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Peppa Pig Tales #9 Rant

Reviewed: 07/22/2023

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

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..?!

Editor's Note: I will no longer be revealing which episodes were done by who, since my video source keeps cutting off the EDs and it's basically the same five to six writers anyway.

Obstacle Course: Short opens with Peppa going down the slide into a pool of rubber colored balls. Emily Elephant and George Pig follow down as Emily is calling Edmond on top of the slide and claiming that it's real fun while staggering backwards. Edmond is not thrilled because he doesn't think it's really fun, but he takes a deep breath and slides down the slide and afterwards, he's fine. Everyone giggles as Daddy Pig is outside the Adventure Park walls in a window praising Edmond as everyone goes into the red walled room (the previous room was blue walled) for some balance beaming action with the obstacles being vertical skipping rope hanging from the ceiling. The narrator explains the rules and Daddy Pig offers the hint that is so morally overwrought that I laughed at it. Hint: Just stay in the middle and help when needed. Emily walks on the balance beam using her nose to flick the rope away and does it with ease. George and Peppa are having more trouble as the balance beam is drawn a lot thinner than the last time they did this spot in the mainline series, so I can take this one a lot more seriously than that one at least. Edmond cannot walk forward to save his life and grabs onto the rope. So, the teamwork angle goes into effect as Peppa suggest walking sideways and they do with ease while Peppa is holding hands with Edmond. Next room is yellow walled as they all must swing across the pool with a giant yellow ball. Emily thinks this is tricky, so Peppa jumps onto the ball and swings across with ease because Peppa is a good swinger on the swings in the park. Peppa swings the ball to Emily as she puts George on the ball and swings George across as George crosses with ease. The ball comes back and Emily offers Edmond a ride; but Edmond looks nervous. This fear is so much better built up as an angle than Gerald Giraffe's fear of dentists. Edmond climbs onto Emily's back as Emily swings across as teamwork prevails, which Daddy Pig duely notes. However, there is one more room as it's the green room which has a lot of pillows; and a ball pit without nothing else. The kids are absolutely stumped by this puzzle, because it's a puzzle according to Daddy Pig's wink which indicates that it's all a big joke. It wasn't funny. But wait, Edmond Elephant notices the solution: Just throw pillows on the balls and cross them that way. Oh, and he declares himself a clever clogs and blows his trunk. That was a great finish and it was built up reasonably well. The rest of the kids cross, Peppa praises Edmond and Edmond runs into the blue room and goes down the slide into the ballpit as George joins him into the ballpit to end the episode at 3:07. Very good episode as Edmond's nervousness factored into the entire episode and he showed his smarts in the end. A well build setup that was paid off as a storyline. Great! **** (80%).

Independence Day: Short opens with Gigi Gazelle dressed up as Lady Liberty, twirling the torch as she walks stage left inside Playgroup with Peppa Pig, Danny Dog, Suzy Sheep, Mandy Mouse and Pedro F'N Pony following her. We get the most 1980's instrumental version of the American national anthem ever played before Gigi addresses the kids. She explains that they are celebrating Independence Day (a good three days before it happens, and once again; Canada doesn't exist in this world of course) and Peppa's attempt to break in the word independence is so hilariously bad that she might as well have not reacted at all. Then, the show just kills it's own gimmick by showing a map of the USA and both Mexico and Canada are shown with it. If you are going to ignore those countries exist, don't show them on a map, or make Canada the 51st state then. So, in order to explain this love for America, we have Mr. Bull enter, returning from holiday wearing the American flag colors, just a giant middle finger to the flag code. Why not bring one of the American Miss Rabbits to Britian to teach the kids for more authentic reasons. Or, if you want story development, have Doctor Pony arrive and say that he used to be from America. Heck, have Mr. Bull be from America when he was a kid instead of being on holiday if you want to add some realism and creditibility. There's no excuse for this angle to be this way. Mr. Bull leaves and returns with a BBQ grill that is so decked out in American colors, even Republicans would vomit at the Bull having such a fetish. Thnakfully, Gigi tells Mr. Bull to take it outside and have the cookout later and Mr. Bull walks away with the BBQ, because he's not an American on Neighbour Wars. So, Gigi brings out the box of American style costumes. Take one guess who Pedro Pony dresses up as. Of course! Everyone dressed up in blue, red and white as Suzy Sheep's white baseball cap makes her look like a transplanted Kit Cloudkicker. Back comes Mr. Bull to inform them that the grill is ready, but Gigi blows him off because we have to decorate with flags and other flag fetish items. Mr. Bull bails and the decorating goes well without a hitch.

