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Peppa Pig Tales #35 Rant

Reviewed: 09/19/2025

Old School Peppa Pig Is Back! Sort of Part 35!

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.

Magic Red Button: Short opens inside the garage as Mummy Pig is looking for something inside boxes filled with straw. George pops out to give Mummy Pig a shock. They laugh as George is set on his feet and a giant red button rolls out. Uh-oh! Trouble always happens when giant red buttons are around. George grabs the button and Mummy Pig is warning George not to push the button. It's a "Magic Red Button" according to the title card and Mummy Pig. Again, trouble. There is an orange lawnmower with grass and is shaped like a racing car. Mummy Pig is acting like she is encouraging George to push the button, as if pushing it will end Peppa Pig Tales and Mummy Pig having to take care of three children. Everyone: She already takes care of two kids, desensitization would make Mummy Pig accept three. George pushes the red button and Mummy Pig is dancing around for no reason like a ballerina, badly. George is laughing, probably because he agrees with me that Mummy Pig's dancing sucks. George then pushes the red button to stop the stupidity on "ballerina slippers" which Mummy Pig is not wearing. Mummy Pig warns him to only push the button for good, and George pushes it anyway for evil! Evil as in "I like it when Mummy Pig dances badly". Earth to Mummy Pig: Cut the act out already, no one is fooled. George keeps pushing, the music keeps going and Mummy Pig keeps dancing and not dancing, repeat, repeat, repeat. George takes the red button and heads outside as Mummy Pig bumps into boxes and finds what appears to be a toy. Jump cut to the sitting room as Peppa is playing with Teddy, now I'm incensed! This relationship still keeps going as George walks in, and headbutts Peppa, releasing Teddy. Good! Teddy needs to run away right now! Peppa don't care, which says even more about her relationship with Teddy as she wonders what the red button is. Mummy Pig comes in explaining it and then George pushes the button, and this causes Mummy Pig to believe that George is invisible. Yeah, Mummy Pig is officially working George and George cannot understand it. Peppa somehow agrees with her despite being the obvious troll. SUZY SHEEP~?! Peppa and Mummy bail stage right as George is now officially amused, which means he knows it is a work and is going to work them up in response. Pyschological warfare at it's most hilarious!

George runs around, jumps on the sofa and makes funny faces as Mummy and Peppa have to pretend that they cannot see George despite George not pretending to see them back. I love this! George throws pillow, Mummy Pig tries to grab George, George dodges and then goes to the button, and pushes it to end the spot with such glee and giggles. George bails upstairs and Mummy and Peppa follow him. Head inside the playroom as George sets the button down and pushes it. This somehow causes the lights to dim and create colored worm like lines on the ceiling. Apparently, this makes the toy glow, so I'm guessing it's a night light of sorts. Somehow, Teddy has warped to a blue seat. SUZY SHEEP~?! Then we hear Daddy Pig's voice and George pushes the button and resets the room. Looks like that magic red button is living up to it's name after all. Mummy Pig and Peppa bail as George walks out with the room. We head inside Evie's room with Daddy Pig tucking Evie in as it's night time. It took 2:18 before Evie showed up. Damn, if she didn't appear, that would have been the second episode Evie didn't show up. Oh well, Mummy Pig explains that they had a situation with the night light and the jewel box. Yeah, it involves George, a red button and hilariously bad acting. Peppa of course gives the whole game away and Daddy Pig is amused. Evie is sleeping gleefully as they do a tease of George pondering about pushing that damnable button because Evie loves light. Hey, it's still better than sound which Baby Alexander loves. I cannot wait to see Evie VS. Baby Alexander in a feud. You know that one is coming as soon as new episodes are made. George of course pushes the button and the room is filled with night sky, colored worms and white stars. The narrator says it all as George is praised, and now Mummy Pig cannot see George, albeit it makes sense here. The music and room doesn't affect Evie as she sleeps to end the episode at 3:08. I loved this episode! Lots of hilariously bad acting helped a lot and the finish made sense. **** 1/4 (85%).

