize that we shouldn't make light of Tag's injury, but; the other kids asking would be a valid question either way. The narrator proclaims that it is stuff to make Tag's knee feel better, which Roly screams "Ice Cream"! Betty thankfully corrects him as Duggee goes through his first aid kit and brings out a roll of bandages. Duggee wraps the knee of Tag, Tag gets up and walks better. Tag is happy and Roly wants a go at this. Oh no, it's cartoon duck syndrome time, because the kids have to earn the badge in this episode since that is the premise of the show. Duggee relucently decides to let them at it. First spot is the kids using the bandages to wrap Tag up like a...giant ball of yarn. I called it thirty seconds before it happened, I should note. However, I still got it wrong because I expected a mummy here. The result was better than it had any right to be. Apparently, three plasters got involved as well, that was amusing. Duggee is shocked at this, Enid rolls it's ball of yarn stage right and runs off. If you cannot guess what Enid does next, you have no business reading this rant. Yup, Enid finds the giant ball of Tag yarn and scratches it, which merely slightly tickled Tag for some reason. The narrator is confused by this moment. However, this turned out to be dangerous because the giant ball of Tag yarn is rolling away down the hill stage right. The kids are the GEEKS OF THE WEEK~ and Tag might be the winner of the Darwin Award that he didn't cause himself. Duggee panics and run away, but the kids run smiling and giggling. HAHA! Remember that Duggee isn't king, so this is within the rules of the game. Besides, why is anyone surprised by this?! The chase is on as there is Hanna Barbera spots up and down the hill, Enid don't care of course. We discover that the hill is U-shaped and thus the logic makes sense after all, while the narrator calls this silly and groans. He must hate logic in this world and love HB logic, if you know what I mean. The rolling stops and everyone is blown up except for Tag. Now the smart thing to do is take off the bandages and have everyone walk up the hill stage left. The problem with that is that the episode will end too soon.

The narrator's idea is for everyone to push Tag and the bandaged yarn up the hill. Keep in mind, Enid is the one who pushed Tag down the hill in the first place. This is a dumb idea, but they need to kill time since they have 90 seconds to go before presenting the badge. Then they jump cut to all of them up the hill already. That took five seconds in real time. You couldn't have them struggle and waste 45 seconds here? Because the end result would have been the same: Duggee is blown up and leans on the bandage ball and the bandage ball rolls away stage left and Duggee might have hurt his elbow and arm in the process. Now the kids panic, and then bounce away smiling and laughing. Except for Roly, the loud mouth dumb bird brain has had enough of this bullshit. Enid lies down and don't care as the ball rolls stage left for a long ass whomping time as the birds flee. Tag has uintentionally become an enemy of them birds. I was expecting the ball to hit the barn or go inside the barn and continue to waste more time. Instead, the ball unrolls and Tag stops in his tracks short of the barn. We still got 60 seconds left before the presentation of the badge I should note. Tag is sitting on his ass with his mouth wide open for no reason whatsoever as the kids run in to console him. Including Roly, who didn't join in earlier. SUZY SHEEP~?! Tag teases hating this, and then declares it fun. Duggee runs in blown up as the narrator is already into the kids doing well today. Duggee is about to point up to do his sequence, but Norrie stops him because Duggee cut his finger print. They deduce it was from falling down earlier as Roly has the first aid kit ready. So, they unpack the first aid kit, Betty takes out a plaster and gives it to Norrie and then Tag. Tag, the injuried one from earlier has the honor of plastering Duggee's cut finger and that is that. Duggee is better and then bails on all fours to return back with the First Aid Badge. The kids all cheer as the parents arrive in their vehicles. Time for the DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug. The kids bail stage left to present the parents with the badges. The parents hug the kids and then leave with the kids in their vehicle. The narrator asks if this was fun and Enid comes out of the rolled bandages, causing the narrator and Duggee to laugh to end the episode at 6:45. This was a fun episode and nothing else. *** 1/2 (70%).

Opening Moment #6: This opening features Roly looking at pinwheel as per a previous episode. The title card is a circular badge with three colored bubbles and the blue one contains Duggee's face. They are against a yellow background with white trim. Odd that they didn't use Roly blowing bubbles in this opening sequence since it would have been the perfect setup for this episode. Oh well...

The Bubble Badge: Short opens with the kids in the clubhouse building a big castle tower. Roly pops up on top of the tower as the narrator wonders what Duggee has planned for them today as the bubbles enter the scene, just to kill the suspense of the plan within seconds. I do admit that was funny. Roly is at least self-aware of where this is going as he yells bubbles and the other kids are in awe already. I just love that they have to wonder where they are coming from, bail stage left and somehow not destroy the building blocks tower they were making. That part amused me. Jump cut to Duggee blowing bubbles as the kids run in and pop them. The narrator loves this, but Enid is afraid of bubbles and backs off. This cat is afraid of soap bubbles?! Damn. The bubble pops off-screen and Enid yells as we return to the Squirrels making small talk for a while. Duggee brings out the bubble mixture and bubble wands. Everyone gets a bottle of bubble mixture and a bubble wand. YAY! One more thing of note: Tag debuts the pogo-stick victory dance here in this sequence! Get used to it, after Series One, he does it everytime he earns a badge. Everyone grabs a bottle of bubble mixture as we play the Duggee opening theme song in the background. Roly does make me laugh by forgetting to open the bottle before dipping in the bubble wand. It's so stupid, but I laughed so hard it was worth it. It would have been even funnier if the opening sequence showed Roly successfully blowing bubbles. Norrie shakes the bubble mixture bottle, Tag unintentionally pours the bottle mixture upside down like a dork, Betty blows bubbles on the top of the open bottle without the bubble wand. Happy does nothing and still says it doesn't work. WHAT?! The other kids did it wrong, but you didn't even try to be wrong Happy! The kids all sulk in defeat as Betty wants help. Duggee than points to his chest to reveal his Bubble Badge. The kids all cheer as we get the badge scene changer of bubbles showing of Duggee's mug. Okay, then. We head outside with the kids and Duggee holding their bubble wands. The kids are holding their bubble mixture bottles while Duggee has a giant adult sized wand and a big ass jar of bubble mixture. Why?! Why not?!

Within seconds, Duggee demonstrates the bubble blowing techs and the kids demonstrate that they can understand what Duggee is woofing. The kids do a Brady-Bunch-equse sequence of doing what Duggee says -- In the big bottle of bubble mixture mind you -- and they blow. Surprisely, only Happy fails in blowing a bubble. The one whose gimmick is water cannot blow bubbles. This is not funny, this is tragic. We then HIT THE MONTAGE~ for a while to kill time in a seven minute episode as blowing bubbles ensue as Roly does a zig zag on Charlie Brown's shirt bubble, that was great. Happy cannot blow bubbles to save his life nor his brain. Enid gets scared by a big bubble and has to go inside. At least being scared by the sound of popping can be justified, but I'm not buying this with Enid though. Duggee is blowing huge bubbles and here is our #1 heel of this show Hedgely The Hedgehog to ruin everyone's fun. For those who think there are no heels on this show: Hedgely popped a bouncy castle in The Bouncing Badge and was a monsterous branch sucking bush in The Leaf Badge. Hedgely cuts a gleeful promo, then pops the bubble and now he's so mad he bails just to blow off Duggee like a naughty heel would. The kids continue to blow bubbles as Worm is loving life and making Enid and Hedgely look like thin-skinned wimps, which is ironic because Worm has the thinnest skin literally. Happy still cannot do this to save his life nor his brain. This is so sad, it's turning into a comedy routine. Betty clocks those bubbles, Enid backs up looking scared and then stops selling and destroys the bubble. Good! At least this had a payoff that made Enid look good. Enid looks confused as she looks directly at the hard camera. Oh, let's welcome back our second biggest heel of the show: Naughty Monkey on a tree branch looking at the sky of bubbles. Naughty Bubble swallows a bubble and then shoots bubbles from his mouth. Naughty Monkey is our GEEK OF THE WEEK~! More bubbles galore as this ends the montage. Jump cut to Happy failing to blow bubbles. Blue Bird is looking at the giant bottle of bubble mixture for no reason. Happy drops his bubble wand and suddenly, he has an idea.

