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Peppa Pig Tales #19 Rant

Reviewed: 06/28/2024

Old School Peppa Pig Is Back! Sort of Part 19!

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 whomever, since my video source keeps cutting off the EDs and it's basically the same six to seven writers anyway.

Playground Dig: Short opens at the school house on the hill as a cement mixer truck, a pavement roller and a digger arrive in front of the school. Oh no, Mr. Bull's destructive fetish is back and I know this because Gigi Gazelle is yelling exactly like Mr. Bull yelling "Stop" at the barrier. Then I realize Mr. Bull in the cement truck backed up and broke a stop sign, an object that wasn't there in any other episode in the mainline series nor this one. It was just there for a sight gag and nothing else. The sandpit features Peppa Pig, Suzy Sheep, Danny Dog and Pedro F'N Pony. The narrator is confused, I am confused as Mr. Bull gets out and Peppa asks what is he doing. Mr. Bull proclaims that he is building a path for the school. Danny and Pedro then claim that they are doing the same thing and Suzy Sheep is now confused. Join the club! Why they need a new path would have made sense if Mandy Mouse was here and it was supposed to be wheelchair accessible. Here, it's just to showcase how destructive Mr. Bull can be. Mr. Bull is happy to let them join him as he brings out the workperson's gear in kid sizes. In Backyardigans that would be mighty convenient of Mr. Bull. Anyhow, Danny Dog is proud of this as the kids bring out the toy digger, a shovel and a bucket. Mr. Bull bails as Suzy is still confused as Peppa proclaims that she...doesn't know. *SNORT*. Peppa then asks Mr. Bull about this as the digger is now called the excavator, I guess digger was too offensive even for this show. I don't know how this is possible. Then I realize why Mr. Bull said that: So Peppa call pronounce it as exapotato. I'm almost wanting to see Mr. Potato as a digger now, that would have been money. Digging ensues in both sites while the TEDDY RUXPIN SONG OF DOOM is singing and playing. Piles of sand litter the sandpit as the path is dug and the kids all do the backsplash laugh at the end of the song. Also funny. Cut to Mr. Bull shoveling concrete into the cement mixer as Peppa asks what he is doing. Mr. Bull explains that he is making concrete for the path and hole he dug and the cement mixer pours concrete into the hole. Thank goodness Daddy Pig isn't here, this would have gone hard again. Danny Dog then bumps into an out of nowhere canteen and the water is dumped onto a pile of sand, which Peppa Pig calls conquercrete. I laughed and laughed and laughed some more. I would have thought that Peppa would call it sandcrete, since sand is used; but Peppa's mispronouncation of words not being names is funny to say the least. Since when she does it, it's not people's names that she mispronounces. Unlike George Pig, who pronounces the last name of Pig as "ig" and Grandpa Pig as "Papa Ig". Although he's younger, he needs to stop doing that.

