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Peppa Pig Tales #29 Rant

Reviewed: 03/29/2025

Old School Peppa Pig Is Back! Sort of Part 29!

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 #1: I will no longer be revealing which episodes were done by whomever, since my video source keeps cutting off the endings and it's basically the same six to seven writers anyway.

Opening Moment #1: LEGO Peppa is back! That's all you need to know.

Easter Egg Hunt: Short opens on a sunny day on the boring hills of Peppatown. Don't blame me, it's not like they haven't been calling Peppa Pig's episodes, "Peppasodes". Because Peppa is the star and everyone else is a geek! Daddy Pig and Peppa Pig are waddling towards the treehouse, but there is no treehouse. In fact, there are EIGHT giant Easter eggs in the area! Daddy Pig walks towards one of the giant eggs and George pops out to give Daddy Pig a shock that lands him on his ass. George and Peppa love it laughing as Mummy Pig does a run in. Mummy Pig proclaims that the bigger the eggs, the bigger the surprise. Okay, I know where this is going: It's not really an Easter Egg hunt, it's a search for the giant egg that hides the treehouse! That would make sense. Peppa Pig gets on top of one of the giant eggs and is loving life. George is the middle of all this has hidden himself in one of the giant eggs (the one with a stem in the middle) and now the adults are totally confused. The fact that George is laughing while shaking the giant egg is a dead giveaway that George is inside said giant egg. The egg hatches and out pops George laughing and giving everyone a shock. Peppa chases George as George bails, and then he's somehow missing AGAIN! Peppa checks one of the giant eggs with white ribbon edges, but George is hiding in the pink/lavender egg in front of the previous egg he was hiding inside. It hatches to reveal George and George bails again. Peppa gets to the popped egg, but George is clearly hiding AGAIN! Mummy Pig asks how he is doing this. Ummm, every egg has a secret door to go inside?! I mean, the eggs are not "legit" giant eggs even in storyline. That is more believable than most enclosed spaces in the LEGO episodes at least. Peppa says it all as George is shaking the giant egg with the cuckoo clock image on the front. Egg hatches and out pops George as Peppa chases after George and George bails down once again. Jump cut to Daddy Pig approaching easter egg number five with a bushy hedge as a hiding device. Sadly, the hole in the middle gives him easily away. Worse, Daddy Pig tries to shock George and it backfires as George pops out and Daddy Pig lands on his ass again. HAHA! George bails as we cut to Mummy Pig walking with Mr. Dine-e-saur as George is clearly hiding behind the flour giant egg, as that is easter egg number six. George opens the lid to take a peek and then shuts the lid as Mummy Pig is talking to Mr. Dine-e-saur for a long ass whomping time. Mummy Pig then turns her back to the egg as she is talking and George pops the egg to scare her, then takes Mr. Dine-e-saur and bails again! HAHA! Mummy Pig is our GEEK OF THE WEEK~! Peppa and Daddy Pig decide to double team for giant easter egg number seven (the one with the sunflower on the front). George pops that egg and the pieces all fly as George jumps down in front of them in the biggest mistake of the entire hiding run, but George somehow manages to run for his life and escape from Daddy and Peppa Pig. However, George makes the fatal error of watching them while running as he runs into the arms of Mummy Pig. Peppa Pig wants to play some more, but all the eggs are broken, even though there should be eight giant eggs! SUZY SHEEP~?! Anyhow, Daddy Pig then discovers that there are blocks that make up the treehouse and Mummy Pig proclaims that she had to get the stuff from somewhere. That was stupid. My finish would be that the eighth egg contained the treehouse since that makes sense. Somethings never change with this show. The family decides to rebuild as the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:08. This was a really good episode with a weak finish that broke logic. *** 3/4 (75%). Strangely, the two best episodes for LEGO Duplo were holiday episodes.

