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Peppa Pig Tales #6 Rant

Reviewed: 04/22/2023

Old School Peppa Pig Is Back! Sort of Part Six!

Well, since Peppa Pig the series has been slowing down and there's only four episodes left in the pot, I was going to resume TaleSpin work this year. An easy series that gives me great joy in terms of mockery and enjoyment. There is still lots let to do before I can finally wrap that show up? Sadly, TaleSpin has been delayed until at least 2023, because my second love and enjoyment decided to really run interference on me. How so you ask? Welcome to the Rant Shack: Peppa Pig Tales! And after the very first episode, I cannot resist and I'm going to rant on these "shorts" because Baby Alexander is back and creating a lot more questions than answers. (March 2023 Gregory Weagle Says: Hold it! I have just gotten word that there is no problems with Uncle and Auntie Pig and the family is getting along just fine. You'll see the evidence in Baby Bumps. Only one missing is Cousin Chole now.) Peppa Pig Tales is a series of short 3-3 1/2 minute episodes (Literally up to 75% of an average "Peppasode".) of Peppa Pig doing stuff without the original voices or creators with most of the "filler" cut out. That's basically it. It is awkward listening to this when you are so used to seeing the show, however; it is basically the same in term of premise. So, I'll be doing eight episodes per block like I always do until this series gets sick and tired of this and goes back to the actual Peppa Pig series which has reached eight series up to this point. How do these episodes fare? Let's rant on shall we..?!

Jokes And Pranks and Vegetables On The Moon are written by Tod Gidman, with head writer being Ryan Denham for all episodes involved. Sort The Rubbish and Baby Alexander Visits Playgroup are written by Ryan Denham. April Fool's Day and Superhero School are written by Bita Joudaki. Easter and Cops & Robbers are written by Jessica Silcock and Naomi Smith. The animation and production is for EOne Entertainment (who published DVD's for WWE in the past in Canadian markets), done by Lil CritterWorkshop in Malaysia, although the company has invested in a studio in the UK recently. According to the link I provided: LCW launched in Malaysia in 2015 and has produced two 2D-animated comedy series, Hogie the Globehopper (52 x 11 minutes) in 2016 and Buck & Buddy (60 x six minutes) in 2020. After debuting in Malaysia, Hogie was picked up by Netflix in 2017, where it airs globally, and it has since sold to linear broadcasters Discovery Kids MENA and CITV in the UK. The prodco’s first CG-animated show Billy Fei and the Cloud Trials (26 x 22 minutes) is an action-adventure series for children ages six to 10 and is co-produced by fellow Malaysian animation studio Scribble Studios. The two companies received an undisclosed amount from Epic Games’ US$100 million MegaGrant program to fund the project last year.

April Fool's Day: Short opens at the kitchen table with Peppa Pig getting cereal and sitting down. Peppa tries to pour the cereal and somehow, this box is a TARDIS because it has Teddy, a wand, a model car, tinsel and brussel sprouts; and a lot of dust. Oh, and Peppa's shoe for some reason and a book as Peppa protests this outrage. I am too, albeit for a different reason. Mummy Pig walks in and yells April Fools, because it's April Fool's Day...on March 31st as I am reviewing this and this won't be released until probably the end of April. So, April Fool's Day Thrice~! Mummy Pig explains the holiday to a confused Peppa, because it's all about making love through jokes. Damn, Peppa Pig Tales Mummy Pig is less subtle than the mainline Mummy Pig in Monkey Has A Cough. At least the PPT Peppa thought it was a funny joke. Hey, anything that doesn't make Mummy Pig act like Smurfette crying is A-Okay with me. Mummy and Peppa want to play a joke on Daddy Pig and Daddy Pig has already joked himself by being in the sitting room reading the newspaper without his glasses. His glasses are on the love seat as Daddy Pig is reading from the sofa. Daddy Pig asks Mummy Pig for the glasses very politely and they give him those springloaded googly eye joke glasses for him to wear. Now, yes, they are making fun of his vision, but at least here, Daddy Pig is in zero danger like he was in Water Park in the mainline series, where Daddy Pig was not only scared of heights, but cannot see and could have fallen off the deck and killed himself. Daddy Pig thinks these glasses are worse, April Fools as Daddy Pig gets it and is fine. Daddy Pig gets his real glasses back and proclaims that the joke is now on everyone because they won't be able to play another joke on him. Yeah, sure; because Daddy Pig is dumb. Mummy Pig winks at Peppa as Peppa brings out a container of "potato crisps" (Potato chips and yes, they can come in containers like this in Canada) and asks Daddy to open the container because it's harder than the seal on my tartar sauce. Daddy Pig foolishly accepts, has a hard time opening it and... BWHAHAHAAHAHA! Daddy Pig is dumb. Yes, a bunch of cloth snakes come out to shock Daddy Pig. Daddy Pig praises Peppa and Mummy Pig is laughing as she runs off stage left. Just twist the knife, why don't ya? Typical Mummy Pig, she's his beloved whom she keeping burying.

