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Peppa Pig: Series Six #5 Rant

Reviewed: 05/23/2020
Additional Review: 05/31/2020

Suzy Finally Has Someone Other Than Her Mother!

Okay fans; I have now decided to rant on this series full time, because I do in fact like this show enough that I can handle the best and worst of the Pig family from Great Britian. Okay, in this episode we will see a pop quiz from Mr. Potato, Daddy Pig losing his car, Granny Pig and her friends cosplaying Vikings, making musicial instruments, Butterflies are formed and Grampy Rabbit in a jetpack. Yeah. How do these episodes fare? Let's rant on shall we..?!

All the episodes are done by Neville Astley, Mark Baker and Phil Hall. Animation is done by Astely Baker Davies animation; with the two mentioned creators and Phil Davies.

Mr. Potato's Fruit & Vegetable Quiz: This is episode #295 on the animation paper and the episode opens at the school house on the hill with clown horns blaring. UH-OH! That means, Mr. Potato is back and singing his famous "Eat Your Five" to start in school with Gigi Gazelle and the kids. Sadly, Edmond does not end it with SEVEN~! Did Mr. Potato change his voice in between seasons, because he also sounds different for some reason. So, today's class is all about quizing the kids on their knowledge of fruit and vegetables. And we are doing a quiz show for this special event on stage. Rebecca knows all about carrots; which means her knowledge is limited. So, we create two teams of three for this as Suzy asks what is a quiz and Mr. Potato explains that he asks the question, and if you know the answer, you buzz in. Yeah, nothing to it. No one can screw this up, can they? So, Peppa, Rebecca and Pedro are on team #1, Danny, Suzy and Mandy will be on team #2. Wow, this could be the moment Danny Dog WINS an event! I have goosebumps for this to happen. Team #1 has Peppa who is good, Rebecca who is the carrot master and Pedro F'N Pony who cannot tell a butterfly from an BIG ANT~! Team #2 appears to have a much better chance at winning here. Oh, did I mention that the quiz board has video images and sound? Everyone does slow claps and question #1 is what is not a veggie: lettuce, radish, celery or a blue car?! Danny buzzes in and says car, and Danny wins a point for his team. Danny has got to be giddy on this one because how can he lose since Peppa is hamstrung by a carrot lover and Pedro F'N Pony. Next question: Is a chocolate cookie a fruit? Pedro buzzes in and says "yes"; because Pedro is clueless. So, Gigi is asking him to guess again? WHAT?! Gigi looks like she is hoping for Mr. Potato to look the other way and ignore the wrong answer. That's stupid. So, Pedro says no; and Mr. Potato ignores the first answer and accepts the second answer to give him the point. They did this so the event will end in a tie, because of course we cannot give poor Danny Dog a win on this show. Of course! Why does this show test me so?

So, next up is the lightning round as they guess what is a fruit and what is a vegetable. #1: Strawberry - point goes to Peppa. #2: Watermelon - point goes to Mandy. #3: Cabbage - point goes to Suzy. #4 - Tomato, and oh man; we have problems because Suzy and Peppa both buzz in at the same time and Peppa claims it's a veggie and Suzy claims it's a fruit. Edmond Elephant should chime in right now and be the official for this since he's a clever clogs and would know this. However, this show decides to channel Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?! as Mr. Potato brings out his cellphone because it's time to Call A Friend~! Of course, Suzy and Peppa pick Edmond Elephant, who is standing in the same room, literally 10 feet away from the stage, and they still have to ring in Gigi and Gigi lets Edmond answer the cellphone. WHAT?! Some clever clogs Edmond Elephant is, he would have noticed this. Then again, they also erased "SEVEN~!" from his memories, so why am I not surprised?! Edmond claims that it was a fruit because it has seeds which should be the right answer because SCIENCE and thus SUZY gains the point, but Edmond also claims that it's classified as a vegetable because TAXES~! This is one reason why health official get really mad about our diets nowadays. Mr. Potato decides that they are both right and each get a point. Well, at least this one is Edmond's fault, so whatever. I'm more angry at Pedro's wrong answer than this. So, the score is 4-3 in favor of Danny's team; so you can smell the tie coming a mile away now. The last question is hopefully carrots because Rebecca loves carrots and Peppa blows her off. Remember, Rebecca is the only one who hasn't buzzed in yet, so you can guess what the final answer is to the question straight away. Mr. Potato calls it "guess that vegetable" and claims that it's orange and grows in the ground. Peppa whisper yells to Rebecca about favorite foods and Rebecca buzzes in, says carrot and basically wills the team into a tie, and Danny Dog is denied his own victory. To be fair, Danny at least contributed to his win, despite Suzy getting two points (and so did Peppa for that matter); but remember: Pedro got a wrong answer earlier that was completely ignored, so Danny Dog was absolutely robbed here. Nothing changes! So, the kids all get on stage with balloons to end the episode at 4:30. Again, Danny Dog was ROBBED~! ** 1/2 (50%).