Tiny Land Rescue Mission: Short opens in Tiny Land (YAY!) on a true miniture locomotive run by Miss Rabbit. So Grandpa Pig can sod off about Gertude being the same thing when it's a tractor with a train motif. On the mini locomotive is Peppa Pig wearing the same conductor hat Miss Rabbit is, because she's the star you see. The rest is Mummy Pig holding onto George and Daddy Pig wearing the baby sack with Evie in tow. I just realized that Teddy has the same hat only fitting his tiny head. I'm not fooled at this pink gaslighting troll. We are at the last stop as Peppa makes the announcement that they are at the exit as Daddy Pig checks his mobile phone while the rest get off while the narrator explains the obvious to us. The family shows off pictures of the event as Miss Rabbit proclaims that she'll be out of a job, well one of them anyway. Okay, I laughed because I wish it was actually true. Then they show George with Mr. Dine-e-saur and then George gets the LIGHTBULB OF BLOODY CLAIRTY because his toy dinosaur is missing. Yes, for only the third time in the entire brand, George lost this dinosaur toy. I would shake my head, but George losing dinosaur is much rarer than Peppa losing Teddy three times in four episodes. The Italian Holiday, everyone. George sobs, but doesn't bawl his eyes out as Daddy Pig proclaims that they'll find it somewhere in Tiny Land,and it's a "Tiny Land Rescue Mission" according to Peppa and the title card. Now, watch closely when you see the pictures and when you see them compared to the dinosaur area: If you cannot tell where George's dinosaur toy is, then you have issues. Everyone gets back on the train as Mummy Pig decides to check the photo evidence. Yes, everyone has to pretend that Mr. Dine-e-saur is anywhere, but in the only photo where George had the toy in his hands. Peppa's ignorance of the Great Wall Of China might be the dumbest mispronouncation Peppa has done in Peppa Pig Tales. Daddy Pig thankfully corrects her and makes sure Miss Rabbit got what Peppa was actually talking about.

We head to the Great Wall of China display, nothing. A shadow figure turns out to be a Moah statue which is from Easter Island. Not that it matters, it's not Mr. Dine-e-saur anyway. Next picture is the Tiny Farm, and not only does Miss Rabbit change hats, but somehow the train engine is changed to a tractor motif. SUZY SHEEP~?! Back onto the tractor train and they arrive at the tiny farm. The search ensues and they find nothing. A tiny haystack makes noise, but that causes a mini white chicken to bounce up and down. Yeah, whatever. Nobody except Evie is amused, so this was a troll move on Miss Rabbit's part. George sighs. Next photo is Construction World, which is a misnomier since it involves Mini Mr. Bull, and his gang of deconstructive tendenicies. By the way, not only did Miss Rabbit change her hat, but the entire train is changed. Come on, now! They head to the construction area and there's nothing of note. George is sad. Next up is Mini Potato City and yes, the train is changed to the potato roller coaster motif, but thankfully the conductor hats are back on. Nothing of note there. There are mini cars driven by Mrs. Cow, Daddy Cat and Granny Sheep in her old design before the Sheep Changes in Series Eight. I'll get my coat...George is getting frustrated now that he's crying like a regular kid now. Peppa then finally deduces that they need to search the dinosaur area in the first picture. Daddy Pig acts like he realized, he screwed up and Mummy Pig chuckles. Because again, Daddy Pig has to be the GEEK OF THE WEEK on every episode. Daddy Pig blushes as Miss Rabbit arrives with the dinosaur motif cars. Of course! Everyone gets in and we head west past all the attractions they passed earlier in the episode until they arrive in dinosaur land, and in the background is Mr. Dine-e-saur face down. George looks around and find it with ease. George hugs his toy, the family is happy, and the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:07. Just an episode that was pretty much solved with the first picture and went on for longer than it should have. ** 1/4 (45%).

Rainbow Buffet: Short opens on the street sidewalk with Peppa and George making funny faces with a radish and a tomato in that order on Evie who is in her stroller as it's Granny and Grandpa Pig taking care of Evie for the first time in this series I do believe. Why is Grandpa Pig and George Pig wearing a red shirt? This must be "wear red day", which sounds like a MAGAT idea to me. Grandpa Pig has a basket of fruits and veggies. Peppa then asks the exact same thing I was going to ask, minus the MAGAT part of course. Grandpa Pig says she's close because it's a Rainbow Buffet as per the title card. We had into a hall with tables and chairs set up in solid rainbow colors for each table. The creamy vanilla table is set on the eastern side as we have Reggie Rabbit with Rebecca Rabbit all dressed in yellow, Granddad Dog with Danny Dog dressed in all green and Mummy Zebra with Zoe Zebra dressed in all cyan blue. All have baskets of fruit and vegetables as they put said stuff on the creamy white table. All the blue fruits and veggies are more purple and dark blue than the cyan color and some of the yellow stuff is more orange than yellow. Only Granddad Dog and Grandpa Pig kept their colors consistant throughout. The dogs simply dump their stuff on the table, those naughty dogs who don't work for Sony. I'll get my coat...Peppa and George arrive at the red table and sit down to do nothing. This is not the best time to be on your best behaviour there Peppa. Grandpa Pig and Granny Pig come over with Evie, I assume Grandpa Pig went to the creamy white table since there was a scene changer inbetween shots. Peppa is basically channeling an Englishman in her promos about fancy tea parties. Considering that one of the guardians is not a senior citizen (Mummy Zebra, everyone) and there are kids present, nope. Grandpa Pig in roundabout terms says pretty much what I would say here: That is not a formal gala. Grandpa loves tea and after all his ribbing on Granny Pig and the cosplaying Grannies for spending time together at the house just for tea and chatting, that is so ironic. Granny Pig leads the kids to the northeastern corner and proclaims that this is not an ordinary eat time, it's a rainbow snack time. These rainbows are so powerful, Daddy Zebra is written in by teleport with Mummy Zebra. SUZY SHEEP~?! By the way, kiwi fruit has brown skin, so only Grandpa Pig got it right in the end. Anyhow, this upcoming game is Rainbow Bingo.