Paint Party: Short opens somewhere in Peppatown as Peppa Pig is dressed up like a scientist while acting like a four year old. Oh wait....George and Mummy Pig enter dressed up like Peppa as Peppa is confused as to why they are dressed like that. Mummy Pig says that there is experiments involved, but they involve paint filled in plastic bags as Mummy Pig demonstrates. The hard camera get splashed, everyone gets splashed as Mummy Pig says the title card and the title card shows up. More paint bombs gets dumped on Peppa and George by Mummy Pig. I hope that paint is non-toxic because this would be child abuse otherwise. Peppa kindly wants to paint on paper and not people, and yes, she said people. Mummy Pig and the kids head to a wooden table with a rainbow on paper and a flower on paper. Mummy Pig is pouring paint from beakers onto the flower and then takes the paper and blows it to create a rainbow line of color. Mummy Pig cuts a promo on the wonders of color in real life, then gives the kids two beakers of paint and then bails, daring the two to catch her. We get the Scooby-Doo Chase Sequence The Paint Party Edition for a while as they do the shadows on paper background spot before Peppa and George catch up with Mummy Pig and throw paint on her. Somehow, the paint they threw disappears. SUZY SHEEP~?! Anyhow, the next game involves the rainbow boombox of doom as Peppa must dance to the music and when it stop, she must stop. If she doesn't, I guess she gets paint thrown on her. I check the video...Peppa dances to the paper background, the music stop and she freezes as she gets a lot of paint thrown on her and the poster paper. Ah, close enough. Peppa bails and there is a figure lined out of her. I guess this is where the paint bombs "killed" her, so to speak. I'll get my coat... George is next, and it's of course the Dinosaur Dance because he loves dinosaurs. Nothing changes, nothing changes. The music dies, George freezes, he gets paint bombed and this causes his to lose his balance and fall on his ass.

Mummy Pig is next and she has a white umbrella on her person because it's her turn to do rainbow paint bomb shadow background. They play, Mummy Pig dances, they stop, Mummy Pig opens the umbrella, she gets paint bombed and that is that. Of course, this was done so Mummy Pig's shadow would have a bump on her tummy since she is due for a third child on the mainline series which we are going to see this fall. They better have a great arc to this because it's going to be tough to beat Mummy Rabbit's bump, the episode where Peppa Pig shows that she hates stats. Peppa Pig was happy; but now she's sad because Daddy Pig isn't involved to complete the picture. George isn't happy about this either as Mummy Pig tells them not to worry because he's at the supermarket and returns anytime now. Daddy Pig is home now as we hear him and the three naughty piggies decide to bail behind the bushes with paint to surprise him. Surprise him equals paint bomb him with no lab coat nor safety goggles now. Daddy Pig walks in with a bundle of white roses and then notices the painting of shadows in the background. Daddy Pig is in the perfect position as Peppa Pig plays the boombox of doom. Daddy Pig begins to dance to the beat for a while. Okay, this idea is funny, but he should be wearing the lab coats and gloves. The naughty piggies bail through the background paper and into the eastern bushes as Daddy Pig is loving life. Sadly, he is going to be paint bombed and probably going to hate life. Music gets turned off, Daddy Pig freezes as Peppa Pig commands, the naughty piggies all paint bomb him and the roses and that is that. Of course, Daddy Pig don't care and kisses Mummy Pig on the cheek while being covered in paint. Daddy Pig proclaims that this is time for a big squish as they all bail while the narrator says it all. We zoom out to discover that they took a photograph of the painting to hang on the fridge inside their house and that ends the episode at 2:56. Outside of a logic break and Daddy Pig's outfit, this was a really fun episode. *** 1/2 (70%).

