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Peppa Pig Tales #22 Rant

Reviewed: 09/07/2024

Old School Peppa Pig Is Back! Sort of Part 22!

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.

Dance Party Bus: Short opens in the party bus for some DISCO FEVER~! DISCO FEVER~! DISCO FEVER~! YEAH! YEAH YEAH! How did Disco Inferno go from the most gulitiest pleasure in WCW to just another guy in TNA?! HOW?! It's too bad the creators do not have the license to Disco Inferno's WCW music, because it would have fit perfectly with this scene and still be G-rated. Lots of dancing ensues with Mummy Dog, Mummy Cat, Candy Cat and Danny Dog literally dancing together. HAHA! All the kids in the scene are dressed up in different duds, but the adults just have party hats on and regular duds. Yes, Rosie and Robbie Rabbit in classy bowties are with Mummy Rabbit. They are the baby version of the Fabulous Ones now. We do a switch and we have Mummy Pig wearing a white star necklace; along with dancing from Pedro F'N Pony, Doctor Pony, Mr. Zebra and Zoe Zebra. Mummy Pig picks up an awkward Suzy Sheep and there's happiness now. In comes Daddy Pig kissing Mummy Pig as they dance, the only two adults who decided to actually dress up, especially Daddy Pig, who is white crossed with cyan blue. There is a symbolism rainbow jukebox on the western wall as the narrator explains the obvious to us. Peppa is dancing with a lot of white starts on her dress as Richard Rabbit and George are chasing each other a lot more than dancing, actually. Everyone dances as Peppa notices Suzy Sheep just walks away stage right and decides to go see her. Suzy is having trouble dancing to a disco song, which isn't much of a disco song. Peppa admits that she don't know either and really don't care either, since wiggling is fun. I should be seething at this, but I was amused by this. Suzy is confused as Daddy Pig swing Mummy Pig hard enough that Mummy Pig pushes a red button and changes the music. More dancing as Danny Dog does the forward step dance and offers Suzy a chance to enjoy the moment. Suzy Sheep is not amused and is still confused. Peppa tugs Suzy onto the dance floor and Suzy can do the forward step now. More dancing ensues with just the kids now as the adults have all bailed. Danny Dog does the dance pole twirl dance. Suzy Sheep is not happy to see that one as the other kids cheer for this amazing spot. Suzy doesn't like this as Richard and George mess with the jukebox and don't like the children's song, so they change it to a classic rock song. Daddy Pig offers to dance with Peppa and Peppa accepts. All the other adults do the same thing with their children. By the way, the narrator has to point out that the dance Peppa is doing is putting her feet on top of Daddy Pig's feet. Suzy Sheep is still confused, so Mummy Sheep comes in and they do the same dance as Peppa and Daddy Pig. George and Mummy Pig are doing the same dance, as is Mr. Zebra and Zoe Zebra. Zoe then changes the music on the jukebox and it's the most discoie disco song ever! Suzy is still confused as Peppa explains that this music tells you the spots as it's a lyrical musical song. TEDDY RUXPIN SONG AND DANCE OF DOOM ensues. Hey, Teddy Ruxpin did this in one episode, so it fits. Suzy finally gets it, everyone dances as the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:06 with Peppa and Suzy hugging. A really fun episode with a fun dancing finish. *** 1/2 (70%).