Daddy Pig asks Peppa to help him play a joke on Mummy Pig and Peppa accepts. So, we head back to the kitchen as the familly finishes dinner eating pasta as George appears to have bloodied himself. Mummy Pig cleans up George with a cloth as the dishes are removed, except for a plate containing a piece of chocolate cake with a strawberry on top. All the rest of the dishes are in the sink in the background. There is a green piece below the icing which is a dead giveaway that this is a worked piece of chocolate cake. Peppa winks at Daddy Pig as Mummy Pig is pretty much plays along. Mummy Pig takes a fork and pokes at the top of the worked chocolate cake, but no go. Maybe the fork is fake as well. Daddy Pig suggests using hands to eat the cake as Peppa is giggling which is an automatic dead giveaway. Mummy Pig grabs the icing and realizes that it's a washing sponge underneath the icing. Mummy blushes with embarrassment because that was funny. April Fools, indeed! Mummy Pig gives George a container of biscuits to give to Peppa and George's giggling is obvious here. If you cannot guess the final spot now, you have no business reading this rant. Yeah, this was a revenge snake container so to speak with some peanuts as everyone does the backsplash laugh causing the chocolate sponge to drop onto the floor to end the episode at 3:06. The backsplash laugh looks more realistic here, which is sad since the mainline ones look funnier in hindsight. Okay, this was a fun episode, although they had run out of jokes at the end. *** 1/2 (70%).

Jokes And Pranks: Short opens with Daddy Pig watering the flowers in the garden outside and then Peppa appears in a flower costume, scares Daddy Pig into tripping backwards into a muddy puddle and the watering can gets him all wet. You got all that?! Yes, it's still April Fools Day and proves me wrong in running out of jokes. Hopefully, this is the last episode because the idea of having as many of these episodes as the Christmas episodes in Peppa Pig Tales shows that the idea is running on fumes at this point. I guess whomever writing this is for American audience since Daddy Pig uses the word fright rather than the British word "shock". The family all comes in and declares that they will all play jokes on everyone...and I do mean everyone. First up, a construction site with Mr. Bull, Mr. Rhino, Mr. Raccoon and Mr. Labodour are having tea in tea cups. The joke is the narrator saying that the team is hard at work...drinking. Mr. Bull drinks up and then goes over to a conveniently placed table with a "chocolate cake" on top of said table. Mr. Bull comes over and stabs it with a fork; but the "cake" is a balloon covered with icing that somehow doesn't pop and just flies around like an uncontrollable...well...balloon. The visual of this is hideously hilarious here. The Pig family runs in to call this April Fools and Mr. Bull is a good sport and has a good chuckle. In reality, he knows what happens when you mess with Mummy Pig. Yeah, he remembers Funfair still. Peppa thanks Mr. Bull for the kind words and the family bails stage right as Mr. Bull wonders where the real one is. Can I tell him without body shaming anyone? No? Okay, let's move on to inside the vet's room with Doctor Hamster at a table giving Tiddles a shell polishing. Did I mention how delightfully accurate Doctor Hamster's voice is to the mainline series?! Then again, it was one of the better voices on the show, so there's that. Doctor Hamster goes into her filing cabinet to look for turtle wax (or shell polish, same thing) and opens the top cabinet to reveal a clockwork set of false teeth. Wait, what?! Okay, Mr. Bull getting his chocolate cake replaced makes sense since it's outdoors; but there's no way for the family to do this prank since the incident happens inside where the room is smaller and Doctor Hamster has a chance of seeing the premeditation. None of this makes any sense! Doctor Hamster screams and gets chased around the room by the clockwork false teeth and then somehow she stops selling fear and is laughing and smiling. Doctor Hamster CORPSING~! SEND FOR THE....Oh wait, Randy Savage is dead. My mistake. Oh wait, Becky Lynch is still alive. SEND FOR THE MAN~! The Pig family comes in for the April Fools stuff. This was the duet of a logic break and a Botchamania moment.