A Trip Through Time: Short opens in the museum showing off sabertooth tigers and mammoths who cannot look scary to save their lives. Well, neither can Peppa nor George, but they aren't supposed to be scary so it's all right. Miss Rabbit is on the PA system on the wall as Daddy and Mummy Pig join in. Miss Rabbit says the title card as shown and all I can say is that this sounds like Tunnel of Love without the sickness nor the two mummies showing up. Ironically, Tunnel of Love was the last episode to not say out the title card of the episode, if you don't count the LEGO Duplo episodes. The family walks through the museum in awe as George loves dinosaurs of course. They also made a giant model of the fossil George discovered in Rock Pools and gave it some color. George somehow has Mr. Dine-e-saur with him as Daddy Pig is not loving life because he needs to take a leak. The toilet is upstairs and there's no stairs. Peppa complains because there's the dinosaur area left to see downstairs, I betcha George is giddy now. There is a lift as Daddy Pig asks if they can use it, Miss Rabbit is surprised, but accepts the terms. By the way, wink in Peppa's context is British for pee. The lift is open and it's decorated with drawn clocks and buttons containing various symbols on it. Everyone gets inside as Miss Peppa declares this the Time Machine Lift, where the buttons determine which part of history you want to see. Daddy Pig is having none of this, but Miss Rabbit then conveniently gets a call from her transmitter on her person that she needs to change a lightbulb and bails. Yeah, sure, Jan. Daddy Pig is crunching, if you know what I mean. Peppa chooses the green button which the symbol is a dinosaur. This causes the lift to create noise and show rainbow colored spotlights. That was amusing enough, but it needs mood music to make it more fun. The clocks all flash yellow and then the background turns green as the lift opens to reveal the dinosaur era demonstration. George has dinosaurs on the brain so much that he is literally hyper-ventilating and Mummy Pig does the most overdramatic selling of panic in proporation to the spot of the fake dinosaurs, that was funny. Daddy Pig cuts off the fun, because he needs the toilet and his selling is on and off at this point. They all head back to the lift, and George is appalled by this. I betcha the rain drops button is the one for the toilet, just a hunch. George gets to choose the button and it's the cave person one, so we head to the Stone Age. By the way, using humans instead of furries here only adds more fuel to fire to the attention seeking clowns who think they are smarter than everyone else that this show is a horrible dystopian world. Daddy Pig is still wanting to wee-wee. Even creepier, the family in the background is basically what the Pig family would look like if the show was all humans. I would say "way to bury your own product", but after 20+ years of attempts to do so, they can bury the show to their hearts content. Heck, the George of that family has a yellow dine-e-saur, which would be incompatible with the actual real world since humans and dinosaurs did not exist together. You can blame humans for a lot of things, the death of the dinosaurs is not one of them. Daddy Pig is really down bad now as everyone gets into the lift. Mummy Pig pushes the star button and the elevator goes up and we head into an empty room with stars in the background as Miss Rabbit is on a wooden ladder changing the lightbulb. Daddy Pig is so happy because there is a wooden door leading to the washroom. Daddy Pig runs to the door, opens it and enters the washroom, shutting the door. Mummy Pig cuts a funny promo and giggles as Daddy Pig does his business and that is that. Daddy Pig returns and grabs George as they all head back to the lift, George picks the dinosaur button again and we head to the dinosaur room. The narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:09. A fun episode with an out of context funny Peppa family lookalike spot. *** 1/2 (70%).

Really Big News: Short opens in the streets of Peppatown with Mr. Bull fixing a lamp post, Mr. Zebra carrying mail and Officer Panda stealing Grey Squirrel's ultra funny gimmick and making it generic. Ticketing an inanimate object, everyone. They all stop their work as their mobile phones show invitations to a big party at Peppa's house and Peppa makes the announcement of the party on the street with her family. Mr. Bull asks what the event is about and Peppa says it's "Really Big News", as this is the title card. Mummy Pig stops Peppa from saying anything else and says the party is for reasons, and Mr. Bull is perfectly fine with this explaination. Yup, the big news is that Mummy Pig is having a party to announce that she is delivering her third child just two weeks before "The Big Announcement" airs. Execs are such vampires when it comes to logic. Now, let's be fair though: "The Big Announcement" has actually already aired in Italy about a week before this episode aired on Youtube and has english audio. I should also point out that a two parter in the mainline series I think has fully aired featuring the debut of a new kid for the series and you will not believe who he is. Sadly, it's not Suzy's pretend friend who turned out to be real, but it's close. Also, one piece of advice: Mummy Lion looks like a Mummy Cat palette swap. Give her hair! Yeah, 13 more episodes are coming and yes, Rosie and Robbie are taking center stage for the first time since the awesome The Rabbit Catcher episode on Peppa Pig Tales. Anyhow, Mr. Bull bails and did he just confirm Mrs. Cow's first name?! Bellsy?! Huge, if true. Mummy Pig rubs her tummy and by the way, there is no bump present. Daddy Pig tells Peppa if they ask what the big news is, tell them something else. The most honest thing to say is: You'll find out when everyone else finds out. I can sound like Mr. Bull too, you know. That's distressing. The family walks into the balloon shop to bring out the balloons on a string, when suddenly Peppa and Danny Dog have a meeting of the minds, and it wasn't at the pirate's den. I should note that Peppa is carrying a Teddy balloon and George has Mr. Dine-e-saur balloon. Peppa and George blush, I don't know why George is blushing, he didn't run face to dace with Danny Dog. Granddad Dog has an invitation. Miss Rabbit has one as she is a chef of the bakery, which contains a touch screen selection. Mummy Pig is forced to pick the digger chocolate cake instead of the baby soother white cake because Miss Rabbit is nosing in on her business. We go to the market on the streets as Mummy Sheep does sell fruits and vegetables at a booth now. Suzy Sheep is present along with Gigi Gazelle and it wouldn't be a marketplace without Daddy Fox and Freddy Fox present at their "booth of everything". Mostly stuff made of plastic.