Happy bounces stage left and then returns with a rainbow/white styled hula hoop. Yes, his plan is to blow bubbles with this hoop. He's jealous that Naughty Monkey can blow bubbles, despite Naughty Monkey eating bubble mixture in the process like a moron. This is stupid because Happy needs the blue bird to dip the hoop in the bubble mixture in order for Happy to blow the bubble. I find this way of earning the badge highly questionnable at this point. The amazing part is, this actually works! The kids don't care, they are in awe as even the narrator don't care about this cheating. This leads to weird music and weird wobbly effects with color tinting to ensue as the kids are happy. Happy is happy...and then Hedgely shows up again like the evil monster heel that he is. Then the sound of wind comes in and blows the bubble westward which causes the kids to panic. The bubble is heading straight to the prickly bush. By the way, remove the "ly" and it's literally a prick bush. Just so you would like to know, show. Roly runs in, does a wrestling move -- a big splash -- onto the prickly bush and the bubble bounces off either Roly's back or ass and flies away. Somehow, Roly sells it like Lex Luger. Don't do that kids, your belly will not like it and neither will you. Trust me on that one! Next up is the spiky gate. Now, I was expecting this to be a fence with spear like spikes everywhere...Nope! Only the wooden fence gate has spikes and they are dull. Norrie runs in and opens the gate to allow the bubble to pass through, making Roly look like a complete fool. Why didn't Roly just kick the prickly bush away?! That would have been safer. Norrie is looking at the hard camera relieved as Happy panics again. Notice that they are playing overdramtic domain music in these scenes and it just makes the scene look like a total comedy act gone wrong?! Happy panics again as it's the pointy cow, whom is not the angry bull; which should be the payoff to all this, but I betcha it won't. Tag bounces in with hay and feeds the pointy cow, which the cow drops his head down to let the bubble pass freely.

Happy then panics because it's head straight for the sneezing elephant, whom is not Ethel since this elephant is an anthro with two arms and two legs. The elephant in French gear (the Anti-French bigotry strikes again...) sneezes and the bubble reverses direction, go high into the air and hyperboles towards the direction of Hedgely The Hedgehog. Happy invokes the pointy finger of death on him; but Hedgely is like Jack W. Tweeg in that he cannot run, he cannot move, but is aware of his fate at how cruel and unfair live is to him as a heel, just stands here. The fact that he cut the promo on the bubble during this, makes it clear from the start. The bubble slowly drops on top of Hedgely as the kids think fate can not be changed. Except for Happy, whom thinks he can change fate, decide to blow the actual bubble itself with Duggee and the Squirrels and it works! By God, it works! Fate can be changed in this show after all! I need a drink...of soda! I'm not stupid enough to drink actual alcohol. The bubble flies into the sky, hopefully to the moon where Peppa Pig can pop it, I hope. The kids and Duggee wave goodbye to the giant bubble, Hedgely cuts a deep promo on the bubble as it flies into deep space, somehow intact! SUZY SHEEP~?! Happy think it's wobbly, the kids all giggle. This was a really stupid finish, but I laughed so hard it was worth it. The narrator asks if the kids did well today and Duggee bails on all fours, returning with the badge. The kids all cheer as the parents arrive in their vehicles. DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug with Hedgely and the bubbles. The kids bail stage left to present the parents with their badges. The parents hug the kids and then leave in their vehicles. The narrator asks if this was fun as the bubbles pop on Hedgely. Hedgely curses the spikes; Duggee and the narrator laugh to end the episode at 6:45. This episode was much better than the Peppa Pig version of this plot device and the finish was a great screw you finish. **** 1/4 (85%).

Opening Moment #7: This opening features Betty writing on the chalkboard as per a previous episode. The title card is a circular badge with a submarine in the water with white/brown trim. The brown trim is north and south, while the white trim is west and east.

The Submarine Badge: Short opens near the sea with a lighthouse in the background as Duggee is dressed up like an ocean sailor with a red stocking hat, cyan blue shirt and blue pants. The kids are dressed as themselves on top of Duggee's back because Duggee is not only a character, he's a method of transportation. Like the Sea Duck, only backwards. The Delta Chickens are just there to make their contracted appearance as usual. I love that the kids right leg wobbles when Duggee walks like a dog as the narrator asks where they are going. Betty proclaims that they are going to see her dad, who in storyline is a sea captain -- like Captain Dog, except still active -- who drives a submarine, which makes Betty having the opening sequence make sense. They make it to the docks and I know where this is going because we have already seen Betty and Betty's dad ride in the submarine already in the opening sequence of this episode alone, thus killing the suspense for me. Thankfully, the kids don't say a word or show any other emotion other than smiles when the submarine pops up from the dock. Betty's dad waves to the kids, only Betty waves back. Betty's dad asks if the kids are ready for the underwater adventure. The kids are ready, and Duggee salutes twice to indicate that he is ready as everyone is on the docks. Duggee is going because he points to his chest to reveal the Submarine Badge. Betty's Dad sees some sea lovers and welcomes them aboard. Then we get a funny scene changer/spot: Betty's Dad says that they must enter the submarine one at a time. They don't enter by walking in single file and then jumping into the submarine. No, they fall like raindrops into the submarine. That made me laugh. Duggee gets the same treatment and somehow his head is bigger than his body and has to squeeze in. That spot died in a steel sickening thud. Betty's Dad calls to see if everything is ready and everything is ready as Betty's Dad slams the porthole on the submarine and we dive down as the narrator yells to have fun. I'm guessing Betty's Dad will be narrating until the kids earn the badge. We dive into the sea, jump cut to inside showing off the submarine insides which have TARDIS powers and a cuckoo-clock. The TARDIS powers are believable in this case, the cuckoo-clock, not so much. The kids are in awe as Betty's Dad offers Duggee to take the wheel of morality. Duggee is so giddy when he hears this and takes the wheel. This is almost like Vinny V being so giddy wanting to watch Sid Vicious VS. Tank Abbott on WCW Monday Nitro. Duggee is such a geek! Duggee woofs like he's a geek, too.

Betty's Dad does the grand tour, including showing off the metal dome protecting the front because by pushing the red button, it shows glass. Kind of like the domes in stadiums to protect the field from rain and snow, this metal protects the glass from shattering and bringing water in. Okay, now the episode dives into absurdity as we have a sea stallion. Imagine a seahorse that is a lot more horse than seahorse, and you are there. Yeah, Hey Duggee's educational value is a wee bit sus, if you know what I mean. That mane almost annoyed my eyes there. Almost. Betty's Dad's promo about pickling stuff is funny as next up is a musicial school of jazzfish, more jazz than fish here. They play jazz music to let you know that this world is magical and not real. Then we get fish in traffic on crazy fish junction. Yes, these fish can swim anywhere, but decide to act like regular cars and limit themselves. What a sad state of affairs under the sea?! The jellyfish is doing "red light, green light" in this scene and Betty's Dad is laughing at them! This is not funny, this is tragic. The kids are like "fuck this" and they left. The kids had total empathy for those fish. That was great. Betty's dad turns around and it took the kids almost three and a half minutes before they misbehaved. It's difficult for me to take Betty Dad's side of things after he mocked a bunch of oppressed fish. I cannot take him seriously as a good father any longer. Norrie and Betty are pushing buttons and stop when Betty's Dad cuts them off. Roly is twisting the ceiling porthole wheel, which is in fact a dangerously bad thing to do. Betty's Dad cuts him off and peels him from that. Tag is jumping up and down on the periscope, which is just silly, although this will not help the sliding mechism any. We see a white bird on top of the periscope, but otherwise nothing of note. Betty's Dad is desperate now as he cuts him off and slides the periscope up, calling it fragile. I'm sorry, I'm not buying that this periscope is fragile. I think it can handle Tag quite well, thank you. Then we hear the radar beeping and we see Happy looking at the radar, doing mouth movements to simulate the beeps. HAHA! Happy is looking at the sonor screen and Betty's Dad is telling him to stop looking at it. Why is that horrible?! This is the point where Betty's Dad looks like such a clown. Roly and the girls was understandable, Tag was silly; but you can argue that the periscope is not robust enough to do the sliding motion for a long ass time. But getting mad at Happy for repeating beeps on a sonar?! That is old fart syndrome! It also doesn't help that when the sonar is beeping loudly, they do a Brady-Bunch split screen of the sonar and Betty Dad's face.

