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Peppa Pig Tales #33 Rant

Reviewed: 07/19/2025

Old School Peppa Pig Is Back! Sort of Part 33!

Well, since Peppa Pig the series has been slowing down and there's only eleven 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.

Editor's Note #2: The new opening now applies to all episodes of Peppa Pig Tales as we are in the Evie era of Peppa Pig both in the mainline series and this show in general.

Cardboard Hospital: Short opens with Peppa Pig cosplaying a doctor in I think is Evie's room, but I'm not so sure. I do know that the area has a large cardboard box wall in the design of a doctor's office. Peppa is using the tongue stick to Baby Evie who is in the baby chair not caring, which is fine because Peppa isn't really going to stick that into Evie's mouth, come on now. The sethoscope is made of ear plugs as Mummy Pig walks in and sits down in the cushion chair claiming that Evie's too young to play patient, which is silly. However, Mummy Pig is available so she'll be the patient for the tongue stick of doom. Peppa calls it the "Cardboard Hospital", and I'm shocked no one has stolen that as a name of a real hospital yet. Looking at this room, it appears to be the new playroom as Goldie the Goldfish got a massive upgrade on his fishbowl as well! Next up is George with Mr. Dine-e-saur in a stroller and he trips and falls down selling his knee causing him to bawl for the first time in the Evie era along with Evie bawling it's eyes out as well. Yup, George bumped his knee and it requires a purple plaster. Evie has an ego bruise, she's day to day. By the way, the plaster doesn't wrap around the knee either, so Peppa is a very sloppy cosplayer when it comes to doctors. She also gives a dinosaur sticker to George. Daddy Pig enters to check on everyone and George returns covers in plasters and stickers. Quack Quack and Goldie have sticker models now. Mummy Pig is cuddling Evie for a while as Daddy Pig is about to leave for something, but Peppa Pig cuts him off and she tells Daddy Pig to sit down for the family check. Daddy Pig obeys and sits down on a blue cushion chair, deciding to play along as Peppa and George bail stage right. Peppa returns with a surprisely well drawn rib cage for someone who believes in magic and a heart that doesn't look like a human heart in real life, but this is Peppa Pig's world, so that shape is okay. Mummy Pig continues to be checked out as Peppa decides to use a toy hammer to hit her right in the left leg, because this show has no concept on what knees look like. Evie was amused, so she likes squeaky violence. That was distressing. Peppa calls them very bendy and even Evie is laughing at that because even she knows this is bullshit. Daddy Pig has to bend over to do the ear check. Peppa Pig claims that he needs to clear out his ear because she cannot see George. Now THAT'S a quack doctor! Time for Doctor Hamster to hand in her medical license and climb a tree. Daddy Pig claims that he's not sure it works like that, but Peppa don't care. Listen, I love Peppa's trolling antics now, but she is completely outclassed by the Squirrels in Hey Duggee.

Peppa checks Daddy's mouth and in comes George with Mr. Dine-e-saur growling, implying that Daddy Pig has the sore throat sounding noise from those cough drop commercials which the name of the medicine escapes me at the moment. I think it's Cepacol Extra Strength and the cough monster in those ads are much closer to George's promo, but the one I'm looking for is like one nasty grinding metal sound and that isn't it. Peppa then acts like Mr. Dine-e-saur's mouth stinks and didn't brush it's teeth. HA! Peppa just remembered her first visit to the dentist. Peppa hides behind a clipboard and asks Mummy is she's scares easily and Mummy Pig says no. Then Peppa yells "boo" and Mummy Pig gets a shock. HAHA! More eye test involving a dinosaur. I know that people will say: Daddy Pig is dumb because Peppa only showed colored dinosaur pictures. The problem is, Peppa is notorious for being a troll and could do this for a misdirection play. That's why Daddy Pig put his glasses back on and heistated before selecting. That's a smart move on Daddy Pig's part. Peppa proclaims that the glasses are still working. I think Peppa's troll moves are breaking as she sits down with a clipboard containing no paper and asks how everyone feels. In the real world, horrible. In this world, perfect! Peppa literally botches claiming that it's hard having a little sister and changes it to little baby. I mention this because Peppa is still a little sister compared to Evie and Peppa is still trying to prove that she has empathy for Evie. I don't blame her, the critics have bashed her in the past for being a jerk troll, including yours truly. The family exchanges notes for the rest of the episode as it's a hard thing, but they cannot take it back so they learn to live with it. Mummy Pig puts the duck sticker on Peppa's nose for fun, implying that she's a quack doctor. That was funny. At least she's cosplaying a quack doctor instead of actually being one. Why is Orac staring at me like that?! Daddy wants some medicial squish, which is the signal for a hug. I'm sorry show, but once I saw the Duggee Hug, no one's topping it. Even adult Kit Cloudkicker isn't going to top it. He might be the funniest scarecrow of all time though. The narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:06. This was a very fun episode and Peppa's quack doctor routine was hilarious since it fits her old persona extremely well without going into the ugly side of said persona. **** (80%).

