History Literature / MrsPiggleWiggle

** A more localized incident appears in Lester's first story. The mother of the boy who Lester is teaching serves pork chops for dinner and Lester [[IAteWhat quickly goes green when he realizes]] [[ImAHumanitarian just what he ate]] though good manners prevent him from allowing his discomfort to be known. Then the boy comes downstairs the next day to his mother making bacon and promptly scolds her for being so rude to Lester.

In 2016, a new spin-off of the series, titled ''Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Whatever Cure'' was released, featuring Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's spunky niece Missy Piggle-Wiggle, written by Ann M. Martin and Annie Parnell, with illustrations by Ben Hatke.

* [[NotGoodWithPeople Not Good With Adults]]: Although she will happily discuss the childrens' problems over the phone when the parents call, she does not invite adult guests over or socialize with them like she does with the neighborhood kids. (This would be considered creepy today.)

* CelibateHero: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is never mentioned as being so much as interested in other men after the death of her husband.

* MeaningfulName: ''Dick'' Thompson in "The Selfish Boy Cure", at least before his redemption.

-->''This is how Samantha knew she was growing up: She didn't cry. She didn't accuse her parents of torturing her or abandoning her. She simply said. "All right. I'll make my own dinner." ... ... When Edison and Trillium returned two hours later, they found a clean house, the dishwasher humming, and Samantha finishing her homework while Penelope dozed on her porch.''

* TheFifties: Or thereabouts.

* FriendToAllChildren: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle loves kids and really understands them.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In the first book, the cures Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle recommended were realistic, if comically exaggerated, and generally involved reverse psychology; in later books, all the cures had a magical element to them.

* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: The cure for children who want to stay up all night is just to ''let them.'' The children end up discovering that it's annoying to be tired all the time during the day, and then when they fall asleep at a movie première they'd been looking forward to for ages, that's the last straw.

** HeyItsThatGuy: [[Series/{{AllInTheFamily}} Jean Stapleton]] as Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, [[Creator/ChristopherLloyd Christopher Lloyd]] as Grandpa Moohead, Ed Begley Jr. and [[Creator/JoanCusack Joan Cusack]] as Mr. and Mrs. Bean, and [[Film/{{TheShining}} Shelley]] [[Series/{{FaerieTaleTheatre}} Duvall]] both as the series' executive producer and as Potsy Piggle-Wiggle.

** HeyItsThatGuy!: [[Series/{{AllInTheFamily}} Jean Stapleton]] as Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, [[Creator/ChristopherLloyd Christopher Lloyd]] as Grandpa Moohead, Ed Begley Jr. and [[Creator/JoanCusack Joan Cusack]] as Mr. and Mrs. Bean, and [[Film/{{TheShining}} Shelley]] [[Series/{{FaerieTaleTheatre}} Duvall]] both as the series' executive producer and as Potsy Piggle-Wiggle.

** CanonForeigner: Pete the Delivery Man, fussy law officer Norbert Wainwright, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's grown daughter Potsy, and Howard the Hat-Tree, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's [[PlantPerson talking tree]] roommate whose branches carry magic hats that Provide Mrs. P. with her cures. The kids and their parents also have mostly different names than their book counterparts.

** HeyItsThatGuy!: [[Series/{{AllInTheFamily}} Jean Stapleton]] as Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, [[Creator/ChristopherLloyd]] as Grandpa Moohead, Ed Begley Jr. and [[Creator/JoanCusack]] as Mr. and Mrs. Bean, and [[Film/{{TheShining}} Shelley]] [[Series/{{FaerieTaleTheatre}} Duvall]] both as the series' executive producer and as Potsy Piggle-Wiggle.

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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The cure for children who want to stay up all night is just to ''let them.'' The children end up discovering that it's annoying to be tired all the time during the day, and then when they fall asleep at a movie première they'd been looking forward to for ages, that's the last straw.

* MeaningfulName: ''Dick'' Thompson in "The Selfish Boy Cure", at least before his redemption.
* MessyPig: Inverted. Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle has a pig named Lester. He doesn't speak, but he does help kids with bad table manners by setting a good example. He's clean, tidy, and smart.

** In one case, where constantly interrupting children are given magical powder that makes them fall silent whenever they begin to interrupt, they point out that their parents interrupt all the time too. They all take the powder.

* HaveAGayOldTime: Miss Piggle Wiggle's cure for the selfish Dick is to have his label all of his items like "Dick's book. Don't touch." One of his classmates mocks this by putting a sign on his back that says "This is Dick. Don't touch."
* [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Nice Job Raising Them, Parent]]: Many of the cures are only necessary because the parents actively let it get to that point, through either overindulging a child or trying to be too controlling in general. If Herbert Prentiss' mother hadn't kept caving and cleaning up his room for him, Herbert would have discovered years ago that if he didn't want to step on blocks and wanted a place to sleep, he'd better clean it up. In other cases, the parents undermined their own authority by using BecauseISaidSo in place of actual reasons, so their children simply don't listen to them anymore because it seems like they don't know what they're talking about. Generally, Ms. Piggle-Wiggle is the last resort: only a few are GenreSavvy enough to consult an expert when a problem comes up.

* [[NotGoodWithPeople Not Good With Adults]]: Although she will happily discuss the childrens' problems over the phone when the parents call, she does not invite adult guests over or socialize with them like she does with the neighborhood kids.

* AppliedPhlebotinum: the magic cures.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The cure for children who want to stay up all night is just to ''let them.'' The children end up discovering that it's annoying to be tired all the time during the day, and then when they fall asleep at a movie primere they'd been looking forward to for ages, that's the last straw.

* CloudCuckoolander: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle. Her husband is hinted to have been something like this too.

* CoolOldLady: Mrs. Piggle Wiggle

* LocalHangout: the house

* {{Pirate}}: Mr. Piggle-Wiggle was a pirate...who left behind his treasure map [[spoiler: and a treasure chest full of magical cures]].
* APirate400YearsTooLate: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle 's deceased husband was a pirate when he was alive, and the story takes place in TheFifties.

* TeamMom: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
* TheFifties: or thereabouts.

* CoolHouse It's literally upside-down!