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Peppa Pig Tales #16 Rant

Reviewed: 03/23/2024

Old School Peppa Pig Is Back! Sort of Part 16!

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 2025, 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 six to seven writers anyway.

Sandwhich Shop: Short opens at the sandwich submarine shop as I'm having Subway flashbacks. Mr. Wolf, Mummy Mole and not Daddy Cat are tending to the toppings and making submarine sandwiches. Peppa is trying to get the chef's attention to order, but Daddy Pig points out that the three special screens are where you order. Uh-oh! After watching the automatic checkout in the supermarket episode, I think we all know where this is going. The bread is called a baguette in Britian, just for reference or legal reasons. Either story works perfectly. Peppa is having zero problems with the machine when it comes to working the machine, although there should be a limit on the cheese, because Peppa loves cheese now. Sadly, Mandy Mouse is not around for them to share a giant cheese submarine sandwich. Daddy Pig is questionning this excessive amount of cheese which is twenty times the veggies, and Mummy Pig agrees that this is too much cheese. Even I think this is way too much and this is coming from someone who cannot control, so Peppa blushes and changes the order to two cheeses. I would have gone with five. Peppa pushes the purple send button as per Mummy Pig's suggestion; and the chefs make Peppa's sub with a hint of grinded peppercorns since peppers are a different food altogether, which you can have on a sub and it's not like it's a bad choice. This store lets you order a banana baguette by the way; which I'll bet Daddy Pig or Mummy Pig, or George orders because why not?! Peppa's sub is put at the checkout counter and Mummy Mole rings the bell as George is having difficulties figuring out what to order. He also cannot reach the buttons, which means it's not indecision on George's part, it's because he cannot reach since the thing is made for five years and up. Daddy Pig helps George and there is a selection where it's a sub with a question mark on it in dark blue colors. Apparently, this is the Happy Meal version of this sandwich shop because when it's selected, George apparently gets a sandwich, some side orders and a surprise into a Happy Meal-equse box by the chefs. Next up is Mummy Pig's order and she's ordering the usual, which she rings off multiple toppings in rapid fire while Daddy Pig has to select the actual order accurately which is next to impossible since Mummy Pig is almost talking in rapid clusters. Furthermore, in the storyline of Peppa Pig in general as it's not limited to Peppa Pig Tales, Daddy Pig is the dumb one of the family. Why would you trust him to select the order for you?

That's extremely dumb on Mummy Pig's part and makes her look like an jerk. She ends wanting the whole wheat sub and suddenly, Daddy Pig is as confused as I am because she already selected the bread before saying it at the end of this clustermuck of an order. What a jerk?! Daddy Pig out of rightful frustration selects the cucumber and Mummy Pig is protesting and so George joins in pushing random button, because why not?! This sequence was funny and Mummy Pig had no one but herself to blame for that one. Say the order slower, or just select the option yourself Mummy Pig. Peppa has the tray containing the two order, so I wonder if she paid for her sub. Probably not, but that would have been funny. George finally hits send and Daddy Pig panics as I laugh. Apparently, all three touch screens had the same checkmark screen, so George basically ordered three of the "same largest subs in the world". Mummy Pig decides to accept her fate as we jump cut to the table as Peppa and George are eating their sub and tearing down stuff in that order. Mummy and Daddy sit down waiting for the "longest sub in the world". Peppa calls her sub very cheesy, sadly, Mandy Mouse is not here. George rips open the surprise and you will not guess what he gets: a book about "dine-e-saurs". Of course! This kind of makes the surprises a wee less of a surprise, if you know what I mean. George got some orange juice and a triangle sandwich that George clearly doesn't care about. The chefs are preparing the "longest sub in the world" complete with bananas, pineapple (!!!), ketchup, olives, cucumbers, cheese, lettuce, and sparklers on top. WHAT?! Okay, I get the bananas and pineapple part because we put it on pizza and it pays off the selection from earlier. SPARKLERS~?! WHY?! The most dangerous thing to put on food and you can put them on a sub in this shop?! This shop needs an inspection, STAT! It takes all the chefs to bring the sub over to the table and they have to sell it like it's the most unstable, heaviest sub of all time. I howled with laughter. Speaking of dumb, at one of the tables; we see Mr. Bull wearing a fishing hat eating a veggie sub (lettuce, tomatos, red onions) and he turns around in awe as the three chefs needed three plates and three trays just to carry the damn thing. Mummy and Mr. Zebra join in out of nowhere to be shocked and awe. The only thing that shocks me is the sparklers, even the bananas and pineapple don't surprise me anymore. Mummy Pig decides to let everyone have a go at the sub as Daddy Pig gets the CHEAP HEAT OF LAUGHS because it's spicy; but Mummy Pig of course loves it and it's not spicy to her. At least it was Daddy Pig making an ass out of himself and not due to anything Mummy Pig did. Mummy Pig has a new favorite as everyone eats up while the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:06. It's really rare to see Mummy Pig act like a jerk, but the payoff for this was glorious, so it works. A really fun episode. *** 3/4 (75%).