First Aid: Short opens at a sporting event as the kids are involved in a three legged race. The kids in the race are Peppa Pig and Danny Dog; George Pig and Edmond Elephant and Suzy Sheep with Pedro F'N Pony. Mr. Bull is your special guest referee for this event. Adult cameos: Daddy Pig, Mummy Pig, Captain Dog, Mummy Sheep, Mummy Elephant, Mummy Pony and Doctor Pony. However, the biggest surprise is that the party bus is here and on top of the roof is another appearances of the Rocking Gazelles~! The narrator addresses this event as the town's fete as the race is in progress. George and Edmond take the lead as we discover that Peppa and Danny's chemistry suck because Danny is excited for some toffee apples (carmel apple, although both are interchangable in Britian and America.). Peppa cannot keep up and she crumbles to the ground as the rope comes off, thus Danny Dog and Peppa Pig are disqualified. I'm fine with that, at least it's not them winning and then having it rendered to a tie like all those other times. George and Edmond Elephant win the race, I believe this is the first true victory for George since George's Racing Car; and this is Edmond's first win since his own birthday! That episode where the toddler cried twenty times in like four minutes. Sadly, the real issue is Peppa Pig as she has injured her knee and is holding it like Peter Griffin and shedding tears of agony. Only the second time in Peppa Pig history, Peppa cried as a four year old. Danny shows remorse and apologizes for being too excited. Peppa forgives him as I get annoyed by Daddy Pig saying that accidents do happen. Look, Danny Dog's excitement wasn't intentional, but Danny could have reeled it in a bit. I would be surprised if Danny's tail bonked into Peppa's knee and that's why Peppa injured the right knee. We head into the first-aid tent with nurse Miss Rabbit wearing a stop watch on her nurse's outfit for some reason. Peppa sits down on the foam chair with George sitting on a director's chair with his toffee apple. By the way, the scrape dot pattern now is closer to the ankle than the knee. SUZY SHEEP~?! Peppa's selling sounds like she's guilty of something rather than actual pain. Then I realize that she's in pain because she lost, so George offers her his toffee apple in a wholesome moment. Mummy Pig praises George as Miss Rabbit brings out the first aid kit to reveal anti-bacteria spray and wipes. Also, the injury is back to the knee now. Peppa licks the toffee apple as we do the big breath dramatic spot of spraying the knee with the spray. Peppa overdoes it and the spray is nothing as she no sells it. Peppa's fine. Next, is the plaster as the top cover of the first aid kit contains multiple colors and designs of plasters. I'm almost certain band-aid is trademarked. George is amused and tries to get to the box, but his hand pushes the box into the air, causing the plasters to stick all over George's body, but somehow misses the toffee apple. Everyone is amused because you know what happens, I guess. Peppa chooses the rainbow plaster and now the injury is back to the inner leg. Peppa tries it out and is walking awkwardly, but gets it back and hugs Miss Rabbit in another wholesome moment. Peppa is so happy that she knocks out the toffee apple of George's and George is not thrilled. Yes, George doesn't cry despite Peppa shedding tears. I would not trust the five second rule in Peppa's world, so Daddy Pig decides that they go outside and find some more toffee apples. Everyone leaves as the parents hugs the kids and the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:06. Another wholesome episode from Rebecca Hyland as well. Very fun episode, but the knee psychology was weird. *** 3/4 (75%).