Viking Day: So, next up is episode #296 on the animation paper as the episode opens at the white house on the hill as the car comes up and parks on the steepest side of the hill...AGAIN! Out come Peppa and George as George hugs Granny Pig and Peppa hugs Grandpa Pig, as Granny Pig is wearing a viking outfit. So, this is the second episode in this season that they have done cosplaying of the ancient culture. Last time, it was Roman mythology; now it's Norse mythology. I see George no longer speaks when they greet, so someone complained. Why not just have George pronounce their names propely and pay off the angle, instead of having it be a dead end angle? Granny Pig explains her cosplaying and her growling is hideously hilarious...in a good way. Peppa wants to be a viking and Granny Pig gives Peppa and George helmets to wear. Peppa's growling isn't as good as Granny's. George is slightly better at it though. We get the magic car flip moment as Mummy Pig leaves and drives down the hill as everyone has a jolly good laugh. Either at the growling, or the logic break; it doesn't matter anymore. So, we head into the kitchen and on the table is a giant red dragon's head, made of cardboard and fasten with scotch tape. See, it's going on the sailing ship with the other grandmas as Grandpa Pig blows it off as having an excuse to eat cake and drink tea. This offends Granny Pig; because they have a picnic basket with apples and sandwiches, so there you cosplaying, shaming, old, pig man! The door bell rings and we see Gigi Gazelle, Granny Wolf and apparently, Danny Dog has Grandma Dog, which I think is her debut on this show, much more low key than even Charlotte Sheep. Gigi is the Golden Viking, Grandma Wolf is the Bronze Viking, Grandma Pig is the Silver Viking, so the Rookie Viking is Grandma Dog, which sort of makes sense in terms of appearance in this show, so nice nuance by the creators here. I should note that Grandpa Pig is holding the picnic basket and the dragon's head. Oh, and the kids are coming along and the other Grannies roar, and they do slightly worse than Granny Pig.

Gigi points out to Peppa that not all viking helmets have horns, which makes sense until you realize that Gigi has natural horns, so the spot doesn't quite catch. Thankfully, Peppa points that out to us as all the Grandmas and kids leave as Grandpa Pig waves goodbye and is praying to the gods above that he is right about them just eating cake and drinking tea. So, they walk towards the river as Peppa asks if they are going on a real Viking boat, and Granny Pig says no, because they are hiring Grandpa Pig's boat. Considering her voice infliction in this scene, she is probably doing this to spite Grandpa Pig for scoffing at this cosplaying stuff. So, they all get on the boat and since Gigi is the Golden Viking, she gives out the orders. Once again, the kids must wear life jackets, but the adults don't. I'm certain in Canada, adults must wear them as well. I just find it sort of hypocritical that everyone on the show must wear helmets while cycling, but the adults don't wear life jackets, despite in other countries being required by law. They all growl and it's time to go; and Granny Pig doesn't know how to start the boat. I just love how everyone thinks that the men on this show are stupid and yet, moments like this show how bigoted the premise is. If men are getting embarrassed; then Granny Pig would be able to start the boat without a problem. This is also bad, because that means Granny Pig has to ring up Grandpa Pig on her cellphone and hope Grandpa Pig is so stupid that he doesn't notice that she is spiting him for making fun of her cosplaying. Her perfect plan has started to unravel now. She calls him as Grandpa Pig is in the living room by the phone, reading a newspaper. He answers it and tells her to push the lime green button to start it, and Granny Pig does just that, thanks Grandpa Pig and they both hang up. Three seconds later, Grandpa Pig gets the LIGHTBULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY and runs out of the house in a panic, because he just got screwed by Granny Pig. HAHA! I saw this coming a mile away.