Then, the kids decide to create and paint an actual American flag, something they never did with the UK flag. Really?! I knew these kids were doing their usual middle finger gestures after they buried American football deep within the earth with their eggball tactics. So, they over stick white stars all over the flag because they are clueless in how many stars to put on as Gigi is amused by this. Mr. Bull returns to inform us that there are 50 states so 50 stars. Why didn't they book this as Mr. Bull being an American? Furthermore, Peppa has already been to America, so what?! There are stars on the kids as it's 3 o'clock, so it's time for the BBQ instead of noon because this episode seemly can't get anything right today. Everyone goes outside as Mr. Bull is BBQ'ing corn and kabobs as it's called real American food. Really? I thought it was hamburgers, hotdogs and steak in America. Why is this BBQ look so vegan?! There is even a vegetable salad in the tent in the background with the drinks and a pie. Caron Izumi would be proud of this. Oh, and Mr. Bull got his grilling skills from Daddy Pig and Mummy Pig in Takeaway. Yup, he burns the vegan meal. What a dick?! But wait, Mr. Bull is an apple pie master as he shows the pie (and the chocolate chip cookies are shown), which I betcha he bought from the store. Everyone gets a slice and Peppa loves it as Mr. Bull calls apple pie the most American thing ever even though the history of the apple pie dates back to England (and Sweden and the Netherlands, work with me here...), the place where PEPPA PIG LIVES! This is so stupid and awesome at the same time. Oh, and let's add some fireworks in the daytime to up the stupidity levels even further as the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:10. This was so dumb, yet the ending was so funny it was worth it. ** 1/2 (50%), because I feel generous today.

Shuffleboard: Short opens back on the cruise ship from the mainline series as Peppa, Grandpa and Granny Pig are literally playing shuffleboard. So, are we going to get Peppa Pig Tales shorts based on that cruise that has turned out to be the end of the series for the time being. George don't care as he is playing in the sandbox. Granny has no hat, because it's windy (despite no signs of wind) and she'll lose her hat forever if it flies off her head. Granny Pig also explains the shuffleboard rules and gets one point for the bottom, two for the middle and three for the top, which is basically curling without the curling to stop the rock, or a chip in this case. George thinks it's golf and is adding sand to the deck to create sand traps or something. Grandpa Pig really slices his blue chip and knocks Granny Pig's chip into the sandbox as George is burying all the chips he can find. Peppa gets the green chip to shuffle and it shuffles literally four inches from the start, because Peppa's form is hideously hilarious as usual. Granny suggest a running start, which is stupid because there are sand traps on deck and Peppa of course slips and pushes the cue too hard, the puck goes flying into the sandbox to be buried by George. It's always fun when the star actually looks really stupid and George being the one responsible makes it even more so. Then it's gets better: Granny cuts the usual "it's about the fun" and "no one gets it the first time" promo, which then has George push the cue on his chip and he perfectly removes Grandpa Pig's puck and scores two points on the first try. HAHA! Made Peppa Pig looks like an absolute geek, and it was funny. Peppa decides to try harder and her form is so bad that birds are offended as pucks go flying off the cruise ship. There was an episode of Spongebob SquarePants that teased a scene that never happened and it was so brutal that John Enter completely lost his mind. Yeah, that moment would have benefitted from having a Peppa Pig Tales like short. Peppa continues to amuse me and Grandpa Pig is eating chocolate ice cream, as he slips on one of the sliding pucks and bumps his ass on the floor and loses the ice cream. Okay, Peppa; it's time to stop. You suck at shuffleboard.

Sadly, she uses the orange cue thus this attempt to be good at a sport she sucks at must continue. At least this is amusing and funny to me, so let her fail over and over for my pleasure. If she succeeds, great! After more failed attempts land in George's sandbox; Peppa slides one green chip and it just misses the top point of the three point triangle. Grandpa Pig apparently got a second ice cream cone and thinks he's safe; then he turns around, the bird sqwaks at him and Grandpa drops his ice cream. Because the male adults are the biggest geeks on this show! Granny Pig takes over, slides her chip and pushes the green chip Peppa used onto the three point top giving Peppa Pig the easiest three points ever and Peppa celebrates like she won the Wrestlemania main event so badly I was laughing my ass off. Like I said, it's always great when the writers one in a while allow the star to be an absolute dork. Sadly, they are out of pucks because George has all of them build into a sandcastle tower. George plants the orange cue like it's a coat rack and the bird lands on it as the kids giggle and the narrator says it all to end the episode at 2:56. I love this episode because for once, Peppa was the biggest idiot of all time and didn't look like the unstoppable bowler she was in the bowling episodes. **** 1/4 (85%).