So, they take the out of nowhere canteens and pour then into out of nowhere buckets of sand. At least the lack of logic is covered by a jump cut; although with Suzy Sheep around, it's not like magic doesn't exist in the world of Peppa Pig. Everyone is stirring the sandcrete and concrete as we see both the kids and Mr. Bull pour the mixtures onto the paths that they made and that is that. Peppa asks what is next and Mr. Bull sets up his out of nowhere table and chair with tea cup and tea kettle because it a MUSIC...POW! OUCH! Ummmm, I mean tea break. I forgot that my source for this video is an official Peppa Pig website, so music breaks are not neccessary. I was going to ask where Gigi has been the entire table...and then Gigi arrives with a tray of boxed orange juice packs. Of course! What a fool I am?! I thought she would be written out by teleport for the rest of the episode. The kids poke straws and start drinking. Ironically, the kids are acting much more like chatterboxes while Mr. Bull is pretty quiet. I would have thought he would be like me who talks to self on a regular basis. Pedro claims that he saw all the games last night, so it must have been a quiet night on the sports front, or Pedro is either clueless or trolling or lying. Knowing Peppa Pig's world, it might be all four at the same time for all I know or care. Now that the concrete is hard (wink, wink, nudge. nudge), it's time to use the steamroller to flat the concrete. Wait, how can you flatten it if the concrete is dry and hard? That makes no sense to me. Somehow, it still flattens the concrete. I'm guessing BS&P didn't want it to be called asphalt due to potiental complaints of someone saying "ass" on this show. Understandable, but why not just call it "pavement"? BS&P confuses me sometimes. Pedro points out that they don't have a steamroller and Peppa ponders this over and decides that they'll do what they always do to get out of a impossible situation: Jump up and down in the sandcrete like they do with muddy puddles! DING! Mr. Bull is frowning and cannot believe what he is seeing. After all the years of this gimmick, MR. BULL is confused! This show is amazing, after twenty years or so hindsight, it somehow still makes me want to continue watching well after it's own expiry date. Peppa explains it, Mr. Bull gets it and decides to jump in for fun. That's why he's dumber than Daddy Pig ever was. Everyone jumps up and down in the sandcrete as the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:10. The narrator saying "wet squishy sand" as the punchline was fabulous; more so than the narrator does most of the time on Peppa Pig Tales actually. This episode was awesome and the finish was fitting for a bunch of kids and a foolish bull. **** (80%).

Romanatic Dinner: Short opens with Peppa and George messing up the kitchen with playdough as there is colored playdough everywhere. There is a meat grinder that is orange with purple stars and a tree shaped mold along with a container of playdough, bowls and plates. The carton of orange juice is the only thing on the table that is legit real as food and it's a drink. Peppa is dressed like a waiter, George has a white hat on. Daddy Pig and Mummy Pig walk in as Mummy Pig has a recipt in her hands as the "fancy resturant" is called "The Lovely Dine-e-saur". Three guesses who wrote that and the first two don't count. I love that Peppa addresses them as Mr. Daddy and Mrs. Mummy, as if those are literally their first names. Then Peppa tells them that they are late, like a heel. We head into the sitting room and at least they got the logic right this time by not showing the stairs, because that would have made the writers look like bigger fools. The sitting room has mood lighting, pots of white and red roses which look like frozen brussel sprouts, a consequence of the art style, sadly. So, the table is a small table with a style that the adults might as well be having a picnic in the living room. Daddy and Mummy Pig sit down at said table as Peppa pours orange juice as the starter drinker, so apparently, the water must be acutely contaminated. Then Peppa makes small talk, I couldn't understand half of what she is saying and I almost never had a problem with that, so she is trolling about traffic. She brings out the menus featuring Mr. Dine-e-saur with a chef's hat, which also made me laugh. Also laughable, there are literally four items on the menu: Orange or apple juice, spaghetti with no sauce (Yes, this show is very self aware of the mainline series), salad and rainbow spheres. Peppa takes the order, the adults decide on the salad first. Peppa takes the menus and bails back into the kitchen where George is literally plucking petals from flowers to use for the salad. Okay, this is like making Pappa The Rapper into an Astro Bot, both actually made me mad. You couldn't just use the playdough?! That was stupid. The amount of moral guardian hate on the show is beyond the pale hyperbole that you cannot take them seriously even if you tried. Also, it covers up stuff like this. Don't destroy plants in a pot, they are there for a reason.