Peppa's Cardboard Castle: Short opens in someone's back yard as Pedro F'N Pony and Zoe Zebra are hiding behind the bushes. Peppa literally finds them within seconds and then finds a cardboard box, in order to find Suzy Sheep within seconds because Suzy was giggling, you see. They are playing hide and seek, poorly. Everyone hides in the cardboard box as Daddy Pig arrives with more cardboard boxes. The kids blow their cover as Daddy Pig proclaims that the box is going to the recycling center, and the kids groan. I booed too, it was a rainbow box. Daddy Pig is a bigot. However, they are allowed to play with the box until Mr. Bull arrives to collect, so Daddy Pig bails to find something to throw the smaller cardboard boxes into. Peppa decides to make the rainbow box into a castle. By the way, I was wrong; the rainbow box is actually a sky and ground for a lawnmower. Of course. What a fool I am?! I should have known. Sorry, Daddy Pig; you are not a bigot at all. That's on me, I'll own that one. Peppa cuts a door down basically hating lawnmowers, I'm guessing she saw that Ultimate Warrior promo where he basically said that he would rather be run over by them. Suzy draws flowers, poorly. Pedro gets on top of the box using a towel roll for a telescope and a cardboard box for defense as here comes Mr. Bull, the "evil dragon trash compactor". I guess this dragon is white. Somehow, Pedro and company have bailed with Pedro literally teleporting behind the stack of boxes on the ground. SUZY SHEEP~?! Mr. Bull gets out as Peppa pops out with a badly colored cardboard crown on her head. Mr. Bull is confused and then bows while winking to tell us that he knows what is going on, knows that this is bullshit and is playing along. See what I did there?! The door opens to reveal Suzy Sheep and Pedro Pony acting like English royalty, which basically means this is the leftovers of the Queen character at this point. Zoe Zebra has an absurd top hat poorly colored as they are trying to convince Mr. Bull to not touch the cardboard box castle they created. Daddy Pig brings out the lawnmower as the kids and Mr. Bull are literally making the castle bigger with more cardboard. This leads to Mr. Bull making a picture frame out of cardboard that doubles as a TV. I'm getting Nintendo Labo vibes in this one as Suzy Sheep waves hello to the hard camera. Suzy Sheep is much better at television acting than Peppa, because Suzy Sheep says the quiet parts of the fake news out loud. Everyone has a hearty laugh as Zoe makes a cardboard oven, Mr. Bull brings in the cardboard cake. In the center of the castle, Peppa makes a legit muddy puddle by spraying the ground with water. I'm tempted to yell Suzy Sheep's name, but no. Peppa jumps in puddles, nothing else happens sadly. More building ensues, easy peasy, lemon squeezing~! Mr. Bull and Zoe Zebra have a fake tea party in the middle of this, that was great. Mr. Bull paints the drawbridge red as Daddy Pig arrives impressed; but what would Mr. Bull say. Mr. Bull pops up the middle rampart to say "Don't care" basically. Daddy Pig joins in, having a tougher time getting in than Mr. Bull did. Daddy Pig is the viking solider as the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:02. Very fun episode with cardboard, but it should have ended with them jumping up and down in that muddy puddle in the castle. That would have been money! *** 1/2 (70%).

Agents & Spies: Short opens in the sitting room with Peppa and George taking out toys from a toy box. Peppa is wonder where her rubber duckie is and Mummy Pig comes in dressed like Evil Daddy Pig featuring the GOGGLES OF EVIL~! Mummy Pig declares that the duck is not in the toy box. Evil Mummy sits down on Daddy Pig's love seat rubbing Mr. Dine-e-saur and the kids all gasp on cue. We all knew Mummy Pig would go to the dark side at some point. Mummy Pig proclaims that they must find the rubber duckie before she's...lost because Mummy Pig cannot say die on this show despite the show saying die when the dinosaurs went extinct, even though extinct was a much more accurate term than merely die. Daddy Pig runs in with a detective hat to proclaim that this is merely a game and rubber duckie is not going to die. I hope so, you don't want the Children's Television Workshop on your ass, they can fuck you up something fierce. Daddy brings out hats from his suitcase to give to the kids, because we are secret spies, who cannot keep a secret to save their life. Just spies then. The kids put their arms behind their back while Daddy Pig explains everything, and does the worst echo of lost I have ever heard. Peppa agrees to the terms, and calls George, Agent G. Okay, I guess Peppa is Agent Pee then. The joke just writes itself. The kids leave as Evil Mum basically is going to run interference and I cannot wait to see how BS&P allows her to do anything. We head to the hallway and then into the storage closet as the kids cannot see anything. They could have turned on a light here, but Daddy Pig comes in with spy goggles, which are goggles with transparent neon green lenes. Daddy Pig calls Peppa, Agent P and Peppa kills the gimmick by calling Daddy Pig, Agent Daddy. It's supposed to be Agent Dee, or Agent D! Peppa Pig cannot keep up it seems. Peppa and George enter the room as the goggles are flashlights basically. They search and find nothing of note. One of the hats loses a giant feather. The kids decide to go outside to check as Evil Mum taunts them because in the kitchen, the entire area is a rainbow colored maze of plastic. It's also 8 AM on the clock, a time when I am still sleeping on weekends. Daddy Pig will assist them with a walkie-talkie he calls a sciency something. I'm not going to bother telling you what he said, because it's funnier you not know why this is so funny. Suzy Sheep would have roasted Daddy Pig for that one. Peppa gets the walkie-talkie and after some directions, including one that would be a logic break since it would mean Peppa would go backwards, Peppa and George make it through the maze with ease. The kids head outside, they take five seconds and find nothing. Evil Mum is spying them inside the house like a creep. The kids head back through the maze without directions and head upstairs into the bedroom, making the previous going through the maze pointless. The kids finally find the rubber duckie on a pillow next to the bunk bed surrounded by red string in the design of red lasers. Evil Mummy taunts the kids, Suzy Sheep would have pointed out the absurdity of this. Agent P and Agent D want to go slow, but Agent G has had enough of this bullshit and just runs through the red string and they grab the rubber duckie. HAHA! The kids cheer, Evil Mum proclaims that she'll be back.