Ice Cream Factory: Short opens as the entire Pig family enters a resturant as the clock reads 5:40 PM, which the resturant looks like a fast food place, only more generic than usual. Peppa and the gang need to go back to the bargining table on their contract since Hasbro is clearly not paying them enough. Cameos: Granddad Dog, Danny Dog, Doctor Pony, Pedro F'N Pony, Mummy Elephant, Emily Elephant, Edmund Elephant, Gerald Giraffe, Mummy Giraffe, Mummy Mouse and Mandy Mouse. This apparently is an ice cream store since everyone is having slush puppies, milkshakes, or banana ice cream on a cone like Danny Dog is as he's near the conveniently placed ice cream machine. Okay, I'm going to call out an AI voice when I see it: There's no way the original voice actress of Peppa said "Whoa!" when Peppa is in awe of Danny Dog putting chocolate syrup on his ice cream. Sod off show! Seriously, the acting voice is way different than Peppa's voice here. It's bad enough when terrible AI sweetening is used in the music, this is even worse. Makes me yearn for George's bawling sound in the mainline series now. Peppa and George are having some lust for ice cream; but they are cut off by Miss Rabbit in her first job in the Evie era actually. Now, I was expecting the family to get the booth table in the background. Nope; they take the empty table south of the booth table. Peppa and George are panicky because they want ice cream as Mandy Mouse and Mummy Mouse are having soft serve cones. Everyone has to sit down because main meals come first, Evie is just amused in her stroller. Miss Rabbit leaves and we have a scene changer of doom. Miss Rabbit returns with spaghetti and only in Peppa Pig Tales would there be sauce and greens on it, because meat is evil you see. Peppa and George's tray have ice cream cones, but the rules stick.

Peppa and George and Daddy Pig all finish their meals in record time; Mummy Pig hasn't even started yet because she's bottle feeding Evie. Outside of the obvious anthro stuff, baby pigs and baby humans are not that much different in terms of being fed milk actually, especially if the baby pig is bottled fed with milk. The difficulty level does make a difference, but not overly so. Mummy Pig proclaims that all must finish their meals and that also includes Evie. Thankfully, Daddy Pig takes her and he fumbles for a while as Mummy Pig cleans the table. People will say that this is another example of Daddy Pig being dumb, but feeding a baby pig is much harder than it looks. This is surprisely realistic actually. Peppa decides to try to feed Mummy Pig and that worked out exactly as you would think. Epic fail! Mummy Pig wants Peppa to be patient. Thankfully, Miss Rabbit does a run in to give the kids coloring books before this turns into a food fight that isn't supposed to be a food fight. By the way, Daddy Pig's past plate is full again after being empty in a previous shot. SUZY SHEEP~?! Since there is ice cream to color, they love it. Miss Rabbit bails and the ice cream drawing only serve to give the kids more lust as we see Pedro Pony putting strawberry syrup on his ice cream cone. Peppa smells strawberry, Daddy Pig smells Evie and it stinks. Yup, Evie needs a diaper change, I believe the first one in Peppa Pig Tales in the Evie era. Thank goodness all that practice with Baby Alexander in this show is starting to pay off. Daddy bails to change Evie and Peppa complains about it because that means Daddy Pig hasn't finished his meal. Which one?! Logic would dictate that Daddy Pig had bought two meals and is having seconds, which is kind of mean. Peppa Pig runs into the washroom to help, finally realizes that Evie stinks and than backs up holding her nose like a coward. HAHA! Good attention to detail to distort Peppa's voice there for more realism, at least it sounds like Peppa.