Doctor Hamster is amused by this, but where did the teeth go...It's in Tiddles mouth and it's acting like a Scooby-Doo character if being afraid, or me if I am freezing cold. Everyone giggles as we head on the mean streets of Peppa Pig and I laughed my ass off typing that one. On those said mean streets, Super Potato has showed up and notices a brussel sprout on a string. Oh come on now, even Daddy Pig wouldn't fall for this stupidity! Super Potato acts like he knows this is a joke, and decides to play along anyway. DORK! Peppa is super burying Super Potato behind a mailbox with her family in spite of the fact that Daddy and Mummy are so tall that Super Potato has to pretend he cannot see them despite being taller than the mailbox. Geez show, stop turning the knife. Typical Peppa, she's the real master of the golden shovel. Even HHH and JJJ would be mortified by this super burial of a giant potato. So, after exposing the business; mostly Super Potato's, Super Potato grabs the sprout, douses it with the out of nowhere bottle of water and eats it raw. Well, that one was pointless. Just eat the brussel sprout, Super Potato, you dork! Super Potato is so happy and bails stage right. So, the family decides to go home and jump up and down into the muddy puddle Daddy Pig's ass was in. However, they get cut off by Mr. Bull and a censor sign! The difference between Bull and Bully is a bull doing something when a day ends in "y". Apparently, jumping in muddy puddles is too dangerous. Really? The biggest selling point of this entire series and you are going to ban...Oh wait, it's April Fools because this show is not stupider than WCW ever was. Peppa protests this outrage because this is her past time and major gimmick as Mr. Bull, Super Potato and Doctor Hamster all run in to proclaim April Fools as Peppa and George run into the muddy puddle. Speaking of logic: How did everyone get a muddy puddle out of nowhere?! Geez, Suzy Sheep was right all along, that this world is all magic because no scientist could explain this logic without heads exploding. All of them do the backsplash laugh as Peppa and George are literally doing the backstroke in the muddy puddle in a nod from the very first episode of the mainline series. Laughing ensues to end the episode at 3:06. This episode was much better than the last one, logic breaks aside as everyone just had fun looking like geeks. **** (80%).

Sort The Rubbish: Short opens with Mr. Bull literally throwing recycle bin into his garbage truck because it's Bin Day in the Peppa Pig world, you see. Mr. Bull is seen driving his Bin Truck of Trash as he arrives at the house on the hill to throw one set of bins into the truck. Mr. Bull is about to leave when the Pig Family yells for him to stop. Because you see, they forgot to put three extra bins out last night. Geez, the Daddy Pig Brain Fart Syndrome is catching now. Mr. Bull is actually happy because the bins are all sorted properly, so it makes his job easier. Mr. Bull might be a body shamer, but he's no Karen. Now, since this show is created in Britian; I'm going to skim over the bins and tell you that red equals paper and cardboard, cyan blue equals metal and green equals glass. So, there is no recycling plastic stuff in Peppa Pig World, which is silly considering all the plastic jokes they have made in the mainline series. Oh, and Mr. Bull might be out of shape still he has acute problems getting the glass bottles in the truck. Not nearly as pathetic as some musclar person being unable to open a water bottle at a baseball game, or me trying to open a tartar sauce container. By the way, I laughed when the narrator says that Peppa Pig is good at recycling. Just turn the knife on us, why don't you show?! So, Mr. Bull offers to show Peppa and company the sorting center, and they agree; but they must get dressed first. Which is funny, because they are going to wear the safety clothes and boots anyway, so seeing them in their night wear underneath would have been funnier. So, Daddy Pig and Peppa are allowed inside the garbage truck while George and Mummy Pig have to drive behind them in the magically out of nowhere car. So, we head to the recycling center which is basically a grass field with a chain linked fence in the background. Also, three colored bins in front of said fence as the truck arrives. I guess they didn't want Peppa riding on the back of the garbage truck, which would have been MONEY, MONEY, YEAH, YEAH~! Basically, the guise of this is: Peppa does the pointing of the bin to sort while the adults do all the work. Considering how the bins especially the glass bins cause Mr. Bull pain, I can see why Peppa is doing almost nothing here: She wouldn't have a back at age ten at this rate. This goes on for a long ass whomping time until Mr. Bull is tired, and thankfully it's all done. I should note that there is a conveniently placed bottle of lime green soda in a bottle on the ground. Peppa runs over and grabs it, teasing to put it in the green bin; but Mr. Bull stops her and grabs it back because it's his refreshing drink you see. He drinks all of it in one gulp and then proceeds to put it in the green bin anyway. HA! Everyone laughs to end the episode at 3:18. One of the longer episodes in Peppa Pig Tales, done in one paragraph! Irony. Just a decent episode and not much more. ** 1/2 (50%).

