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Peppa Pig Tales #12 Rant

Reviewed: 11/04/2023

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

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.

Muddy Fun Run: Short opens outside the school house on the hill as the kids and families decked out all in white with red running shoes, indicating that there is a race forthcoming, which means Daddy Pig is going to be bacon when this short is over. Pairs: Peppa and Daddy Pig, Mr. Fox and Freddy Fox (for once Mr. Fox has not abandoned his son), Mummy and Emily Elephant, Mummy and Suzy Sheep, Mummy and Rebecca Rabbit, and Danny and Captain Dog. The narrator proclaims that this is a fun run, woo-woo. Amazingly, it is to raise funds for a new school bell instead of a roof this time; which I'm fine with. If it was a new school roof, than Mr. Bull can go to god as far as I'm concerned. Gigi Gazelle comes in with the megaphone and whistle (which looks like a block six as we ready, steady, GO~ when Gigi blows the whistle. So, everyone races for their life as the sun in the sky has been thrown shade by multiple clouds and it rains. Apparently, no one loves to run in rain and even Mummy Rabbit wants to quit (even though Gigi is the official of this race, so she decides, not Mummy Rabbit); except for Peppa Pig because she wants this fun run to turn into a muddy puddle obstacle course! Of course, what a fool I am?! She's the star and everyone is a geek! So, the entire race is restarted, complete with start line, which was totally pointless, but whatever. Of course, Peppa cuts Gigi off on GO because she's the...you guessed it and you can say the rest without me prompting anymore. Rebecca jumps over a regular puddle, so Peppa jumps into the puddle and splashes Rebecca. Yeah, like I'm buying that Peppa did that unintentionally. Rebecca forgives Peppa anyway as Daddy Pig jumps over the tinest puddle and runs for his life. That was funny. Everyone goes up the hill to fetch a pail of money for the broken bell, but Mummy Sheep and Suzy Sheep cannot climb this hill without complaining about how slippery it is. I'm complaining about the lack of splashing of muddy puddles that they walk in, it's Horzion Zero Dawn-equse. Mummy Elephant and Emily Elephant use their noses and the pairs all make an anthromorphic chain to help Suzy and Mummy Sheep get up the hill. It's a fun run, not a competition; and Danny Dog won a race in this show anyway, so why not?! So, they all go down the steep hill by sliding down and they start getting mud, because of course! Then the pairs all go under the trees by crawling on the biggest muddy puddle, which somehow was made despite being underneath trees which would shield the rain. Danny Dog slides on his butt for fun as everyone crosses the finish line with ease. Gigi proclaims that they have enough money to fix the school bell, which is completely broken now and Mr. Bull will fix it tomorrow. Everyone cheers, groans and cheers in that order. Peppa is happy, but everyone loves running in the rain and wants the 10.0 Peppa scale, so they all race for their lives again to end the episode at 3:12. Just your average Peppa Pig Muddy Puddle love in. *** (60%).

Scooter Lesson: Short opens in the park with Peppa Pig, Danny Dog, Suzy Sheep, Zoe Zebra and Pedro F'N Pony are riding scooters with helmets on. Daddy Pig is reading the newspaper on a park bench while George is playing in the sandbox and Mr. Bull is fixing a lamp post on a ladder. Peppa wants the shortest scooter race ever as they are supposed to have a race that is literally thirty feet away. They actually say, "Ready, Steady, GO~!" here as the kids race for their life and Peppa's scooter breaks off a wheel. Daddy Pig needs to stop buying scooter from a second hand store. The kids abort the race once Peppa complains about the wheel being off because she's the star and everyone is a geek. Mr. Bull comes in with his toolbox and has a screw drill on retainer and tries to fix Peppa's scooter, but it breaks completely. Why does anyone trust Mr. Bull to fix anything when his gimmick is that he has a fetish for deconstruction, not construction. The narrator retorts for me nicely as Daddy Pig comes in and actually fix's Peppa's bike because he's a bit of an expert on thing. They are transferring Daddy Pig being dumb to Mr. Bull now; which is fine because Daddy Pig is like the first or second most important adult on the show, and maybe the fifth most important character on the show next to Mummy Pig, Peppa Pig, George Pig and Suzy Sheep. Peppa offers Mr. Bull to race them, but Mr. Bull admits that he never actually used a scooter in his life, even though this version of the scooter (the Razor scooter) would have existed in 1990. So, Mr. Bull would have been born in the 1960's. The kids are shocked, SHOCKED I SAY~! The kids explain how fun it is and that it's better than walking as they demonstrate the scooter for awhile. Mr. Bull decides to try it out as he gets Peppa's helmet which no chance in hell could protect that noggin. He of course screws it up by riding with both feet on the scooter instead of the one foot on the scooter, push with the other foot to make it go which Peppa demonstrated. Mr. Bull does get it right the second time perfectly though, so he's not as dumb as I thought. Mr. Bull is having so much fun riding that darn scooter. Everyone rides behind Mr. Bull except for Peppa running in last place, which was funny. They dodge shrubbery for a long ass whomping time with Danny Dog, that was funny.