Mummy Pig is amused as I am. Scene changer ensues, see what I did there?! The adults are back at the table as Evie plays with Quack Quack and the adults finally finish their meals as they have less than a minute left for Peppa and George to get their ice cream fix in. Mummy Elephant and the kid elephant have their ice cream made at this point. Then I realize that the AI voices were not AI, but the use of slow motion effects. Mummy and Daddy Pig finish their meals in slow motion as Evie takes Quack Quack and throws it at the chili flakes container and the chili flakes container falls to the floor, justifying it's existence on the table to begin with. The bottle is open and chili flakes are on the floor. HA! This is Evie's first troll move on Peppa and George and it was glorious. Apparently, trumpet is our DUBBED ANIME STYLE swear in Peppa Pig now. Okay, good to know. Daddy Pig picks up the container and Miss Rabbit runs in with the vacuum cleaner and I'm not doing the Ron Sparks joke, it's not worth it in this episode. She unplugs the ice cream machine and plugs in the cleaner, please remember that for later. Miss Rabbit cleans up the chili flakes as Peppa and George hold hands and are complaining less and less, which indicates to me they know the ice cream machine is unplugged. Which is false because after all this completing: Peppa and George run in with cones and try to get chocolate ice cream, but the machine only has one drop to spare. Peppa thinks the machine is broken, but Miss Rabbit runs in, unplugs the cleaner and replugs the ice cream machine. That wall socket needs an upgrade, STAT! Peppa and George make and decorate their chocolate and strawberry cones. Peppa and George help each other, slap ice creams as the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:07. Another really fun episode, AI stupidity aside although that was my mistake since slow motion voices have been done to death way before generative AI was a thing. I'll say this: Evie's physical presence makes this show more exciting than the build to Evie's debut ever was. *** 3/4 (75%).

Evie's Bedtime: Short opens with Evie in her basket bed near where the adults sleep as Mummy Pig comes in with white footy pjs that are oversized as Peppa and George (with Mr. Dine-e-saur) as it's "Evie's Bedtime" according to the narrator and the title card. Peppa is asking why Evie is being covered like a mummy (HAR HAR), and Mummy Pig calls it swaddling. Now, the practice is not recommended unless the baby is on it's back due to if the baby goes to it's side or belly, it risks the increase of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and should only be done for a few days. So, if your baby is normal, this is pointless and only stunts Evie's growth. This is a bad idea. Mummy and the kids try to leave with the monitor, but Evie wakes up. HAHA! Told you swaddling was a bad idea. It's BEFORE HAPPY HOUR (Sunset) as Peppa suggests reading a bedtime story. Sadly, most of the book covers are generic, although I am interested in the baby instruction manual. Mummy seems a little off today. I guess Ben and Holly is not owned by Hasbro and thus the show cannot use the assets anymore. Peppa starts telling the story about a princess named Snout which is apparently Evie's imagination world name as Peppa is tickling Evie. Evie is not selling it which makes Kit look even weaker. We head to the imagination world as Evie is sitting on a giant bed of flowers in a castle with guests giving them gifts. Everyone except Mummy Pig, who is giving Evie a quilt. Daddy Pig is literally a witch with a yellow gem road. The rest of the group is original palette swaps of other characters. I don't know why they bothered, it's the imagination world; they could have used the kids and adults from the show that are named and none would have been the wiser. Evie throws away the quilt and it lands on Knight George, which George no sells. Peppa comes in as she is the princess fairy because she's the star and everyone is a geek. Peppa uses her magic wand to spirit Evie and the giant ass maple leaf bed of relaxation.

Ironically, the imagination world actually is against swaddling, so despite the bad decision this did make me laugh. Peppa wants Evie to sleep under the stars in the forest, but we return to reality (no, not really) as George is against this holding Quack Quack. Yup, it has a last name that is same as the first, whatever. Peppa agrees with him, so the imagination world turns literally into ice-cream land. Hey, it's the imagination world, so it works. Apparently, the giant ice-cream bed of doom is ice-cream themed as well since Evie gets transferred from the maple leaf bed to the ice-cream bed. The lavander pillow is not enough even with the blue carpet to make Evie sleep, so let's do a magic carpet ride. Maybe that will make Evie go to sleep. Narrator: Evie does not go to sleep. No, we are not calling Cookie Monster Punk for assistance, you bloodthirsty violence vampires! We return as Peppa thinks a gingerbread house might work....Evie raspberries, so the answer is no. Mummy Pig finally states that this is not working and Peppa needs to reel it in a bit. George suggests Quack Quack, so we head to a corner of ice-cream world in the imagination world as Evie is transferred to a duck's nest with the duck pond. Evie is going to literally sleep on eggs which cannot be good for Evie nor the ducks in the duck pond. Thankfully, most of this is cotton wool somehow. Peppa concludes her story, but Evie is not buying this sleeping crap. Mummy Pig calls it a good try, so Peppa decides to invoke the TEDDY RUXPIN SONG OF DOOM to waste time in a three minute episode. We head back to the imagination world with Peppa, George and Evie sitting and lying in the giant maple leaf bed of flowers as more singing ensues. At least Peppa's singing voice doesn't sound like a robotic AI voice this time. This works as Evie, Peppa and George sleep with Mummy Pig hugging them to end the episode at 3:07. Evie once again brings the entertainment and outside of the swaddling crap, this was fine. *** (60%).