Granddad calls for green which justifies the existence of the colored flags on the table. The kids take green food and eat it. Rinse, lather repeat for red and yellow. The only thing of note is Grandpa Pig letting Evie choose the color, which did make me smile. Their munching noises suck I should note. Apparently, the Zebra family isn't important, so there is no munching spot for the cyan blue flag because Granny Pig uses a carrot styled orcarina to end the session. Zoe and company don't seen to mind because it's time for Rainbow Dancing as we jump cut to the entire floor of the hall being colored squares. The Zebra family seems to be the only one in their colored square, although Mr. Zebra is between blue and yellow. Granny Pig dares them to copy their dance moves as the squares are actually panels of light since they change color on command as demonstrated by the dancers. Basically, the object the dance is to dance the style according to the team's colors. Betcha cyan blue gets snubbed again. I check the video....Red team's dance is ***, green team is ** 1/2 because no one does the dog tail wiggle quite like Danny Dog, yellow team *** 1/2 because the bunny hop is always a classic and nope. the cyan blue team uses streamers to dance ****. These ratings would have been higher if their singing was as good as their dancing, which it wasn't. Jump cut to the Pig family sitting at their red table as Peppa asks why there is a red cover on the table replacing the red flag. Grandpa Pig lifts the cover to reveal cut up fruit and veggies, along with paint, brushes and sheets of papers, because it's time to make art with rainbow fruits and vegetables. Of course! What a fool I am?! Got to find some use for the red cabbage and red onions since none of the blue stuff got eaten. A pepper and tomato are used to stamp paint onto paper as Grandpa Pig shows Evie the picture. Evie loves the picture. Granny and Grandpa Pig so far have done a better job keeping Evie amused and not bawling it's eyes out. Maybe Evie has mommy issues this time around?! Rebecca and Reggie make a fruity rainbow, Zoe Zebra makes a rocket ship, and George makes a dine-e-saur using avacado slices. Peppa makes a picture of the family sitting at the table, which is classier than Daddy Pig sitting on the sofa watching television. Peppa then makes flower stamps onto the paper to finish as we zoom out to see Danny Dog's picture. I have zero idea what he made as Peppa calls it a rainbow party while the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:08. If the singing during the dance scene was improved, this would be the best episode so far in the Evie era. As it is, it was another awesome episode from Alison Ray. **** 1/2 (90%).

Picture Shop: Short opens with Daddy Pig and Peppa Pig walking and skipping in that order on the sidewalk in Peppatown. We are heading inside the photography shop with Gerald Giraffe and Daddy Giraffe as Daddy Giraffe has to duck to get inside. At least he hasn't gotten the Miss Lips gimmick from Fish Hooks. Yet. Daddy Pig and Peppa Pig head inside as there are pictures and photos galore, along with custom picture frames, a computer to print out pictures and Miss Rabbit in job number whatever turns the writers on, I guess. Also picking up photos and stuff are Suzy Sheep, Mummy Sheep, Mr. Bull, Mrs. Cow, Mummy Pony and Pedro F'N Pony. I should note that during the "Pig Changes" arc, the only non-Pig members shown were: Mr. Bull, Mr. Labo, Mr. Rhino, Linda Bear, Miss Rabbit, Rebecca Rabbit, Richard Rabbit (maybe Robbie Rabbit/Mummy Rabbit in the flashback), Granny Wolf, Old Mrs. Donkey and Penny Pony. Everyone else was a palette swap. Literally only three known kids (and maybe four at most), and one of them is Richard Rabbit which they typically ignored. That arc was almost all Pig family all the time, the Sibling School was the closest to being a typical kids Peppa Pig episode. Yes, the narrator says the title card and Miss Rabbit is using her computer to make a photo of Gigi Gazelle which falls on the floor. Uh-oh! Did Miss Rabbit find out about Gigi being a vampire?! TUNE INTO SOFT COPY TO FIND OUT~!! Suzy Sheep is asking for her playgroup picture and Miss Rabbit has them stuffed into five different cardboard boxes, because this has to be an educational guessing game. I get it, it's hilarious and games are great, but Miss Rabbit is already our GEEK OF THE WEEK~! It's 11 am on the clock. Miss Rabbit is cutting all sorts of promos and then we find out why the picture of Gigi Gazelle was even there: It was to make Miss Rabbit slip and falls as the pictures go flying just as Peppa Pig's picture is being printed. Because you see, no matter how over the other stars are, Peppa is the real star. To Peppa: You are no different than Baloo from TaleSpin, and Kit and Molly run rings around both him and you. Peppa's a better character than Baloo is, so there's that. Miss Rabbit apologizes for her geekiness as Peppa has a plan: Line up the pictures to see which is which. Hey, I'll take that, we need to kill time in a three minute episode anyway. Miss Rabbit likes Peppa's idea and decides to use the shelf of picture frames to do the check list. Scene change to what is basically a photo lineup of photos. Take that, police! Oh wait, one of the pictures is Officer Panda, whom was very sus during the infamous storage locker incident many episodes ago on Peppa Pig Tales.