Bouncey Maze: Short opens somewhere outside as Peppa Pig and George Pig appear to be taunting Mummy Pig while running as Mummy Pig is carrying food, her purse and her mobile phone. There's no way I can take seriously her having trouble with the size of the bags because the flat artwork style makes it look like everything is flat. Apparently, Mummy Pig was convinced by Peppa and George to come to this bouncy castle maze as shown to the east as there is a conveniently placed bench for Mummy Pig to sit on. So, Mummy Pig tells Peppa and George to hurry up and have their fun quickly. Peppa and George run in and manage to jump out of their shoes while standing on the ground, so the jump literally have no air, and the shoes still come off. They run into the castle as the first room is the actual bouncy castle, featuring Danny Dog and Pedro F'N Pony. Then we come to two exits which are circular and the left one is called blue and the red one is called red. Peppa takes the left one, so she might or might not be a PlayStation fan, and George is confused, but takes the right one, so he might or might not be a Nintendo Switch fan. Nah, I'm not doing the political version of this, there is enough politics in my rants to sink the globe as it is without me resorting to obvious cheap shots. The blue exit has a navy blue like soft tunnel with space like effects, and Suzy Sheep has here. It was obvious Peppa knew Suzy Sheep was there, she couldn't have not noticed her when entering. They balance, giggle, meet and greet for a while. Peppa trips and falls in the most hideously hilarious way before recovering and leaving stage right with Suzy waving goodbye at her like I'm waving goodbye at Nintendo Switch lasting seven years on the market. The report should be on the net well before this rant gets released, so there. I think this is the first time Suzy has ever shown actual concern for George in this series, which is out of character. Peppa goes into the obvious trampoline room which Rebecca Rabbit is there bouncing up and down. Peppa is in a rush and Rebecca points out the obvious exit which is a large door. Peppa bounces over the trampolines in such a way that I'm sure it break DA RULES (FAIRY GODPARENTS~) and then goes down a cyan blue slide and lands on cyan blue mats outside complete with a sign with a shoe censored.

Mummy Pig arrives to greet Peppa, but George is missing and apparently, the bouncy castle trampoline section doesn't have a roof because we can literally see Rebecca Rabbit informing them that George is in the maze lost. Mummy Pig instantly throws all her stuff away and wants a search party, in a bouncy castle maze. The narrator then proclaims that George is not lost and playing in the ball pit, just to make a complete fool out of Mummy Pig, and to a lesser extent Rebecca Rabbit. Peppa and Mummy Pig enter the bouncy castle maze, at least Mummy Pig remembered to take off her shoes beforehand. Mummy Pig's technique of bouncing is so bad, I am forced to apologize that her play crying is much better than her bouncing as she lands straight on her ass as Peppa Pig is asking for directions and Danny Dog points out that they went that way and didn't reveal which hole George picked. So, Danny looks like a geek; but it doesn't matter as Peppa does the pep talk and both of them bounce into the right hole anyway to bail Danny Dog's creditbility from being buried again. It turns out, this leads to the ball pit maze which in fact was demonstrated in a previous Peppa Pig Tales episode! How about that?! They spot George and go after him as George runs on the balance beam and Mummy Pig does at least two awesome flips on the beam which impress Peppa. They head to the ball pit slide as George is having the time of his life; as Peppa joins in and balls are tossed. Mummy Pig proclaims that it's home time and George blows her off with glee. This bouncy castle maze seems to be addictive to George Pig. Mummy Pig recoils and decides that they are literally going to play "chase the naughty piggy" with George as the naughty pig and IT IS ON BABEE~! Peppa and George go down the slide and Peppa catches George in the ball pit literally seconds later. Awww! I was so looking forward to this chase, and they had to cut it short! Mummy Pig comes down the slide, balls fly, hugs are done, it's time to go to end the episode at 3:05. This episode should be a mainline episode with an extra minute of George outwitting everyone in the chase until Peppa catches him at the end. It felt like they showed just the ending here with the chase. Otherwise, a fine episode *** (60%).