House Warming Party: Short opens at the lobby of the new house as Daddy Pig in his best clothes is checking the boot rack before the doorbell rings. In comes the rest of the family as George is only wearing a yellow star on his shirt and Evie is in purple footy pjs with a yellow star in the middle. I see the toy Auntie and Uncle Pig used to keep Alexander calmed down is in the background as the door opens and the gang is all here, including Penny Polar Bear and the two mummies. They are doing a dance walk together with Suzy Sheep, Mummy Sheep, Danny Dog and Granddad Dog. The narrator calls this a "House Warming Party" as per the title card and we head into the kitchen with Daddy Pig talking to the adults, as Mummy Rabbit, Doctor Pony, Daddy Elephant and Mummy Elephant are written in via teleport. SUZY SHEEP~?! Apparently, Evie shitted on the ground was mistaken for a muddy puddle, which explains why some of the adults acted all offended by it. Peppa cuts him off as she was the one who provided music for the dance earlier with the boombox. Peppa claims that this is pointless since the house is already warm. Hey, I cannot argue that overwhelming logic there, Peppa. Daddy Pig explains the party and I think Daddy Pig is way too humble on the "bit of an upgrade" thingie, if you know what I mean. Oh, hello there Pedro F'N Pony, Emily Elephant and Rebecca Rabbit, didn't see you until now. Sigh, Edmond Elephant and Richard Rabbit are denied again! The kids are playing balloons and the adults are getting blueprint advice from Daddy Pig. The reaction indicates that they wish this was magic, even though this is the world of Peppa Pig which is fictional anyway. Daddy Pig's fun is showing blueprints and dammit, BS&P sucks now that Daddy Pig's fetish for concrete is no longer in evidence. Daddy Pig bails for more blueprint fun while Peppa is pondering over what fun she could pull. I know, bring back the giant hats and baby carrots since that was hilarious the last time and then Peppa can cosplay having Valvetta flashbacks. Peppa decides to play hide and seek with Peppa as the seeker. Damn, this is not going to end well without Freddy Fox to carry her. The kids all hide as Peppa closes her eyes and counts. By the way, Peppa skips numbers during a counting sequence, just to be a troll and let the seeking commence!

By the way, we head into the sitting room and the giant screen 4K television is shown. I note this because the mainline series before the Big Announcement had them buying a 4K television and then bringing it back to just getting the old television back, rendering the development pointless. This renders "The New TV" even more stupid than it was originally. Peppa is stomping on the sofa and finds Danny Dog, but gets cut off by Mummy Pig and Peppa Pig blushes. WHAT?! Other than the squealing like a pig, why was this wrong?! Anyhow, Peppa bails and goes into the play room as someone is hiding inside the puzzle box, which sounds like a suffication death just waiting to happen. Peppa ignores the giggles and goes into their bedroom and cannot find anything. See, I told you she sucks at this without Freddy Fox. Back to the kitchen with Daddy Pig showing off the cupboards with the spices containers inside. Yawn. Daddy Pig does some whataboutism as he opens the food containers to reveal Emily Elephant hiding as the containers pour out. Then somehow, the creators mindfucking gaslight me in the next scene as Richard and Edmond do show up after all! Apparently, George has his own bunkbed since the model is dinosaur themed. Someone is acting like a star ghost with creamy cyan blue colors. Peppa pulls the blankets and it's a tomb of stuff animals. HAHA! The toddlers outsmarted her! That was funny. Back to the kitchen for more Daddy Pig trying to get the house over, and the other adults realize that Daddy Pig's speech is completely sus. Evie cuts the whole thing off as Mummy Pig takes it as showing her new office and everyone bails stage right. Daddy Pig is blushing and then we see Peppa frowning like a rock lobster yeti. When Daddy Pig can find a kid and she can't, trouble. Peppa claims that she used to be the best in hide and seek. Since when?! What a dork Peppa is?! You found Danny Dog, but Mummy Pig cut you off. Your hearing sucks as well. Daddy Pig consoles her by doing breathing exercises called Belly Breaks. Hey, I don't see anything wrong with that. Daddy Pig talks for a while and reminds her about filling the house with memories. You do realize that you have all the time in the world to do that. Anyway, we hear sneezing and Peppa Pig opens the cupboard door to reveal Emily Elephant, showing that Daddy Pig is acting dumb instead of being dumb this time. Emily wants to join in the seeking and they find all the kids with ease as the narrator says it all to end the episode and Series Five at 3:12. Suzy Sheep wins the game I should note since they found her last. This was a decent episode. *** 1/4 (65%).