Okay, right now I see Pedro's picture, Gerald's picture and Suzy's picture on the line up. Suzy has declared herself king of the playground now in one of the photos, that was funny. Peppa and Miss Rabbit then start to play "good cop, bad cop" on Suzy Sheep. HAHA! I knew this trolling was going to turn into a CSI: NY, only a lot nicer and kind. Peppa claims Suzy has a pink nose and that causes them to fold down every picture except Mr. Bull, Suzy Sheep and Pedro Pony. Suzy claims to be wearing a crown and they finally find the picture. Next up is Gerald Giraffe which is silly because Pedro's picture is still up. Pedro Pony is still clueless and the writers won't buy him a clue in this episode. Miss Rabbit and Daddy Giraffe reset the pictures, and now Gerald doesn't remember even though his eyes clearly are looking at the picture. Pedro is like "first time"? Gerald claims that he has spots, which reduces it to Mrs. Cow, Pedro Pony and Gerald Giraffe. Gerald and Pedro are boys, it's down to two and Miss Rabbit has to pretend she cannot tell the difference between the two. This is so stupid. Gerald and Pedro do a height spot to complete the "photo lineup" spot as Peppa is giggling because she knows this is all bullshit. See what I did there?! Peppa notices the long neck and that is the correct picture. Mr. Bull is next and he gives himself a description that is close, but not enough for Miss Rabbit. Until he mentions the work hat and that is easily found. Apparently, he took the picture while yawning, that was funny as Mr. Bull is proud of himself while Mrs. Cow kisses him on the cheek. Awww, my heart melted! I'm guessing that they gave Pedro his picture during the Gerald sequence since it's Peppa's turn next. Peppa does a great job describing herself as the rest of the babyfaces help her during this and then we discover that Miss Rabbit's printer was set to unlimited copies because there are Peppa Pig pictures flying everywhere. HAHA! Well, you got to jackhammer the point home that Peppa is the star of this show and that pile of printed Peppa Pig pictures is living proof of it. Peppa should get royalites off them, she can then pay back all the "Pig Changes" with interest that Nickelodeon demanded in Series Nine. Miss Rabbit runs over and somehow turns off the printer. Everyone laughs, Daddy Pig cuts a promo when grabbing one of the photos as the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:10. Good finish, stupid middle that made Miss Rabbit look like an idiot and Peppa is Peppa as usual. *** (60%).

Super Foods: Short opens at the cinema as Daddy Pig, Peppa Pig, Danny Dog, and Gerald Giraffe race out. Apparently, they watched a movie about racing cars as the narrator says the title card. Apparently, the Super Foods are a carrot anthro, a broccoli anthro and a tomato anthro with capes and masks in green, orange and purple. It's time for lunch and they talk about healthy super foods for a bit before Daddy Pig shows them the super foods resturant as apparently there is no statue of the tomato superhero, thus means that Super Tomato is the straight serious guy and therefore not a star. Everyone goes in as it's another edition of Miss Rabbit doing the job of a million rabbits. By the way, the creators made no effort to make this even close to being original as this is basically the same resturant as I ranted on with Evie earlier in this series. I know this because the entire ice cream machine setup is still there and ice cream is not a super food. Milk maybe...Sitting at the tables is Doctor Pony, Mr. Bull and Mrs. Cow as Daddy Pig and the other kids go to a table. Miss Rabbit is serving Gigi Gazelle on the right side of the scene. We head over to the playground with Mandy Mouse, Mummy Mouse and Edmond Elephant on various equipment as this is basically a vegan McDonalds at this point. We also see Pedro F'N Pony going down the slide and Candy Cat swinging from a beach ball swing. Back to Peppa as she wants to cosplay a hero, which sounds like a bad idea to me. Daddy Pig ponders this over and is fine with it, but the problem is he thinks Peppa cannot be hero without lunch to get the energy up. That's a valid point there, Daddy. The kids get three happy meals, all with logos that pretty much give away which veggie role the kids will play during the cosplay later on. Miss Rabbit gives Daddy Pig a veggie sub, so this is Subway now.

