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Editing Fantasy Helmet Enforcement to reflect the passage of time and other pertinent information.


* FantasyHelmetEnforcement: In a variant, this is to be seen in the future, Peppa and George wearing safety belts while riding in a car. And the creators of the show are taking retroactive remedy in that all older episodes ''are to be edited to feature them wearing safety belts as well''.

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* FantasyHelmetEnforcement: In a variant, this is to be seen in the future, Peppa and first two series, Peppa, George and friends are not seen wearing safety seat belts while riding in a car. And their car, OR wearing bike helmets. From 2009 onwards, all characters appear with both in requisite situations and the creators of the show are taking took the retroactive remedy in that of editing all older episodes ''are to be edited to also feature them wearing safety belts as well''.and helmets where applicable.



* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Pedro's father is an optometrist, but Pedro needs glasses.

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* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Related: Pedro's father is an optometrist, but Pedro is the only child that needs glasses.
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Mummy Rabbit and Miss Rabbit are different people. Lampshading of \"Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs\" also occurs in the episode, The Queen.


* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Miss Rabbit doing every random job going is a running joke. Firewoman, supermarket checkout, museum shop, bus driver, train driver, Christmas tree sales ... Lampshaded in "Miss Rabbit's Day Off", in which everyone has to fill in for all her jobs.
** Played with in the episode where she is about to give birth. [[spoiler: It is revealed that in fact, her ''sister'' works at the hospital. Maybe she has a bunch of siblings that do all those jobs?]]

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* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Miss Rabbit doing every random job going is a running joke. Firewoman, supermarket checkout, museum shop, bus driver, train driver, Christmas tree sales ... Lampshaded in "Miss Rabbit's Day Off", in which everyone has to fill in for all her jobs.
jobs, and in "The Queen" in which Miss Rabbit receives an award from The Queen for being 'The Hardest Worker In the Land'.
** Played Apparently played with in the episode where she is about to give birth. [[spoiler: It is revealed that in fact, her ''sister'' Miss Rabbit is also a Nurse that works at the hospital. Maybe she has a bunch of siblings hospital and that do all those jobs?]]her-never-before-revealed sister, Mummy Rabbit, is the one that gives birth.]]
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: When first introduced in her introductory episode, Emily Elephant was shy and modest, however in the same episode onwards, after winning a loud animal making contest on recess, she has become more cheerful and outgoing.

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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: When first introduced in her introductory episode, Emily Elephant was shy and modest, however in the same episode onwards, after winning a loud animal sound making contest on recess, she has become more cheerful and outgoing.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: When first introduced in her introductory episode, Emily Elephant was shy and modest, however in the same episode onwards, after winning a loud animal making contest on recess, she has become more cheerful and outgoing.
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* LittleMissSnarker: Peppa occasionally.
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* FawltyTowersPlot: ''Daddy Pig Puts Up A Picture''

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* CoolOldLady: Madame Gazelle is old enough to have taught the parents, and plays a mean guitar.



* HaveYouTriedRebooting: It always works.

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* HaveYouTriedRebooting: It almost always works.works. In one episode, Grandpa Pig does this to his broken computer, which announces that it is now even more broken.
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* TakeThat: In "International Day", the kids dress up like people from different countries. They start arguing. When Madame Gazelle asks if they think that actual countries behave like that, Peppa says "Don't they?"
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Theme park


Other characters are other anthropomorphic animals whose names always start with the first letter of the name of the animal they represent.

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Other characters are other anthropomorphic animals whose names always start with the first letter of the name of the animal they represent.
represent. Popular enough in the UK to have an entire section of a childrens theme park (Paulton's Park) called Peppa Pig World open in 2011.
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* FarSideIsland: In the episode 'Desert Island'.
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* InsistentTerminology: In "Grandpa Pig's Train To The Rescue", Gertrude is not a little train, she is a miniature locomotive. In order, this is insisted by Grandpa Pig, Peppa, all the other passengers, then finally Mrs Rabbit (whose big train had broken down.)

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* InsistentTerminology: In "Grandpa ''Grandpa Pig's Train To The Rescue", Rescue'', Gertrude is not a little train, she is a miniature locomotive. In order, this is insisted by Grandpa Pig, Peppa, all the other passengers, then finally Mrs Rabbit (whose big train had broken down.)
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* InsistentTerminology: In "Grandpa Pig's Train To The Rescue", Gertrude is not a little train, she is a miniature locomotive. In order, this is insisted by Grandpa Pig, Peppa, all the other passengers, then finally Mrs Rabbit (whose big train had broken down.)
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* CaptainObvious: TheNarrator
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* VerbalTic: Everyone. The Pigs snort after every other sentence, while friends of other species sometimes emit their best known sound.
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* ParentalBonus: There's quite a few jokes which are too subtle to be picked up by children, bu an adult can find it mildly humorous. Mostly delivered by Daddy Pig and [[BrianBlessed Grampy Rabbit]].

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* ParentalBonus: There's quite a few jokes which are too subtle to be picked up by children, bu but an adult can find it mildly humorous. Mostly delivered by Daddy Pig and [[BrianBlessed Grampy Rabbit]].
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Grampy Rabbit.


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* LargeHam: Grampy Rabbit, played by [[BrianBlessed BRIAN BLESSED]].


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* ParentalBonus: There's quite a few jokes which are too subtle to be picked up by children, bu an adult can find it mildly humorous. Mostly delivered by Daddy Pig and [[BrianBlessed Grampy Rabbit]].
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* LeavingFoodForSanta: In "Santa's Grotto", Grandpa Pig leaves Santa a mince pie and [[FrothyMugsOfWater an unspecified drink]]. Given British tradition, it was probably sherry. A carrot is also left for Santa's reindeer.
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* TemptingFate: Daddy Pig gives Mummy Pig a hard time about flipping pancakes too low. When he gets his chance, [[CeilingCling it gets stuck to the ceiling]].