Dino-Saw-Fari: Series Six of this series opens in the forest at a wooden gate featuring speakers and colored Pterodactylus, whom are not technically dinosaurs anyway. Thankfully, we zoom out to see model long neck dinosaurs littered at the gate as the Pig family arrives in their car. Miss Rabbit is on the PA system as the gate opens while Miss Rabbit is speaking. The narrator states that they are at a dinosaur safari which Daddy Pig says the title card "Dino-Saw-Fari" which is "sic" because it should be "Dino-Saur-Fari". Was that name trademarked or something?! I get that the "saw" part is "see", but come on, now. George has Mr. Dine-e-saur, so I guess it's the toy's birthday. Why not?! We cannot have Evie's birthday yet since it's just been born in storyline. George is bouncing with glee, Evie is crying and bawling her eyes out. This is so powerful that the frame counter shows up out of nowhere. SUZY SHEEP~?! Peppa claims that Evie is excited for real dinosaurs. Most obvious lie ever. Mummy Pig is hoping we don't miss any "real dinos", as we see purple dinosaurs with the worst walk cycle ever, clearly telling the audience that the dinosaurs are not real. Daddy Pig saw it, Evie saw it and waved and the rest is pointless. The rest don't see it, but they do the second time around. Mummy Pig picks up a dinosaur booklet and reads it to waste some time in a three minute episode. Mummy Pig claims that Evie's weight is 4 kgs. Wait, stop right now! Didn't we agree in principle that it was body shaming to reveal weight on this show?! Shouldn't that apply to Evie and the dinosaurs?! It's things like this that just might everyone look like complete fools. Peppa calls them Eviesaurs, which is funny, I'll give them that. We drive some more as there is a warning sign with three exclaimation marks on the road. Peppa cannot see anything as the purple longneck giant dinosaur with a screw in it's jawline appears to give them a shock. The fact that there is a giant screw attaching a jaw is a clear clue that Peppa is lying.

Evie is excited and in awe as the dinosaur "licks" the side of the car as Mummy Pig calls it so realistic, that was funny. George is excited and bouncing Mr. Dine-e-saur and Evie is bawling her eyes out again. So Evie hates bouncing thingies which means the bouncy castle is out of her career moves. Daddy Pig tells George to calm down and George calms down. Mummy Pig continues to read the booklet to waste more time. The family drive away waving bye-bye as we make it to the fake volcano which is next to a fake lake and a fake muddy puddle. Damn, I knew AI was up to no good. Oh wait, the muddy puddle is legit because the car is now stuck. Even when modern cars are made, somethings never change. Daddy Pig is panicking over a clearly fake volcano makes him the GEEK OF THE WEEK~! Mummy Pig has to make sure Daddy Pig is smarten up to this. Even in the Evie era, Daddy Pig still must be dumb. Time for more green dinosaur models on poles walking like the animator doesn't know what a good walk cycle is. Mummy Pig continues to read the booklets because the Triceratops' are there to set up the T-Rexs. Probably because Tyranosaurus sounds too close to tyrant. George gasps and then holds back because Mr. Dine-e-saur is supposed to be a T-Rex. Plus, George has to look out for Evie so this makes sense. Which George himself points out. Mummy Pig praises George for being considerate, but she came prepared with earmuffs and they go over her actual ears this time. Here comes the giant Greymon-equse T-Rex to growl and awe Evie. By the way, ear muffs are called "ear defenders" here. Yes, these things do exist. George and Mr. Dine-e-saur interact with Greymon T-Rex for a while as the narrator says it all, while Evie is kicking it's feet giggling. Mummy Pig takes Mr. Dine-e-saur to give to Evie as George is happy. Peppa says it all and the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:02. Outside of the hypocrisy of weight, this was an awesome episode and another classic from Alison Ray. **** 1/4 (85%).