The kids decide to agree to see what it is and we jump cut to the front of the submarine as Duggee has joined us. It's a school of fish and the school of fish swims in. Yes folks, the teacher is a fish that has Duggee's face. Sadly, they failed to complete the gag by having the kids have the same faces as the Squirrels. Outside of the front one, which can be Betty's face. We make small talk for a while as the school of fish introduce their teacher Mr. Guppee! Of course! What a fool I am?! Thinking that it would be named anything else. Sadly, they failed to complete the gag by having Guppee speak in Duggeese, as he talks similar to Molang, only with more English. Funny faces and raspberries ensue, and this somehow offends Betty's Dad. What an old fart?! Thankfully, he recoils and is happy again before he is wrecked even further by me. Betty's Dad wants to return back to the surface because he knows that there is only 45 seconds left in the episode, and then walks away depressed. At least when Captain Dog was depressed, it was because he longed for the sea even though he has to adhere to the stipulations of his retirement angle. There is zero evidence that Betty's Dad has retired in any shape nor form. It just comes off as a bad rib. Everyone says their goodbyes, Betty's dad turns the wheel around and everyone bails in opposite directions. This leads to a badge scene changer of the goldfish fleeing stage left being chased by the submarine. Well, that was weird. We return to the surface near the docks as the porthole opens. The kids hop out of the submarine and land on the docks. I await with baited breath to see how Duggee is going to get out of there as the narrator asks if they had a good time and kids all say yes and nod. They all thank Betty's dad, literally calling him "Betty's Dad", and this causes Betty's Dad to shake as he pops up and thanks them back. Betty's Dad needs medical attention, and I may need it too. Betty's Dad is hot and waving his sea hat as Duggee just teleports out onto the docks. SUZY SHEEP~?! The narrator asks if the kids did well today, as Duggee bails on all fours (towards the dock edge mind you), and gives them the badge. Here come the rest of the parents in their vehicles, because Betty's Dad already has his submarine at the scene, which I bet they teleport towards the parent's cars at the end of this. Anyway, DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug. The kids bail stage left and present the badges to their parents. Yes, they still showed Betty presenting the badge to her dad despite being the sea captain, that was funny. The parents hug the kids in unison and then leave the scene in their vehicles. Yes, they all teleported to Duggee's barn, for no reason. SUZY SHEEP~?! The narrator asks if this was fun as the goldfish from the badge scene changer is now swimming in air. HAHA! The goldfish cuts a promo and we all laugh to end the episode at 6:45. I like this episode even though Betty's Dad wishes he was Captain Dog since he's acting like Captain Dog without the context of why Captain Dog in Peppa Pig was acting this way. *** 1/2 (70%). Question: Is Ivor the goldfish at the end?!

Opening Moment #8: This opening features Tag playing with the toy robot as per a previous episode. The title card is a circular badge with detective items against a cyan blue background with navy blue trim. The narrator sounds sus today for some reason.

The Detective Badge: Short opens with a window shot inside the barn with Duggee with a chef's hat on, putting a pie on the window sill. In comes the kids inside asking what Duggee is doing as Duggee is standing in front of the pie because this is the setup for the pie to be stolen, you see. Duggee shows off the pie and it's warm as it's an apple pie, according to the narrator. Roly wants to eat some pie, but it's too hot right now and it must cool. The kids are fine with that and they bail stage right to play. Roly just stares at the pie though. Tag returns to ask why Roly is still there and Roly proclaims that he's here to make sure the pie cools down. Sadly, Roly turned his back and Duggee turned his back during this as Tag is the only one to notice that the pie is gone. Now, Tag and Roly are automatically eliminated as suspects since we saw Roly talk to Tag about the pie. Duggee also turned his back to the narrator, and is more or less eliminated as a suspect. Plus, the narrator is eliminated as a suspect because he's behind the hard camera at all times. He couldn't have stolen this pie, even if it would make a lovely twist. So far, this leaves Norrie, Betty and Happy as possible suspects and only because their alibis have yet to be checked out. Roly is already suspecting Duggee as the pie thief, that was funny. Keep in mind, only Duggee at this point could have stolen it and teleported it out, because it is a magical world. Duggee denies stealing this pie and Roly is pissed off because he is denied his apple pie, which is by the way, as a reminder: It is more a British invention than an American one. Tag deduces that it fell outside while snapping his finger. Okay, that makes sort of sense. We head out and the pie is not there, but there is a small ladder that none of the kids could climb to steal the pie. That eliminates Norrie, Betty and Happy as suspects. This also eliminates Delta Frog, Enid and The Delta Chickens as suspects because the ladder is too small for them. This reduces the pool of suspects considerably. As in, most of the insect population is a suspect now. Betty notices the tiny ladder and narrator calls it good detective work. Betty, the clever clogs that she is asks and I'm paraphrasing here: What the hell is a detective?! This is Whistlestop Jackson, Legend all over again, only Betty is not being a troll here like Kit was. The narrator explains what a detective is via a puzzle of an apple pie. Norrie asks how they will find clues as Duggee pops up from the window and points to his chest to reveal the Detective Badge.

The narrator explains that if there are enough clues, we can solve the mystery of the missing pie. Badge scene changer featuring Duggee as a police officer breaking the speed limit in his police car. No one is defunding this police force, no one. We HIT THE MONTAGE~! Which is fitting because this is the exact same thing CSI: NY does all the time in their show; so it's obvious where this comes from. Yes, in CSI: NY, they would spend about 3-6 minutes of the team collecting evidence while playing pop culture music without saying anything. This is basically the same thing, except they don't really have 3-6 minutes to do this and tell the story, so it will be closer to 30-60 seconds tops. Plus, they play public domain music instead of pop music for obvious copyright reasons. Happy is the biggest geek as he's dressed like a white glove finger doing fingerprints. Brown Cow is now eliminated as a suspect, although the size of the suspect was not in doubt by this point. Roly just checked under there because he wants his slice of apple pie. Hey, if it means his bloodlust for birds dies with the taste of apple pie, the world of Duggee will be a better place. The Old Deers get questioned by Betty, they are eliminated as suspects. They put out posters for the missing pie and give them to the denizens of this world. Purple Bird might be a suspect, maybe Hedgely, but I doubt it. Both are too loud to not be spotted. Betty is playing interrogation with Worm, who is a logical suspect. Mac Taylor would have laughed this out of the building if he saw it, it's so rookie mistake on Betty's part. Worm denies it and he's the prime suspect now. Brady-Bunch-equse sequence of searching for clues and the pie and still no dice. Betty conceeds that this is hard and Duggee woofs in kind. Happy then walks away and proclaims that he has found a clue as the kids run in. Happy notices footprints on the ground. I was hoping that they would make plaster casts of the footprints like in real CSI labs, but I betcha that would take too long for this show, so they'll just follow them Scooby-Doo style. The footprints are clearly shown as shoe prints, so that reduces the pool of suspects considerably. Someone with the strength of Duggee to handle the pie, but small enough to carry it undetected. There's only one suspect left: The red ant army led by General Ant. The ants being the soliders and General Ant being the mastermind.