Then we flashback to what Peppa actually said to Danny, Miss Rabbit, Suzy Sheep and Freddy Fox, and it's trying not to say baby. She says baby on the third time, and then adds carrot. Just be honest and say "We have big news and you'll find out when everyone finds out." It's a free party, you don't need to change the subject or resort to this. It makes you look like a dishonest troll. Furthermore, I don't really blame Peppa for this, this is on Daddy Pig for once. You just gave the secret away now, no one in Peppatown is fooled. Daddy and Mummy Pig are in the car, Peppa then says "George is learning French" before she and George bail and Gigi is excited to hear that one. Huge, if true. Jump cut to the sitting room with a table containing the chocolate cake digger model, and a lot of ceiling decorations, including a disco ball. The family are wearing their best outfits, I don't know why, it's not a business announcement. The old television is still there along with Goldie. Another reminder: In the mainline series, there will be an episode where the television is going to be replaced. Where is Goldie going to be?! Because 4K televisions are very flat and very small on the top. Anyhow, Peppa proclaims that they didn't tell them the real news. Daddy Pig is confused as everyone comes in wearing ridockulous hats giving kudos to the bakery and scouting out the competition. Mr. Fox and Gigi Gazelle are the only ones not wearing a hat and Gigi Gazelle has two bowls of baby carrots. Peppa has never blushed so hard since Mummy Llama schooled her in German in Talking. Peppa put her hands on the table and was like "don't look at me", she must have had Valveeta Dream flashbacks. Then, Granny and Grandpa Pig do a run in to demands answers to this outrage. The family doesn't answer and we jump cut to the rainbow boom box playing music and everyone dance, dance, dance to their doom. POW! OUCH! Ummmm...I see the preemptive strike is upon us. Mummy Pig and Granny Pig exchange notes and no one can speak properly without the music infecting the buzz. George seems to be the only one who doesn't give an elf, good for him. Mummy Pig tells Peppa to turn down the music, and Peppa has zero idea how to work this boom box. She cannot find the volume control and this unintentional misdirection must continue! This was done to set up Peppa finally turning off the sound completely, and then Mummy and Daddy Pig scream "We're having a baby!". Everyone gasps in shock, as Officer Panda's sambero goes over his eyes. Granddad Dog has the most big ass propeller baseball cap you ever saw. Mr. Bull's fez cap is probably bigger than that. The chef's hat on Miss Rabbit is absurd, Mummy Sheep is somewhat within the bounds of reality. Mummy Pig repeats the announcement and the family all hug. Peppa says it all, the narrator says it all, Gigi says it all, George just says weeeeeee to end the episode at 3:09. I loved this episode because they committed to keeping this a secret and it was so absurd at the end that being honest would have been bland. Also, when the star of your show becomes the GEEK OF THE WEEK~ it's always great. Peppa really topped herself with this episode. **** 1/2 (90%).