Peppa checks on George, she don't care about the plant destruction George is unleashing . It's worse than Mr. Bull's destructive fetish. Back to the sitting room with the mood lighting and mood music as the adults tease holding hands; but Peppa cuts them off like the troll that she is and gives them their salad. At least her trolling was unintentional here. Of course, the adults figure out that these are fake dishes as the only thing real here is the orange juice. The adults cosplay praise to the chef, that was funny. Cut to the kitchen as George is making pasta with the meat grinder using yellow playdough and discovering that it's not as easy as it looks. Peppa is wearing a black bow tie while wearing a towel on her midsection. George slams way too hard and playdough splatters the kitchen area, including the hard camera. Peppa praises George anyway, because messy is funny because we all know the kids will never be allowed to even help clean up, much less actually clean it up themselves. Cut back to the mood picnic of doom with Mummy and Daddy making small talk and then Peppa arrives with a guitar proclaiming that she is going to do a romance song. Oh no, I know where this is going. I betcha that she sings a song that is the Bing Bong song with a romance motif; just like Pedro F'N Pony's Baked Bean song. I check the video....and they don't. It's basically then singing "lalalala" with George using a frying pan as drums. That was far worse than copying the Bing Bong song and then perverting it. Yup, Peppa is trolling her family today and George is the accessory. The adults still clap and act like this is awesome and there is no indication that they are faking it, so they actually liked it. Peppa has broken them, there is no other explaination. Daddy Pig wants an encore and Mummy Pig stops selling and gives Daddy Pig eye contact violence forcing Daddy Pig to reconsider. It's been a long time since I have used the "eye contact violence" phrase. Daddy Pig goes bravo and Peppa takes the fake salads and bails to the kitchen. Daddy Pig uses his mobile phone to turn on the speakers which came out of nowhere, just to make Daddy Pig look like a geek. Five seconds later, Peppa arrives with the main course. I forgot that Mr. Dine-e-saur is sitting at it's own picnic area of the room on a pillow. Peppa's pronouncation of "Bon Apple Teet" just kills me. And we accuse GEORGE of this nonsense?!

Daddy and Mummy try to make small talk -- AGAIN -- but Peppa cuts them off -- AGAIN -- with rubber rainbow spheres as she calls them pudding. Not going to lie; but Rainbow Pudding would be an awesome treat to eat. Surprise no mainstream food creator has attempted to create a box of pudding mix like this...yet. Peppa then proclaims that this meal cost 200 million billion pounds. Of course! You can now guess the finish well in advance: Daddy and Mummy Pig cannot pay, so they have to make up for it by cleaning up the kitchen. I check the video...Nope. Peppa and George bail the second Mummy Pig questions the dishes, they take their uniforms off, declare it bedtime and run off as Daddy Pig points out that it's only 4:30. Mummy and Daddy are relieved, they tap glasses and drink the orange juice to end the episode at 3:06. Okay, this was a much better finish than the one I envisioned! Peppa trolling the family was funny; but George is not going to escape accountability for the flower slaughter, that is for sure. **** 1/2 (90%).

Jail: Short opens with Suzy Sheep cosplaying an owl in the sitting room behind some cardboard buildings, saying that someone has stolen the hat. In comes Peppa Pig cosplaying a police officer using Teddy with a police officer helmet as it does the triple hello promo. We zoom out with the narrator explaining the obvious to us as we see the sitting room is a cardboard city. George has Mr. Dine-e-saur, Gerald Giraffe has a robot wearing a sunflower purple hat, so Gerald is the one who stole the hat, giving away all the suspense in advance. Candy Cat has a frog and Molly Mole has a unicorn with rainbow horse hair and tail. Peppa walks around looking for suspects and finds the hat within seconds and the robot is arrested and is going to jail, which is a grey colored box with bars. Oooooooo. Suzy is so happy to get the hat back as Mummy Pig comes in with a tray of orange juice, but there is only two of them present. Everyone is cheering, except for Gerald because he might as well be in jail. Mummy Pig somehow doubles the juice packs on-screen with the GADGET TRICK OF DOOM, and now we have a car race with Suzy, Molly and Candy putting their toys into race cars. Who will be arrested next?! I mean, this is how the storyline is supposed to go, am I right?! George, the smart one, just says go and we are off to become criminals in Peppa's warped world. Candy takes the lead, but it's a trap because Peppa comes in to stop her because she is speeding and the frog has been arrested. DEFUND THE POLI...Oh wait. DEFUND THE CBC...oh wait, I love the CBC, they have Peppa Pig on CBC Gem...DEFUND PEPPA...oh wait, I have to go back to TaleSpin again. Look, I love TaleSpin, but come on, now! By the way, I died when Peppa pronounced "arrest" right on Gerald, now she pronounces it as "under a nest!". Seriously! Frog and the car go to prison as Candy Cat protests this outrage; but Peppa is the star and you are the geek Candy. Just accept it. Next up, Suzy Sheep and George Pig decide to have a tea party, so I'm guessing George's dine-e-saur is going to jail now. Nope, Peppa walks in and steals Owl claiming that the tea is too hot, and it's "under a vest!" This would have been funnier if she didn't pronounce it correctly the first time. Somehow, they cut out Molly Mole's unicorn getting arrested and putting it in jail. Bigot.