Easter: Short opens with George and Edmond showing off Easter Eggs while dressed up as chicks. They run around and back to the big kids who decide not to dress up because Gigi Gazelle is dressed up like an Easter Egg. Yeah, she has no shame in her game today it seems. At least Rebecca Rabbit playing the Easter bunny makes sense because she's supposed to be an anthro rabbit in storyline. Further evidence, Gigi loses her balance and falls on her ass and then back because the easter egg is way too big. The kids don't care and greet her. Kids: Peppa Pig, Suzy Sheep, Rebecca Rabbit, Danny Dog and Gerald Giraffe in addition to George Pig and Edmond Elephant. In comes Miss Rabbit wearing a SWANK easter hat carrying a basket of eggs because it's time for the Easter hunt. I laughed out loud when Miss Rabbit said that she got orders from the Easter Bunny because Miss Rabbit might as well be the Easter Bunny 365 days a year, 366 in a leap year. So, Miss Rabbit gives out rabbit ear clips; because of course! Except for Rebecca Rabbit because she's already an honorary Easter Bunny and Rebecca giggles. So, Rebecca should be the deputy Easter Bunny. Next up, we decorate some wooden eggs, because real eggs break, you see. The kids are wearing aprons and Peppa decides to draw a funny face on her egg and call it Mr. Egg. Oookkkkaaayyyy. Rebecca's painting is good, Gerald just flicks paint with reckless abandon (which Gigi has to dodge because no paint splatted on her anyway) and Tom Bevel would laugh at the lack of paint spatter. Danny Dog is trying to use a roller; but the egg splits into a real one because it is a SWEVERE~! Why do you pick on Danny Dog so much, show?! Miss Rabbit denies that she screwed up, despite clearly giving Danny a wooden egg afterwards. Danny admits that he painted it too hard; although he's not at fault for being given a legit egg. Jump cut to outside as everyone hops to the track for the next game, which is Bunny Bowling~! Could be worse, I guess. The pins are pink/purple bunnies, DUH! Miss Rabbit demonstrates the rules and throws a strike. 2:1 odds Danny Dog misses all the pins, even though Danny Dog can throw strikes with ease in the mainline Peppa Pig series. The kids are in awe as Peppa starts and Mr. Egg doesn't even made it to the closest pin by at least six feet. What a time for Mr. Egg to follow social distancing rules. Peppa don't care as Danny Dog literally throws his egg backwards; exceeding my expectations. Rebecca Rabbit literally shotputs her egg over the pins and she blushes for throwing it too high. Gerald actually does a great throw and somehow doesn't hit a single pin despite being inside the pins the whole time. Then everyone does the backsplash laugh on that one, and the pins all fall! HAHA! That is enough for Miss Rabbit to declare everyone the winner. Okay, that's fair as everyone gets plastic gold medals for their work...Oh wait, after everyone pops; Miss Rabbit reveals that they are made of chocolate. Of course! Everyone eats their medals, gets messes on their faces as Rebecca wonders if there is a record to be broken on chocolate eating. The narrator says it all and everyone giggles to end the episode at 3:12. A very fun Easter episode if you ignore the fact that Danny and Peppa absolutely suck at something that they looked like masters in the mainline series. *** 1/2 (70%).