So, somehow, the picnic basket is written in by teleport as the Viking Ship of Grand Theft Boat sails away and the picnic basket is sitting at the river. If you cannot guess the final scene now, you have no business reading this rant. Made even more obvious by the fact that Grandpa Pig runs in and forgets the picnic basket completely, because Granny Pig committed Grand Theft Boat. Okay, maybe not. Thankfully, Granddad Dog's tugboat is there with Granddad Dog mopping the floor as Grandpa Pig orders Granddad Dog to follow the boat. Granddad Dog sells it and pulls the lever (CLEVER CLOGS~!) and the chase is on BABEE~! So, the viking ship is sailing well as the cosplaying Vikings are invoking the TEDDY RUXPIN SONG OF DOOM, which is basically the exact same music with different lyricsz as the song from Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom in the episode "Spies". After all this, I no longer feel sorry for Gigi Gazelle when Pedro stole the Bing Bong Song music for the Baked Bean Song. He's still an ugly American, cowboy wearing music thief, though. And they basically prove Grandpa Pig's point as they love a cup of tea at the end of this song. So, the sea air is making everyone except the kids restless as everyone realizes that they forgot the picnic basket. Everyone literally forgot the picnic basket, except for the people who created this episode! The cosplaying Vikings then turned into literal Vikings looking for food, and they notice Miss Rabbit on a sand island running a cafe, so the boat lands on the island and the Vikings are literally acting like raiding hordes as Miss Rabbit ducks into the store. Granny Pig then orders four teas, 2 juices, and six pieces of chocolate cake. See, Grandpa Pig was right all along and if you listen closely; you can barely hear Grandpa Pig yell: I AM SO SMART! I AM SO SMART! S-M-R-T...I mean, S-M-A-R-T~! Speaking of Grandpa Pig, he finds the island on a telescope in a panic and somehow Grandpa Pig is already on the left side of the island blowing off Granny Pig. I mention this because at the end of this episode, Granddad's boat is on the right side of the island. WHAT?! Granny Pig offers him cake and tea; and apparently, this bribe is enough for Grandpa Pig to accept as everyone eats cake and drinks tea (including Granddad Dog) to end the episode at 4:30; as the Viking Song continues through the credits. Outside of one minor logic break; this episode was AWESOME. Grandpa Pig got his point proven here, what more could you want? **** 1/2 (90%).