George decides to destroy the city with Mr. Dine-e-saur, the one time where putting the thing in jail is totally justified. Mr. Dine-e-saur is now "under a guest" and is going directly to jail. Not for destruction of people's properties with inpunity, which would be a criminal offense, but for being too messy. Peppa is so proud of herself and wants to play another game, but the other kids have pissed off looks on their faces. Uh-Oh! I think we know where this is going now, don't we?! They really want to defund Teddy Policepin now! Peppa claims that she meant no offense, worst apology ever...in the Peppa Pig World. Peppa decides to go literally to the jail she created! Okay, that was funny as Mummy Pig overrules her and Peppa should just help people like the police do in this world. In the real world, HAAAAAAAAAAAAA~! Peppa destroys the jail and cheers. So, everyone gets their toys back and everyone except George and Peppa race their cars to a draw being careful, so no one wins. We have tea parties as Peppa checks the tea and it's fine. Everyone wears sunflower hats as the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:07. A really fun episode with Peppa being unable to say arrest properly. *** 1/2 (70%).

Pottery Class: Short opens as the party bus has arrived! Out comes Peppa Pig, Gerald Giraffe, Suzy Sheep (who looks like she wants to be somewhere else). Danny Dog, Emily Elephant, Mummy Giraffe and Daddy Giraffe wearing party hats because apparently, in storyline, this is Gerald Giraffe's birthday! We head into the pottery shop as there is an earthquake in progress that is not caused by Mr. Bull this time around! Miss Rabbit and Mr. Bull are swaying around as Miss Rabbit is going to blame Mr. Bull for all this and Mr. Bull has a golden teacup and sauce denying these serious allegations. The kids all run in and stop, which causes the area to stop shaking, while Miss Rabbit does the meet and greet. The kids run into the next room as Mr. Bull is told by Miss Rabbit to not break anything. Yeah, the one guy who is being responsible is being told off while the children are not, whom are causing all the shaking. Ironically, the next room, nothing moves, so maybe there is something magical in the retail space that isn't shake-proof. By the way, the kids are going to paint pottery, there are balloons present, so I'm guessing Miss Rabbit didn't get rid of all of them during the balloon shop incident. By the way, the rules are have fun, otherwise it's no holds barred. So, the kids grab some mugs to paint as Gerald is surprisely a good painter all things considered. He's painting a self-picture of his Daddy, so he'll be as old as he is tall. About fifteen feet tops. Peppa then realizes that she has no idea what to paint. This is the same Peppa Pig who literally painted Daddy Pig sitting on the sofa watching television to enter a contest about health and fitness! It's amazing how much the brand has been toned down since the Golden Boots incident. Every kid just decides to paint Gerald's daddy, just to make them look like complete fools. Gerald is as confused as I am. Thankfully, everyone sucks at painting a giraffe, so they paint different stuff. This is for the best as they just copy each other, Peppa is the only one who is copying the actual giraffe being painted. Thus, the only one that looks like the giraffe when they put the cups onto the table. Everyone is copying each other, says Miss Rabbit and giggling ensues.