Captain Peppa's Cruise Ship Tour: Short opens on the cruise ship...AGAIN...with three birds sqwaking. The foghorn of death made them fly away and it's so offensive even Granny Pig is blowing it off. The kids giggle as we have our second straight short featuring the cruise ship arc while Miss Rabbit with her whistle and her captains outfit greets the kids and the seniors. Miss Rabbit is the first mate of the ship and it's time for the safety tour, because of course! Grandpa Pig is giddy about this safety tour, because he's a "bit of an expert" on these boat thingies, making him look more low rent than Daddy Pig. Granny Pig is more giddy in sitting this one out as she goes to a conveniently placed lawn chair near a wading pool and sleeps as she has her shades on. So, the kids are saluting Miss Rabbit as Miss Rabbit tells them to follow her stage left to the lifeboat. We get a really funny sequence as Miss Rabbit puts on her lifejacket and offers the small one to Peppa. Somehow Peppa and George have their lifejackets on off-screen and then race around the boat making boat noises. So, Miss Rabbit tries to give Grandpa Pig his own, and Grandpa Pig puts it on and joins the kids doing the exact same thing. I howled with laughter on that one. Thankfully, Miss Rabbit blows the whistle on them because no running on the deck of course. Peppa apologizes and they all stop, her apology was much more genuine than Molly Cunningham's in It Came From Beneath The SeaDuck. Miss Rabbit and the rest (with their lifejackets written out by teleport) as they go upstairs to near the cockpit of the ship where Peppa calls the satelites a bunch of large spoons. Miss Rabbit thankfully correct hers, that would have suck. Peppa notices the giant mirrors, I have a Bad Reflection On You flashback. Grandpa Pig claims that they are not...and then has no idea what they are. (Granny: (whispers) They are solar panels, you dipshit! Grandpa Pig: I'm too big to be one.) Thankfully, Miss Rabbit calls them solar panels before Daddy Pig can laugh all the way to the bank.

Grandpa Pig thanks the sun to save face on his stupidity as we head to the final part of the tour as they all go down a neon green tube slide into the bridge where Captain Otter is at the WHEEL OF MORALITY. Peppa calls the bridge a room, which is in fact true, but the room is called The Bridge, so whatever Peppa. Grandpa Pig decides to be reckless as he knows boats, you see. There is a super computer that Peppa notices and JAQS off at. Grandpa Pig then starts pushing buttons. I love when he said the yellow button turns ON the lights, and then pushes it and the lights go off. Well, he got the button right, just that the lights were ON at the time. Grandpa Pig is dumb. He pushes other buttons and apparently, they have disco nights on the bridge judging by the spotlights. Then it's time for the conveniently placed lever (CLEVER CLOGS~!) to be pulled and pushed to speed up a ship where it is rumbling inside, but doesn't look dangerous outside. Ooops! Anyhow, Peppa then notices the conveniently placed giant red button on the wall. It happens to be the foghorn button and you can guess the final spot before it happens: Miss Rabbit allows Peppa to push the button, Peppa pushes the button, the foghorn goes off and wakes up a sleeping Granny Pig in a shock. Maybe you shouldn't have whispered that profanity into Grandpa Pig's ear. (Granny: Wait, I was asleep the entire time. How is that possible? Me: It's magic!) Granny lands in the wading pool, Peppa apologizes and it's less genuine than Molly's as everyone giggles to end the episode at 3:19. The usual Peppa Pig love in and not much more. *** (60%).