Peppa plays the role of Super Broccoli and it has broccoli as a meal. Zora from Digimon 01 would smile seeing this. Gerald plays the role of Super Tomato and he gets spaghetti with tomato sauce. Of course! Only Peppa Pig Tales would not get the past sight gag in this brand. Super Tomato's gimmick is that it has wobbly long arms. Danny Dog is Super Beans, making him the Devil's...beans because he's having beans. What, no carrot?! Or is Super Carrot's role only allowed for Rebecca Rabbit?! Danny Dog's gimmick is that he creates wind, and somehow it doesn't make him fart. Considering that Evie does that now, it should be all right for the big kids to fart on this show now. By the way, everyone got sun backgrounds in different colors, shades and stars in their backgrounds during their transformation sequences. I just assume Super Broccoli's gimmick is that she gains brains. Everyone finishes their meals and they feel super as they drive into the playground and we have trouble because Pedro Pony is on this bumpy slide standing up and is wobbly. Leave it to the clueless putz to become the victim of a weird slide. Pedro bounces down as Peppa, Danny and Gerald do their goofy transformation sequences in the imagination world, which is a big city no one cares about. Peppa's gimmick is flying apparently as she waves to Mandy and Candy. The old anime dub rule #12 has been violated...again. Also, just to make Pedro look like an absolute putz, the imagination world has Pedro not being able to go down a small flight of stairs in front of city hall. That playground structure was more threatening in the real world than the imagination world's city hall. That made me laugh. Peppa saves Pedro from the city hall stairs of doom and puts him on his feet on the sidewalk. Pedro thanks Peppa for saving him. To be fair, this is not the dumbest save ever. Mr. Potato finding the daisy on Mrs. Potato's forehead was worse.

We return to reality (thank you, not really) as Peppa and Pedro wave at each other. Now Edmond is having problems with the ball swing, at least this looks believable in the real world and the imagination world is even more threatening at least since they are in the towers when Gerald makes the save with the stretchy arms of doom. Just making a complete fool out of Pedro Pony. Edmond swings across and lands safely in the towers as Gerald also has a stretchy neck as well. Okay, good to know. Then we return to reality as the next challenge appears to be painful: The swing bashers of death. Edmond bumps into one of them and lands on his ass and is horrified. He is helped up by Candy Cat, I think. The imagination world is the same except with spikes! Cheap, but effective. In comes Danny Dog literally channeling Bradley from Stickin' Around and it's so hideously hilarious that I was laughing my ass off. Danny invokes the Winddoken, which blows the spiked bashers high into the air and keeping them there as the other kids cross the area without a problem. The trio of super heroes all praise each other as Daddy Pig walks in to inform them that the entertainment is over and it's home time. The super foods slide down the slide and Danny Dog gets lawn darted like the geek that he is. Now, their powers are gone. But wait; there is another food that gives them energy because of course there has to be a storyline reason for the ice cream machine to be there! Of course! What a fool I am?! We have to make sure veggies get buried in the end. Mr. Bull and Mrs. Cow had soft serve and leave. But wait, the kids decide they want more veggies in an amazing plot twist! Everyone watches the kids and Daddy Pig chase each other in the resturant as the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:08. This was a really fun episode with a great ending actually. They were teasing the junk food finish and then didn't deliver to save the vegetables from being buried. Awesome! **** (80%). By the way, we have gone back to back episodes without Evie nor Mummy Pig!

Cardboard Castle: Short opens at the school house on the hill as Peppa is painting her castle made of cardboard boxes. There is a lot of color in that castle, including musical notes, streamers, a movable cardboard door and a legit disco ball. I know the door is movable because Rebecca and Peppa are having trouble positioning the object. The narrator says it all and the title of the episode. We zoom out to see Gigi Gazelle supervising and I will say this: If the whole rumor that Gigi is retiring and being replaced as a teacher is true, I hope the name is Mr./Mrs. Pug instead of Mr./Mrs. Pitbull because at least that would pay off the telemarketer incident with Granny and Grandpa Pig in Baby's Arrival in the main series. Just to make Granny Pig and the telemarketer look like even bigger geeks. There are two other cardboard castles, one of them looks like a castle pyramid with a road that looks like a fake moat. Mandy Mouse, Candy Cat and Emily Elephant are making that castle. The third is just a plain cardboard castle and someone clearly noticed that "That tape looks like a legit Christian cross, so let's add a piece of tape on the bottom so it looks like a wooden road sign", and of course it involves SUZY SHEEP~ and Pedro F'N Pony. I would say that my life is complete, but Danny Dog doing absolutely nothing but run around is hilarious. He is smarter than everyone else today, because he knows that with Granny Sheep around, the rain must fall. The rain sees obstacles in it's way. Peppa brings out the toy boombox square and welcomes all the kids to the Rainbow Castle. Danny Dog is the only real bigot kid on this show, but he at least has smarten up to it. Mr. Lion on the other paw... Gigi Gazelle praises the castle and Peppa and Rebecca are so humble that they call her Queen Gazelle. Irony.