Roly wants to follow those footprints because he wants that...you guessed it. Betty writes the clues in the notebook. We do the sky shot of the Squirrels' shapes following the footprints around the area to kill time in a nearly seven minute episode. The footprints sadly stop at the beach as they decide to ask the one guy at the beach. Somehow, he is watching television on a wired television under the umbrella tree while drinking soda, I think. This is the deranged cousin of Doctor Frog from Fish Hooks, I bet. They still haven't give him a proper name at this point and I'm getting fed up with that because he dresses like a redneck and mocking rednecks today is extreme trouble if you are ill prepared to deal with the fact that they know how to deal with non-violence and humor since they think they are the absolute law! Apparently, he loves the same show that the Delta Chickens love. He wishes he was Don Karnage loving Dangerwoman. How do I know this deranged anthro is a redneck?! When he cuts a promo, he has a southern accent which thankfully isn't horrible enough that I cannot understand what he is saying. Also, his gimmick is that he sees spaceships and probably aliens. While in the real world, this guy needs help. However, in Duggee's world, this makes him rational. Oh, TAG~! However, what makes him dellusional, even for this world, is that he's describing the actual apple pie, but he doesn't see it as an apple pie because he has aliens on the brain. Betty shows off the "spaceship" on her notes and this redneck agrees with it as Betty asks one more thing: Where did it go?! The redneck drinks soda as he points to the left, almost like a G-rated version of him cranking up the middle finger, since redneck hates leftists, you see. Which means "wrong" in Christian-speak, of course. The redneck is literally pointing at a nuclear shelter. Wait, what?! Duggee then uses his paw on the green touch screen and this opens the nuclear shelter gate. Wait, what?! How does Duggee know how to get inside?! By the way, there is a number 51 above the panel, so yes; this is literally the Area 51 Nuclear Shelter. We head inside and they literally recycled the background for the Submarine Badge, changed the colors added a lot of stuff in order to make sure you didn't notice the recycling and added a literal Gameboy on the floor box where the apple pie is sitting on. There is beeping going on as the kids found the pie, YAY! Then in comes General Red Ant protesting this outrage and proving that he stole the pie without the need of interrogation. Smart criminal, General Red Ant isn't.

In comes two red ant soliders and a red ant scientist. General Red Ant proclaims that this is a restricted area. Then why does Duggee have the code to enter the area, you stupid thief?! General Red Ant calls it a golden UFO. In other words, General Red Ant has been gaslighted by this redneck. Is that redneck allowed in this area, because that would explain why the redneck is so FUBARED at this point. The kids are frowning because they know this general is a piece of shit. You got fooled by a redneck?! You should be smarter than the kids, and the manchildish redneck! Even worse, the general gets the aconym wrong: UFO's are not "fruity". Furthermore, how do you know it had fruit in it?! You didn't even open it up, yet! This is so stupid as four more solider ants enter, because they think they can throw out everyone, whom is self-aware of them attacking, unlike the apple pie they have stolen. The kids have had enough of this nonsense and demand answers to this outrage. General Red Ant confesses to the whole thing anyway because he thinks he's god, basically. We flashback as we see the ants stealing the pie as General Red Ant explains the motive: They thought it was a real UFO and wanted to know where it came from, so they stole it and put it in Area 51 for observation. Betty declares this mystery solved; but General Red Ant still calls it a UFO. The kids wonder how to prove it's just a pie. Roly comes up with the best answer: Eat it. When Roly is smarter than an army of ants, and even a redneck, it's time to end this dream and become animals again, because we have become worse than the very things we depise in the first place. Anyhow, we cut the pie into wedges and everyone enjoys apple pie. General Ant finally relents and declares it an apple pie and all is right with the world. The narrator asks if the kids have done well today as Duggee stops eating, bails on all fours and returns with the badge. Then we get another funny moment: All the parents, including the bus driver arrives in camoflagued vehicles. That's funny in itself, but the kids actually heard the horn honk. So, Area 51 is not soundproof?! This army deserves to be disbanded and defunded to zero after this debacle. Time for the DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug. The kids bail as they show off the badges to their parents. Roly's father takes off the doo-rag for no reason before they hug in unison. The parents leave with the kids in their vehicles as the narrator asks if this was fun. A pink bird is watching on as the redneck is spirited away by a UFO. Well, he will not be missed, so who cares?! Duggee is the only one confused to end the episode at 6:45. By the way, the redneck's name is Hyena in the end credits, and momma I'm not ready to go home just yet. This was a really fun episode, but General Ant and his army are the biggest threats to the Duggee world if they are listening to Hyena's advice. *** 1/2 (70%).

Opening Moment #9: This opening features Tag playing with the toy robot as per a previous episode. The ultra rare back to back opening sequences in this show. The title card is a circular badge with a pink thread spool and needle against milk colored background with cheese colored trim.

The Sewing Badge: Short opens with the kids in the clubhouse cosplaying cooking fruit. Betty is reading a cookbook and Roly is banging on a banana to check it's firmness, which is plastic fruit, which is funny. The narrator asks what Duggee has planned for them today as the kids bail stage left throwing down their plastic fruit. Jump cut to Duggee sitting on a stool (NOT THAT ONE~!) sewing a giant scarf as the kids run in and ask what he is doing. The narrator notices that Duggee is sewing and Tag thinks Duggee is good at sewing as Duggee woofs in kind. He points to his chest to reveal the badge within a minute of run time in this episode. The narrator cracks the joke about sewing the badge himself. $20 this never becomes the finish because there is a major problem with this badge: If you earn the badge, you risk the critics wrath. You see, a sewing needle is dangerous to children according to them. Duggee sewing his own badge is fine. The kids in order to earn the badge must learn how to use a sewing needle and sew something, even the badge. In a normal kids show, this would finish with the kids sewing the badge on their gear, which is difficult for Betty since she only wears a headband. This wouldn't cause issues and create a stake for Betty. But this is a pre-school show where kids using scissors and sewing needles are either used off-screen, or done by adults. That means the kids are not allowed to be shown sewing, thus we cannot prove that they earned the badge. And if they are shown on-screen sewing, the critics will whine and complain about them using dangerous objects because they are bloodlusting vampires who think it's everyone's fault but their own hurbis. At least I apologize for making errors and horrible stuff on my rants, and maybe I should do it a lot more. But most don't do that and have power, so it makes it impossible to earn the badge properly. This is the second time that the kids are not going to earn a badge on this show and unlike The Football Badge, it's not even the show's fault, short of not doing this badge at all. Regardless, I'm going to review this under protest in defense of the show, not to bash it. I'll be more than happy to see the kids sew clothing as they need to learn this skill, vampires be damned. Back to the review now as I discover that the thing Duggee sewed was a pancho and not a scarf, so there is a mistake on my part to apologize for.