N'night: Short opens in Peppa new bedroom AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) as Peppa and George are cosplaying with their toys. George is using Mr. Dine-e-saur and Peppa is using a dolly, which probably means Teddy is now abandoned for good in this show. In comes Daddy Pig and Mummy Pig with Evie as George is spirited away to his room for bedtime. Peppa hugs Evie and wishes it a "N'night" as per the title card. Apparently, good night means "god night" and we cannot have god infect this show now can't we?! Peppa even kisses Evie and wishes it sweet dreams, which awes Mummy Pig. Daddy Pig returns with the baby monitor as Mummy Pig praises Peppa for being a great big sister. Remember when Peppa was the biggest troll in the biz of pre-school shows and everyone hates her for it?! Scene changer of doom ensues as Peppa Pig is tucked into her bunk bed on top as the wind is howling outside. Are you sure this show doesn't take place in Nova Scotia?! Peppa is not happy to hear this wind as Daddy Pig assures her that it's just the wind and closes the curtains on the window. Peppa is worried about George being on his own, which is weird because they are acting like this is the first time everyone is sleeping in separate rooms. Daddy Pig assures her that everything will be A-Okay! It's amazing how different the house is now that Peppa Pig has made so much money now that they have to act like they are rich now despite the fact that they didn't care about being money hoarding dragons. Daddy Pig hugs Peppa and wishes her a good night. Daddy Pig leaves and turns out the lights as Peppa of course cannot sleep. The lighting in this episode is inconsistantly going on and off during this scene. It's subtle, but I noticed it as Peppa finds Mr. Dine-e-saur on the ground. I think this is the third time in the history of Peppa Pig that George abandoned the toy, although at least here, Peppa found it instantly. Jump cut to Mummy Pig tucking in George and Peppa appears out of nowhere with Mr. Dine-e-saur as Mummy Pig is literally wearing a button orange shirt. Peppa gives George Mr. Dine-e-saur as Mummy Pig praises Peppa for being kind. Peppa says she'll be in her room if George needs any assistance. Jump cut back to Peppa in her bed as the headboard is literally a rainbow. Her covers are creamy white with cyan blue Evie shdows and green trim.

Then Peppa notices her sippy cup is there, but George might not have his. Gotta Cartoon Duck Syndrome the episode somehow as Peppa goes into the hallway as Daddy Pig is brushing his teeth in the bathroom while the baby monitor shows Evie in her crib. Peppa goes to George's room with the sippy cup and uses it to spray George in the face with water. Even after all this kindness, Peppa slips back into full troll mode, although George is merely annoyed at her. Daddy Pig hears Peppa and Peppa says that George is asleep, blaming HIM for waking George up. Peppa says the title card and leaves. It's even more problematic for Peppa trolling George when the Squirrels from Hey Duggee do a much better job at trolling and it almost always makes me laugh. George waves bye-bye. Jump cut back to Peppa's room and the narrator proclaims that Peppa Pig is ready to go to sleep and she's worried about the wind during this. I howled with laughter. The troll got trolled as Peppa has been gaslit by this wind, thinking that George is scared like her. George is not scared and don't care about wind, just like me. Wind is only a concern if it causes a power cut, which 95% of the time will not. Peppa comes in with the cubic boombox of doom claiming that she's doing this to give George relaxing music. Judging by your worrying, you need this a lot more than George does. Call it a hunch. Peppa tries to put the boombox onto the table, but her hands slip on the music changer and it plays that damnable AI ending music! Daddy Pig comes in and Peppa Pig is SO BUSTED~! Peppa is back in her room in the bunk bed as they exchange notes for a while. We discover that Peppa Pig actually misses George now that George has his own room, proving that even Peppa hates corporate for seperating them for no good reason. Daddy Pig has an idea to let them see each other all the time: spare baby monitors in each room. George accepts this as they wave good night and start to sleep while the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:08. This was a fine episode with Peppa overkilling her kindness a wee bit too much that it turned into unintentional trolling. *** 1/4 (65%).

First Aid Room: Short opens in the park with Mummy Pig reading a red book with her purple shopping bag on the bench. The duck pond is here with yellow ducks as Mummy Pig is sighing while the narrator states that this is "me" time for her as Daddy Pig is at the arcade with Peppa Pig (playing what appears to be an arcade water skiing game), George Pig (waiting for Daddy Pig to finish playing virtual baseball), Evie Pig (in the stroller), Emily Elephant, Mummy Elephant (both are playing the basketball hoops arcade game), Candy Cat, Danny Dog (both are cheering Peppa on), Suzy Sheep, Freddy Fox, Rebecca Rabbit and Pedro F'N Pony (who are skipping and doing nothing else). Daddy Pig swings at the ball and the ball is on a string which simulates the ball on the television screen and apparently, it's a depth scoring shot that gives Daddy Pig four points. Now, it's George's turn as Peppa Pig runs in and we go in slow motion because Daddy Pig has to run in to make the save because George is already in his swing motion. Peppa is protected, but Daddy Pig gets hit on George's backswing. This is all on Peppa Pig for running in. Daddy Pig did what he had to do as a parent to protect Peppa from getting hit in the face and took the bat shot to the right arm. Peppa apologizes as she should do, but Daddy Pig claims that he's fine. That bump on the arm near the elbow tells me otherwise. I realize that the bat is foam and plastic, but that still had to at least hurt like hell. Maybe even break the arm. Remember when Peppa Pig allowed kids to say that their leg was broken?! I do. Miss Rabbit -- the first aid trainer, as the hat implies -- runs in and says "not again". At first, I thought that George had done this to Daddy Pig before; but as you are about to see, that is not the case. Miss Rabbit offers Daddy Pig to the "First Aid Room" as per the title, and shows that Mr. Rabbit and Daddy Fox also suffered injuries. Knowing Daddy Fox as a deadbeat dad, he sort of had this coming from Freddy Fox. Why Mr. Rabbit got injured, I don't know. As per the copyright protection, the crosses are green in color. Freddy Fox is shooting hoops while Rebecca Rabbit watches on. Jump cut back to Mummy Pig at the park bench reading her book. It's probably the correct version of the Funny Onion book she wrote in the mainline series. At least she isn't reading Ezza Magazine.