Bryan Alvarez: You'll be back?! You're even stupider than I thought! Goodbye!

One note on that line: Bryan didn't invent this quote. It was the final promo Mr. Perfect cut on the Big Boss Man when they were on the telephone as Boss Man stated that he was returning from a really horrible beating at the hands of Nailz on Superstars. Evil Mummy walks out and then comes back as Mummy Pig throwing out the goggles literally seconds later, just to make everyone the GEEKS OF THE WEEK~! Mummy Pig praises them for outsmarting a baddie, I laugh at that one. Peppa recaps the entire segment for us as the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:08. I ran through this spy thing like hot butter and it was fun. I hope the payoff is Super Evil Daddy and Spying Evil Mummy team up and get their revenge, because they cannot be heels to save their lives. *** 1/2 (70%).

Fancy Splashy Garden Party: Short opens at the purple house on the hill, which is Suzy Sheep's residence. Mummy Sheep is hosting a formal garden party as everyone is dressed up in their formal gear. Adults: Mummy Sheep, Mummy Pig, Mummy Dog, Mummy Rabbit, Mummy Pony, Mummy Elephant, Mr. Bull on BBQ, Mr. Rabbit, Captain Dog and Daddy Pig. Everyone is eating, drinking and shooting the breeze in a G-rated way. Mummy Pig wants more tea and a pigeon steals Mummy Sheep's hat! Cheeky birds today, I see. Mummy Sheep loses her temper and her hat; but recoils and the adults have a hearty laugh. Then we see a splash of water miss all the adults as we pan east to see the Splash Battle Party~! Featuring the Troll Commandos~! POW! OUCH ! Ummmm...Kids: Peppa Pig, George Pig, Rebecca Rabbit, Richard Rabbit, Emily Elephant, Edmond Elephant, Suzy Sheep, Danny Dog and Pedro F'N Pony. All the kids have water balloons, buckets of water and super soakers! Also, a giant hose spraying water. Mr. Rabbit and Daddy Pig join in for fun because they are shameless fools. Suzy and Peppa get too close to the adults party and almost splashes adults, Peppa is blushing. I somehow have an impossible time believing Mr. Bull and Captain Dog not wanting to get involved in this splash battle thingie. Suzy apologizes and the kids bail as Mummy Sheep asks the cowardly adults if they want more salad. The other adults are watching the splash battle and their resolve to not look like geeks is chipping away slowly. The kids are running out of balloon, so Pedro Pony is filling the balloons with water and failing so badly, he proves why he's a clueless putz. By the way, the balloon bursts and it somehow splashed Daddy Pig. Daddy Pig has had enough and say hello to his splashy friend, the giant super soaker of doom. Daddy Pig: Aqua Gangsta~! I can't type that with a straight face, I simply cannot. Everyone bails, except Suzy Sheep who waves back. GEEK OF THE WEEK~! Peppa thankfully runs in to "save" her before she gets splooshed. This is one of those episode where making it LEGO based would have been funnier. More splashing as the adults who don't want to look like geeks are trying to keep this party fancy and it's failing badly.