Japanese Shop: Short opens either somewhere in Japan, or a Japanese-themed town with lots of cherry blossoms. The Pig family is here and Mummy Pig finally has her bump phase going here. We head into the shopping mall as the two mummies and Penny Polar Bear are back inside the restuarant! YAY! Also present is Wendy Wolf and Daddy Wolf along with Peggi Pandora and a palette swap of Mr. Donkey. The narrator proclaims that they are watching a Japanese Shop, which is the title card by the way. Daddy Pig is only here to get a bag of rice and eyes on the prize; which George does not get at all. George don't care as Peppa and Mummy Pig are flowing leaves as all of them head inside. Now, Daddy Pig is not liking where this is going since there's way too many booths to check. Also appearing are Suzy Sheep, Mummy Sheep, Mr. Bull, Doctor Pony, Pedro F'N Pony and in the foreground is Doctor Hamster. Mummy Pig says it's eyes on the prize, but Peppa's eyes is on the Japanese bullet train model demonstration. Daddy Pig doesn't seen to mind since he needs to get his bearings anyway. They all look distracted, except for George, who looks like he wants to kill someone at this point. Mummy Pig notices and everyone is bring on the prize as a robot shelf on wheel creeps up from behind with a television monitor featuring Miss Rabbit on headphones. The family turns around and notices Miss Rabbit as Miss Rabbit proclaims that she's working remotely operating the Ferris Wheel as she tells her customers to scream louder. Ferris Wheel cameos: Reggie Rabbit, Rebecca Rabbit, Mummy Giraffe, Gerald Giraffe, Mummy Dog, Danny Dog, Mummy Mouse, Mandy Mouse (whom her wheelchair is gone. SUZY SHEEP~?!), Daddy Fox, Freddy Fox, Daddy Cat, Candy Cat, Mummy Elephant, Emily Elephant, Daddy Zebra and Zoe Zebra. Mummy Pig is hungry, but Daddy Pig is on the ball inside the food shop ordering Bao Buns, which are Chinese not Japanese I should note. Of course, it's all vegan because meat is bad, or something.

The robot waiters do not distract George Pig though as he is rather bossy today. Daddy Pig puts the meal on takeaway and uses his debit card to pay and then the family leaves as Miss Rabbit continues her spiel with Molly Mole and Mummy Mole in the background eating food. Sadly, she pushes the wrong lever (CLEVER CLOGS~!) and the robot falls down. Mummy Pig wants to go to the toilet as Mummy Polar Bear and Mummy Pony are now in the foreground. It's also known as a lube as Mummy Pig goes inside. Her bladder is overactive like mine nowadays. The lube contains mood lighting and an out of control toilet that causes a distraction for Mummy Pig. George just giggles as Mummy Pig comes out and calls it efficient. Much more efficient than DOGE and much more ethical I bet, too! Time for the eyes on the rice, as Peppa would say and we get a scene changer. More distraction montages just to piss George off some more, and you know George is not liking any of this when a dinosaur foldout isn't distracting him. They end up going out of the shop and Daddy Pig wants to go home, just to make George even more angry. Even the narrator tries to check out of this episode and George yells NO! HAHA! George points out that they are exactly outside the rice shop where Suzy and Mummy Sheep are having rice meals. Daddy Pig apologizes for being a geek as usual, so George gets to lead the group and George decides to punish them by going through the entire shopping mall until they make it to the rice shop which is the last shop on the bottom floor. That gives us a cameo of Granny Sheep as George and company head into the first store of the entire mall and it's a grocery shop containing red bags of rice. The narrator says it all as George is finally distracted by the return of Dino-Rawr! YAY! Everyone laughs to end the episode at 3:06. Lots of cameos and a solid storyline makes me a happy Peppa Pig fan. *** 3/4 (75%).