Emoji Day Challenge: Short opens with Gigi fake laughing pretending to cry and Super Potato doing the worst excitement I have ever witnessed as they run around with pictures of giant emojis. I am not making this up and the kids watching he zero idea what this is but have to act like they care and do a far better job of it. Kids: Peppa Pig, Danny Dog, Suzy Sheep, Rebecca Rabbit, Freddy Fox and Pedro F'N Pony. Yes, the kids are taking acting classes from Super Potato, who in storyline is suppose to be a shoot superhero and not an actual actor. Super Potato's reaction to the kids was more genuine than his acting, those exposing how awful he is as a work superhero. Gigi brings out a top hat containing paper with emoji drawings and the kids have to act based on the feelings shown by each emoji. This is going to be fun to mock. Freddy Fox runs in and picks the Sad Bear emoji. Oh come on now Kit, the TaleSpin reboot confirmation is just around the corner dammit! We cannot afford to let Disney think of you being a BS&P nightmare again. Freddy acts out the sad bear and still has to wink to indicate that he's acting even though everyone in the audience knows that he's supposed to be acting sad. Everyone acts with him and does a good job of it. Super Potato of course ruins it by floating in mid-air since he's supposed to act like a work; but is still shooting for no reason whatsover. Gigi asks if he's all right and Super Potato stops selling and claims that he is acting. Riiiiggghhhtttt. The kids pop for Freddy as Peppa steps up and picks the happy lion, which is good for Peppa, because if it were me, my happiness would be the definition of contrived and forced. Peppa is jumping and Super Potato is questionning this, as Peppa explains matter of fact that jumping up and down in muddy puddles makes her happy. DING! Peppa is mostly happy legit so acting is kind of moot. Of course, this was done because Peppa is the star and everyone's a geek. So, everyone is happy jumping up and down. Next is Suzy and I was hoping she does the acting of a scared tree; just to see if they payoff the "chop the tree down" angle. Sadly, it's Surprise Panda Bear. Suzy is doing a lot of gasping and the kids all act in kind. Gigi and SP's acting sucks, and Suzy thinks she did it wrong based on that. SP says she did it right though and the kids clap and pop as Suzy blushes in a spot that shouldn't have happened since the color was way too light. Huh.

Sadly, we never got to see Pedro F'N Pony nor Danny Dog act because that would have been a riot. Maybe they should have done this as a full mainline episode; but that would require the main actors to act and Peppa Pig Tales actors are better than them. Super Potato at times sounds like Mr. Bull. Super Potato cuts a promo about them being good movie actors in training and shows off a much better surprise face. Basically the ending is him reacting the three emotions and ending with the kids and adults jumping up and down happy to end the episode at 3:04. Super Potato completely bakes me that I might as well BBQ myself. Decent episode. *** (60%).

The Juice Factory: Short opens at the juice factory as we do the How It's Made demonstration of making orange juice, which for some reason isn't all that different from doing it at home, minus the obvious safety and quality control checks of course. The kids and Gigi are all wearing hard hats and raincoats. Kids: Peppa Pig, Suzy Sheep, Danny Dog, Emily Elephant, Mandy Mouse and Pedro F'N Pony. Dammit, can't we have some Penny Polar Bear and the two mommies episodes in this show already?! Of course, Miss Rabbit is the tour guide because of course she is! This gimmick MUST continue! By the way, there is a table containing squeezers just for the kids to legit squeeze half oranges and juice goes into the pipe after Peppa asks if this is allowed. Is this factory assuring us that this isn't child labour? Of course, they have kids voicing characters in this show, so I guess cartoon voicing is not considered labour. They at first love it and then the second the narrator says but, the kids are not loving it because it's hard work. Suzy is such a wimp, her hands got tired in seconds; my hands working on wood at LakeCity take at least thirty minutes before they get tired. She's on the wrong training programme, probably the same one that Met's fan had and couldn't open a bottle of water. Then again, I have to use my teeth to open a container of plastic tartar sauce, so I'm the one to talk about someone else's training programme. We head into the next room where they are making strawberry juice using iron boots on a stick, like stomping grapes. Hey, it sure beats stomping them with your bare feet, that's for sure. Easier to clean the boots, too. Peppa asks if they can do this, and Miss Rabbit says yes. We get a montage of them putting sertile boots on and then go into a wading pool and stomp away at the strawberries. I howled with laughter seeing this, it was so absurd. Mandy is literally wheeling her wheelchair around and probably could have finished the job faster than the real machine had she been the only one inside the wading pool. Again, I howled with laughter. Next room is putting the juice into the containers for shipment and the key is to match the pushed button with the container color and the colored sprayer. Mandy goes first and the first one is a red container, so it's strawberry juice. Yes, Mandy is allowed to push the button and fill it up, why do you ask?! Next up is Suzy pushing the green button for the green container of apple juice, just to avoid confusion with red apples.