Mother's Day Breakfast: Short opens with Peppa and George in their night gear raiding the fridge. Peppa and George put the food on the kitchen table as the narrator explains that it's Mother's Day today. Fun fact: Mother's Day is March 10th in the UK, and in Canada it's in mid-May. That's why the episode has been released now instead of two months from now. Peppa and George are making a surprise brunch for Mummy Pig, so, trouble. Bad sign #1: Peppa cannot put the Texas Bread of Death into the toaster in the background. Ingredients: a full coconut that might be an organic bowling ball, slices of Swiss Cheese, the jelly cake of doom, sliced cucumber, eggs, tomatoes, strawberry jam and a bottle of something, I don't know. It might be juice or alcohol for all I know. Daddy Pig walks in yawning and accuses the kids of jumping the gun on the brunch thingie. Daddy Pig puts his glasses back on as he asks what is the menu for today. Peppa proclaims that the menu is the works on toast. I'm not joking, she literally said everything on toast. Holy puck, this is wrong; but holy hell is this erotic. POW! OUCH! Ummm...Yeah, I just want to get this done quickly. Jump cut to Mummy Pig in her bed, and she wakes up and then goes to the door in front of the kitchen to watch everyone else crack eggs into a bowl and George put bread into the toaster. His technique is so much better than Peppa's, until he drops bread onto the ground and Peppa blows him off. I can understand that, since they want to show how much they love her. I think you are putting way too much thought into this, Peppa; but okay. The fact that Mummy Pig giggles and closes the door after this promo is a clear sign that they are trying way too hard. George and Pepppa beat the eggs with the eggbeater and make a mess as per their contract; while Daddy Pig has to handle hot toaster popping out of the toaster. Daddy Pig juggles the slices into the air, I was expecting the toast to land on the ceiling as per Daddy Pig is dumb part of the contract; but it landed on the conveniently placed plate in Daddy Pig's hands. George pours a lot of strawberry jam on a conveniently placed slice of toast on the table, which makes a mess; and then he eats the profits and makes a mess on his face. Wow, it's rare for George to be the biggest idiot on the show, but I guess Mother's Day means Daddy Pig must be the smartest one in the room, besides Mummy Pig of course. Because it's her day, you see. Peppa has the bowling ball coconut of doom, Daddy Pig is doing whatever. Jump cut to Mummy Pig in her room with her white bathrobe and rabbit slippers on. I was hoping they were bull slippers on to show what happens if Mr. Bull body shames Daddy Pig again.

The Mother's Day card is already on the desk with a glass vase of flowers in water. Mummy Pig sniffs the flowers and then smells smoke. Somehow, two slices of toast got burnt, which means that they didn't turn down the crisp factor when making more toast because of the hot wires getting too hot. Daddy Pig is fanning the smoke with a yellow towel because Daddy Pig still has to be dumber than Mummy Pig (because it's her day, you see) and Peppa Pig (because she's the star and everyone else is a geek). Somehow; George's toast reforms as if he didn't eat it in a logic break that screams: "Welcome to Peppa's World!" The smoke clears as Daddy Pig decides to put the burnt toast on bottom. Because Daddy Pig is dumb and Peppa agrees with him. Why not just put the toast somewhere else and have Daddy Pig or George Pig eat it? Daddy Pig's cell phone rings because it has an alarm armed for some reason, and the ringtone sucks by the way. So, everyone panics as George continues to eat the profits; but Peppa finally catches him way too late because the strawberry jam jar is gone and they cannot spread more jam because they ran out and George apparently has an addiction to it. Daddy Pig and Peppa Pig decide to compromise and just put everything on toast, which was the original plan from the start. By the way, the bottle I mentioned earlier is in fact mustard. Yes, the jelly cake goes on toast, too. Why do you ask?! And the coconut bowling ball gets put on top with a spoonful of jam from George. Of course! What a fool I am?! Jump cut to Mummy Pig in her room going to the door to check on them and then hear giggling. She runs back and goes back to bed, and pretends to sleep as Daddy Pig is counting down for no reason. Mummy Pig winks to the camera before pretend snoring. Her fake snoring is much better than her fake crying. The gang enters the room to do the chant and Mummy Pig wakes up and her wake up sounds 100% like a shoot. She sounds so happy to see this moment, proving that she doesn't care how stupid the meal is; because it is legit a labour of love and that is all that counts amirite?! Peppa proclaims it's the works on toast; except for jam which George blushes. Which is even funnier because the meal does have strawberry jam. I guess the bowling ball coconut doesn't count. Bigot. Mummy Pig don't care and starts eating the works on toast, it might as well be abstract art. Hey, it's better than the usual art of the state Peppa Pig usually delivers in terms of artwork. The narrator says it all as the family gets up close to end the episode at 3:06. This was a really good episode and no one cared about the lack of jam even if it was on the bowling ball coconut. **** (80%).