Miss Rabbit tells them to just paint what they desire when suddenly we have to kill time with a "Mr. Bull must be dumb" segment as he cannot handle a blue vase, it goes up into the air and this causes Miss Rabbit to panic and do a slow-motion leap of faith to catch the blue vase. Of course! What a fool I am?! To think that we cannot get through an episode without some man looking dumb! Miss Rabbit's look says it all as Mr. Bull blushes, she might have a word with the writers after this episode is over. Back to the painting room as the kids decide to paint various objects, this I believe is the first time Suzy Sheep mentions Granny Sheep in Peppa Pig Tales! Peppa is going to paint a muddy puddle from a plate, because why not?! So, they all paint and finish well as Peppa is yelling for Daddy to come see this as the parents come in including I believe the official debut of Granny Sheep in Peppa Pig Tales! Well, how do you do!! Captain Dog, Mummy Elephant, Daddy Pig and Daddy Giraffe all enter with her as the paints are literally dried in seconds. Very TaleSpin-ish I might add. Daddy Pig loves it and everyone loves the paintings. Miss Rabbit comes over with the mugs and Daddy Pig tells her that she could learn something from this. Miss Rabbit tries to tell him that these are the kids painted mugs, what pure irony. Guess how this episodes end?! Yup, we hear shattered pottery and a bunch of plates shatter onto the ground because we have to bury Mr. Bull further. Bull in a china shop, indeed! That ends the episode at 3:07. Mr. Bull's apology was much more genuine than Peppa's notpology in the last episode at least, but he's banned from the pottery shop for good now! Episode was very fun and it's nice to see Granny Sheep's debut here! *** 1/2 (70%).

Quack, Quack, Honk!: Short opens at the swimming pool with Miss Rabbit training Zoe Zebra in her purple swimming costume, who is swimming with a yellow floatation device. Also swimming is Rebecca Rabbit, Emily Elephant and Gerald Giraffe using floatation devices having a good time. Out of the changing rooms comes Peppa Pig, Suzy Sheep, Danny Dog and Pedro F'N Pony, whom the two boys cannot put on their swim caps properly. Miss Rabbit comes in to correct their gaffes as everyone has a laugh at their expenses. EVERYONE INTO THE POOL~! Despite having half of the swimmers being out of the pool to go back into the pool! That was weird. Peppa is wearing goggles on her ears and Suzy is wondering what those goggles and why is she wearing them. Peppa explains that it's for her to see clearly. Considering how easy it is to get foggy eyes and I'm not talking about her drinking alcohol here, maybe this is not a good idea. I also didn't know mermaids had goggle eyes as Peppa goes underwater to demonstrate her underwater skill, it's not that impressive and there was too much splashing. She pops up and everyone is in awe. Miss Rabbit is so impressed that they are going to play a game of "Quack, Quack, Honk!" The rules of engagement are that one of the kids plays the role of a flamingo, which is basically a purple inner tube with the flamingo motif on it, which will be played by Zoe Zebra as she grabs the inner tube and puts it on. I just love how they are using floatation devices and the pool is literally a wading pool, with little danger of them drowning. Always funny when BS&P steps in with the obvious. The water barely reaches their lower midsections. Zoe gets into the act of Peppa's mispronouncation gimmick by calling it a "flat dingo" and splashes Danny Dog for fun. Miss Rabbit calls everyone a duck and the rest of the kids except for Zoe, quacks like a duck. Anyhow, Miss Rabbit proclaims that once Zoe honks, she is going to catch a duck as per DA RULES (FAIRY GODPARENTS~!), and that duck becomes the flamingo in the next round. Yes, being caught is a win rather than a loss. So, all the ducks should submit when the flamingo honks then. Okay. Everyone swims around the pool quacking like ducks, Gerald is so cocky here. Zoe honks and everyone flees, despite the rules being in the flamingo's favor and Gerald gets touched. Serves him right for acting like this game is above him. Gerald and Zoe exchange inner tubes and now Peppa is really swimming like Mrs. Duck stealing Peppa's Golden Boots. Yeah, I went there so shoot me. It's not like it's false or anything.