Made Up Musical Instruments: Here is episodes #297 on the animation paper as the episode opens at the school house on the hill as cars park on the steep sides of the hills, as usual. All the kids jump out and run into school. Strangely, the makeup is all series 4 characters, no Edmond, no Richard. So, Gigi proclaims that they are playing musical instruments and all the kids go into the music, grab their instruments and get on stage showing them off. Like Rebecca loving carrots, Emily loves recorders. Gigi proclaims that they are MAKING musical instruments today and Peppa thinks this is stupid because they are children. Gigi points out that she is not expecting them to make a piano or a trumpet (which is what Peppa is holding); they will be making music from cardboard and other bibs and bobs. In other words, Nintendo Labo without the Switch; which is hilarious since one of the projects for Nintendo Labo is a mini-piano. So, Gigi asks what is the prinicples of making sound and the various answers are beat it with a stick, blow into it, or shake it. That was distressing. So, all the kids take various objects from the box Gigi was holding, like cups and balloons for instance and head to the tables to make musical instruments. 2:1 odds George instrument is shaped like a dinosaur. Danny doesn't want to work, he wants to bang on the box all day. Pedro is clueless as he bangs on a tissue box, which doesn't work as well as a box for a drum. So Gigi puts rubber bands on the tissue box; and Pedro still bangs on it like a drum. This is same Pedro F'N Pony who knows what a guitar looks like and can play it, but he's clueless when a makeshift one is made. Gigi literally has to tell him to pluck the rubber bands. Suzy and Gigi are demonstrating tapping a pencil to bottles filled with different amounts of water. Gigi also demonstrates that blowing on the tops of the bottles gets similar results. George tries to blow into a red bucket, no go. So Gigi fills the bucket with water and George uses a straw to blow into said bucket and make sound effects. That's fine; a lot of music has sound effects. At least it's not the wolf whistle, that would have been bad.

How fitting that Peppa and Danny are the only two kids who managed to make their instruments themselves, as Peppa fills her cups with beans and marbles. Gigi is impressed as Freddy is #3 as he basically lets the air out of a balloon for the annoying sound effects. This is the same kid who loves police and ambulance sirens, so there you go. So, Peppa asks what her musical instrument and by the magic of teleportation, there is a table set up on stage with various size drinking glasses. The kids asks if she blows them, bang them or shake them. The answer is neither as she dips her hands in the water and rubs the rims to create sounds. In comes the parents and everyone is on stage because the finish is almost the same as Recorders: The parents sit down to listen to the kids play makeshift musical instruments on stage. Whatever. Oh, and Gigi was playing the Peppa Pig opening theme song, the only non-public domain music they can ever play that is over. Gigi is the one to break the ice, so to speak, and the kids follow her lead about ten second afterwards. It was all right, but it's the same finish they used in Recorders, only the parents have to listen to this only once this time around. Everyone laughs because Freddy let the air out of the balloon and flies away and they are easily amused to end the episode at 4:30. The episode itself was fine, but couldn't they come up with a different finish? By the way, it's clear that this was only one episode and not a two parter. *** (60%).

In The Future: Next up is episode #298 on the animation paper as the episode opens at Suzy's residence AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as we zoom into the kitchen with Suzy Sheep wearing a red/white striped sailor theme shirt while Peppa is wearing just purple. Mummy Pig and Mummy Sheep are going out in pumps and non-matching colored purses tonight as Suzy hugs Peppa and insists that they can take care of the house themselves. And with that grin, would anyone not believe her? Well, Mummy Sheep doesn't because she rang in the babysitter and the door bell rings. The door opens and in comes a sheep with blue color around her eyes, yellow dress and black shoes as Suzy notices her right away and they hug. Suzy Sheep addresses her as her cousin Charlotte Sheep. This blew my mind because...Suzy Sheep debuted on this show in Series 1, Episode 3; Mummy Sheep debuted in Series 1, Episode 5, and that was the last member of the Sheep family until this very character in Series 6, Episode 34. It's a long, long, long time; like literally 16 years. Peppa and Suzy would be 20 years old if they were aged in real time. Still younger than Kit and Molly aged in real time, but still. So, Mummy Sheep tells Charlotte that she can watch television and have pizza before the two Mummies leave. So Charlotte is 17 years old and thus can do whatever she wants as long as she works. The kids are intrigued because this sounds like fun to them, little do they know. The kids want to stay up late, but Charlotte cuts that off since it's bedtime and the kids go into their room and jump into Suzy's bed. Charlotte tucks them in, turns off the lights, and leaves closing the door. Suzy and Peppa pretend to sleep and then gives kind stink eyes to each other, because it is time to screw the babysitter, which is always hilarious when the sitter is a babyface. However, we get the DREAM SEQUENCE OF DOOM featuring Peppa and Suzy as 17 year olds and outside of the eye lashes, they look no different to Mummy Pig nor Mummy Sheep. So, more dream sequences and loving being grown up ensues as they get into an argument about what their box roofless car's color would be.The two giggle for a while and then we have the first two person driving car, like it's an airplane. I was begging for this car to split into two and them driving in different directions, but it sadly doesn't happen.