Secret Room: Short opens in the sitting room as Peppa and George are hiding under a dozen pillows and two blankets on the sofa. Daddy Pig and Mummy Pig enter as this is Hide & Seek. The fact that the sofa is a mess should clue in on everyone in the show where Peppa and George are. Daddy Pig is even worse as he hide behind a lamp stand where there is no way Daddy Pig can be hidden, because he is dumb you see. Yes, Mummy Pig has to play dumb in order to keep this game going because we somehow have to kill time in a three minute episode. No surprise, she finds Daddy Pig first because Daddy Pig is dumb as usual. Even more obvious, the parents know where the kids are because it's so obvious by the looks of the sofa that the adults have to act stupid in order to prolong a three minute episode. Mummy and Daddy Pig go to the kitchen to have some tea which all the tea stuff is on the kitchen table. Peppa and George pop out of the pillow tomb they created and proclaim themselves to be the best hiders ever. Talk about being on third base and thinking you hit a home run here! Peppa and George practice the fine art of not being seen while whisper yelling; although it's clear the adults know where the kids were from the start, so it doesn't matter if this breaks logic or not. Peppa and George go into the secret room of doom underneath the stairs and we get to see it in full profile and fully visable for the first time in the series, mainline or otherwise. Peppa and George slams the door as the room is a messy room with a vacuum cleaner. Now this episode really sucks. HAHA!

Ron Sparks: It sucks more than Sean Desmond.

Yeah, I'm in one of those moods today. They are playing hide and seek to kill three minutes of time. What did you expect?! It's so absurd that Mummy and Daddy Pig are acting like they cannot find them even though they are having tea in the kitchen and do not care about the game. This is so stupid, but I laughed my ass off so it was worth it. Then Daddy Pig gives away the con by asking Mummy Pig if she wants a cookie (biscuit in UK). I laughed and laughed and laughed some more. Daddy Pig is dumb. There is a broom in the closet as George goes into the cardboard box and shows more imagination than Spongebob SquarePants ever did by wearing a feathered green somethingie. Peppa and George are so clueless to the fact that Daddy Pig has given the con away that they have stayed in the closet for a long ass whomping time. George giggles at Peppa's expense as Peppa enters the box like she went to the penalty box in hockey, probably for chirping to a non-existent referee. Now, the two naughty piggies have been gaslit to believing that the adults legit cannot find them. So, Peppa and George sneak out of the closet and practice the fine art of not being seen because they want some toys to cure their boredom. They head upstairs, grabs toys. Peppa has Teddy and Tiger with a clown horn because the two adults are literally clowing them in this game. George gets Mr. Dine-e-saur of course and a plush frog from the bed. Jump cut to Mummy Pig at the closet door and enters the room, it is empty. So, yes; Mummy Pig is legit trying to find them now, after clowning the kids during their tea break. Now, she's worried as the kids are screwed because Mummy Pig has busted the hiding place, but not the kids which is the object of the game of Hide and Seek. George has a model tugboat and a small green ball that bounces off the boat and down the stairs. Uh-oh! Trouble. The ball almost trips up Mummy Pig but it trips up Daddy Pig in the conveniently off-screen sitting room as Daddy Pig takes an off-screen bump and apparently either shattered a light bulb, or the television set, or Goldie's fishbowl. I cannot tell which as the kids see their opening and now it's their chance and they go back into the closet, giggling.

Then we get the biggest logic break of the episode: Mummy Pig goes back to the kitchen, Daddy Pig is off his chair and the container of cookies is on the floor with the biscuits broken. How cookies can sound like glass, I have no idea. Never mind the fact that the sitting room is to the east and the kitchen is to the west and the green ball went east. WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?! This makes no sense because the sitting room is where the front door is and the kitchen is where the back door is, so the sitting room has to be eastward and the kitchen has to be westward. You couldn't have the green ball turn around and head westward? If this isn't BS&P RULEZ~, nothing is. Even dumber, Peppa and George bring in pillows despite the pillows being in the sitting room, they act like they got the pillows from upstairs. No one in productions knows what they are doing, and that is rare. Yes, there are sometimes stupid mistakes on this show; but they are minor and some are funny. This was not funny and the episode is going off a cliff. Peppa and George relax on the pillows in the closet. Daddy Pig is so dumb looking that it is his turn to clean up via the vacuum cleaner and Daddy hums a tune as he goes into the closet and finds them. Mummy Pig asks Daddy Pig and proclaims that they are not under the stairs while winking, which in storyline gives the whole thing away because subtley is not this show's strong point. Daddy Pig takes the vacuum cleaner away, and shuts the door. Just like that! The narrator says it all as Peppa and George giggle to end the episode at 3:06. This episode started off so stupid it was funny; but the logic breaks killed it for me. Daddy Pig is so dumb and yet it made Mummy Pig dumber in the process. ** 1/2 (50%).