Gerald breaks the rules and chases after everyone because he doesn't honk. He still touches Danny Dog though and they exchange inner tubes. Everyone quacks for a while and Danny Dog does the smartest thing ever: Hide underwater with the inner tube. The kids have no clue where Danny Dog is as Rebecca calls it a "fan dango"! George's mispronouncation of words is infectious now. Danny Dog pops up and screws up the honk with a bark. At least he corrected himself, unlike Gerald who never honked before catching them. Splashing ensues and Danny slams the inner tube right onto Peppa. HAHA! Smart move by Danny Dog because Peppa is all cocky and honks right away. Everyone is onto her and flees, Peppa cannot catch anyone to save her life. Peppa then questions how this game ends and she dives underwater and touches Zoe who now is using a dolphin floater. Since Zoe Zebra was first in this game, Miss Rabbit takes this as officially ending the game as she brings out a lavander platform to stand on water because the next game is called "Jelly On A Plate". I think you all know where this is going without me explaining it to you all. Okay, the rules are: Get on platform and the last one to fall into the water wins the game. Please remember that, because anyone who watches Peppa Pig Tales can predict the ending before it happens. Everyone gets on the plate and since everyone is on it floating on water, it's wibbly-wobbly like jelly, thus living up to the game's name. Miss Rabbit sings in the most contrived version of "The Farmer in The Dell" and everyone falls into the water. Pedro F'N Pony falls first of course, and guess who falls last? Take a guess, it's too shocking! SURPRISE! It's Okay Boomer! POW! OUCH! Ummm...Yup, Danny Dog is the last one to splash into the pool with Miss Rabbit being second. Danny Dog wins...Oh wait, that means Danny Dog won a game and we can never have that happen as per his gimmick, so Miss Rabbit declares it a tie...AGAIN! Danny Dog WAS ROBBED! AGAIN! Danny Dog hugs Miss Rabbit anyway despite being screwed out of his win again as everyone hugs each other while the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:07. Rebecca Hyland wrote another awesome episode, but it doesn't matter because DANNY DOG WAS ROBBED~! **** 1/2 (90%). Miss Rabbit's multiple jobs gimmick is sad enough as it is, but Danny Dog getting robbed is going to become even sadder if the writers are not careful here.

Growing Up: Short opens with Danny Dog narrating his adult life as a soccer player with robot players. Geez, this is unrealistic since soccer is the most popular sport in the world; how could it fall from grace so quickly?! Oh wait, it's on a pirate ship! That sounds like money to me! Oh wait, it's in space! Now, Danny Dog is just trolling, which is a rare sight to see from him. We return to reality (no, not really) as the kids are at play group sharing their thoughts about their futures as adults. Hopefully, this doesn't turn into a "kids just wanna rule the world" segment like the last time they did this plotline in the main series. The narrator explains it all as Peppa asks Suzy what she has drawn and I think Suzy is an astronaut on the moon bouncing with alien friends, because we love Monsters Inc. way too much to not animate knock off versions of said alien. Peppa is not happy about this because she won't see you. Suzy then draws a rocket ship and flies back to her house on the hill (!!), to meet and greet with an adult Peppa as they have a picnic with spaghetti (with sauce I might add) on the grass on the hill with Adult George, Adult Danny, Adult Peppa, Adult Suzy and Mummy Sheep. The only one with eyelashes I might add. We return to reality (no, not really) as Peppa asks George what he wants to draw and George frowns. Uh-oh! Someone must have forgotten his cue. George slowly draws an airplane, but everyone thinks he wants to be a birdman complete with dream sequence of Adult George dressed as a bird being a birdman with the birds. Funny, but George says no. Danny Dog then notices that George wants to be a pilot who flies jet planes. George says no, despite all the cool music and look. Then he draws a superhero pig who flies and that looks awfully cool; but George says no in that dream sequence. The kids are confused, but George somehow clears it up that he just wants to fly period. George cosplays a plane flying like Kit does in TaleSpin and that is that. Peppa Pig drew a college and proclaims that she would be happy to be with their friends and brother doing various things while she has no job nor career nor hobby. Not as funny as drawing Daddy Pig on the sofa watching television sadly. Oh wait, she does have a dream: Become a muddy puddle champion jumper! Peppa just confessed that her championship win in the Muddy Puddle Championship in The Golden Boots either never happened or she cheated by having 14 KIDS beat one adult and the referee allows it. Mr. Potato is WORSE than Nick F'N Patrick! By the way, the moon is included in the world now. Good to know. The adults come in, and weakly jump up and down in muddy puddles as the narrator says it all to end the episode at 2:44. Wow, that was awfully short even for this show. Not much of an episode to see here. ** 1/2 (50%).