Gigi is confused but returns the favor as we go to castle #2 with Candy Cat and Mandy Mouse, so Emily Elephant is as smart as Danny Dog I see. At least Emily had some empathy for the castle and her friends. It's called the Candymandy castle. I'm shocked that this didn't lead to them arguing over the name, since it's not like yelling each other is not allowed in this show. Somehow, Mandy teleported into the castle while demonstrating the high tech castle. This has a be a rib on Nintendo, and it's a funny one. Peppa fires the catapult and the white purple swirly ball lands in Gigi's right hand in a good catch, literally. Gigi speaks and Peppa says "bless you" and Gigi gives the "I'm a secularist vampire, KKKrisitan!" face before walking off. Okay, that was funny. The last castle is last but not least, which is funny in itself, is called a castlely castle. Suzy and Pedro have that blank mouth stare like "What the hell did she just say?!". Come on, now. Pedro and Suzy know you meant "blandly and borey", so why not just say that?! It's honest, it's accurate and it's funnier that what you said. Pedro and Suzy are not buying this praise as Pedro claims that there is no funky disco music, even though Peppa never played any music. SUZY SHE---?! Oh wait, she's with Pedro on this one. PEPPA PIG~?! Much better and more accurate. Peppa thinks it's great and the walls are straight. Suzy sighs because Peppa needs to learn Anime Dub Rule #12. No, I'm not explaining it anymore. You will all sleep better at night not knowing why it's so funny. Pedro and Suzy are in close to 1.0 Rock Lobster Yeti frowny face mode and decides to find a conveniently placed sandpit and they start making a sand castle. The narrator is acting like this is a tragedy. Well, if you were honest about yourself and told them that the castle is crap, that would have taken it a bit better because they already knew it was BS and you had to lie to yourself and them in order not to hurt something that was already hurt on their own shortcomings.

Rebecca is regretting this, Mandy loves the castle anyway, so her standards are lower than mine actually. Ouch! Peppa's plan is to cheer them up and the instant she says this, the storm comes in and it rains. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I hope this was the revenge of Granny Sheep for all those times it rained on her when she was presenting art. It's also windy, so everyone runs into the school house while the narrator says the obvious to us. Even better: The rain stops literally seconds later and there was no scene changer. SUZY SHEEP~?! Everyone runs out and Castle #1 and Castle #2 are totally DESTROYED~! The disco ball landed perfectly in a muddy puddle. I wish it was a bouncy ball and kept bouncing up and down in the puddle. That would have been buys! The pyramid castle with catpult has toppled over, although the moat is perfectly intact despite being a lot lighter. SUZY SHEEP~?! Castle #3 is teased to be destroyed and then Pedro and Suzy run frowning and thus being a realist in this siutation. Wait, Suzy Sheep being a realist?! Get out of town, show! Turns out, the castle is perfectly intact! HAHA! It is magic, Suzy was right all along, homo sapien was toast since the start of it's existence! Gigi Gazelle reminds everyone that castles must be robust to stand to the weather. Yeah, substance is better than style. Pedro and Suzy are relieved, but the two have total empathy for the other castles because they were impressive in style and they still wanted that in their robust castle. Pedro and Suzy's idea is to combine the stuff into a tribrid castle with disco ball, color, catapult and drawbridge, only build with robust in mind, a balance of substance and style. It's still windy, but the wind cannot defeat the castle as the narrator says it all while the kids giggle to end the episode at 3:05. I love this episode despite Gigi's dishonesty about the castle quality. Sometimes, honesty is the best policy, especially when the kids themselves know you are being dishonest. **** (80%). Wow, three episodes in a row without Evie to boot! Are these the older episodes they put in the can in case Evie didn't get over?!

Broken Toy: Short opens with Peppa Pig making Teddy talk while showing what appears to be plasters on it's hand. This is the abuse that doesn't end, it goes on and on my friend, some people think Peppa is an evil abuser to plush toys everywhere, and the writers don't care about aborting this angle just because...POW! OUCH! Ummm...Oh wait, the plasters are her hand and that's even worse. Sigh. George runs in to show off Mr. Dine-e-saur as Evie is back after a three episodes of non-Evie action. She's in the stroller as Quack Quack is a total mess. Oh no, Evie is abusing Quack Quack now. Damn, I knew that pink gaslighting troll would be a bad influence to children in the target demographic, but wow. We discover via the narrator that the Pig family with only Daddy Pig are at the doll hospital, which means Miss Rabbit appears once again. Miss Rabbit is fixing up Teddy Playgroup. Wow, there is a "Quiet On The Set" story if I ever heard one. The narrator says the title card and Miss Rabbit asks what happened?! Peppa -- worst snitch ever -- stumbles on her words as we hit the flashback to the Pig Family having a blanket picnic as I am ready to bury these writers if any legit animals are fed. Except for the ants because nuts to them! Peppa and George are doing the earthquake ritual while chasing each other like a Taylor Swift concert while Daddy Pig cannot keep his balance as Evie throws Quacky down onto the ground, making sure it's all Evie's fault even though she did it in reaction to Peppa's earthquake ritual and thus pinning the blame on the troll. Hey, psychological warfare at it's funniest! George steps on Quacky to squash it like Alexander The Grape. Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk! Thank you show for bringing that joke out of retirement as Peppa literally slips on Quacky like Charlie Brown kicking air after Lucy withdraws the American Rules football, the picnic goes flying and everyone is a mess, especially Daddy Pig.