Tag doesn't know and Betty thankfully tells Tag that it's a poncho. Hey, I thought it was a scarf, so I cannot really make fun of Tag for getting it wrong when I got it wrong, too. Roly now loves the word and is going to drive it into the ground to annoy the living piss out of me. Norrie calls it beautiful as the narrator asks if they want to make their own panchos and the kids say yes. I hope they actually do it, sewing and all; but I'm not optimistic about this. Badge scene changer ensues as it's a sewing frame with black yarn of Duggee. Duggee frame winks with wink sounds to the hard camera. Okay, here we go, let's see what happens. We return with the kids on stools (NOT THOSE ONES~!) sewing, with for Duggee's world, real sewing needles! YES! They are going to allow the kids to sew on this show, without adult assistance. AWESOME~! You might say: Well, they are older kids than Peppa Pig. Sure they are, but this is a pre-school show shown to children under their own age. I love this! It feels like someone in creative who has some sense around here. The kids are also doing a decent job despite their inexperience as the narrator is more annoying than anyone else. Please be silent, narrator! Then someone sneezes and everyone drops their sewing stuff. That was really dangerous, considering the sewing needles, and it isn't the kids, nor Duggee's fault either. Okay, now the episode is getting funnier: The kids are deducing what this is, which is to kill time, but the answers are so hilarious and somewhat believable that I was laughing my ass off. Betty thinks it's a volcano erupting. A volcano where dinosaurs roam. Hey, there were dinosaur in TaleSpin of all shows, so why not?! Roly's answer is the sound of thunder. Roly being rational?! On this show?! GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE~! Shad Up~! Happy's calls it something, I don't know. The end result was a black screen with colored yarn lines shooting and making sounds. Tag never gives his answer as Norrie cuts him off and decides to go search. Damn, I wanted them to waste more time with this because it amused me. The kids ask permission to go search with Duggee and there's more sneezing present. This somehow concusses Duggee into Hyena, sort of. Duggee relucently woofs in agreement, although it might be due to the concussion as we invoke the usual badge scene changer of the Duggee Sun, whom I admit would rather see in real life than the babyface sun in Teletubbies. We head outside as Duggee is the dog carrying the kids on his back walking eastward to search for the culpit who is denying their chance to sewing and telling the bloodlusting vampires to pound sand.

The sneezing continues as there is a flower conveniently placed for a bee to arrive with it's basket to collect pollen. The second sneeze knocks the pollen right off the flower. The narrator is stooping to Peppa Pig narrator now as we see Tino The Artistic Mouse painting a castle in the background, and the sneezing ruins the picture. I check the video...Damn, I'm good. Wait, so Tino is drawing a sunset despite being daytime?! Screw him, then! When you mirror a picture, you mirror it all! That's what purists do and Tino is supposed to be a purist in storyline. Next up is Naughty Monkey with his bushel of bananas in the tree enjoying a banana. He gets screwed as the narrator is really hating this sneezing, judging by his voice afflication. The Squirrels are underneath Naughty Monkey's tree as he is happy to point stage right, after he drops at least a full banana and two banana peels right in front of Duggee. He has not learned his lesson at all, what a surprise?! The narrator deduces that it's coming from the snowy mountains, which means Naughty Monkey is lying because he's naughty, you see. By the way, they literally teleported to the mountains because they didn't want you see Duggee slip on banana peels like an idiot. SUZY SHEEP~?! Then they spin the area 360 degrees with dramatic music to once again kill more time in this episode, only it's a lot less funny than the kids deducing who is behind the noise. Why didn't you let Tag and Norrie give out their answers earlier?! Now it's sunset, just to make Tino look even stupider in hindsight. The kids finally locate the sneeze and they all go down the hill stage right to discover that it's a giant polar bear wearing a stocking cap. Damn, I thought it would be Hennie since that would make more sense than this polar bear. The kids exchange notes on the situation while polar bear just sits on it's ass staring at them. The narrator ask the kids how they can help and the kids are pondering it over as Betty's suggestion is to blow his nose. That sounds like a bad idea and Norrie admits it probably is since they don't have a hanky. The polar bear wipes his nose with his finger in one of the few gross out moments the show can allow. The narrator suggest that they find a large bit of material as Norrie ponders this one over to waste even more time. By the way, Duggee's legs are the shade of his fur completely in this scene, even though he's still wearing his full scout gear. Norrie doesn't get it anyway, so Duggee gives her the pancho to use because it can double as a hanky. Why not?! Duggee can sew one later, he has time on his hands outside of being the scout leader for the kids.

Duggee offers the polar bear the pancho, polar bear takes the pancho, the kids tells him to blow his nose in unison, the polar bear slowly blows his nose, and this is worse than his sneezing as it's literally the earthquake ritual from Peppa Pig, but much worse as everyone on-screen feels it. Unlike in Peppa Pig, where only the audience feels it because of the shaky camera. Everyone except the polar bear is at least two feet in the air during this. It finally stops and the polar bear finally cuts a promo, admitting that it forgets to blow it's nose as per mum's instructions. Suddenly; out of nowhere, we zoom out and there is the polar bear's mother! Just like that! SUZY SHEEP~?! The polar bear's mum blows off polar bear for not listening, see what I did there?! Mother pets polar bear on the head, and tells polar bear to give the hanky back. The polar bear complies, and Duggee get his pancho back. It is wet as hell, and it's torn asunder, meaning he has to resew the entire thing, or sew a new one. The narrator asks right then "Time to go back?", and I laughed. Yes, the narrator is more concerned about going home than Duggee's pancho being destroyed by this sneezing polar bear. The kids don't care either as they wave bye bye to the polar bear family, just to make a complete fool out of Duggee. The Squirrels all leave stage left as the polar bear family waves goodbye. Jump cut back to the barn as the Delta Chickens get their contracted appearance. Jump cut back to the kids sewing their panchos and they are done as they put them on and they looks excellent and brilliant. Oh yeah, they earned the badge now. Roly screams "pancho" to force the point as the kids giggle. Norrie has actually repaired Duggee's pancho in the interim as they present the pancho back to Duggee and Duggee puts it on. Kit Cloudkicker would be proud of this pancho by the way. It feels worldly to him. The narrator asks if the kids have done well today and Duggee bails on all fours and returns with the badge. The kids all do a really fun dance with flute music as the parents arrive in their vehicles. Time for the DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug. The kids bail stage left to present the parents with the badges. The kids hug the parents and then leave with them in their vehicles. The narrator asks if this was fun as the Delta Chickens have panchos on and Duggee plays the wooden flute which causes the Delta Chickens to dance badly. HAHA! Duggee woofs to end the episode at 6:45. Hey, they allowed the kids to sew for about a minute tops and built a really fun story around the bookends while doing minimal damage to their brand. Perfect. **** 1/2 (90%).

Opening Moment #10: This opening features Norrie playing hopstoch as per a previous episode. The title card is a circular badge with a present against a royal purple background with stars and waves, and pink/yellow trim. Yes, another birthday and not Norrie's either...

The Surprise Badge: Short opens with the kids playing jump rope, with Betty being the jumper and Norrie and Tag being the skipper as in comes Hennie rollerskating with a tennis racket and calling out spots! HAHA! Apparently, Hennie is going to play tennis with her girlfriends for her birthday. Sadly, her tennis racket breaks a string in pure tragic fashion. No, not really. She needs to stop playing tennis like she plays a violin, though. Hennis rollerskates out of there stage left doing moves and that is that. The kids wave goodbye and the kids are now worried because they didn't give Hennie a present. Considering that Hennie doesn't mention to the kids to send gifts, I don't think she cares about gifts at this point. Duggee however, still remembers because he teleports out of nowhere with a giant ass purple rimmed tennis racket. Betty puts at least five "extras" on that tennis racket as the kids are impressed by this large tennis racket. The narrator proclaims that they have to wrap it up as a surprise present as Roly screams that he loves surprises. I love surprises as much as birds love Roly. As in, not at all. Duggee points to his chest to reveal the Surprise Badge, and yes, the badge is gift-wrapped, that was funny. The kids all cheer and smile as we get the badge scene changer of a present with Duggee busting out wearing a cyan blue party crown. What a geek?! We return inside the clubhouse as Duggee has somehow got the quint-extra large racket into the crafts room. Happy asks how to wrap this thing up, because the tennis racket is literally 5XL, so says Betty. The narrator says that they need wrapping paper and sticky tape. Duggee shows that they need wrapping paper and sticky tape. The kids are in awe as we HIT THE MONTAGE~! I still love BS&P's way to get around the kids not using scissors and just have the scissor cut the paper by themselves because this is considered a magical world in storyline. Turns out, Duggee was merely demonstrating how to attach paper and tape to one section of the tennis racket. Of course, this makes sense because the kids got it and the kids bounce off stage right to resume the montage. Since they cannot use scissors, they rip off pieces of wrapping paper as Norrie makes a unintentional bow out of sticky tape to show how sticky it actually is. Roly looking like he wants to punch Norrie in the face during this sequence because Norrie is showing off how she is the GEEK OF THE WEEK~! Even the birds feel sorry for Norrie because even they do not Roly to lose his bloodlust for them in this manner.