Mummy Rabbit wants a plate of carrots and water gets splooshed on them like an unsettled weather rain storm occurs. Mummy Rabbit is amused, Mummy Sheep is not because Mr. Rabbit is making it rain, literally. Daddy Pig literally runs into the fancy party, grabs an apple, cuts a promo and bails. Mummy Sheep was not cool with this. Next up, a staredown between Pedro Fucking Pony and Danny Dog, the two dumbest kids in the biz. This should be great. They are literally doing a showdown at the OK Correl, only with super soakers. Daddy Pig goes in to inform the kids to get some food before it's gone, and the kids just look at him like they want to literally tickle him. Hey, that adult Kit Cloudkicker's gimmick~! I expected this out of Pedro Pony, but the rest of the kids?! Come on, now! The kids chase Daddy Pig through the garden party, yee-haw! Daddy Pig steals two glasses of water, one for his head, the other to drink during this segment. This somehow relieves Captain Dog and Mummy Dog. Mummy Sheep is not cool with this. Danny Dog splashes a glass of water on his face in the middle of this, too. This garden party is dead, it's time to mercy kill it and make it into a splash battle, Mummy Sheep. You are losing this war big time. Suzy Sheep then throws a giant water balloon like it's nothing. Mummy Pig and Mummy Sheep are talking about the weather. Mummy Pig sees the water balloon, she ducks. Mummy Sheep doesn't and get a full on facial of water balloon in glorious super slow motion. Everyone gasps, Suzy is showing absolute remorse about this moment and Mummy Sheep is teasing turning on everyone because her garden party is ruined. Mummy Sheep then stops selling, decides to join in and all the adults surround the kids with water weapons -- including Daddy Pig and Mr. Rabbit -- who were happy to play with the kids in this splash battle in the first place. I cried with laughter after this. This is basically Mascots Vs. Kids, only with water and everyone splooshes everyone as the bird turns brown carrying Mummy Sheep's hat. SUZY SHEEP~?! The narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:05. I absolutely loved this episode and it's another banger from Rebecca Hyland to boot! **** 1/2 (90%).

Mystery Drinks: Short opens at the fete featuring the party bus containing Miss Rabbit, Mr. Rabbit looking like a giant, Molly Mole and Freddy Fox. Cameos: Captain Dog without his hat, Mr. Zebra, Gigi Gazelle, Mrs. Cow, Suzy Sheep, Danny Dog and Gerald Giraffe. The Pig family walks over to the smoothie truck featuring Mr. Bull just trying to make smoothies and cannot figure out how to keep the lid on, nor figure out where the lid is. Mummy Sheep and Officer Panda also join in for fun, along with Candy Cat, Rebecca Rabbit, Mummy Elephant and Mummy Giraffe. Geez, that party bus have teleport abilities. Peppa wonders if Mr. Bull is all right and Mr. Bull is as he is cleaning up. At least this drink shop serves more than smoothies; just no water nor milk for some reason. Peppa and George want strawberry milkshakes, Candy wants orange iced tea, Rebecca wants a carrot juice (of course), Officer Panda wants decaf iced tea with oatmeal; whatever Officer Panda said. Mr. Bull is more confused than I was, and I am confused. Mr. Bull has no idea whose order is whose and we have trouble at the juice truck, methinks. Mr. Bull tries to make too much, too soon and there is a giant mess backstage and on the counter. This juice druck has no hope at this point. Mr. Bull is no Miss Rabbit and it shows as he wipes up the counter and closes the shop. Everyone groans and leaves. Except for the Pig family as Peppa wants to help and she completely mangles the analogy of "many hands make light work". I know this because Mummy Pig has to correct her during this promo. Mr. Bull decides to prop up a pink counter outside for the Pig family as the kids sort the fruit and the adults make the drinks. Peppa checks the orders as she sings badly. The adults make the drinks and somehow by the magic of teleporting, all the orders are correct. SUZY SHEEP~?! Even despite getting the drinks right, everyone comes back and gets the wrong drinks they ordered. Officer Panda notices this and calls out Mr. Bull on it. I think this is the only time Officer Panda has ever spoke on Peppa Pig Tales. Mr. Bull teases closing up shop AGAIN, but the anthros accept the drinks anyway. Mr. Bull makes better mystery drinks so says Peppa as Mr. Bull uses the British "roll up" instead of the "set right up" American style now. More people enter the fray, including Daddy Giraffe, Emily Elephant, Freddy Fox and Mandy Mouse as the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:18. Wayne Forester is the voice of Officer Panda, by the way. A fine episode with an amusing mess. *** (60%).