She is relieved as the narrator is talking and I was waiting for Mummy Pig to tell the narrator to shut up. Mummy Pig didn't sadly. Jump cut to inside the first aid room with Daddy Pig on the inflatable green chair as he asks for the nurse and Miss Rabbit changes hats. I don't know why she bothered, everyone knew she was the nurse and not just because Miss Rabbit's gimmick is that she has multiple jobs. Miss Rabbit wants an explaination and Peppa Pig confesses to the whole thing like she is at fault and ruined everything. Oh wait...Miss Rabbit acts like she has seen this before and Peppa apologizes again. Daddy Pig forgives her of course as Miss Rabbit cleans up the wound and bandages Daddy Pig's arm. Yup, he's fine and Daddy Pig says it all as we jump cut back to Mummy Pig reading her book. Mummy Pig then wants to show Peppa something in her book, but forgets that Peppa is with Daddy Pig as the narrator continues to speak. Mummy Pig decides to check her cellphone and ring them up to see how they are doing. I think you can guess where this going now. Jump cut back to outside the first aid room as Daddy Pig thanks Miss Rabbit for the services as the kids are outside. Somehow Evie is fine as usual. Then the cellphone rings and Daddy Pig refuses to answer as he wants to do more arcading. Daddy Pig's answering machine is hilarious and I'm not going to spoil it for you. Peppa backs up Evie's stroller a bit as Daddy Pig coaches George on the swing as clearing thy mind is important. Okay, good to know. George swings, hits the ball and gets six points out of it. George juimps up and down with glee, and somehow George didn't hit Daddy Pig in the kneecaps. In comes Mummy Pig to hug Peppa Pig, so wow, that was a boring payoff. Mummy Pig also exchanges notes and kisses with Daddy Pig. Mummy Pig decides to have a go as I discover that this is an arcade version of cricket. There are six of those type of games on Nintendo Switch as I am writing this actually. Peppa claims that you have to clear your mind and Mummy Pig is like "Nope" and just swings so hard that she hits the ball and gets the high score completely with trophy. Just making a complete fool out of Daddy Pig. We exchange more notes and Evie needs some changing as Daddy Pig finally shows his injury. The narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:07. My payoff would have been Peppa swinging for the fences and unintentionally whacks Mummy Pig in the kneecaps, ending with Miss Rabbit treating her wounds. This was okay otherwise. ** 1/2 (50%).

Toilet Factory: Short opens on the boring road with the Pig family in their new car which is not all that different from their own car if you take away the size and the giant purple plastic roof on top of the roof of said car. Daddy Pig is driving and despite driving on the left side of the road, the car is clearly American. Evie is clearly riding backwards since Evie is looking west instead of east like the rest of the family. Evie is not amused as she farts, blushes and bawls her eyes out in order. Get use to this, we are going to witness more of this in the mainline series and probably the most since Edmond Elephant's birthday which had 20 instances of bawling in a five minute episode. At least Evie is crying because she pooped her clothes as the kids all hold their noses on Daddy Pig's command. There is a giant billboard containing a giant toilet and Peppa is gaslit in believing that this is the place for finding a changing room for Evie. Mummy Pig is in awe because it's a "Toilet Factory" as per the title. The toilet factory has a logo of a toilet and the windows have images of toilet paper rolls on the glass. The family parks in the parking lot in the foreground. Everyone gets out of the car. Now, I was expecting them to enter the toilet factory and we go about two minutes through the tour before Evie finally gets changed with some grossout humor (well as gross as the show will allow, which is not much). Nope! They find the changing room within seconds and Daddy Pig comes out with Evie with new clothes. They did the finish before starting the tour. That was dumb. George then brings out a diaper and wants to be changed, but Peppa giggles on that one because he's too old. Now come on Peppa, you are never too old to wear a diaper. Ask my father about it. George is like "sod off" in his response. Miss Rabbit appears on screen on the video wall to welcome the family to the Toilet Museum, because of course. We have to Cartoon Duck Syndrome the episode since Evie is already changed. Then I discover after some exchanging of words that the booth is real and that Miss Rabbit is not an image in storyline because Daddy Pig swipes his debt credit as Miss Rabbit brings out the device clear as day. Peppa proclaims that he is going to show George how awesome toilets are. George is in a huff since he likes being in a diaper, I guess. Miss Rabbit leads the family into the toilet museum which has toilets of all shapes and sizes and colors. There are toilet seats on the wall and a giant white toilet in the middle. Now George is in awe of these toilets. By the way, the floor is basically an image of a roll of toilet paper being rolled out, since Peppa mentions it during the walk.