Then they start fantasizing about their class mates. Danny Dog is a spaceman who is wearing his suit on Earth, so in the future in this storyline, there will be no oxygen on Earth. Somehow, this might be true. Of course, George will work cosplaying a dinesaur (sic) because no one truly grows up in this world. What a shocker?! Freddy Fox gets more time than anyone because he's a police officer and he talks like a British police officer who checks on car horns. Yeah, whatever. Suzy claims that she'll be a nurse while moonlighting as a pilot. Hmmmm; maybe Kit and Molly will be pilots while moonlighting as stunt bears. Unlike Peppa and Suzy, Kit and Molly growing up is officially canon in the Disney world. Peppa's future involves doing important work on her computer....BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh boy! BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This is so on brand we me that it isn't funny. I'll leave the moment as an exercise to the reader. Hint: It involves a computer game. We then zoom out as Peppa leaves in a castle like house with fountains and a swing which Peppa swings Suzy on. She really thinks way too small. Peppa then claims that he'll marry Pedro F'N Pony. Yeah, because he's the clueless one who would do anything Peppa says and not notice that he's being used. Or Danny, who is the plucky guy who never wins at anything (except in episode #295 and even that was a draw.), and it makes Peppa look good when she fails. So, we get another fantasy sequence of all the kids at 17 at a rainbow staircase, as their children run in and they are all smaller than the toddlers ever were. Probably to make it easier to animate than anything else. And then once they get to the taking care of the children part, they breathe a sigh of relief that this is just a dream sequence and not reality....yet. We head outside as Mummy Pig and Mummy Sheep arrive at the house, out comes Charlotte and sezs that everything is fine. She's almost right in fact. So the two Mummies enter the bedroom and the kids are still awake. Charlotte almost had it, she almost had it better than Grandpa Pig and Granny Pig; but no pizza for her sadly. So, they exchange notes on what the kids were talking about the future. Strangely, this is the one time they didn't say it like "In Future", which is what Mummy Pig said when Daddy Pig broke her tea cup. The kids admit that they need rest, Muimmy Sheep tucks them in and leaves as we zoom out of the house with the narrator saying it all to end the episode at 4:30. I have a bad feeling that the Peppa/Pedro marriage will happen and everyone's mind will explode. Pretty fun episode while it lasted, but the kids never got the best of Charlotte Sheep here, so *** (60%).

Butterflies: Here is episode #300 on the animation paper and episode opens at the school house on the hill as we zoom into the room with Gigi Gazelle and the kids minus the Panda twins, Gerald, Wendy and Mandy. Also on scene, poor Doctor Hamster, literally a few episodes removed from her total burial at the hands of Grampy Rabbit. And Grampy returns in the next rant! OUCH! Hamster greets everyone and the kids all greet back. Hamster has a cage under a covering and wants the kids to guess who it is and Peppa calls it a whale like the troll that she is. She's wrong of course as Suzy calls it an ant, which is bigger than an ant. Pedro -- clueless wonder extraordianire -- calls it a "Big Ant". Now, YTV Treehouse did promos for this one and you would never know that Pedro's answer was more accurate than Suzy's nor Peppa's unless you watch the entire episode. Joke is on all of us, thanks a lot YTV! He's still wrong though. Doctor Hamster brings out the glass cage containing a caterpillar. Three of them in purple, green and red colors. The red one is prickly and oops; forgot the fourth blue one on the top right. Sorry about that. The green one is supposed to have stripes; but the lack of shading makes it look like a solid color; although Hamster does cover that somewhat by saying that the color allows it to hide in the grass. Molly wants to stroke the red one, but Hamster says no because it might give you an itch. And we all know it'll be at least a week before it goes away. The purple caterpillar eats leaves for a leave while Doctor Hamster cuts a promo on catapillers, the typical educational lines since this is the point of the episode. The purple caterpillar burps on cue and the kids all giggle. So, next up is the kids all coloring pages of caterpillars at the tables. Zoe Zebra loves stripes, Rebecca thinks orange is a good color for a caterpillar which might have been the actual one Hamster didn't want Molly to stroke, since a Google search indicates this is the one that causes irratation. Hamster brings out a stick containing a green chrysalis which one of the students mistakes for a leaf. So, Peppa asks if it's like a bed for the caterpillar to sleep in, Hamster points out that it's almost like that. The difference is, when Peppa wakes up in the morning, she's still Peppa Pig. Oh, and they used a flashback sequence to force the point. Hamster tells them to guess what will come out, and somehow Pedro F'N Pony's answer is the most reasonable answer of them all.