Baby Alexander Visits Playgroup: Short opens inside the school house on the hill as Baby Alexander is wheeled in on a carriage literally smelling his own poop and hating it. Kids: Peppa Pig, George Pig, Baby Alexander The Pig, Freddy Fox, Suzy Sheep, Edmond Elephant, Gerald Giraffe. Adults: Mummy Pig, Gigi Gazelle. All the kids greet Peppa and then we have a mass nose covering becuase Peppa Pig is apparently nose blind. Oh wait, Peppa is covering her nose as BA bawls his eyes out again. Mummy Pig smells the air and it's fowl of pig poop, so she agrees to change BA's nappie before she leaves. I have ZERO clue what Gigi said he, it sounds like she is pissed off. Mummy Pig puts the diaper into the trash can as the kids help her get the baby ass cream of doom from the conveniently placed changing bag along with a new diaper. Mummy Pig changes the diaper on a grey foam mattress and that is that as the kids what to play with BA. Mummy Pig ponders it over and decides to. So, we get a montage of Peppa showing off the playgroup school while BA just throws stuff away just because he's BA. BA also spins the conveniently place globe for fun. Which doubles as a basketball as it bounces of it's axis. Geez, they don't make those globes like they used to. Gigi greets BA gently, but BA has a kink for Gigi's horns; that was funny. BA is put in Gigi's arms and it's time for painting; which we already did in Arts & Crafts. So, we see the kids all painting self potraits of themselves basically. BA's technique is just absurd, like we are supposed to buy that BA knows how to paint better than Peppa Pig. Really?! So, the big kids show off their paintings and introduce themselves formally, and BA's picture looks like a tomato tortured itself into a huge mess. Could be worse, I guess. Peppa thinks it's good and it's an apple. The later made more sense than the former and it's time for lunch as Mummy Pig is feeding BA special food for babies, so says the narrator. BA clearly wants to eat, so the train spot with the spoon is totally pointless. BA's face is a mess, and so is his nappie because he shit himself again since he's blushing beet red. BA bawls his eyes out again and Mummy Pig offers to change the nappie again! I'm guessing Gigi said it stinks twice as the kids all help with the diaper change again to end the episode at 2:55. Just your average Peppa Pig episode. ** 1/2 (50%). Not much to see here either.

Cops & Robbers: Short opens with Peppa Pig driving a police kart with police gear on with Suzy Sheep running behind with a police light and they are stealing Freddy Fox's siren gimmick...AGAIN! Candy Cat and Danny Dog dodge the police as we see Gerald Giraffe sad on the ground because his ride got destroyed. The ride is okay as Gerald gets up, thanks the officers and the officers bail to solve crimes again; or beat up someone. I'm not sure which as we see the officers notice Gigi picking up a mess and looking sad. Apparently, her band has gone missing and there is a mystery on our hands. Nemneko get on the..oh wait, wrong show. Suzy and Peppa will help find the band. BWHAHAHAHAHAHA! 2:1 odds that they are the thieves and this was just a All Cops Are Bastards message. Okay, I discover that it's a pen according to the narrator while Suzy Sheep and Peppa Pig do magnifying glasses spots for a while. Peppa finds a purple thread and proclaims that it's the same color as Danny Dog's t-shirt. Cartoon shows trying to do foresnic files type investigations are so infectous because the experts would laugh their asses off seeing this and tell you how too complex their jobs really are. Danny Dog is reading book and there is no sign of a pen or any writing utensil anywhere. The kids are in shock as Suzy questions Danny Dog about the pen as I wait with baited breath to have a good cop, bad cop moment. So, the officers create a fake interrogation room out of pillows and chairs as Danny Dog sits down, reads and doesn't care because he doesn't know where the pen is. Maybe it's time to ask the right questions; but we have to waste more time with Candy Cat and Gerald Giraffe being asked questions and taken to the room for more questioning. Better question: Were you near the shelf where we found the purple thread before Gigi discovered her pen was gone? Candy Cat's question has her both incriminate and excorate her all at the same time. The fact that Candy was using crayons is a clue that she doesn't know where the pen is. More searching makes Gregory Weagle something something as Suzy steals a green apple from someone's lunch and eats it. Bastard! So, Peppa and Suzy head to the table to think about it, and then decide to ask Gigi questions. Good idea! She's the only one who seemly knows what this pen looks like anyway. So, all cops are now Peppa Pig. Cheeky! Peppa and Suzy decide to question Gigi and ask when she last used it. Gigi proclaims that she used it in the morning and put it behind her ear, which the pen magically appears via teleport behind her ear and Gigi finds it. Yeah! Gigi is dumb. So, she thanks the officers, the officers are so happy to be officers and all giggle to end the episode at 3:08. A really fun episode with a dumb finish. My finish of Peppa stealing the pen was a funnier finish. *** 1/2 (70%).