Peppa VS. George: Short opens with Peppa in a really SWANK looking outfit dancing to a music disco video featuring Miss Rabbit's party bus. She's using a hair brush to sing along with the song in karoke, Ed Brayton had a brain pain moment in his grave. George comes in with the remote control as he changes the channel to a dinosaur show. Goldie the Goldfish makes a cameo appearance for fun. George loves dine-e-saurs, but Peppa takes the remote and changes the channel to the music video. This would be a oldie on MuchMusic back when it was about music video and not just another general channels like say hundreds of channels on television today. George is not having this and steals the remote and changes the channel. I like siblings doing gentle and witty trolling of each other, because heaven forfend Molly Cunningham was awesome at it. Everyone gets flustered and blushes as we get the tug-o-war on the remote. This is so great, but it's lunch time, so Daddy Pig has to break it up and turn off the television. Daddy Pig puts his foot down on this stating that if they cannot agree on what to watch, they won't watch anything. Okay, I'm starting to see why some people hate the voices on this show. George and Peppa trying to do an angry pissed off routine absolutely sucks! We head to the kitchen table for lunch as the family is having rice with peas and carrots. Peppa and George are now fighting over one carrot. That episode with Rebecca teaching them being rabbit was a mistake. A bowl of peas is overturned and rice splats into Daddy Pig. Daddy Pig is not cool with this. Thankfully, Mummy Pig cuts the carrot and gives one half to each. Mummy Pig is good at de-esculating the situation. Oh wait, now they are complaining about which half is bigger. Who cares, you troll?! At least you are getting a part of a carrot instead of none. George thankfully don't care like I do, eats the carrot and taunts Peppa. That taunting was not neccessary, George. Peppa does the plug the ears and the "La la la, I cannot hear you" promo.

Daddy Pig seemly has had enough of this according to me and the narrator. Daddy Pig has an evil look in his eyes and Mummy Pig has one too. They have a Krackpotkin Plan. Stay tuned! Cut to the sitting room with Peppa having a fake tea party with the stuffed animals, this is destroyed by George and Mr. Dine-e-saur. I'm sure the rage baiting reviewers of the world are popping veins in anger as we speak. Me, don't care; they haven't done anything that I haven't seen before. If they start punching each other, then it's time to stop. Peppa saying that dine-e-saurs don't drink is hilarious, since neither do stuffed animals, because they are not real animals. In comes Mummy Pig with a cyan blue blanket with white trim. The Commodore 64 days have warped my mind about that color everytime I see it. Daddy Pig has some pink and red pillows as Peppa is protesting this outrage. The adults don't care, because they are making a den with the sofa. Peppa is in awe of this and wants to join, but the adults no sell because it's an adult den. They close the covers and steals Peppa's kettle and tea cups and shoot the breeze in a G-rated way. It's a pre-school show, what can you do?! Peppa and George decide to make their own den for themselves and actually work together. Let's see how long this lasts. The kids build a den with a cover, pillows and two blue chairs. The adults pop out to watch and then bail into the den since they got the two to not try to kill each other. Peppa wants to make the den bigger, so let's add more covers and pillows. Now they can watch television about dine-e-saurs, have dance parties and eat baby carrots. Maybe it wasn't a mistake after all. Daddy and Mummy Pig pop out and decide to open the kids den as the kids are shooting the breeze in a G-rated way. Peppa and George are happy, but Daddy and Mummy Pig are denied the tour. I don't see why that's an issue, it's not like we couldn't see it. By the way, the animation frame count was shown here. SUZY SHEEP~?! Daddy and Mummy Pig leave stage left as the narrator says it all while Peppa and George dance to end the episode at 3:13. A slow start, but the plan worked, so *** (60%).