Happy has sticky tape to spare, so he puts it on the present. Norrie finally gets it right, but Roly is sleeping on the job because Norrie is too late with the sticky tape. Brady-Bunch-equse sequence of wrapping paper concludes the montage as the upper right corner is still left to wrap up. The problem is that it's obvious what the present is even with the wrapping paper, so the surprise is completely gone. It doesn't help that the tennis racket is 5XL either. Roly has the final piece and the sticky tape gets him and turns the wrapping paper into a glove. HAHA! Norrie is standing right there, waiting for her cue off-screen to laugh all the way to the bank on that one. Norrie calls it the last piece of wrapping paper. Roly knows that they are screwed and spins the glove, and somehow this wraps around Norrie's nose. HAHA! We slowly pan eastward as they do a long sequence of everyone trying to get the wrapping paper off and making it worse for them! HAHA! Tag gets a sockpuppet that talks by itself, so that's the second puppet that has turned on someone in this show. Betty gets blindfolded, and trips over a car while overselling this like she's about to die or something. Enid gets footy pjs out of this wrapping paper somehow, even Enid's confused. Enid runs and somehow outside manages to give Happy a new pair of pants in the process. HAHA! Happy hops out of the wrapping paper and chases Enid as the wrapping paper looks like a potted plant with a fart. Sheep walks in and eats the wrapping paper, thinks it's toxic and baas, allowing it to fly into the air to make a party crown for Brown Cow. Then a waving flag for Ethel's trunk. Ethel blows it up like a ball and the paper shoots high into the sky with techno sounds and then lands as the most wrecked party hat in history on Mole. Mole bails underground and out pops Worm with a wrapping paper afro. This is what I love about Hey Duggee: They took something mudane and did a marble run-equse spotfest with it. This is great for me because I don't have to really call it much and it saves time and space; but also for the kids because it looks cool on television. Blue bird steals the afro after Worm cuts a promo, more techno sounds ensue, wrapping paper turns into a scarf for the airplane piloting Giraffe. Then somehow, Duggee is on a snowy mountain wearing winter clothes watching the wrapping paper turn into a paper airplane. This nails Naughty Monkey right into the ass on the tree branch.

Naughty Monkey grabs the paper as the kids run in pleading for the Naughty Monkey to give them the wrapping paper airplane/spike back. Naughty Monkey ponders it over, basically says "yes, and fuck you" at the same time and throws the paper airplane in the opposite direction. Somehow, I'm laughing and mad at the same time. Mad because this angle must continue since that's all the show has in this episode and laughing because it's still funny to me. Yes, they did the sequence backwards to waste more time in a seven minute episode. Only purple bird ignores her cue and goes into business for itself. Uh-oh! This is not going to help you against Roly. It all ends with Roly getting the wrapped paper back and putting it on the top right corner of the tennis racket. They should have slowed this one down a bit, and waste even more time, because they have earned the badge in my eyes and there's still a minute left. The narrator is pleased as Norrie shows why she's the GEEK OF THE WEEK by saying that Hennie will NEVER guess what this present is. I laughed and laughed and laughed some more. Then, to make me giggle some more, the badge scene changer is a tennis court with Duggee's face as the tennis ball, wearing a headband. We return to the tennis court as it's doubles play with Cheetah, a Brown Bird, and probably Peppa Pig when she's 21 years old. I think Hennie might be the worst tennis player in this setup due to her height. Mrs. Pig says it all as Hennie's tennis racket is destroyed now and she blames the tennis racket damage for the misses, not the fact that no one can hit the tennis ball towards Hennie's racket to start with. I think the damage was Hennie smashing the racket off-screen, but I don't play tennis, so what do I know. In comes the Squirrels with their present. By the way, somehow the tennis court is about 20 feet from the barn, even though the previous shot didn't show it at all. SUZY SHEEP~?! Hennie opens the present, everyone is happy, Hennie thanks the kids and that is that. Yeah, that was Hennie's birthday everyone as the narrator asks if the kids did well today. Duggee bails on all fours and returns with the badge, parents arrive in their vehicles. DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug. The kids bail 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 this was fun as a tennis ball bonks off his head and Hennie yells "game to me"! This causes the narrator and Duggee to laugh to end the episode at 6:45. This was a fun romp with a funny sequence of wrapping paper hijinks. *** 1/2 (70%).

Opening Moment #11: This opening features Happy with his goldfish as per a previous episode. The title card is a circular badge with a teddy bear against a white background with brown/purple trim. The background surrounding the badge is like colored plastic canvas.

The Teddy Bear Badge: Short opens in the wilderness with Duggee being the dog that he is carrying the kids on his back. Duggee is wearing a basket on his back and a hunting cap for some reason as we discover from Betty and the narrator that they are off to a picnic. Uh-oh! Wonder if Roly will feed bread to them birds?! Anyhow, we get a walking sequence where the kids chant that they are on Duggee's back and they see contracted appearances of animals like Mole. Sadly, they only chant thrice and it was sadly nice because I was enjoying this chant actually. Norrie finds a lovely picnic spot with the lake in the background as we get the nature's calling public domain music and then a badge scene changer. It's the usual Duggee's face on the sun badge we have seen various times in Series One. The basket is called a hamper and nearly squashes a purple bug in the process as it's dropped on the ground. They show off the stuff in the hamper and I hope the top was closed because the hamper doubles as a basket the kids were in. I'm just saying, show. There is orange juice, cupcakes, plates, a blanket, sandwiches, and cups. I'm half expecting Roly to feed the birds anytime now. The kids also brings out the most neccessary thing to bring on a picnic...wait for it...wait for it some more...teddy bears! I admit, that made me laugh. The narrator is confused, so screw him. Teddy bears on picnics are awesome. All we need is bananas in pjs and we are all set. Maybe Naughty Monkey can help us with that one. Duggee has his own, so he's playing along and good for him! Yes, the teddy bears do have names. Norrie's is Zaza, whom is a name for one of Zebra Twins in Peppa Pig. Tag is abusing his teddy bear because he's an army bear called Sgt. Smashy, which smashes something off-screen as Tag bails stage right. Betty's is Professor Fuzzy. HAHA! Betty is such a geek. You are the clever clogs of this show and Fuzzy was the best name you could come up with?! Happy names his teddy bear Puddle, which is a lot more fitting than Betty's because it's wearing a raincoat. It loves to do Peppa Pig's gimmick and smash his food in the process. Roly's teddy bear is a cross between Teddy Ruxpin and Funshine Bear, called Funshine Bubbles. Because it talks like Teddy Ruxpin and looks like Funshine Bear from Care Bears.

Again, it's not that the teddy bear talks because animals would look at us as creepy since we talk for real and they don't. Teddy Ruxpin's ideology is more problematic, you see. Apparently, according to Duggee, his teddy bear is named Jolly Good. I hope that's real and not the narrator praising him, because that name is funny. Hint: One of the button eyes is missing. Tag then notices another "teddy bear" after getting back his army bear hiding behind a tree wearing a pink bowtie, so I'm guessing that it's Mrs. Bear and is a legit bear in Duggee's world. The narrator corrects Tag, the kids all cheer with glee and Mrs. Bears runs away stage left. This running away from humans by animals happens a lot more than you would think. Mrs. Bear literally twiddles her fingers and is panicky as she enters a cave as the kids follow her. They want to be Mrs. Bear's friend but are going at it the wrong way. Norrie asks who she is and Mrs. Bear cuts something I couldn't understand and Norrie translates it to Beryl. Hey, at least she has a name that's not a title thank goodness. Norrie claims that Beryl is shy and that's an understatement. Betty offers Beryl an invitation to join the Teddy Bears picnic and Beryl pops out and no sells the deal. I guess Teddy Bears frighten her, since the kids keep waving them at her. I mean, that army bear is certainly scary, even to me. The kids then deduce that she's lonely and needs a teddy bear, so let's make one via the montage! Norrie uses wood for the body with branches for the short arms, Tag uses leaves for the fur (which isn't much despite Tag carrying tons of it), Betty brings out acorns for the ears, Happy has black stones for eyes and Roly has a slug for the mouth. Oh, TAG~! Now the slug is offended to be part of the kids now. Okay, this is funny and screw the slug. The slug bails behind the wood, and somehow teleports out. SUZY SHEEP~?! Betty is not convinced of this teddy bear in terms of cuddle-poweress, so to speak. Finally, Duggee points to his chest to reveal the badge nearly four minutes in. The narrator explains that to make the teddy bear cuddly, you need something soft. Okay, fine.