Evie gets the tomato ketchup blood treatment on her head and we see Quacky is a broken, beaten mess as everyone gasps.Evie is frowning as Peppa apologizes, but George does not. Sigh again. Miss Rabbit proclaims that she cannot repair a rubber duckie and everyone groans. But wait?! Miss Rabbit does have someone to repair rubber duckies. At first, I thought it would be Reggie Rabbit since he's been on Peppa Pig Tales and has spoken at least once. Miss Rabbit opens the secret wall to another repair shop and it reveals...Grandpa Pig using a jewel eye lens at the table. Yes, Grandpa Pig is the new recruit and now has a job. Geez, Grandpa Pig must be falling on hard times since the baby's arrival. They do the meet and greet as Grandpa Pig is twirling a screwdriver. Peppa Pig asks why he took the job and it turns out that he didn't do it for the extra money. Flashback to outside as Grandpa Pig is carrying a parcel on the sidewalk in front of the doll hospital and overhears Miss Rabbit telling Danny Dog inside that she cannot repair the remote control car. The parcel is a toolkit according to Grandpa Pig as Danny groans and Grandpa Pig walks in and offer to help assist Miss Rabbit for real! WOW! I mean it. Miss Rabbit was crying for help and Grandpa Pig stepped in and offered to help Miss Rabbit do stuff she couldn't do! This is one of the greatest moments in Peppa Pig history! They finally addressed Miss Rabbit's multiple jobs gimmick and give Grandpa Pig a crowning moment of awesome. Now, this is merely a step; but this should encourage more and more moments where Miss Rabbit no longer has to be the queen and make people do her jobs anymore because she has had signs of crying for help since literally her second appearance on the main line show back in 2004. Grandpa Pig repairs Danny's toy car and Danny is happy. So am I, for a different reason. Pedro F'N Pony, Suzy Sheep and Candy Cat toys need fixing.

Wait, Candy Cat has a rubix cube?! Grandpa fixes the toy train, robot and solves the rubix cube, making Candy Cat our GEEK OF THE WEEK~! He cleans one of the cubes and we return to reality (no, not really) as Peppa and George offer to help and Grandpa Pig accepts. They clean off Quacky and uses a device to inflate the duck and Quacky is back! Methinks Miss Rabbit's burnout was the problem, not her lack of expertise. Still the right move on Grandpa Pig's part regardless. Evie gets Quack back, but wait, there's still thirty seconds left as Quack doesn't sound right and apparently all rubber duckies have his voice device inside to make the noise. Sadly, Grandpa Pig has run out of noises. But wait?! Grandpa Pig has a mobile device with a speaker microphone on top and they all go to the duck pond and record the noise from the yellow ducks. What happened to Mrs. Duck?! We have a mystery on our hands, get on the case Neneko! However, the ducks bail because Peppa and family were such abusers that caused Mrs. Duck to become ashamed of itself and turn it's feathers white from the feeding of bread during the early seasons. Grandpa Pig doesn't feed ducks, so he gently goes over and records the duck sound. Peppa and George admit that they must be careful with the ducks, real or not. Grandpa Pig takes out the memory card from the device, puts it into Quack Quack and the kids give Evie it back. Peppa apologizes and thanks Grandpa Pig. Evie plays it just to scare the ducks as everyone has a giggle while the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:11. One of the best episodes in Series Six, just for the big moment with Grandpa Pig answering Miss Rabbit's cry for help and Evie being Evie. **** 3/4 (95%).

Baby Walk: Short opens at Miss Rabbit's coffee trailer in the latest job because of course! Miss Rabbit makes coffee cream delight for Mr. Bull and Mr. Bull likes it and leaves as we jump cut to Peppa Pig, George Pig, Richard Rabbit, Rebecca Rabbit, Zoe Zebra, Mummy Rabbit with Rosie and Robbie Rabbit in a duet stroller, Mummy Pig with Evie in her stroller, and Daddy Zebra with Zuzu and Zaza Zebra in their duet stroller. If there is one thing that Evie has done is allow Rosie, Robbie, Zuzu and Zaza to appear on this show more often. Rebecca and Zoe have their own strollers containing a palette swap of the female doll Granny Pig had in an earlier mainline series and an plush owl. Huh?! So, the toy monkey has been abandoned. Uh-oh! That is a bad sign for that relationship. I knew Peppa's abuse of Teddy was catching at this point. The narrator says the title card as this baby walk was designed just to get the babies to sleep. That's too bad since babies causing chaos is supposed to be hilarious and doing this kills the mood. The kids pop and George yells louder, then recoils and soften his voice. The babies no sell George though, so that was pointless. Mummy Rabbit and Mummy Pig exchanges notes on the newborn as Peppa and George are unintentionally annoying Mummy Pig. Peppa is drinking water from a tube container while George is just making noise for no reason. Oh wait, he wants Mr. Dine-e-saur, my mistake. He gets Mr. Dine-e-saur as that stroller's undercarriage has TARDIS abilities methinks. More talking as the stroller is still called a buggy at this point. Jump cut to Miss Rabbit making more coffee to serve a palette swap of Mr. Donkey. There is a conveniently placed playhouse type sandwich booth right next to the coffee booth. I think we all know where this is going now as Peppa and the kids want to play with the "sandwich booth". Mummy Pig accepts as long as they keep the noise down and let the babies sleep. Okay. We get the real coffee shop customers with Miss Rabbit and the adults are having weightlifting issues already. Then we cut to the fake coffee shop...Zoe and Rebecca also have weightlifting issues while Richard and George are running around for no reason. HAHA! Back to Miss Rabbit with a menu option that I can best described as exotic wording coffee.