Next up is a rainbow container and instead of getting offended, they just become confused. It's fruit punch, so you fill all four in quarter amounts, so they literally push all the buttons. Okay, the apple juice wasn't shown to the kids on how it's made and I have zero clue what fruit the yellow one was supposed to be (I'm guessing pineapple juice); but somehow despite all the chaos, the juice container is filled with all four juices perfectly and without incident. That was disappointing, I was expecting a big mess right there, but the kids got it right. Apparently, this chaos was so awesome that Peppa innovated a new juice: Rainbow Juice. Okay, that was funny and it even has a rainbow symbol. It's still technically fruit punch, but somehow rainbow juice sounds better. Needs grape juice and blueberry juice though to complete the continuity that they were shooting for, but time constraints, people! Why do you expect toddlers to be able to count past four?! Why are you staring at me like that?! So, the kids all giggle and we head into the tasting room, because of course. Also, I wish I had that kind of job...All the juice containers are on the conveyer belt as Miss Rabbit's promo makes her sounds like a Z-grade Ned Flanders. Miss Rabbit decides to hide the juice containers behind barriers which allows the audience to clearly see it -- which is fine -- but the animation style makes the kids appears to clearly see them and they have to pretend that it's a surprise to them, which is not fine. Okay, we have the taste test and I just love that in storyline that Peppa and the kids have supposely innovated a new juice; but the Rainbow Juice is already made in the taste testing area. I call shennigans on this whole innovation Peppa and the kids made. I think Miss Rabbit just lied to them and us. Peppa tastes the rainbow in liquid form and loves it, everyone loves juice so much that there are three way and two way straws being used on each table with the rainbow juice to end the episode at 3:10 with the kids giggling. This might be my most favorite Peppa Pig Tales short ever just for the rainbow juice part, although this would have been better served as a mainline Peppa Pig episode since we never knew the yellow juice and didn't see the apple juice being made. **** (80%).

Buffet On A Boat: Short opens on the cruise ship (for the third time in this rant alone) as we jump cut to the Grandparents and kids hopping up and down the deck with Peppa doing a sing-song. Somehow, Miss Rabbit follows them to inside the cafetera as a number of denizens look slightly annoyed, mostly the fact that the pigs are doing the earthquake ritual on a freaking cruise ship. They have plates ready as Grandpa Pig tells us that this is a buffet and Miss Rabbit explains that they can have anything they like available on trays in the back. So, everyone gets their plates and head to the buffet table loaded with pizza, drinks, vegetable salad (a known love for Caron Izumi), rice, sandwiches, corn, apples and spaghetti. The pigs all rub their tummies as Peppa is already filled up her plate with spaghetti and pretty much emptied the tray. Granny Pig tells her not to take too much, and Peppa offers Granny half of her spaghetti and Granny Pig is perfectly fine with it. Peppa slurps a noodle before she and Granny head back to the table. George wants some freshed squeeze orange juice from the orange juice depensing machine in the background, which means Grandpa Pig has to operate the machine, which means trouble is squeezing. Other than being loud and only filling 1/8 of a glass of orange juice, it works without incident. George drinks up and we jump cut to Granny Pig about to eat her spaghetti and Peppa Pig is literally done with the tomato messy face shown. She is literally being a pig pigging out today. Granny is perfectly fine as she teases giving Peppa the rest of the pasta because Peppa wants more, but they head to the buffet table again as Grandpa Pig empties the juice machine and only gets 1/2 cup of juice. Man, those oranges must be lacking in water today. Thankfully, Miss Rabbit has plates and she agrees to bail and returns with boxes of oranges to fill the juice machine again. Peppa and Granny Pig notice Mr. Sexist Labodour using a industrial strength pancake making machine. Peppa wants one pancake and now she decides to show restraint. I give this about thirty seconds before she eats it before Granny Pig has a chance to eat anything. I check the video...Damn; I'm so good. Grandpa Pig twist the knob on the front of the juice machine to increase the flow, this sounds like trouble to me. Peppa is now thirsty and wants some OJ and Granny Pig tells her to go see Grandpa Pig about it. Grandpa Pig is making orange juice for literally everyone on the cruise, because he's almost as dumb as Daddy Pig when it comes to juice machines. Almost. Seeing him working out during this was funny. The machine runs out of oranges as Peppa and George get their glasses of juice as Grandpa Pig bumps his ass on the floor. Peppa tells him to not over do it as the pigs return to the table to end the episode at 3:13. Just another cruise episode and it's getting a bit stale at this point. ** 1/2 (50%).