Then Mr. Bull got too greedy and like the dumb bull that he is, dumber than Daddy Pig in this series somehow, he goes down the steep hill and cannot stop. Peppa yells at him to use the brake and he does when he's down the hill and stops without incident. Damn, even in Peppa Pig Tales, they won't take bumps anymore. Everyone runs in and is amused by this as somehow Mr. Bull is going to ride up the hill to fetch a pail for tired nuts and somehow doesn't kill the brakes, but the scooter goes up anyway. Well, in short bursts while Mr. Bull is blown up and Peppa stops with him. The earlier part is not good due to the logic break, but the payoff is so funny that it was worth with. Mr. Bull and Peppa Pig do make it up the hill, and Peppa is more blown up than Mr. Bull; which makes sense, but isn't as funny. Mr. Bull admits that downhill is better and rides down the hill on the scooter with Peppa chashing him to end the episode at 3:07. The first half was just there, and got better once Mr. Bull got dumb on the scooter. Fun episode to say the least. *** 1/2 (70%).

Maze: Short opens with Peppa, George, Mummy and Daddy Pig entering the greenhouse with boots on, which is a dead giveaway of the final spot, or maybe not. The kids are chasing a flying insect with glee as the animation made it look like the red car drove itself. Everyone enjoys the bees, the tall sunflower and smelling the flowers for a while. George sneezes and then the kids giggle, whatever. The big tree out of nowhere has the leave hit Daddy's head. See, magic. What else could it be in Peppa Pig's world? By the way, Miss Rabbit is on the megaphone and yes, this is the very trick hedge maze as stated in the video title on Youtube. I love that Miss Rabbit explains the rules of engagement for the maze while the megaphone is still on despite everyone clearly in range to hear her without out. That was funny. So, the object of the game is to find the fountain in the middle and the kids are inspired. The hedge maze is fun, but better if it was outside in the middle of nowhere than inside a greenhouse, but that's just me of course. Daddy Pig claims that he's a bit of an expert on mazes because Mr. Bull isn't around to make Daddy Pig look smarter. Peppa giggling after this is a wink to the audience that Daddy Pig is a liar. So, the family enters the maze, and we have to do a ducking spot to show people that Daddy Pig's tummy is almost too big without actually saying it. This goes on for a long ass whomping time until they hit the hedge wall and so they have to go back. Mummy Pig cannot find Daddy Pig, so Daddy Pig pops up from the bushes. At first, I thought they would do an angle where George is lost, but George finds the fountain first as a finish. That would be neat, but the idea is killed dead as George says "uh-oh". So, we have a race to the middle for a while as one area is lined with sunflowers. Peppa points out the flowers as we walk some more for a while. George and Daddy Pig are running around lost, which is fine because that is the purpose of the maze in the first place. George is tired, so Daddy Pig picks him up and tells him not to worry; which does not help my trust any. Peppa and Mummy Pig find them anyway on the other side. Considering Daddy's big tummy, why not just go through the hedge, it looks like paper at this point. Somehow, they manage to make it to the fountain in opposite directions. They cheer and Miss Rabbit literally appears out of nowhere cheering them as well. See, magic. Miss Rabbit confirms that they are the fastest to the fountain and they have a chance to leave the maze the fastest so everyone walks away from the fountain as the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:00. That was merely okay. ** 1/2 (50%).