Superhero School: Short opens with Peppa Pig and Freddy Fox at a table in the school house on the hill, and Freddy Fox has had enough of having apples. The other kids are not amused by their lunches either as they are Danny Dog, Candy Cat, George Pig, Edmond Elephant, Suzy Sheep and Pedro F'N Pony. Gigi Gazelle is watching the door because there is a knock on it and apparently, it sounds like Super Potato. Gigi answers the door and it's Super Potato, the real one, not Mr. Potato in his underwear with a cape and mask, since the real one is clearly floating here. The kids are in awe because this is still better than their boring lunches. Super Potato does some flying to jackhammer the point home that he is the real Super Potato and not Mr. Potato in a stupid outfit. Oh wait...So, the guise of this is that the kids get to cosplay superheroes, which is basically Super Potato wannabes with different colors and dresses and shirts since being shirtless as a child is more taboo than a child anthro not wearing pants. Not that it matters for this show since everyone wears pants anyway. So the superhero kids look like geeks as Super Potato tells them the first lesson of superheroing: Use your superpowers to be kind to other people through your deeds and words. This mean Peppa and Suzy are the super villains of this outfit. POW! OUCH! Ummm... So, the kids are helping worms dig holes, watering plants, and Peppa is picking up one piece of trash and putting it in the rubbish bin, making sure the rubbish bounces off the bin once and onto the ground before putting it in for real. The kids return as Super Potato invokes lesson #2: Finish the Red Zone Cuba obstacle course and save Gigi on a tree stump from the "Super Villains", George and Edmond. Okay, now I see why I was punched in the kisser there. Can you not twist the knife on the boys any further, show?! We start the race and all the kids are blown up, and can barely move in this race. I howled with laughter. Even more so, the kids all confess after being confused that they didn't eat their fruits and veggies. Now to be fair, it didn't help that Super Potato arrived just before they were starting to eat lunch, so that's Super Potato's fault. Let them eat their lunch BEFORE doing this school, you geek! So, basically, the "heels" won as Gigi is free to set a table filled with plates of fruit and veggies. Everyone runs in to get their share. Nobody should leave celery stalks leftover on the plate. That's a major faux pas in my book! So, after eating, they restart the race, it goes a lot better and then after this absurd OC, they size up George and Edmond, and the "heels" give up without doing anything. Geeks! Gigi is so happy that she overacts the entire moment, that was funny. Super Potato cuts a promo and declares that the superheroes deserve a hero's reward and Peppa wants more carrots. Everyone is amused as the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:08. Okay, I liked this episode a lot, although George and Edmond did nothing here. *** 3/4 (75%).