Duggee's demonstration of softness: Pull off his boot and pull of his pink sock with green trim on the top. And who says Duggee is above fart jokes?! Duggee fills the sock with leafs and seals it to make it sort of teddy bear shape. Then the kids decorate it with hard objects anyway, which still kind of kills the softness, although not as badly as before. Yes, slug gets used and offended like George Pig, AGAIN! At least Roly's softness is closer to the nose with the slug than Betty's leaves. By the way, the rainbow leaf makes a cameo from The Leaf Badge, because the bear has to be a parody of a Care Bear, even though Roly's is already one. The slug slimes away like a jerk as the Squirrels think Beryl will love it. 2:1 odds it won't. Badge scene changer ensues showing a teddy bear eating at his own picnic. At least that bear like it as we return to the cave to present the makeshift teddy bear Duggee and the kids made to Beryl. Beryl comes out, sniffs the air and then sees the bear and gets heart eyes and the most chanty public domain music ever. This is enough for Beryl to not only accept the bear, but join the kids for the picnic! We eat, we poke, we eat, we poke, we eat, we read (in the case of Betty), and then Beryl makes the same fatal error George Pig made in Mr. Dinosaur in Series 1 Episode #2 of Peppa Pig: Beryl tosses the bear high into the air over and over again. Oh wait, nothing happened as the kids are chanting love in the song now, and somehow Duggee is playing the song on a guitar as both he and Jolly Good have changed clothes off-screen. Okay, someone is overkilling the scene for no reason. More music and chanting as Beryl and the teddy bear are on the boat of love with Katerina as the rower. Okay, this made sense because there was a lake behind the picnic spot just dying to be used, but still; WHAT?! Why is KATERINA of all characters doing the rowing?! That makes no snese. This is a SUZY SHEEP~ moment if I ever saw one. I was both howling with laughter and confused at the same time here.

More music, more chanting, more purple/yellow explosions involving Professor Fuzzy this time, because we have to find a way not to laugh at Betty's naming prowress, which is very, very weak. Hearts and rainbows and all the teddy bears get involved in this sequence, it was fine. Also involved are sandwiches and cupcakes. Jump cut to the kids, the teddy bears and Beryl pancing towards the hard camera in a reverse FPS shot. Pan north to the sunset as the sun is heart shaped and I was waiting to see Duggee's face on it to pay off the sequence..and it doesn't happen. BOO! HISS! Jump cut back to the cave as Beryl is cuddling the bear and kisses it to wrap this one up! Duggee bails on all fours and returns with the badge as the kids cheer. In comes the parents in their vehicles to set up the DUGGEE HUG~! Duggee hug, only with a twist: The teddy bears get hugged as well, so it turns on Funshine Bubbles in the process. HAHA! The kids bail to present the adults with the badges. The kids hug the adults in unison and then leave with them in their vehicles. Sadly, they didn't hug the teddy bears, so we didn't get to hear Funshine Bubbles. Sad me! The narrator asks if this was fun, and I was expecting them to do the "Duggee gets cuddled by a bear" ending twice in row, because this actually makes more sense in this episode than the "We Love Animals Badge". Nope, this was was funnier: The hamper opens, out comes Jolly Good singing the love chant from the finish, and Duggee teases being confused. Remember: Duggee has a sockpuppet turn on him in The Maze Badge. Then Duggee stops selling and laughs with the narrator telling him to stop to end the episode at 6:45. I think this is the last episode where the narrator officially says the "Do stop it, Duggee!" for this entire show, and that is something to mourn. Also, the credits list Sunshine Bubbles as Sunshine Teddy, even though Sunshine Bubbles is a better name for it. This was another really fun episode with a funnier ending than "The Maze Badge" was. *** 3/4 (75%).

Opening Moment #12: This opening features Tag playing with the toy train as per a previous episode. The title card is a hexagon badge of glasses reading a book about acorns against a white background, with purple trim. I guess Betty has to earn the badge officially because she can be part of the actual badge, if you know what I mean.

The Story Badge: Short opens outside with the kids playing around as usual. Norrie and Betty are playing in the sandpit this time and Roly is running in literal circles, probably working on the airplane spins he's going to do to them birds! The narrator asks what they are doing and the kids say everything! HAHA! They want to be Phineas & Ferb this time, and I'm fine with that. The kids giggle as we jump cut to Duggee looking like a cowboy sitting on hay playing the banjo. Delta Chicken dresses up to make it's contracted appearance that was missed in the last episode. Delta Chicken's dancing as Duggee is setting up the montage of the kids doing everything that they like of course. Because it's impossible to do everything yourself, you know. Nothing really special except Tag watering the flowers instead of Happy and Roly trying to concuss Worm without touching him. Duggee continues to play and apparently, he is regretting it because the banjo is magical and forces everyone to dance against their own will. Okay, which dancing bug in "The Dancing Bug Badge" cast the spell on Duggee's banjo?! Worm willfully joins in, despite being the natural enemy of Delta Chicken and Enid joins in being the natural enemy of Duggee, sort of. A lot of tanglement from Norrie, a lot of home invasion from Roly, a lot of play hero from Happy, a lot of dancing from Norrie and I'm done calling this. Most of this seems to be recycled footage incorporated with different background from past episodes and even opening sequences put to this annoying banjo music that somehow makes everyone do stuff for no reason. Then, I got the context completely when Happy and the gaslighting Hippie Rabbit were eating carrot muffins. They are recapping Series One of this show and this is a clip show of sorts! More animals show up to bop to the beat for a long ass whomping time and I'm not calling it. It ends with the kids saying that we did everything. They sound like they are telling me that this series is over and the show will not continue past episode #52, which is this episode! Of course, these kids were proven wrong as BBC renewed the show up to at least Series 5, because it's fucking awesome and is one of the best alternatives to Peppa Pig, besides Bluey of course. The kids proclaim that they are tired despite not selling tiredness at all. I got news for you Squirrels: You didn't do everything because BBC made sure of that.

Duggee offers milk and cookies on a tray to celebrate the one Series birthday of this show existing. Roly loves the milk, the kids love the cookies, bring on the badge scene changer of Duggee's face on a cookie getting eaten. Ouch! We head to the forest with the Squirrels eating cookies, drinking milk and in Duggee's case: reading books. I would love to see a book written in woofs, that would be money. A couple of birds watch on. What dipshits these birds are?! Don't they know Roly is here?! The narrator then states that Duggee knows a story about "cookie", and it's not whom or what you would thinking here?! Duggee shows off "Cookie", whom is an anthro brown dog wearing a red/white striped shirt and red shoes, with a style that looks similar to Calvin & Hobbies now that I think about it. Yes, the clips from earlier were just a decoy to make me and kids believe that this was a clip show and it's really another episode involving a fictional character in a fictional world read by a fictional character in a fictional world. You got all that?! Norrie is somewhat self-aware that this sounds like a giant rib on everyone. Duggee offers to read the story to them because Duggee points to his chest to reveal the badge for the last time in Series One. The kids are in awe and Roly demands Duggee to read it...please. That was funny. We then see the cover of the story of Cookie The Dog. The author's name is in complete gibberish and I'm certain it's written by Duggee and this is the Duggeese that I have been reading about. Duggee's face on the book cover completely gives it away as we open the door, and the story is literally written in woofs. I howled with laughter. By the way, this looks like something out of very classical Winnie The Pooh books and animated Disney films of the 1970s, now that I have parase the style more and more watching this episode. Even funnier, despite being in woofs, the kids completely understand Duggee and can translate the language perfectly. The narrator doing it perfectly makes sense, but the kids?! SUZY SHEEP~?! Thankfully, the pictures provide a good idea of what is going on. Cookie The Dog wakes up from his treehouse, so he can relate to Norrie in some way. Cookie dresses up and according to Norrie, the pronouns are she/her for Cookie. Okay, good to know. By the way, Cookie is a girl since even Tag is using the she/her pronouns here.