Even More Mummy's Day: Short opens in a dark bedroom with Mummy Pig sleeping. Which lasts exactly ten seconds as the room lights up with lots of balloons and there is Daddy Pig, George Pig with party blower and Peppa Pig, whom Peppa has a giant piece of cake on a plate. They all yell "happy Mummy's Day" since Mother's Day is in March in Great Britian. Mummy Pig thinks the amount of balloons were excessive. Daddy Pig claims that they are eco-friendly. Considering Peppa Pig track record, this sounds like a lie, and George further proves my point by sitting on a balloon and breaking it. Certainly not sound friendly at least. Peppa and company shout out the red title card because we are in the era where Mummy Pig has her bump. That at least why Peppa has an extra big cake piece for Mummy Pig, because as per Baby Bumps, when you have a bump on your tummy, you tend to eat more. Even Mummy Pig is somewhat amused by having cake at breakfast, but she'll entertain eating cake for breakfast just this once. George pops a red balloon with his ass, and then blushes. Mummy Pig decides to go downstairs to eat her Mummy's Day cake; but the entire house in littered with balloon. This sounds like Miss Rabbit's revenge tour with her balloon shop to me. Remember that Peppa Pig Tales episode where Miss Rabbit got the order wrong on a balloon cake, and the family bought thousands of balloons in her shop and it almost killed her?! Well, this is the revenge payoff, methinks. George barrels through the balloons to clear that up as Mummy Pig proclaims that less is more. I can just hear someone say "Why not get an abortion then?!" Which would be a valid question if Mummy Pig didn't choose to have the baby. We see a daisy chain attached to green wire, so I assume the daisy chain is Christmas lights with a daisy motif. Mummy Pig says the same thing I just described and everyone goes into the sitting room which is loaded with daises. Wow, they are going with the Halo Infinite copy-past same flowers routine here, except it's much funnier in Halo Infinite than it is here since where are the buttercups and dandelions?! By the way, the old television is still there with Goldie. Peppa then gives her another piece of cake out of nowhere. SUZY SHEEP~?!

Anyhow, we get a flashback of Peppa, George and Daddy Pig in the garden making the daisy chain. Even Daddy Pig thinks George is overdoing it, but Peppa don't care because less is more doesn't apply to Mummy Pig and her future baby. We return to reality (no, not really) as George picks a daisy and all the daisies fall down onto the floor. That was funny. George bails and has a blue icing big ass cake piece for Mummy Pig and more is more. Daddy Pig's turn to blush now as Mummy Pig makes them look like complete fools. Then we get the greatest hilarious moment of the episode: We head to the kitchen and find out that the whole cake is a giant square with Mummy Pig on it. That is funny in itself, but it's even funnier because of all the poses they picked, they picked Mummy Pig brushing her teeth. The only thing funnier than this would have been Mummy Pig doing her scolding pose to tell the kids to tidy up. The kitchen has a daisy chain, but it's completely modest compared to the rest of the rooms. I should note that there is a daisy chain necklace, so that I bet is the next spot. We get the flashback and yes, it's all Peppa and George's fault for more, more, more. Of course, everyone will punch down on the technology, but this is Peppa Pig we are talking about where she's the star so this would still happen even without the technology. Plus, Daddy Pig gets in on the fun, so they are GEEKS OF THE WEEK~! Yes, the technology is so advanced in Peppa Pig that you can pick a digital picture from your mobile phone. Of course, this is Peppa Pig, troll extraordinaire, so she picks the one where Mummy Pig is brushing her teeth. I've seen more absurd pictures within that microSD card Daddy Pig has. Oh, and they have to take the giant cake home literally on top of the roof, causing a long lineup home. Cameos: Mr. Bull, Mummy Mouse, Gigi Gazelle and Doctor Brown Bear all frown. We return to reality (no, not really) as there is a fourth piece of cake. Mummy Pig kindly tells Peppa that this cake will be shared by everyone. Mummy Pig opens the curtains to reveal a big ass drawing of Mummy Pig I think juggling. Yup, Peppa Pig is trolling her now and it's glorious. Next up, they all go outside and there's a big ass Mother's Day card with the family giving each other the DUGGIE HUG OF DOOM~! Mummy Pig notices the card as the narrator is saying less is more, which that creditibility died eons ago, but let's do the DUGGIE HUG OF DOOM~ for real! Everyone giggle during the hug to end the episode at 3:06. This was no joke, the best Mother's Day episode ever! More is more, less is less and Alison Ray proved it. **** 3/4 (95%).