Slime Race: Short opens with Peppa and George skipping through the science center with Daddy and Mummy Pig. The narrator proclaims that they are here to see the demonstration of magnets, as the opening is trimmed like a magnet and even acts like a magnet because Daddy Pig's glasses stick to the magnet trim! I realize this is a one off; but why would anyone wear rims out of metal especially because Daddy Pig is supposed to be the science guy of the group. This is dumb! The first example is a lot of posters showing magnets with nails sticking to them and a fishing pond with metal fish which Peppa is confused. Thankfully Mummy Pig points out that the fish are made of metal and the fishing rods have magnets on them. Peppa and George get the fishing and compare this to being on Grandpa Pig's boat. She's 66 2/3% right on that one at least. Daddy Pig continues to show how dumb he is as the magnet fishing rod wants to steal Daddy Pig's glasses. I realize that Daddy Pig is dumb, but come on now! Peppa form on fishing is so hilarious that she steals Daddy Pig's glasses unintentionally. Daddy Pig couldn't buy cheap plastic frames on his glasses, tsk, tsk tsk. George's techinque is so awesome that he steals Miss Rabbit's blue WCW KEY OF DOOM as Miss Rabbit was walking stage right. Followed by Gigi's mobile phone. WHAT?! Mobile phones are made of plastic outside! Oh great, these have to be magic magnets, because this is Peppa Pig's world and science can go nutshot itself. Officer "Why Does This Show Hate My Kids?!" Panda get his handcuffs stolen. Also, the blue key was literally used as bait. This fishing is so out of control that Peppa deserves to be handcuffed. It's not like Molly Cunningham hasn't experienced this once. Oops, forgot Mr. Bull's watch and leave it to Mr. Bull to yell "STOP"! This ends the carnage actually. Everyone gets their stuff back, only once did anyone apologize, I think it was Peppa who screws over Daddy Pig again after Daddy Pig gets back his glasses. Of course! Peppa Pig is a troll. After getting back his glasses...AGAIN...we head inside the next area which is basically two flexable pipes heading into a hole in the ground. Like golf without any open space. According to Daddy Pig's reading on the science: This is a race of magnetic slime racing into DA...HOLE (SLURP!) as mentioned in the video on Youtube. I'm intrigued. Daddy Pig has no idea what this is, because Daddy Pig is...you guessed it.

Peppa and George actually have a general idea where the magnetic slime is: Jump onto the giant orange button that has slime as a logo. This causes two cyan blue balls containing slime and sprinkles which I assume is metal sprinkles. Mummy Pig brings in regular horseshoe magnets and Peppa and George grabs them and put the magnets on top of the pipe which causes the magnetic slime to stick to the top. So, ready, steady, go~! Peppa and George race for their lives with the magnets as the slime slides on top, as Peppa is clearly in the lead here. Until they get to the end and Daddy Pig makes the dumbest mistake ever: He runs to the other side to referee the thing, but he's standing closer to Peppa. Peppa's magnet causes Daddy Pig's glasses to stick to the magnet, interfering with Peppa's running and George wins by having his magnetic slime go through the hole; but since Daddy Pig has no glasses, he cannot see who won and it's no contest. Wow, this was more fair than the typical professional wrestling screwjob finish of the same trope: Referee is out, revives and counts the pinfall; but the winner is declared the one who gets pinned. George was still robbed through, because we got to protect Peppa's star power on this show, let me tell ya. So, everyone goes into the next room as Mummy Pig and Daddy Pig get the FLASH OF DEATH and their digital photo are put on two monitors with drawing stuff next to it. Daddy Pig is as confused as I am over this. Peppa takes the purple wands and it turns out that they are made with metal shavings that stick to the touch screen. It's like drawing on the Nintendo DS, except the lines are real metal, instead of digital metal. George makes Mummy Pig into a dine-e-saur and even Mummy Pig is giggling. And it's not out of embarrassment, she thinks it's legit funny. I have no idea what reference Peppa Pig is drawing of Daddy Pig, but it has to be a troll move; there's no way out of this otherwise. Daddy Pig likes it; but the magnets screw Daddy Pig's glasses...AGAIN...as the narrator says it all as the glasses stick hard to the screen; so everyone has to pull back so hard that they flop down and do the backsplash laugh to end the episode at 3:07. I love this episode; but Daddy Pig needs to buy plastic gold glasses if he wants to come back here again. **** (80%).