Ghost Hunt: Short opens AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as Mummy Pig is in the kitchen turning around a decorated pumpkin as there is a plastic upside down bat on the kitchen counter (and one on the fridge), which means it's Saint Hallow's eve. There are bat and cobwebs and pumpkin pulp being scooped out, as Mummy and Daddy pig are literally dressed as The Creatures. Has anyone made a horror movie out where The Creature had a female counterpart? George is going to be a ghost, which is weird since he usually cosplays a dinosaur. I thought George got over her fear of seeing his own reflection when dressed as one. Suzy is a vampire, Peppa is a bog witch (since in Final Fantasy 4, that's the name of the monster who has a bunch of frogs that turn you into a frog of course), Gerald is an alien with a green trimmed eye and Pedro F'N Pony is going as himself because he's so clueless it's scary on it's own. Oh wait, Pedro is a superhero. Of course! What a fool I am?! Oh, and then a power cut occurs on Halloween, and Daddy Pig doesn't like it, because everyone inside and outside this show has watched too many horror movies on a show where horror is forbidden. Okay, just the violence and death parts. Shocks are still allowed within reason and being bad actors are encouraged. The adults bail and return with the torches, and somehow Daddy Pig bumps into a half dozen objects off-screen during this sequence. So, the kids turn on the torches and make funny faces as the pumpkin stuff has been delayed, because lit candles are a no-no on this show. So, Peppa wants to find some ghost and sounds all creepy about it, which Gerald claims that the dark scares him. Suzy offers her hand and tells Gerald to close his eyes as George puts on his costume and he is not scary as the kids giggle. Peppa tells George no because he's too little and he will get scared. All the grown kids go into the sitting room filled with decorations, including plastic spiders and spider balloons, since this is on Youtube, the Austrailan government can do nothing about it but whine, even though the spiders are just rubber and plastic. They try to practice the fine art of not being seen, but Gerald completely ruins it as his green eye on the costume bumps into a lamp post which makes a gong sound. Gerald of course kept his eyes shut the entire time; and this is even more silly because somehow Gerald got up the stairs with his eyes closed the entire time because they are in Peppa's bedroom.

So, the kids are in Peppa's bedroom as there are toys on top of Peppa's bed and below it is Mr. Dinesaur (sic) on the bottom bed as George in the ghost costume jumps up from his bed and runs around. The kids no sell George's ghost selling by giggling. They didn't even pretend to try to act like bad actors which would have made this uber funny. Peppa decides to relent and let George look for spooky stuff, George is not buying this because no one is buying that this is a spooky house, most so, the hallway. We head out and downstairs, somehow Gerald kept his eyes shut the entire time and Pedro proclaims that it's extra dark in here, and somehow Gerald notices it as the torch is out of battery energy. Somehow, we can still see them despite this and the kids all panic and run in a circle. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Somehow, they manage to run into the kitchen and Daddy Pig has the torch on and that is that. Oh wait, Daddy Pig shines it on a lantern and panics and bumps into the table as pumpkins go flying. The children panic and bump into the table, pumpkins go down and then the power comes back on. Mummy Pig comes back with a yellow towel and a wrench proclaiming that one of the fuses was blown. She's surprised that there is a mess on the floor and Daddy Pig claims that it might be a ghost. Considering that George is dressed like one, makes sense to me. The kids all giggle and run around with pumpkins as the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:20. A really good episode with a funny finish as Gerald kept showing that he wasn't scared at all and was just showing off for my pleasure. **** (80%).