Mummy Pig asks if this is a coffee and Miss Rabbit has to ponder this over before saying yes. Yeah, this is the Miss Rabbit revenge tour and it's not working because Mummy Pig accepts. Back to Peppa's coffee shop as Peppa's menu meal is hilarious. I cannot do it justice and since this is pretend, Zoe and Rebecca accept with giggles. Richard and George are like "nope" and continue on their chasing ways. Miss Rabbit and Peppa are making the stuff, real and fake in that order. Mr. Dine-e-saur gets in the way so Peppa tosses it back to George. Miss Rabbit serves the coffee as Mummy Pig and Mummy Rabbit continue to exchange notes and pleasure thoughts. Daddy Zebra just agrees with them as we cut back to Zoe and Rebecca exchanging notes and pleasure thoughts, while George and Richard don't care and chase each other. Zoe repeating the promo on Rebecca after Rebecca said "You can say that again." was funny though. Peppa is trying to put the fake milk into the basket cups; but George and Richard topple them over, just to be Richard and George. Mummy Pig comes over asking if everything is all right and Peppa sighs. Peppa claims that she is there is too much stuff going on, so she's channeling every modern critic, including me. That amused me actually. Mummy Pig helps out by hugging Richard and George and nudging them to take the game stage left away from the pretend coffee booth while consoling Peppa, and that is that. At least in theory. Mummy Pig picks up the fake cups as everyone orders up, and they meet at the real coffee shop to drink their real and fake coffee in stereo. Then George and Richard run in, trip on each other, bump into the stroller and this is enough for Evie to wake up and bawl her eyes out. Yes, all that noise didn't wake up any of the babies, but the bump was enough to wake Evie up. These babies are heavy sleepers, says I. Mummy Pig sighs and is quite amused by this because she thought the noise would wake them up, and then it was bumping by the two toddler boys that did it. George and Richard look ashamed of themselves as Peppa, Zoe and Rebecca offer to push the strollers to calm the babies down, letting the adults relax. The adults accept as all the kids push the strollers, with Richard and George pushing the fake strollers while Peppa, Zoe and Rebecca push the real strollers. The adults drink their coffee following them out west as the narrator says it all to end the episode at 3:08. Yes, the babies have calmed down and are happy and this episode made me happy because it was a really fun episode from Alison Ray. *** 3/4 (75%).

THE REVIEW LINE

Well, we actually got a mixed bag of shorts this time around. Tiny Land Rescue Mission was below average to me because the puzzle was solved right from the start and they just kept going on looking like fools. There were a few funny moments in this, but most of it was just dull and boring. Broken Toy was the best episode of the rant and that was due to Grandpa Pig walking in and getting a job to assist Miss Rabbit because Miss Rabbit's skills are pushed to the limit. I also loved the setup to how Quack-Quack got murdered by the kids as well narrated by Peppa Pig, who is the most hilariously dumb snitch in pre-school history. Magic Red Button was also awesome because Mummy Pig played the whole thing to the hilt with her hilariously bad acting and the finish actually made sense. Now we need an Alexander VS. Evie feud, even more than the Daddy Pig Vs. Evie feud going on in the mainline series. I know the Peppa Pig wikia claims that this is coming, but as much as this is false, the writers NEED this to happen at some point. Super Foods is great for the ending where Daddy Pig was willing to let them have junk food and the kids decide "nope" and want more vegetables and thus not burying the underlying theme of the episode in the process. Also great for the spot involving Pedro Pony being rescued by the worst flight of stairs in the imagination world ever. Cardboard Castle was also awesome in spite of Gigi Gazelle being dishonest when Pedro and Suzy had already more or less honestly admitted that their castle sucked. Although at the end it was reversed due to the Granny Sheep Effect~! This needed Granny Sheep actually. Rainbow Buffet was another Alison Ray classic and would have been the best one in the Evie-era had the singing during the dance sequence was better than it actually was. Picture Shop would have been better if Miss Rabbit didn't look like an idiot and Baby Walk was really fun, but it didn't have the energy I expected from Alison Ray. I loved the fact that noise doesn't wake up these babies, but a slight bump into a stroller was enough to get all five babies to cry in stereo! That was the power of the power of suggestion. So...

Thumbs up for Broken Toy, Magic Red Button, Rainbow Buffet, Cardboard Castle and Super Foods. Thumbs down for Tiny Land Rescue Mission. Thumbs in the middle for the rest, and I'll see you all next time.

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