A thought: If you need to make others look extremely stupid to make someone not stupid, that's not good character development. If you want a character to stop being stupid, just have him stop being stupid. Don't do that at the expense of the other characters, unless you want them to make them dumber by design. So, the chrysalis hatches into a butterfly and George just has to call it a dinesaur. This is like Molly Cunningham calling the Yenkara, a baby buffalo. So, next up is coloring paper butterfly wings which somehow are brought in via teleport. And it's now time...TO DO THAT DANCE~! Well, it's supposed to be the butterfly dance; but it has to start with caterpillar dance because SCIENCE~! So the kids wiggle on their bellies on the ground, and I am so said Emily Bea Smith never got to sing here. I guess it only applies to wiggly worms. Pedro's fantasy of being super continues as Hamster tells them to stop and go to sleep; because they are in chrysalis state now. The kids all sell as Gigi and Hamster puts the colored wings on the kids as the climax towards the main event continues to be into it's slow build. Well, as slow as the pacing is in Peppa Pig anyway. So, the teachers all tell the kids to wake up and open your wings. Everyone wakes up and jumps and down with glee as they are loving being butterflies....all except one. Come on, guess; it's too shocking! Surprise! It's OKAY BOOMER! POW! OUCH! Ummm...Yup, Pedro F'N Pony is back to being clueless and sleepy again. As usual. We all knew this wouldn't last. Gigi wakes him up and Pedro's glasses go into chaos as Pedro is confused, as usual. Thankfully he gets up and joins in as we get the TEDDY RUXPIN SONG OF DOOM, and very little dancing. That was disappointing, I wanted to see them dance, not hear them sing. The song ends and as the narrator finishes his spiel; butterflies fly inside the school as the kids all giggle to end the episode at 4:30. A fun episode with some educational value and not much more. *** 1/2 (70%). I would have added 1/2* if they did a much better dance near the end than what they did here.

Opening Moment #1: The Winter theme opening is used here.

Grampy Rabbit's Jet Pack: The next episode is episode #301 on the animation paper as we open the episode in a snowy forest area with the entire Pig family wearing winter clothes. So far, this is the most original opening to a Peppa Pig episode in this entire rant. They are on a winter walk as we hear banging noise and they are coming from Grampy Rabbit's boatyard. Yeah, the guy who jumped the shark in an earlier rant because he buried Doctor Hamster deep within the earth (although Doctor Hamster was getting buried a bit before that, but still) and he's got another episode. This better be good; or I will scream. So, we meet and greet at the boat yard as Grampy Rabbit seemly cannot decide between a sledge or a jetpack. Wow, he has lost credibility we me there, it's obvious you build the jetpack; because Grampy Rabbit is supposed to be nuts. And of course, instead of a sledge, he builts a jetpack. Yup, Grampy Rabbit got all of his heat back and then some, bonus points for it looking kind of unstable. Daddy Pig thinks this is tough, but Grampy Rabbit says no on that, because he is this show's version of WildCat, only much older. So, Grampy Rabbit wants to test the jetpack and does the safety check, which involves his cheese sandwich, which Daddy Pig has to hold. Grampy assures that the cheese sandwich is safe, but Daddy is more worried about the jetpack being safe. Grampy claims that it is, I'm not buying it since he built it himself. Because Grampy Rabbit is...you guessed it. He's now fantasizing this sky trip and even singing about it as Daddy cuts him off and asks how it works. Grampy Rabbit proclaims that he presses the red button on the front of his chest, which is a dangerous moment if I could ever see on. He pushes it with both hands and rockets into the sky as Muimmy proclaims that it worked. I don't know why, but that was funny. Grampy Rabbit is launched high into the air and where he lands, do we really care? Ummmmmm...nope. For that matter, neither does Grampy Rabbit as he is having the time of his life, shouting in the wind like a maniac. Peppa can somehow see him as Grampy actually flies great and then nosedives into a mountain and crashes.