Halloween Costumes: Short opens inside Miss Rabbit fancy dress shop which is really one of those Halloween costume stores that sells costumes year round. The place is decorated with Halloween stuff as Miss Rabbit is at the checkout counter dressed as a noble. Candy Cat is dressed as a bog witch, Danny Dog is a ghost, Pedro F'N Pony is a mummy and George is in his dine-e-saur costume. Captain Dog is likely going to be a sea captain because playing one on Halloween would not violate the retirement stips, Mr. Bull looks nervous, Daddy and Mummy Pig look normal and Peppa is in street clothes, so she is looking for a costume I bet. Mummy Pig is concerned about leaving this to the last minute which is almost always a bad idea as Miss Rabbit calls up the Pig Family and Peppa wants to be a vampire, just like Gigi Gazelle...allegedly. The last vampire costume was sold to Mr. Bull as Mr. Bull hisses in the costume before walking out. Peppa is crushed, but Daddy Pig decides to find a costume that is just as good, if not better than a vampire costume. Miss Rabbit's reaction is like "nothing better than a vampire costume, but I'll let you make fools out of yourselves anyway" before Peppa heads to inside the changing room. Costume #1: Peppa Pig is a lemon. Wow, didn't expect them to pick the dumbest costume right out of the costume gate. Peppa blows off the costume, I disagree. Lemons are spooky because they make you sour and often a sign of bad quality. Costume #2: A sunflower. HAHA! Peppa being planted for my pleasure will never grow old considering that she's the star and everyone is a geek. Everyone loves it except Peppa, that was funny. Peppa blows off the costume and we get costume #3: a pencil. Peppa's not wearing that, spooky or not; she can barely keep her balance. It's just as bad as Johnny Ass...ERRR...I mean, Johnny Test wearing that purple fur coat his mother forced him to wear in one episode despite having zero chance of moving anywhere in it. Daddy Pig calls it unusual as Peppa cannot get out of the changing room while protesting. Sadly, all the spooky full costumes are out; but there are still bits and pieces of costumes left as Miss Rabbit has a rubber spider on a string. Peppa struggles to get out of the changing room and takes off the costume off-screen.

So, the family looks for bits and pieces of a spooky costume as they notices snakes in a basket. Daddy Pig tries on vampire fangs and it makes him sound like a complete tool. Peppa tries them and likes it. Mummy Pig brings in a basket and has bat wings on her back. George has a piece of a dragon's tail and does growling sounds as Daddy Pig calls it a dinosaur tail for no reason. Peppa off-screen finds the witches hat, face paint and throws a fake spider-web right into Mummy Pig's kisser, which makes her giggle. So, they try the costume on and everyone has to sell it as the scariest thing ever; but when I saw it, I was laughing my ass off. Probably for the best since BS&P isn't going to allow legit spooky and scary spots on this show, so comedy horror will have to do. Everyone runs and scares people as Captain Dog is a sea captain. HAHA! Told you all! Peppa chases George around as the narrator says it all, including the price being so spooky to the adult's bank account to end the episode at 3:09. Started off slow, and then Peppa just stopped caring and made a great costume despite overloading the bank account. *** 1/2 (70%).

Tricky Treats: Short opens with Peppa playing peak-a-boo with licorice eyeballs where dressed up as Frankenstein's The Creature. Daddy Pig gets to play the bog witch with an apron while George is dressed up as a dinosaur of course. They are in the kitchen DURING HAPPY HOUR with a pumpkin lantern on the counter with various bats and cobwebs. The table features flour and eggs along with the candy eyeballs. George and Peppa eat one monster eyeballs while Daddy Pig brings out the cupcake, and this somehow looks like Daddy Pig was going backwards judging by the background. So, George and Peppa get to put colored icing on the cupcakes, while Daddy Pig adds food colouring to the icing. I don't know why, food coloring is usually non-toxic even in large amounts. George and Peppa call it magic and Daddy Pig says it's not magic. I know it's true, but this is Peppa Pig and Peppa has already gone to the moon twice and once without the proper gear, so Peppa and George are correct here. I love that food coloring is now called fruit coloring, which makes the fact that it only changes the color and not flavor itself even more hilarious and a BS&P decision. Some of the icing gets on the pigs, they like it, so maybe it was fruit coloring and not the icing...Oh wait, that would be dumb. By the way, when Peppa starting icing the cupcake, none of the colors made were used, it was orange and black icing. George's was green with white lines and sprinkles. They cosplay with the cupcakes for a while, whatever. They finish four cupcakes, which using none of the colored icing Daddy Pig made, effectively writing it out by teleport. Again, science? In this show? Surrrreeee, Daddy Pig.