Refill Station: Short opens at the supermarket as Mummy Pig as Peppa brings in the shopping cart. Daddy Pig has the shopping list on the mobile phone and George has brought his dine-e-saur. GRRRR! They run in the supermarket as Mummy Pig has a large purple basket filled with containers. The basket is very noisy as Peppa points out. We head to the depenser machine containing various nuts and decorations. Mummy Pig calls this section the refill station as Peppa Pig questions how to carry the food as Mummy Pig brings out a plastic circular container. Mummy and Daddy are going to read out the shopping list and Peppa and George are going to get the food. This sounds like a bad idea, but since Peppa has acted like a troll before, Peppa reading the shopping list sounds worse in hindsight. The prize will be lunch after all this as Mummy Pig says it in dramatic fashion and it's not impressive. The first item is rice and Mummy Pig is about to give George the contrainer, but George brings out the egg carton, which Mummy Pig is not thrilled by at all. In Britian, it's called an egg box and Peppa and George put rice into the egg box as the narrator is not happy about this. George closes the egg box and no rice spills out, somehow. Next up, cereal. George finds a bottle and wants to fill it with cereal as the kids are giggling, so you know that they are trolling Mummy Pig. Daddy Pig is questionning this, but the kids don't care. It should have been obvious to the kids that this is the wrong container, because when they filled the bottle, it technically overfilled. George uses the dine-e-saur to chomp on the cereal on the floor, which is smarter than George eating the cereal off the floor. That would have sucked and George would probably hate life. Last up is milk and Peppa realizes that they are screwed. HAHA! Total troll backfire. I love it! But wait, Peppa finds the juice container which is basically a reskin milk container and fills it with milk. Next up is orange juice and the troll backfire must continue! I love it when the star is looking like the biggest dumb geek ever. Peppa is a lovable geek at times, everyone in the bible is a hateable moron and it's so bad that it makes Chargeman Ken look like a work of great art in comparison. Chargeman Ken is just a work of bad ficition that was memorable just for being hilariously bad and even has lovable characters such as Hoshi and Professor Volga, whom the later is not an idiot.

The Holy Bible is a "How to Be A God" book on such a level that "How To Be A Hit Man" got sued for FAR LESS than the crimes used in the Holy Bible's name. Mummy Pig is screwed because we have to use the rice bag for the orange juice, which is a zip-loc bag. HA! You know, using the rice bag for the eggs would have been better; but let's troll this up some more. Peppa fills up the zip-loc bag with orange juice, they waste time in a three minute episode by doing the wibbly wobbly spot after Mummy Pig ties up the bag. The last item is pasta and we can deduce where this goes, am I right?! Wait, what was the egg box for? It cannot be cereal, that makes no sense. George fills the pasta container and the shopping bag because we have even more overflow. How are they going to pay for all of this when nothing coordinates with the proper container?! I'm about to get my answer as everyone goes to the till (checkout counter) as Miss Rabbit turns around after having her back turned and gasps in horror. Does this mean she has realized that she is being used as a way to deanthro herself into a checkout? Nah, of course not. The moment is answered as she rings them properly and don't care about what container they are in. The usual as she would say. I shrug as George shows off his dine-e-saur's messy kisser as Mummy Pig proclaims that there was some cereal on the floor and the dine-e-saur ate it. This causes everyone to do the backsplash laugh to end the episode at 3:06. The final joke was not funny, but the backsplash laugh spot out of nowhere was funny, because they ran out of time (despite this show sometimes running long even in Series one of this very show). Fun episode, anyone a troll gets trolled is funny when it's not crueler than the original trolling. *** 1/2 (70%).