Opening Moment #1: Same opening sequence but it's in stop motion LEGO Duplo! Yes, they actually did an official episode out of LEGO blocks. This came a few weeks after LEGO Horizon Adventures was announced for Nintendo Switch and the Horizon series from PlayStation got exposed as an E10+ rated game that was only T-rated due to photorealism. Considering that Horizon Zero Dawn, a "grown man's" game, was rated T for Teenagers, who are not grown men, that should have been a clue.

Muddy Puddle Mystery: Short opens with Peppa Pig creating muddy puddles out of LEGO blocks in a LEGO world version of Peppa Pig. Now, for those fools who were hoping to be Peppa literally have four eyes since that how it would look if the characters were 3D, well; it doesn't happen here. They have two eyes and the sadistic fantasy didn't happen in real life. By the way, when Peppa puts the block down on the ground, it instantly turns into a muddy puddle. Why? Why not?! Peppa Pig's world is magic! Suzy Sheep said that in double speak, so it must be true. In comes George having problems carrying a brown LEGO block, but here comes Suzy Sheep and Pedro F'N Pony. Peppa brings out the largest balloon version of Teddy you ever saw and it's time to jump up and down in muddy puddles. LEGO DING! In comes Daddy Pig with the largest red LEGO camera you ever saw. Even boomers would have laughed at the size of this camera. A picture is taken and shown as we head to the house on the... Wait, the house has no hill. WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS?! Peppa throws Teddy into the house as everyone is inspecting themselves to check for mud, there isn't any. Daddy Pig decides to give Peppa the red camera as everyone goes into the house and I believe it's Peppa's bedroom because the narrator talks about toys and such. You can tell this is a stop motion animated episode since if it was CGI'ed, there wouldn't be a large open area in the bedroom. It's obvious when you see the episode. The lack of hill on the house on the hill is also a sign that this is stop motion animation. George is on the rocking horse as more pictures are being taken. Then Daddy Pig calls everyone to come downstairs and everyone does because there is a block of mud on the floor. The kids insist that they are clean. Hmmm, there are only two suspects: Daddy Pig playing a prank, or Teddy, whom is the first one who went into the house. How everyone missed the puddle after Teddy is a mystery to me, so by default, Daddy Pig is the muddy one. Peppa and the kids have airtight alibis. Suzy decides to solve the mystery with the camera as they check the house and find more mud, and then notice in previous pictures that there is mud in those pictures, so this clears Daddy Pig of any wrongdoing since he wasn't upstairs when the kids returned. However, Teddy was in the bedroom and they discover that it's Teddy who is muddy. It turns out that the muddy items were items coated with mud. Everything gets cleaned in the bathroom sink and are placed back on the shelves upstairs. Daddy Pig returns and praises them; but there is a problem: The place is now wet and bubbly. HAHA! Everyone frowns and then does the backsplash laugh to end the episode at 3:08. This was kind of fun, but the stop motion animation kind of made a lot of it confusing due to the limitations. *** (60%).