Daddy Pig comes in with a bowl of spaghetti and tomato sauce; with the garlic bread loaf I often see at East Side Mario's. How I long to go back and eat there, just cannot find the place anymore. At least Peppa and George are having a fun time with sniffing it and liking it. The bottles of food coloring are still on the table and Peppa Pig has a Krackpotkin Plan to play a Halloween trick on the adults. Uh-oh! I wondered when Peppa would start to act like her old trollish self again. George is all in on this as Peppa and George lace the pasta and garlic bread with green and purple food coloring of doom. Daddy Pig comes back and they don't even try to make this subtle at all. Daddy Pig seems a lot more amused by this than anything else, and he has an idea to up the ante: Daddy Pig basically serves the stuff with monster eyes and the colored food of doom. Basically, this is like being in a hell house, only much kinder and you actually eat the stuff. In comes Mummy Pig dressed like a sea pirate. Daddy Pig should have laced the orange juice with red food coloring, but I guess BS&P thought it was too close to blood. Use blue food coloring then, go all the way with the prank, don't 2/3rds ass it. Mummy Pig is not thrilled about this, as Peppa reassures her that it's only food coloring and she pronounces as such. So, whomever did Daddy Pig's voice didn't do a retake. Mummy Pig is amused and then notices the orange juice and claims that it's really water with orange food coloring in it. Peppa proclaims that it's only orange juice. HAHA! So, everyone does a toast, George takes off his dinosaur head, the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:01. This was fun, although the other colors got robbed in this trick, or was that also an actual trick? Oh never mind.... *** (60%).

The Movies: Short opens at the hallway of the cinema as Peppa is cosplaying a princess fairy, with a book, crown, star wand and a doll of a green troll. The irony of ironies, I'll let you figure out the irony of this. She literally orders the tickets, popcorn and sodas for the Pig family, with Miss Rabbit serving the counter of course, just to be Miss Rabbit. The family walks down the poster hall of memories and no it's not a Kevin Sullivan Satanic worshipping angle, get your heads out of the gutter, please. Mrs. Carrot and Super Potato are two characters on the poster, hopefully Mrs. Carrot becomes an ultra strong character because dammit, we need to clone over 9000 of them at least. Yes, her book is about a princess in a yellow dress, shoes, purple cheeks, red ribbons with pigtails, and a crown facing a green troll gaurding a bridge. Spoiler Alert everyone, it's a fairytale, it's so obvious. Yes, it has been made into a movie and it might have competition with Barbie. Key word: might. George is looking at a movie poster of a ghost and he is shocked and then scared, despite the fact that (a.) he's not seeing that movie anyway and (b.) He was cosplaying a ghost on the sleepover and did not care. He hides behind Peppa like he got hit with the contunity mood swing stick as Peppa laughs at him and tells him that the movie they are seeing is not scary. Please remember that for later. Daddy Pig is chuckling, Mummy Pig does the cringe mouth which means that Daddy Pig's chuckle is total cringe. Why? I don't know. I think she's afraid of ghost movie, just to make the narrator look like a dork when he talks about the movie being for adults. They go into the cinema and sit down. Cameos: Mr. Fox, Freddy Fox, Mummy Mole, Molly Mole, Mummy Dog, Danny Dog, Mummy Cat, Daddy Cat and Candy Cat. Also, it just occured to me after all of these years ranting on this show, the Cat family is supposed to be an inter-racial couple. Damn, I'm still not woke enough. So, the adults have trouble getting through, even though it looks like they can fit through easily. They would be perfect workers in professional wrestling, mark my words. The seat are foldable and Peppa, Daddy and Mummy Pig sit down without incident. Geroge tries to sit down. Stop right there! Before I explain what happens, the artwork makes it look like George has enough mass to sit down on the chair and the chair should not fold up at all, not at all. Can you guess what happens?