Grampy's legs are wiggling, so he's still alive and kicking, so that proves that he's nuts. Peppa is worried about Grampy Rabbit and Mummy Pig brings out the cell phone and phones Grampy Rabbit and Grampy pops out of the snowy carnage and answers the phone. Yup, he's fine...and he's nuts. Sadly, his jetpack is broken. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~! That was a perfectly nutty invention he made! So, he's stuck and you know what that means: Ring in Miss Rabbit's Rescue Service. Of course! So we head to the sky with Miss Rabbit in her helicopter as her cell phone rings. So, she arrives at the docks and the entire family climbs up into Miss Rabbit's helicopter and then Miss Rabbit asks where is Grampy Rabbit? You couldn't just tell her that on the phone? And as you will see, this decision is going to cost them big time as the helicopter arrives at the snowy mountain with Grampy Rabbit regretting not making a sledge (a sled in case you didn't notice the obvious British). So a rope is lowered from the helicopter and Grampy ties it around his waist and then the helicopter runs out of fuel and is forced to land on the snowy mountain. See, when all the pigs were in the helicopter, the helicopter was literally guzzling fuel. I mean, it's so obvious! What a bunch of idiots? So, then Grampy sits onto the jetpack and because he's tied to the helicopter, somehow the jetpack starts sliding down the hill with the helicopter following it stage left. So, yes; Grampy Rabbit just rescued everyone and doesn't even know it. So, they go through the forest, through town as everyone in town has to dodge to the sidewalks, through the sea, which somehow is frozen solid and back to Grampy's boatyard. He also bumps the boathouse in the process as Miss Rabbit thanks Grampy for rescuing them...somehow. Grampy realizes that this jetpack doubled as a sledge and everyone does the backsplash laugh to end the episode at 4:30. Grampy is back in mid-season form with a great episode. **** 1/2 (90%).

Detective Potato: Here is episode #302 on the animation paper as we head to the little house on the hill with clown horns blaring, which is the signal for Mr. Potato to make his return to television after he bought the crappiest car in existence and it turned on him. We zoom into the living room as Daddy Pig is reading a book; and wouldn't you know it, it's basically about the wonders of concreate. You would think after Simple Science and Parking Ticket, that maybe his love for an inanimate object is becoming a danger to him; but I guess not. Speaking of Dectective Potato on the tele with Peppa and George, once again, the mysteries are too simple and Dectective Potato is even dumber now than he was when he first started. Miss Carrot lost her bicycle and DP thinks it's the blue bicycle; but it's not. It turns out to be the red bicycle as they were teasing the yellow biycle the entire time. Of course! Miss Carrot hugs Mr. Potato as Daddy Pig claims that he is great at solving mysteries. Yeah, I'll bet! Peppa calls him the best dectective in the world, even though in storyline, he is probably the only legit detective in the world, and he sucks. Oh lord, he sucks at being a detective. So, Daddy Pig turns off the tele and it's time to go to the shopping center and allows Peppa and George to come along. So, we head to the boring road to the west as we discover that Daddy is going to the shopping center to buy a bag of gravel, in order to try a new mix of concreate. HAHA! Of course! This sadist just never gives up on this. So, we head to the shopping center and it's like the major shopping center in Halifax, so of course it takes four floors at least before they find a parking space and it's Peppa of all people finding it. It's at the A3 -> F4 and of course, the guise is that you must remember where you parked your cars. So, of course; they will forget in the end, because CONCREATE~! So, they take the lift and to waste time; Daddy Pig thinks it's between floor 3 and floor 6 where the shops are, but pushes button 5 because the shops logo is clearly on there. So, the elevator goes up to floor #5 and they walk in the hallway to the Concreate Shop. Guess who is running the shop? Take a guess, it's too shocking! SURPRISE! IT'S OKAY BOOMER~! POW! OUCH! Ummmm...Yes, Miss F'N Rabbit~! The same Miss Rabbit who gave a parking ticket to Daddy Pig while he went to a concreate shop. These characters are cursed! Oh, and bags of gravel are very heavy and despite being bigger than adult Kit Cloudkicker, he still has trouble carrying it.