Karate Lesson: Short opens at the gym as Daddy Pig and Peppa Pig come out of the dressing room in white belt karate gear yelling "Hiya". Okay, to the creators: I don't care what country you are in, I don't care how much you censor it: NEVER USE THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE FLAG! EVER! You piss off other countries doing which these people happen to live in Britian. Stop doing that! You make International Day look enlightened in comparison! In comes Mr. Fox, Freddy Fox, and for the first time ever: The Panda Twins~! YES! YES! YES! Doesn't make up for the bigoted flag, but I'll take these two. Sadly, no Officer Panda to be the instructor because we have to have Mr. Bull show off his "idiot of culture" stance. The foxes have yellow belts and the Panda Twins are orange belts. Mr. Bull is a black belt of course; because we have to make him look somewhat good in a series where he's literally dumber than Daddy Pig at this point. Mr. Bull chops a board with his hands and it appears to be an actual shoot board as well. Peppa is impressed and Daddy Pig is not happy with this. He thinks Mr. Bull is going to make him bacon with those chops. Everyone bows and overdoes it as Mr. Bull says something, I'm not going to bother to translate it. I don't know karate, so I'm going to let others do a better job explaining the culture to me. It's easier for everyone that way. Peppa asks about the different color belts and Mr. Bull explains the belt system to us, at least the Peppa Pig world version of it. It's basically based on experience and Peppa understands that she and Daddy Pig are first timers. Daddy Pig points out that the board chopping is not for white belters, and Mr. Bull at least agrees with him. So, we start running the most easiest obstacle course you ever show, so much so that Peppa has to sell like she's blown up running and jumping over Mr. Bull's hard hat. Of course! Next up is breathing and Daddy Pig arrives blushing indicating that he's super blown up. Thankfully, Daddy Pig recoils before he's rendered into ham. Daddy Pig claims that he is a bit of an expert on breathing. Oh come on, Daddy Pig; you know you are going to walk right into the dumb trap you set up. The fact that he winked, he's screwed. So, we practice breathing and the breathing itself works; and then Mr. Bull literally speaks Japanese in the one time we needed subtitles.

Not just for the kids to understand what Mr. Bull is talking about, but to make Peppa Pig and Daddy Pig look like bigger geeks than they already are. Peppa cuts a promo about itchy knees and Mr. Bull corrects her by saying that he's counting in Japanese. He's saying "One, two, three" by the way. The video didn't bother to use an actual script. Machine transcripts are hilariously bad. Next up is balancing as demonstrated by Peggi and Pandora as they are a 10/10; everyone else is five or less hilariously enough. Mr. Bull proclaims that they'll work on that next time because we have less than a minute to go in this episode anyway. Peppa wants to choppy chop the boards; next up is the robot. Of course! What a fool I am?! We do the robot and Daddy Pig and Peppa cut robot promos on each other to kill time in a three minute episode. They should have worked on the balancing during this segment, it would have been more compelling. Then Mr. Bull brings out a broken foam board, because karate is as fake as professional wrestling in the Peppa Pig world, you see. Peppa is worried about this as Mr. Bull shows the robot arm again, and Peppa chops the board with the lightest touch possible and it breaks clean. She is Hacksaw Jim Duggan in WCW 1999. Mr. Bull gives her a special white with stars belt for Peppa to wear; just to remind us who the geeks are. Aw, my heart melted. Mr. Bull is such a generous fool as we end the episode at 3:09 with Peppa and company doing karate moves while the narrator says it all. Outside of one offensive moment that could have been edited out with ease, this was a fun episode. *** 1/4 (65%).

Catch The Bunny: Short opens at a table with Peppa painting a giant egg green with Suzy Sheep, Rebecca Rabbit and Danny Dog painting their own eggs because it's Easter, which in 2024 is the day before April Fools Day with April 1st being Easter Monday. In a religious sense, that made me laugh, but those God-wannabes probably won't. God: A Homo Sapien who refuses to accept itself as a dumb animal like every other dumb animal. Once millions hum that tune like humming bars from Alice's Resturant, it became religion. Disbelief in God is not enough, like the separation of church and state is not enough, when your enemy outright refuses to accept the first question of their own existence. Mummy Rabbit brings in the grilled carrots, George and Mummy Pig do more decorations. Peppa is disappointed because the eggs are real and not chocolate eggs disguised as real eggs, I don't blame her; painting chocolate eggs would be hilarious. Mummy Pig assures them that the Easter Bunny is coming soon with chocolate eggs, so the kids just troll Mummy Pig on the Easter Bunny issue, just to make a complete geek out of Mummy Pig. Because the Easter Bunny is technically not real, even though in Peppa Pig's world, Santa Claus is real and is an actual human being who probably accepts itself as a dumb animal. I'm not so sure about Super Potato accepting himself as a dumb animal yet. The kids demand answers and they are going to kidnap the Easter Bunny and torture it with the fine art of JAQ'ing off. Danny Dog's question about the Easter Bunny being made of chocolate is funny because it's technically true in real life. In comes Daddy Pig asking for the basket and George is wrapped in ribbons giggling and don't care about anything at this point. My empathy for others has died and been sent to Hell. Norway? Michigan? Who knows? I don't care anymore. Mummy Pig grabs George and bails stage left right away with such speed, she looks like she's admitting that this is BS. Daddy Pig follows her as we jump cut to Peppa's bedroom with the kids cosplaying detectives with Rebecca Rabbit holding a carrot like it's a cigar and Danny Dog suddenly has the candy munchies. Well, that was something else. Rebecca eats the carrot to make sure no one thinks she's endorsing smoking (Perish the thought!), and their Krackpotkin Plan is to dig a hole and leave carrots to ensare the Easter Bunny. The old Team Rocket move. This is not going to end well, I just know it.