The kids are bored now because this dressing up is taking forever to setup and this book sounds like a pre-school show they are ribbing on. A certain pig named Peppa I persume. Duggee continues reading with such glee that I swear this is his payback for all the times he got wrecked in Series One. If so, HAHA! Betty is now realizing that this is her punishment for not realizing fine art when she first saw it. Time for breakfast and the kids are boring, but then the story sort of picks up as Cookie runs outside to see the wonders of a rain dropping from a leaf. At least the pacing is getting better in this otherwise boring book. It took 12 pages before the leaf spot happened I should note. But wait, the leaf is too high for Cookie, you see. Roly then gets the funniest "fuck you Peppa Pig" line ever: DINOSAUR CAN HELP HER~! I cried with laughter when Roly said that. The kids are smiling and Duggee is just confused. Roly is onto Duggee's plan of revenge for "The Drawing Badge" and Roly is shutting down that bullshit. The birds are like "He's out of line, but he's right!". The narrator points out the flaw in Roly's plan and Roly responds with "it should be". I laughed and I laughed and I laughed some more as the kids all agree with him, just to bury Duggee's plan even further. Then the book shows an orange dinosaur holding hands with Cookie teleporting into position. Yes, this storybook has turned on Duggee. A story book Duggee clearly wrote himself! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This is so great. Duggee cannot even control his own story, much less his own plan. The kids then start re-writing the story in their own image, it's more exciting and better than Duggee's story as a yellow princess dog steals popcorn in a basket because the leaves are now popcorn. Princess is basically a heel Powerpuff Girl as she flies away in rainbow flag lines, while Orange and Cookie chase after them. That should be the dinosaur's name, Orange. Then Baboos, the giant blue robot shows up as a run in as this story is so absurd, but is still somehow believable. The Baboos transforms into car, looking like an improved design for a Gobot character. The chase is on and it looks like Princess is done for. But wait, Roly decides to cut the BABYFACES off with a giant strawberry. HAHA!

This is the best episode in Roly's career, even better than him cosplaying a scarecrow! Drawing that ear of corn and calling it a banana was just a warm up for this resident loud mouth bird brain. Duggee is looking at the hard camera, scared that the narrator will laugh at him the same way as "The Maze Badge". Thankfully for him, the narrator doesn't. Norrie is confused as the strawberry is an anthromorphic strawberry. Princess is pissed off and she gives up despite the anthro strawberry was HELPING HER WIN~! This story is like 31 pages at this point. Then we discover that she has the same medical condition as Joe Cropduster from Save The Tiger, in that she's allergic to strawberries and that's why she is pissed off at Roly! Yeah, that was horrible for Roly to do. It merely makes her sneeze as she flies stage right, drops the basket of popcorn and that is that. Outside of using a medical condition as a finish to help the babyfaces win, this was a hilariously fun story. Yup, the babyfaces share the popcorn with giant spoons, the end at 43 pages. Started as a * story, and then once Roly saw through the boredom and took over, it was a **** story. I would have given it **** 1/2 if they didn't use allergies as a finish though. Enid joins in for some reason as Duggee decides that indeed, their story was better. Duggee closes the book as the narrator loves the story and asks if the kids have done well today. Duggee bails on all fours and returns with the badge as Tag does his old victory cheer for the last time in this show. Here come the parents in their vehicles as it's time for the final DUGGEE HUG~ of Series One. Duggee hug. The kids all bail to present the badges and get their final Series One hugs. The kids and adults leave stage left in their vehicles as the narrator asks if this was fun for the last time in Series One. Duggee reads the book as we get a character lineup of everyone in the story, including Duggee and Princess, which proves that her allergies were just a work. Oh, and the narrator does the "Do stop it, Duggee" laugh for the last time in this seires officially to end the episode and Series One at 6:45. The end credits actually have Steve Small doing the book illustrations as part of the voice credits. This could have easily been a clip show no one should care about, but it turned into a bait-and-switch that ended up being a more hilarious warfare between the kids and Duggee over a boring book. I loved this episode and it's **** 1/4 (85%).

THE REVIEW LINE

Well, we have finally finished Series One of Hey Duggee and this show wrecked me and Duggee in a good way I might add. It also ended well with "The Story Badge". Outside of the finish being a horrible one (don't use allergies in a pre-school show as a finish, okay), this was an awesome episode. Sure, they "bait-and-switch" us into believing that this was going to be a one year birthday clip show. But you know what, I don't care for clip show episodes and changing it to Duggee trying to get revenge on the kids for wrecking him for all of Series One with the most boring stories ever written and then Roly just shuts him down like a loud mouth George Pig was glorious! The kids got their heat back after that one and I was laughing my ass off over this. "The Bubble Badge" is another example of a plot device done better in Hey Duggee, than in Peppa Pig and I liked Peppa Pig's version of it. Mostly because it aimed at the show's biggest strength: Do an over the top spotfest that still manages to stay within the bounds of logic and reason and then do a finish to rib on Peppa Pig, which was a bubble probably flying up to the moon. The Puppet Show Badge was also great because it focused on Hey Duggee's other strength: Varying art styles that felts creative and not tacked on, and of course, the use of the Jelly Belly Dancers which is always a plus on this show, art and spot wise. Finally, we have The Sewing Badge, which gave us a pretty decent stories that was bookended with the kids being allowed to actually sew panchos. I like this because, while the sewing time was at a minimum, it's not the typical "we must not show adults nor kids with sharp objects" BS&P nonsense I see in pre-school shows. Scissors are still a problem for this show, but needles got through here. The Teddy Bear Badge could have been #5, but it was marred with strange booking decisions even for this show. Seriously, Katerina rowing a love boat?! Anyhow, this was a great way to end Series One.

After 52 episodes of Hey Duggee, there were 16 Thumbs Up, 34 Thumbs In The Middle and 2 Thumbs Down; which is a great ratio for a pre-school show. Many of the episodes were fun, even if most of them had logic breaks and some really wonky continuity in spots. The major characters are awesome, but the animals after the major six still need a lot of character development at this point. Enid isn't much of a character, and the recurring don't have much to offer. Betty's Dad got some character development, along with Norrie's Dad, but they feel like retreads of Peppa Pig characters. Betty's Dad still doesn't have a backstory to match Captain Dog at this point. Maybe that'll change in future series. Roly has literally grown on me and he might be the best character on the show after ranting on Series One and as of this writing, all but nine episodes left in Series Two, which I plan to do hopefully before summer starts. I have no current plans to start Series Three at this point and who knows if I'll ever get to that point. I want to continue the series, but my current sources only go up to Series Two and even that is random on when to watch them, and Series Three is likely at the mercy of possible regional blocking at this point. Hopefully, I can resume this series because I enjoy it very much and want to continue it like I did with Peppa Pig. So...

Thumbs up for The Puppet Show Badge, The Sewing Badge, The Bubble Badge and The Story Badge. Thumbs in the middle for the rest, and I'll see you all next time.

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