Well, George sits down and chair folds him into the back of the chair which can crush a toddler to death even though this should not happen due to the artwork. Mummy Pig tries to fold the seat back down and this happens like THRICE, sure wasn't nice. Somehow, George is giggling with his family the entire time as if he's all right. Not only is he not all right and needs a doctor, the logic sucks! This is so stupid. The mole family is eating popcorn, don't care; because Miss Rabbit walks in with a purple booster seat to keep the chair down and George is happy. Molly Mole isn't because Miss Rabbit bumped her bag of popcorn onto the floor. Screw this logic to hell, please! Miss Rabbit leaves and looks like she's indirectly accusing Molly Mole of spilling her popcorn on the floor, Molly Mole blushes and Mummy Mole laughs. Even though it's all Miss Rabbit's fault. The mole people got screwed and disrespected in the ass again and Miss Rabbit might as well be Freddy Jones. Miss Rabbit leaves, the lights go dark and the movie starts. George is not cool with this, Peppa is using her star wand which is a flashlight basically, that's doesn't help George get over the dark at all. We see the princess on a globe behind a background which makes me believe that this is a stop-motion animated picture, but the artwork in this show cannot simulate that properly. Peppa annoys everyone by flashing her troll doll to make shadows on screen, Molly Cunningham is so much better at this; and she got to see an actual scary movie and BALOO was the one completely scared. Yes bigots, big men were made into weak geeks in 1990 as they do now. Peppa puts her stuff down and apologizes even though NO ONE in the cinema scolds her at all. The princess makes it to the bridge and there is a green troll of doom. If Peppa was the princess, it would literally be against self. Or me, although she would kick my ass if that happens. Self would have a puncher's chance in comparsion. The troll comes out the screen is shaking and it's not the movie screen due to the camera used for the movie, it's literally the hard camera for this episode shaking the entire scene for no reason. Damn, this has been a total mess of logic and we are barely two minutes in. George is certainly not cool with this. George hides behind his bag of popcorn as the narrator claims George hates loud sounds, despite the movie theater being quiet for the most part. I think he hates the shaking of the camera a lot more than the sound sir.

Peppa is enjoying this and like the troll that she is, she brings out the troll doll and taunts George, just to make him whimper behind the popcorn box. The mainline Peppa series cleaned up this punching down on George long ago by the way. Mummy Pig wants to take George outside, but Peppa whines about missing the movie. Sod off Peppa! It's been years since I have said that about Peppa and I mean it, too. George's mental well being is more important than this movie. So, Peppa decides to try to make the troll less scary by cosplaying the troll doll turning into a kind and gentle baddie. Peppa goes into a long spiel as Daddy Pig turns on the star wand and gives it to George, George feels better as Peppa spoils the ending of the movie because everyone has to turn face at the end. George is excited, leading to Freddy Fox and Daddy Fox shhing them and the family takes the hint. Peppa apologizes for it, at least the logic was good in this one. George eats some popcorn, the rest giggle, and the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:10. This was a buggier mess than even Spider-Man 2 and Peppa shows a bully streak I haven't seen since Series 4. * 1/2 (30%).