Vegetables On The Moon: Short opens with Peppa Pig, Suzy Sheep, Pedro F'N Pony, and Gerald Giraffe popping out of the door leading to the cinema with boxes of popcorn and green onion stalks that might as well be lightsabers. Popcorn falls on the ground as Daddy Pig, Gigi Gazelle, Mummy and Daddy Mole, Mr. Bull and Reggie Rabbit come out in a chain. Yes, they just watched "Vegetables In Space" featuring Super Potato, Mr. Hash Brown (the real star of the show), and a character who I have no idea who or what it is on the front of the cinema billboard. Yes, the Pig family has been erased completely from the very movie the family won tickets and Peppa went to America for the beginning of Series 7! This is far worse than the beginning of Baby Bumps, because Peppa's baby model was only available for one episode that occured before the big reboot of Series 5 (Olden Days). This was a major story beginning Series 7 with Amelia Bea Smith voicing and they have wiped it from the show's memory. Screw you, Peppa Pig Tales! Just screw you! I just love how the kids are cosplaying the saber fights and Gerald just eats the green onion stalk. That made me laugh, especially after the fact that Peppa was supposed to be IN THE DAMN MOVIE~! Peppa offers to allow the kids to cosplay the movie at her house. I'm perfectly fine with this, it's just the fact that Peppa was supposed to be in the...you guessed it. We go to Peppa's bedroom as Peppa goes into the CHEST OF DEMONS and brings out various space and sci-fi motif hats and equipment. Pedro gets to cosplay the only truly realistic character in sci-fi, the astronaut. Suzy Sheep is a robot and Gerald plays an alien who might as well be a robot. Of course, Peppa is Luke Skywalker with a green onion stalk as a lightsaber. Why is everyone surprised? Peppa the star and everyone's a geek! So, they all go outside to pretend that Peppa is fighting and defeating jambronis on the moon. Why not?! Peppa's been on the moon twice already legit. So, they jump in a dream sequence to simulate the gravity on the moon which causes Gerald to been literally green with envy. They pretend that Gerald can speak an alien language, sadly the Backyardigans do a much better job of it. There are three scooters, which are rocket cars in this dream sequence.

Peppa offers a Suzy a ride, but Suzy counters in a robot language even in reality, and pretends to have rocket boots to counter. I forgot, Suzy is the second biggest star on the show and is the smallest geek on the show by proxy. I should have known. So, they fly and ride for a long ass whomping time to kill time in a three minute episode; going into and out of the dream sequence over and over again. Pedro then stops and asks "what are we doing?" I died. Suzy revives me by speaking English in robot candence before basically admitting that it's all about the moon, so she killed me again. Gerald revived me with his promo, whatever the hell he was saying as Peppa claims the moon is made of cheese. I was half expecting Rebecca Rabbit to appear to make rice cakes and garden carrots on the moon, just to overkill the stereotypes here. They want cheese for lunch and a giant spaceship arrives, and the door opens to reveal Daddy Pig with a platter of cheese sandwiches. Now, in reality; Daddy Pig did the same thing, but just went outside the little house on the hill. This dream sequence is awesome! Somehow, Peppa Pig thinks Daddy Pig is a moon monster. Wrong element, Peppa! Daddy Pig is Undie Elemental, not Luna Elemental. Daddy Pig finally cuts a promo and he's literally in between the bushes, which actually makes the scene even funnier in hindsight. The narrator says it all as everyone has a picnic on the cloth on the ground, and makes their faces a mess of cheese to end the episode at 2:55. Outside of the erasure of Peppa's family being in a movie, this was awesome. **** 1/2 (90%).

THE REVIEW LINE

Well, a pretty mixed bag of shorts with Vegetables On The Moon being the best one which tried to slay me with laughter even though I was pissed off that they forgot about Series 7 and Peppa being in America. Jokes & Pranks was great because they found a great way to keep the funny going and seeing Doctor Hamster corpse was priceless. Superhero School also deserves a honorable mention for the kids getting all blown up for being fools not eating lunch even though Super Potato didn't allow them to eat from the start. Cops & Robbers would have been great if the finish was Peppa being a thieving little troll while being a police officer just to pay off the "robbers" portion of the title. Easter was also funny just for Danny Dog and Peppa Pig forgetting their awesome bowling skills from Bowling. The rest were just there as 48 episodes are in the books now. I don't know how long this is going to continue as they are close to the 52 episode limit; but who knows, maybe they go 65 or 70+ episodes. So...

Thumbs up for Vegetables In Space and Jokes & Pranks; thumbs in the middle for the rest, and I'll see you all next time.

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