So, the Pig family leaves and Miss Rabbit without any hint of irony says she keeps losing her car in that parking lot. This is the same Miss Rabbit who works at a hundred jobs in this show, how can she afford to lose her car. I betcha she runs, animals running are faster than cars anyway in this show. We head to inside the lift and they have already forgotten where they parked the car. It's on Floor 4, Area 3 (A3 -> F4 as shown on the signs) if you want the solution to this problem. So, they pick floor 6 and yes, there is a parking lot ON TOP of the shops. The car is lost of course, so they go back into the lift and Peppa thinks this is fun. If I was booking this, the longer this goes, the more red Daddy Pig blushes until they find the car. That would have been money. So, Peppa pushes a button and it's the floor of I don't know. They don't find the car, but they do find Officer Gray Squirrel and Officer Panda. So, yes; all of the prinicples from Parking Ticket are here, outside of Mummy Pig. Peppa of course, claims that the car is lost and Daddy Pig awkwardly claims that it's not; so Panda believes Peppa's story of course as we pan up to the full extent of the parking lot to kill time. Officer Panda brings out the notepad and we do the address check and Daddy Pig wants to find the car. Officer Gray Squirrel proclaims that we do not solve mysteries in a flash like on television. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This is Peppa Pig and we have only 45 seconds left in this episode! Of course they will find the car in a flash. Clown horns blare and in comes Mr. Potato in his red crappy car and he remembered to remove the glass dome! AWESOME! Someone on this show has learned their lesson! Potato jumps out and has the maginfying lens of doom on full blast as the police blow him off because they are on the case, you see. Mr. Potato don't care and finds the officer's police car. HA! Sadly, it is not Daddy Pig's car. Second attempt fails, but the third one is successful. HAHA! That literally took thirty seconds to find and made the police look bad, because Peppa picked the right floor all along, they just didn't walk long enough westward. Yes, Mr. Potato has won, despite having a 1/3 chance of success. Idiots! The Pig family jumps into the car as the officers are not amused, and Mr. Potato proclaims that it is all in a day's work for a potato to end the episode at 4:30. I'm subtracting a 1/4* from this because Panda did not bump into a magical lamp post and Gray Squirrel couldn't ticket it. Sad! *** 1/4 (65%).

THE REVIEW LINE

So; a pretty decent of episodes in this one. Viking Day was better on the second viewing, because Grandpa Pig is such an idiot who got the last laugh on those cosplaying Grandmas who claims that there's more to it than drinking tea and eating cake. Grampy Rabbit also delievered and made the super nutty comeback in Grampy Rabbit's Jetpack. The rest was the usual, but I was so disappointed Grey Squirrel didn't get to ticket another lamp post out of nowhere again. So, that ends Peppa Pig for a while since the last 13 episodes haven't aired in Britian nor Canada yet.So...

Thumbs up for Grampy Rabbit's Jetpack, Viking Day and thumbs in the middle for the rest of them and I'll see you all next time.

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