Noisy Treasure Hunt!: Short opens inside the kids bedroom AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as Peppa and George are sleeping in their bunk beds at 11 PM. We jump cut to Daddy Pig and Mummy Pig sleeping in their bed and then some beeping device beeps out of nowhere as Daddy Pig instantly panics. Mummy Pig has to assure Daddy Pig that the baby isn't coming for a few months. Jump cut to George being annoyed and Peppa literally climbing down the ladder looking like she literally wants to be somewhere else. She checks her backpack and talks about Playgroup. Then the entire family goes to the outside as Peppa and George are wearing costumes of Teddy and Mr. Dine-e-saur in that order, while the adults are wearing pocket night robes. The noise stops as Mummy Pig yawns and wipes her hands clean of this situation. 2:1 odds that it's the carbon monoxide detector. The noise continues literally seconds later and Daddy Pig is yawning now. Peppa giggles like the troll that she is as Daddy Pig has had enough of this beeping and it's time for a Noisy Treasure Hunt! Peppa loves this and claims that they'll find it in two seconds. Peppa does commit to the bad claim by counting down and doing it improperly. It should be "one, one a half, one and three quarters, etc. etc. etc." Her counting gimmick is worse than her mispronouncation of words on Peppa Pig Tales. They all go into the kitchen looking for the noise, struggling. Peppa thinks it's the washing machine, but its beep is "We Wish You A Merry Christmas". Damn, that theme has been so overused on Peppa Pig Tales, it isn't funny anymore. Jump cut to the sitting room as Mummy Pig checks the electronics, still no luck. Mummy Pig isn't amused still she forgot to check the battery on her mobile phone and there's no battery power left. They check the smoke alarm, it's not it either. Then they check the office and George is sleeping at the computer which is somehow turned on and George somehow is sleeping on the "Z" key. That was funny. Back to the kitchen to check on Mark the cleaning robot, no luck there either. Back to the sitting room, no luck there either. Although Mummy Pig gets her daisy flower clip back after checking Daddy Pig's loveseat. Next up is the bathroom as they check the instruments as George is jumping up and down on the scales. No luck there, either. Peppa suggest their bedroom and they check, no luck. Then it's the adults bedroom, no luck either. Peppa has had enough of looking for the sound, so let's close our eyes and open the ears. Peppa goes over to Mummy Pig, and we discover that Mummy Pig is wearing a fitness watch and that's the beeping sound. Mummy Pig is our GEEK OF THE WEEK~! Don't tell me it's not possible to silence that beep, Mummy?! Everyone cheers as the fitness watch is written out by teleport. SUZY SHEEP~?! George Pig is literally sleeping on the adult's bed, so everyone changes clothes and sleeps together in the adult with the lights off. The narrator says it all as morning arises and the alarm clock is at 7 AM. How about that?! Daddy Pig turns off the alarm clocks and wants five more minutes to end the episode at 3:08. Just an episode with a twist ending. ** 3/4 (55%).