Grown Up Jobs: Short opens with the kitchen as Peppa Pig enters dressed up like a CEO and George dressed up like a mascot of Mr. Dine-e-saur. Of course! Peppa, the troll that she is, has George carrying her briefcases as Mummy Pig is reading the newspaper at the table. Hey, at least it's not Ezza magazine for the 101th time. I think this is the first time Peppa has sweared in DUBBED ANIME STYLE on this show as she wants her bags and hat. George gives her one of the bags and Peppa does the GADGET TRICK OF DOOM to produce the hat. The two run around in a circle as Mummy asks about what they would like to be when they grow up. George already has that down, the future mascot for Raptar from Rugrats and character model for the next Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl game. George having a red tie in that costume just makes him look like a tool. Peppa wants to be a dentist as we HIT THE DREAM SEQUENCE with Peppa holding a bunch of twist key fake teeth because of course! It's hilarious that in this scene, Peppa Pig is much bigger than Mummy Pig in the dentist chair. She is overcompensting in more ways than one. She checks the teeth with the devices and teases saying that she has cavities, but then states that her teeth are clean and gets a green tooth sticker, which ironically would make the tooth look like it was dipped in green slime. When Mummy Pig gets up, she is exactly the same size as Peppa, proving that this show has tunnel vision when it comes to size and height of adults. The door slams open and in comes George in his oversized dine-e-saur costume, and of course he looks like Daddy Pig. He is much dumber than that as he wrecks the entire dentist office, and Peppa smiles and doesn't care. Peppa defers George to Doctor Hamster's vet and gives him an orange sticker. Even as an adult, Peppa is being a troll without even trying to be one. George don't care as we return to reality (no, not really) as Mummy Pig claims that Peppa would be a good dentist. Yeah, I'll bet! George being a mascot dinosaur I can certainly get behind. We don't need another brainfarter like Daddy Pig and Grandpa Pig by extension. Peppa then thinks about it some more and brings out a sack to bring out a blue bus, because she's a bus driver.

Dream sequence ensues as Adult Peppa has stopped the bus on a boring road as Suzy Sheep, Rebecca Rabbit, Mandy Mouse, Gerald Giraffe and Pedro F'N Pony enter the bus, Peppa is given tickets. I hope her voice gets deeper, because if she gets Peppa's voice in the future for real, I'm going to be sad. Peppa drives away stage right and completely misses the stop with Mr. Bull, Miss Rabbit and Adult George to basically tell you that this is revenge for fat shaming, revenge for not getting to be the queen of England and troll on George as she always does in that order. Whatever. Well, that job seems to be off the cards for Peppa as we return to reality (no, not really) as Peppa is cosplaying the bus for a while with George chasing her. Mummy Pig is amused and points out the obvious to us. The dream sequence continues on as Peppa stops the bus, apologizes and then giggles to make it a notapology. Return as Peppa wants Gigi Gazelle's job as we hit the dream sequence and apparently in her reality, everyone except her has grown up as if she and George are the only ones who can covert from child to adult now. I mention this because the other kids stay the same age (Danny Dog, Candy Cat, Emily Elephant in this sequence) and she is now creeping me out. Peppa is making butterflies out of painted paws, George comes in to scare the kids, Yee-haw! Everyone giggles, because this is a joke now as Mummy Pig recommends making a Dinosaur School since dinosaurs don't go to school. Yeah, I'll bet! Peppa and company then go outside because no matter what job she does, she'll always succeed in one: Jumping up and down in muddy puddles. DING! Peppa takes off her suit and George, Mummy and Peppa all do the earthquake ritual, and the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:08. This was a fun episode, because Peppa needs to stop reminding us how trollish she is and realize that she and George are not the only ones who will grow up. *** 1/2 (70%).

THE REVIEW LINE

Well, this was a more mixed bag for shorts. Most of them were the usual Peppa Pig fun time and Ghost Hunt was very good due to Gerald making me laugh. However, The Movies should have been a lot better than it was and looked more unpolished than a lot of big videogames as of late. The logic was off (George should have been crushed by that chair), there seems to be spots that were either too subtle to see and hear or weren't implemented at all and Peppa looked like a bully when George was scared a lot more than her refined self since Series 5 started. It just felt like a bad Series 1 episode except they have less of an excuse since the show is almost 20 years old now and over 300 episodes not counting Peppa Pig Tales, which has 94 episodes total now. Yeah, I wasn't a fan of this. We are now nearing the end of Series 2 of Peppa Pig Tales and who knows how long this series will go until either the mainline series is back, or the shows ends and stays in permenent rerun mode while the merch makes up for the profits so to speak. They could finish up Series 2 at the end of 2023 if they play one episode a week. So...

Thumbs up for Ghost Hunt, thumbs down for The Movies and thumbs in the middle for the rest. I'll see you all next time.

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