Climb!: Yup, the LEGO thingie was a one-off. SAD! Short opens as the stunt track of doom as Zoe Zebra and Danny Dog are sliding down a slide and Danny Dog is still the plucky guy who cannot win. Gerald Giraffe is doing some jumping on stone columns. Emily Elephant and Rebecca Rabbit are mountain climbing on the wall and pushing buttons to invoke buzzing sounds while giggling. All are wearing helmets, Gerald's jumping sucks and is saved by the tow line. If it was a bungie line, Gerald would have faceplanted, that would have sucked and Gerald would probably be hating life. Jump cut to Miss Rabbit finishing putting the equipment on Peppa and the family. The narrator calls this the indoor climbing center as Daddy Pig wants to weasel his way out of this and try the kids version of this with George because Daddy Pig is afraid of heights still. Poor Daddy Pig, the kite incident in Series One has caused untreated pyschological truama on him even to this day! I'm more angry at Edmond Elephant, who is NOT wearing a helmet when jumping on smaller stones; but George IS. That's not fair, and it's against the rules! Clever clogses brains need to be protected at all costs! Miss Rabbit assures Peppa and Mummy Pig that the harnesses will protect them and Peppa and Mummy Pig decide to really show them wussy boys some action. Or something. First up, the very tall slide as we saw earlier. Peppa calls this the biggest slide ever, she's wrong of course, but we play along. Miss Rabbit explains how to go up and Mummy Pig is concerned about this as Miss Rabbit pulls the lever (CLEVER CLOGS~!). Mummy Pig panics for about a second, but then gets it and was perfectly fine with it. Peppa looks scared and wants Mummy Pig to go down first, Mummy Pig wants to count to three and they go down together. Mummy counts so fast, but Peppa lets go before Mummy Pig anyway. What?! Oh wait, Peppa was trolling just to get a head start on Mummy Pig like a heel cheater would. It ends in a tie, so the trolling on Peppa was pointless. Mummy Pig laughs as Peppa asks Daddy Pig to join in and the males have their equipment off and go down a kid's slide together. Sigh. Although, I would do the same thing as Daddy Pig because I'm a wussy coward, so what do I know?! Next up is the event Gerald sucks at: The Wobbly Pillar Steps. The tow lines are strapped to both females as Peppa and Mummy Pig jump up, and those pillars are unstable. Mummy Pig falls off of course, because Peppa is the star and everyone is a geek. Peppa makes it to the top and the women cheer her achievement. Jump cut to Daddy Pig and George Pig on the red stepping stones. Last up, Peppa and Mummy Pig have reached the climbing race. Miss Rabbit explains the rules of engagement for this one and we are off! We go halfway, and Peppa suddenly stops and now out of nowhere, she is afraid of heights. What?! It's lower than the last two events she did. SHAD UP~! Mummy Pig offers to climb down with Peppa and they do. Peppa is feeling awful, but Mummy Pig is happy that she tried. This would have worked a lot better if they were within a foot of pushing the button rather than ten feet away or more. I'm just saying. Oh, there is a kids version of the climbing wall where it's a side race to one buzzer as George beats Daddy Pig to pushing the buzzer. HAHA! Peppa decides to join in with George as the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:20. I love this episode despite a bad finish, mostly due to logic issues. Daddy Pig looked smart throughout for a change despite being a wuss, and it was fun. **** (80%).

THE REVIEW LINE

Well, a great pile of shorts this time around with only Growing Up being a nothing episode. The LEGO special episode was good; but the stop animation really limited what they could do and it caused logic breaks throughout. Stop Motion Animation works well in open world areas, but it really sucks when the action takes place in enclosed spaces. CGI with LEGO is a better idea than this. Climb! had some logic breaks; but it was a great episode otherwise. Quack, Quack, Honk! was awesome as well, but again this show cannot resist screwing Danny Dog over and it's getting almost as sad as Miss Rabbit's multiple jobs gimmick. If you don't want him to win, just don't have him win. Don't have him clearly win and then declare a draw! All kids learn is that the officials CHEAT TO TIE! Put the "cheating is wrong" into corruption methinks! Romantic Dinner was hilarious in it's fake dinner setup and Playground Dig was also hilarious in it's sandcrete ways. The rest of the episodes were really fun as well. Seeing Peppa willfully go to the jail of her own making was glorious. Overall, an awesome mix of shorts this time around. So...

Thumbs up for Quack, Quack, Honk!, Climb!, Playground Dig and Romantic Dinner. Thumbs in the middle for the rest , and I'll see you all next time.

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