Water Sports Adventure: Short opens on open water as Peppa and Granny Pig are in swimming costumes sitting down on surfboards. Peppa is paddling her surfboard assuming herself. The tide brings them back in because the buoy rope barrier barely keeps them from going anywhere but back on the beach because this is another cruise ship arc episode, only the first one on the island. No waves equals no surfing today as George and Grandpa Pig are collecting shells. George loves the green sea shell he got as Miss Rabbit appears on the water in her jet ski. Apparently, Mummy Cat has made it to the cruise island of doom with helmets and jifejackets, along with a paddle boat. Peppa wants to go paddle on the paddle boat with Mummy Cat while Miss Rabbit gives Granny Pig some equipment like lifejackets and helmets because she's going to jet ski with Miss Rabbit. Granny Pig's face appears to want to be somewhere else. So, she's fine with a motorcycle; but a jet ski and she's afraid. So, Peppa demonstrates the paddle boat and paddles so slowly, she's barely got a foot done in thirty seconds. Granny Pig is still doing the "I don't like this at all" face as Miss Rabbit loves it so much that she starts the jet ski and it's time to race for your life, Granny Pig~! Peppa don't care about Granny Pig's well being as she paddles and gets nowhere; as we jump cut to Grandpa Pig collecting seashells while George is looking for some shells or some things, either works fine at this point. George finds some unicorn horn shells, pink shells and apparently, there was a genocide of shell animals on his beach since George is finding shells hidden in bushes and rocks. This is creepy. Grandpa Pig's voice changes like Peppa in the arcade because he's holding too many shells and wants to do some pictures with shells. Jump cut back to Peppa paddling the paddle boat some more while Miss Rabbit is having the time of her life on the jet ski, making Granny Pig have to ponder her afterlife. Hey, considering that everything is magic in storyline in this show, the afterlife is not all that far fetched. Peppa is loving life, Miss Rabbit is loving life, Mummy Cat is loving life, Granny Pig probably hates life more than Jitters at this point. Jump cut to George and Grandpa Pig making a dinosaur picture from the sea shells. Of course! What a fool I am?! To think that George would make anything other than a dinosaur.

George uses the shiny green shell for the eye as well. I like his new pronouncation of dinosaur as well. However, we are not done with making Granny Pig suffer, so back to the jet ski on the water we go! I am both amused and creeped out by this at the same time. Then Miss Rabbit makes me mad as she splashes waves and destroys the dinosaur picture! Oh, I betcha George bawls his eyes out on cue. I check the video...Wait for it...the water falls from their bodies, the narrator does his spiel...Damn, I'm so good. Someone make Miss Rabbit cry! You do not destroy an awesome seashell dinosaur picture. She'll pay for that one! But wait! The shiny green shell is still there and George is still happy in the end as Peppa loves the sand frame of the dinosaur more than the seashell dinosaur. Okay. The pig family all laugh and be happy as the narrator does his Oprah special while Miss Rabbit makes Mummy Cat suffer on the jet ski to end the episode at 3:06. Very fun episode with Miss Rabbit being such a meanie to everyone and not on purpose I might add. *** 1/2 (70%).

THE REVIEW LINE

Well, another decent set of shorts this time around. Shuffleboard was great as they took Peppa being the best bowler in the world and turned her onto the worst shuffleboard player in the world, making it all worth so wonderful. The Juice Factory was also great just for the Rainbow Juice angle (better name, less problematic) and the payoff was total funny BS. Obstacle Course was good because it did what the Dentist Day failed to do: Built up Edmond Elephant's fear of the obstacle course and paying it off with him being the one who solves the puzzle and becomes courageous. That is what makes it work! Gerald never got a chance to build on the fear of dentists as the payoff came too quickly. I was disappointed in Independence Day, I was expecting it to be a total burial of the American holiday and it didn't feel that way until the apple pie got brought out. Also, the whole cruise ship stuff is getting way overplayed at this point and I suspect it will get even more so since we are only 72 episodes in at this point. Overall, this was good. So...

Thumbs up for The Juice Factory, Shuffleboard and Obstacle Course, thumbs in the middle for the rest and I'll see you all next time.

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