The hole part of the plan is basically to give Danny Dog some work to dig the hole in the garden because he's an anthromorphic dog of course. Rebecca throws about a half dozen carrots into the hole and eats one of them. Rebecca loves carrots; but not the green tops for some reason, even though the tops are actually as good as the carrots to eat. The kids hide in the bushes as Mummy Pig comes in literally seconds later and has to pretend she doesn't see the kids. It doesn't help the kid's hiding skills that Rebecca's ear are clearly shown. Mummy Pig then steps into the hole anyway and falls on her ass in the hole. There's no way I can take seriously that Mummy Pig is that stupid to do something that stupid; this had to be on purpose. She had to know that this was a trap straight away and just played along to expose the naughty trolls. Sure enough, the kids come out and just bail on Mummy Pig, because the narrator gives away that Mummy Pig is not the Easter Bunny! In a way, this makes no sense because in real life, the parents of the family are often the Easter Bunny. Not only that, Mummy Pig is stuck in a hole where it's impossible to not get stuck! Mummy Pig looks like a total geek in this segment. Next up, we head to the picnic table as the kids put a carrot on a table tied with a string and the string has a bell on the other end. This is Suzy's idea since she's explaining the trap to us. The kids hear whistling and bail behind a tree and someone is eating the carrot and causing the bell to ring. Since the camera is pointing at the tree, the kids come out and we pan west to see that it's Miss Rabbit eating the carrot. The kids reaction is priceless: they start being so happy, and then groan even though Mummy Rabbit is a perfect suspect to being the Easter Bunny because Mummy Rabbit is an anthromorphic rabbit. I howled with laughter seeing this. These kids do not buy the obvious suspect and make themselves look like geeks. Then I realize that Miss Rabbit is also a perfect suspect because of course! What a fool I am?! Mummy Pig apologizes while talking with her mouth full about musical carrots. There are good reasons to not talk with your mouth full that have nothing to do with being nice. One of them is: CHOKING HAZARD~! Danny Dog decides that they should bring their baskets out and have them fill them with eggs. What a novel concept?! From Danny Dog of all people, the dumbest kid not named Pedro F'N Pony.

The kids pluck conveniently placed flowers and hide in the conveniently placed leaf tomb, and it's the worst hiding place ever as the flowers offer no way to hide themselves. Daddy Pig arrives and sees the basket, which means this hiding is all a troll move, because Daddy Pig is dumb; and he's not being dumb here at all. Keep in mind that Daddy Pig was looking for baskets earlier, so this made sense. Peppa blows their "cover" anyway and blows him off for exposing the trap. Daddy Pig apologizes anyway in a kind matter, even though Daddy Pig did nothing wrong. It's not his fault Peppa set up a trap for some "non-existent" anthromorphic bunny that probably doesn't exist even though this same world has a superhero and Santa being real in storyline. Somehow in the confusion, a chocolate egg is placed near a conveniently placed bush and Peppa is all happy about it. She grabs the easter egg as the rest of the kids find at least eight eggs in the garden. Daddy Pig calls the Easter Bunny clever as the hunt for Easter Eggs begins as eggs are found, the narrator says it all. We end the episode at 3:06 with Mummy Rabbit and Captain Dog arriving. So, who is the Easter Bunny in this world? Answer: Miss Rabbit, DUH! She fits the profile perfectly. A really funny episode where the adults have to make themselves look like they can't do anything to save their lives. *** 3/4 (75%).

THE REVIEW LINE

Well, a mixed bag of shorts this time around. Catching The Bunny was one of those episodes where the kids look like bad detectives and the adults look like bad selling professional wrestlers which is often a good combination when done well and it was done very well here. Mother's Day Breakfeast was a comedy of errors involving everything with toast, except for jam even though the ending had the jam anyway. Slime Race was the usual great science hands-on feast and managed to pull it off without Grampy Rabbit present. The gag on Daddy Pig's glasses was funny, and maybe plastic gold frames can prevent future ribbing. Also, I would like to thank the creators of this show for the debut of the Panda Twins in Karate Lessons, although I could have done without the Imperial Japanese Flag being shown on one of the pictures in the background. That's a bigot flag. Use the real Japanese flag next time, please! That finish was also professional wrestling-equse I should note. Secret Room came dangerously close to a thumbs down due to one unforgivable logic break where the creators forget the layout of the little house on the hill inside! Overall, a mostly set of fun episodes. So...

Thumbs up for Mother's Day Breakfeast and Slime Race; thumbs in the middle for the rest , and I'll see you all next time.

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