Queen of the Castle: Short opens with Peppa putting the crown on her head because she is now the Queen of the museum! I know this because she's in the same museum literally sitting on the queen's throne, wearing royal robes. She is literally cosplaying her subjects and the queen in this sequence because even her family is no longer dumb enough to bend the knee for Peppa anymore. The narrator declares that Peppa is now "Queen Of The Castle", which is the title card by the way. Peppa wonders who is at the door and walks to the pink door. She opens it and it's a giant SUZY SHEEP~ because Queen Peppa is in the imagination world. We head back to reality (no, not really) as Queen Peppa is merely a paper drawing inside cardboard castle as they are really at Playgroup. Suzy is allowed in as Suzy has a drawing of her being an astronaut as we head to the imagination world with Suzy in a spacesuit entering a castle. There is no way anyone is going to take this seriously with the rainbows clearly clashing with the black crosses on the castle walls. Just begging for trouble as Peppa leads Suzy into her sitting room and wants Suzy to count her pile of jewels. No, I'm not making an emasculation joke on this one, so Suzy counts jewels and throws them into the CHEST OF DEMONS. Peppa does count and throw too, Suzy just throws and counts the top of the pile. Which makes sense since Suzy has a jetpack. Sadly, they need more chests since Peppa is a greedy jewel hoarder. Then we hear a giant Pedro Fucking Pony in his cowboy outfit. I know this since he said "howdy", although it might be confused with "Audi". Well, Pedro's image is Pedro the Cowboy on his horse with a rubber band being the LASSO OF BANE TO ALL ACTION CARTOONS EVERYWHERE. Sadly, the lasso is not in evidence when Pedro enters the imagination world, and his horse is a toy horse. I CLUB BS&P~! And then the show does a mindfuck because when Pedro starts counting the jewels, his lasso comes out of nowhere. SUZY SHEEP~?! Pedro gets buried in jewels just to become the GEEK OF THE WEEK~ and Suzy and Peppa run in to make the save. Then we return to reality with Candy Cat, Mandy Mouse and Danny Dog with images of their cosplaying roles. Mandy Mouse is the knight in shining armor I should note. Candy Cat plays a witch, DUH! Danny Dog plays a pirate, DUH! Peppa thinks there's room and Danny Dog wants to steal those jewels, but Mandy Mouse on her wheelchair horse cuts him off hopefully at his family jewels. I'll get my coat...While wheelchairs have been around since 500 BC, the European version wasn't made until around 1595 for King Phillip II. Candy Cat runs in and turns the jewels into frogs with the wand because of course she does. They finally paid off the cosplaying of turning someone into a frog now. Everyone is so happy that the castle walls are literally breaking before our eyes. Peppa has had enough of this nonsense and bail to play something else on her own. The kids are shocked and appalled. So much so that Danny Dog has a pirate accent. Suzy wants to make the castle bigger and then notices George playing with a digger toy. Also, the castle is torn up. The kids walk over to George for assistance, and George accepts. The kids build a bigger cardboard box for a castle and that is that. Apparently, it's now a pirate castle. Peppa's stare indicates that she's not buying this as she is playing in the corner with Teddy. Peppa notices and walks over as we head back to imagination world with the castle rebuilt and looking even bigger than ever. Suzy loves space in more ways than one as Peppa thanks her profusely. Peppa then recoils, opens the gate and frogs spit out as the narrator says it to end the episode at 3:06. That might be the best narrator ending in Peppa Pig Tales history. Another really fun episode. *** 3/4 (75%).

THE REVIEW LINE

Well, we had mostly fun shorts this time around. Really Big News was the most important episode of the series as Peppa Pig Tales has now transitationed into the Mummy Pig's Bump era and while "The Big Announcement" for the kids hasn't aired yet in North America (it has aired in Italy already), this one was so great. All Peppa had to do was simply say "You'll know when everyone else knows", but she is trying hard not to say "baby" and in the process got two bowls of baby carrots and 90% of the adults wearing the biggest hats they could find, all to celebrate a bakery. You never saw someone blush with embarrassment in their lives. It was glorious! Peppa Pig being the GEEK OF THE WEEK for my pleasure. Always gets high marks and Peppa really went out of her way to make this possible. It's not like Talking where Peppa knew a bit of German, and Mummy Llama unintentionally embarrassed Peppa with her German. Peppa really was a geek here. Even More Mummy's Day might be the best Mother's Day episode I have ever seen as Mummy Pig wanted "less is more" and the family was like "big number good, small number bad". The clash of styles was hilarious and Peppa's trolling made it even more amusing as picking Mummy Pig brushing her teeth instead of the one where Mummy Pig is telling them to tidy up was the better decision. Queen of the Castle was really fun as well, and they really payed off the "turn someone into a frog" angle really well as even I was laughing with the narrator at the end of this episode. Japanese Shop was the George doesn't get distracted, except for the appearance of Dino-Rwar. Finally, there was the LEGO Duplo episode that was very good for a change. The two best LEGO Peppa episodes are in fact holiday episodes. Outside of the finish, the episode went exactly how it should have gone and they stayed outside in the open which is where this stop motion animation episode is at it's best. Overall, this was a decent pair of shorts. So...

Thumb up for Really Big News and Even More Mummy's Day. Thumbs in the middle for the rest, and I'll see you all next time.

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