Little Robot: Short opens in the kitchen as Mummy and Daddy Pig are cleaning up the place. The narrator tries to cut a promo, but gets cut off by a speeding...ghost?! Huh?! The narrator tries to continue, but the ghost keeps cutting the narrator off. Now, even Mummy and Daddy are confused. Then the ghost returns to creep up; but the broom holding the white sheet tips and it's really a robot cleaner disguised as a ghost by the cheeky troll, Peppa Pig and her partner in troll crime, George. The kids laugh and even the adults think this is funny. Maybe to them, to me; it's better than my dryer after finishing up and doing a sound that makes me yearn for Baby Alexander's siren wail cry. Keep in mind, I'm literally five meters from that machine! Daddy Pig picks it up and states that it's not a toy. I wish Daddy Pig would say the same thing about video game curation, too. Daddy Pig calls it something that would make me say "it's magic!". Just call it a robot cleaner, it's okay! You are making yourself smarter, you are making you and the company who made it a bunch of assholes. And here's the troll to prove me right as she calls it Mark and pats it on the top. Daddy Pig restarts the thingie and it drives away stage right as Daddy Pig explains it's purpose with Peppa and George acting like they don't care by humming. Peppa and George follow Mark because they want him to look like a butler, or something and Daddy Pig is confused. I have zero clue what Mummy Pig is doing with that screwdriver. I guess she's fixing the counter top or the cabinet doors, but the artwork doesn't help me in anyway. Jump cut to inside the sitting room for the funniest thing I have seen in about a few episodes on this show: Peppa and George are humming, sitting at a table with pens, paper (including construction paper) and a rubber stamp, while wearing adult sized suits and shoes that make them look absurd. If TaleSpin is rebooted, Molly and Kit need to do that spot. It would be even funnier. Then the robot cleaner arrives, and is stopped by Mummy Pig. It has a brown wig, a blue tie and googly eyes. Mummy Pig interacts with the robot cleaner claiming she has an appointment with Peppa and George and the robot cleaner drives away like Mark gets it. That amused me. Peppa explains Mark's purpose, which Mummy Pig is amused; but the real job is cleaning and nothing else. Peppa isn't thrilled to hear that one as she fires herself! HAHA! Mark returns and sucks his tie to stop the pain as the kids giggle with the papers being thrown down. Mummy Pig tries to clean up the sitting room and we hear loud banging from the kitchen. We see that the cabinet door is broken, which somehow caused all the stuff to fall on the floor, and Mummy Pig claims that the shelves are broken. SUZY SHEEP~?! Seriously, this is one dumb logic break! Mummy Pig apologizes, and becomes the GEEK OF THE WEEK~! Daddy Pig cleans up and put stuff on the table. George tries to help, but Mark trips him up and George lands on top of him with a strainer on his head and welding a wooden spoon. I am watching Captains Outrageous! Everyone notices and chases him, no go. Daddy Pig blows George off. It's not George's fault, Daddy Pig. The butler literally did it~! George don't care as George uses the wooden spoon to escape Mummy Pig's grasp. The chase continue as Mark is picking up papers, picking up water and it goes outside to mow the grass as it goes slower and slower. The thing is on it's last legs. Daddy Pig is starting to become more amused by this entire ordeal, so he's given up. Everyone has given up. Mark returns to the kitchen and gives up. George is bounced off as the bag explodes and all the garbage turns to dust and debris. How about that?! SUZY SHEEP~?! Mark is not dead and bails as the blue tie remains. Everyone is reminded about the role of Mark as the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:08. This was a really fun episode with a robot cleaner. *** 1/2 (70%).

THE REVIEW LINE

Well, this was a rant with a lot of middling episodes and no clunkers. Fancy Splashy Garden Party was an awesome fight between the Splash Battlers VS. Garden Party Boreders. I know Boreders isn't a word, but boredom doesn't quite fit here. First Aid was also really good despite the knee psychology being off for the most part. It's nice to see Peppa Pig taking bumps again. Mystery Drinks was a mess; but fun and Peppa VS. George was fun once the kids stopped being angry mostly due to the acting sucking badly. I have never heard acting this bad in a modern cartoon in a long ass whomping time. I hope Evil Mummy and Evil Daddy Pig team up soon, and I'm sad that cardboard castle didn't end properly with them jumping up and down in muddy puddle. So...

Thumbs up for Fancy Splashy Garden Party, thumbs in the middle for everything else and I'll see you all next time.

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