Miss Rabbit then shows off the first major toilet: A Japanese toilet with rainbow trim that rolls around in motion. It's supposed to be a bidet toilet which I have seen in some form at the bus terminal in Dartmouth. It's nowhere as fancy as this version in Peppa's world though. It has heated seats (which is only useful if the room is cold), seven flush cycles which only one is shown and it also has Japan's answer to DISCO FEVER~! DISCO FEVER~! DISCO FEVER~! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! The yellow light in the ceiling doubles as a disco ball. Peppa loves this and wants to go to Japan, prompting Mummy Pig to check her cellphone to proclaims that they missed the last bus. Mummy Pig is bullshitting here since you cannot get to Japan on a bus, unless Japan is just another state in England. Peppa isn't buying the trumpets and we move on. Peppa and George try out the most absurd looking urinals I have ever seen. They even have hoses with sprinklers attached to it. Next up, the campground demonstrates of the DIY yellow toilet, the perfect toilet for Gedo methinks. George then pops out of the toilet and makes funny faces. That was funny. For those who think this is gross: The toilet has nothing in it, it's an empty toilet. I can understand that being in the toilet is dangerous due to the material being hard enough to cause injuries, but take your "eww, gross" outrage elsewhere. We find some workman's outhouses as our resident idiot of culture, Mr. Bull is knocking the door on one of the stalls, the purple one I might add. Peppa Pig and company walk in and Peppa recommends the Japanese Disco Fever Rainbow Toilet because it's much more fun. I cannot argue that overwhelming logic there, Peppa. Mr. Bull decides to take the offer as we continue the tour with Miss Rabbit doing her spiel as her walkie-talkie is on her dress. I betcha she gets a call and has to bail. I check the video...No, it's photo op time as Miss Rabbit claims that they are better than nappies. The photo op is basically those images with holes in them when you go to fairs and whatnot, but the images are toilet seats. Mummy Pig is not sure about this because this looks like a set piece designed to humiliate people. Miss Rabbit then claims that the seats are clean she thinks...Uh-oh! Her multiple jobs are going to get her sued after that comment. Or not. Miss Rabbit takes the picture as Evie don't care that she's the middle piggy in the purple toilet seat. George is making funny faces and Peppa looks appalled even though she was the one who wanted to do this tour. The narrator says it all as George is holding his chest because he is not allowed to hold his dick because he needs the toilets. The problem is that it's back at the enterance. This toilet factory's designs sucks! The family rushes west as we end the episode at 3:08 with Mr. Bull dancing disco at the rainbow Japanese toilet. Okay, that was a neat ending in a good enough episode. *** 1/2 (70%).

THE REVIEW LINE

Well, we end Series Five and start Series Six with some mixed bag of shorts. Dino-Saw-Fari, bad title and hypocrisy on weight issues aside was a really fun romp as Mr. Dine-e-saur apparently got a birthday and I enjoyed the episode. The licking of the car was also great. Cardboard Hospital was an instant classic as Peppa cosplayed a quack troll doctor who at least was doing it in a postitive manner without going into the ugly side of her persona that I see even in the Post-Golden Boots era. The Ice Cream Factory (that was not a factory, but a resturant) was also good and Evie's post-birth so far is actually better than the build up to Evie's birth. She can also troll with the best of them already. The rest were fun to okay as the Housewarming Party wasn't nearly as funny as the Really Big News episode. From here on out, I'm going to be doing the Peppa Pig Tales episodes on Monday as I want to work on transferring all my TaleSpin material that is on Livejournal to my website and maybe clean up and do some additional commentary on the comic book stories. Hopefully one day, I'll find the stories from Super Baloo that have left to be done and the stories that were recently released that weren't used during the 1990's. I honestly have been slacking on TaleSpin stuff and focusing way too much on pre-school shows. I'm also considering fixing a lot of my older rants like Darkwing Duck and The Wuzzles since a lot of them are poorly formatted and they all require a redo of sorts. So...

Thumbs up for Cardboard Hospital and Dino-Saw-Fari. Thumbs in the middle for the rest, and I'll see you all next time.

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