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** ForgetfulJones
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** Played with in the episode where she is about to give birth. [[spoiler: It is revealed that in fact, her ''sister'' works at the hospital. Maybe she has a bunch of siblings that do all those jobs?]]

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Pedro is sorta a ditz (See \"The Ditz\"), and elaborated a bit.


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* AlliterativeTitleAlliterativeTitle: '''P'''eppa '''P'''ig.


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* TheDitz: (Sorta) Pedro.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Peppa has had three voice actors. However, other characters voiced by children still have their original voice actors.

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* AlliterativeTitle



* UnnamedParent: All of Peppa's adult relatives are like this. So '''everyone''' calls Peppa's father "Daddy Pig", even his workmates and his own father-in-law.

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* UnnamedParent: All of Peppa's adult relatives are like this. So '''everyone''' calls Peppa's father "Daddy Pig", even his workmates wife, his coworkers and his own father-in-law.
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* TheMountainsofIllinois: The series never says where it is set. It is supposed to be somewhere in the UK, but things like high, alpine mountains, which aren't found in the UK, appear.

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* TheMountainsofIllinois: TheMountainsOfIllinois: The series never says where it is set. It is supposed to be somewhere in the UK, but things like high, alpine mountains, which aren't found in the UK, appear.

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* OcularGushers: The infants (most often George) cry a shower of tears a lot in the show.



* The Mountains of Illinois: The series never says where it is set. It is supposed to be somewhere in the UK, but things like high, alpine mountains, which aren't found in the UK, appear.

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* The Mountains of Illinois: TheMountainsofIllinois: The series never says where it is set. It is supposed to be somewhere in the UK, but things like high, alpine mountains, which aren't found in the UK, appear.
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* BirthdayEpisode: LOTS of them.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: All of the parents featured in "School Play".
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Grandpa Pig got away with saying "stupid" in at least one episode.
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''Peppa Pig'' is a British animated television series created, directed and produced by Astley Baker Davies and distributed by eOne Entertainment. Debuted in 2004 and still ongoing.

The series centers on Peppa and her family and friends. The pig family consists of:
* '''Peppa Pig''': A young girl pig
* '''George Pig''': Peppa's younger brother
* '''Daddy Pig''': Peppa and George's father
* '''Mommy Pig''': Peppa and George's mother

Other characters are other anthropomorphic animals whose names always start with the first letter of the name of the animal they represent.

!!Tropes seen in ''Peppa Pig'':
* AllBalloonsHaveHelium: in ''Mummy Pig's Birthday''
* AlliterativeName: Peppa Pig, and most of her friends (Danny Dog, Suzy Sheep, Zoe Zebra, Pedro Pony, Rebecca Rabbit, et al.)
** Peppa and some of her friends get to pick out a name for Mummy Rabbit's baby. Pedro's suggestion elicits strong questioning.
--> '''Peppa and Rebecca''': Michael Rabbit?!? No!
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: ''PeppaPig'' has an different [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu6dDAIepuE theme song]] in Japan.
* BiggerOnTheInside: Peppa's house looks to be about four or five "Daddy Pig"s across when they are standing outside of it. Plenty of room indoors, though.
* BlahBlahBlah: "That's how daddies talk."
* BlindWithoutEm: Daddy Pig.
* BumblingDad: Daddy Pig can be this.
* ChildProdigy: "Edmond Elephant is a clever clogs."
* ChristmasEpisode: "Santa's Grotto" and the follow-up "Santa's Visit."
* DisappearedDad: Danny Dog's father has been sailing around the world.
* EverybodyLaughsEnding
** Often laughing so hard that they are all on their backs.
* FantasyHelmetEnforcement: In a variant, this is to be seen in the future, Peppa and George wearing safety belts while riding in a car. And the creators of the show are taking retroactive remedy in that all older episodes ''are to be edited to feature them wearing safety belts as well''.
* FatAndProud: Daddy Pig.
* HaveYouTriedRebooting: It always works.
* KidsPreferBoxes: George ended up playing with the box instead when his parents took too long setting up the fancy electronic car he got in the Christmas episode.
* RecycledSoundtrack: JustifiedTrope. Richard Rabbit and George are both two years old. They don't have much of a vocabulary.
* SchoolPlay: Pedro develops PerformanceAnxiety; Madame Gazelle joins him on stage.
* SpeciesSurname
* SickEpisode: Three of them.
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Pedro's father is an optometrist, but Pedro needs glasses.
* The Mountains of Illinois: The series never says where it is set. It is supposed to be somewhere in the UK, but things like high, alpine mountains, which aren't found in the UK, appear.
** Also in most foreign dubs, the dub will change the setting to where the dub takes place. For example, the Brazilian Portuguese version is supposed to have the series set in Brazil despite the fact snow-topped mountains and hills lined with temperate climate vegetation appear.
* ThemeTuneCameo: Peppa, her classmates and Daddy Pig play a lively rock-and-roll version of the theme tune in "Shake, Rattle and Bang" to end the episode. The same tune is then played over the closing credits.
* ThroughAFaceFullOfFur: Rebecca Rabbit does it all the time.
* UnnamedParent: All of Peppa's adult relatives are like this. So '''everyone''' calls Peppa's father "Daddy Pig", even his workmates and his own father-in-law.
* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Miss Rabbit doing every random job going is a running joke. Firewoman, supermarket checkout, museum shop, bus driver, train driver, Christmas tree sales ... Lampshaded in "Miss Rabbit's Day Off", in which everyone has to fill in for all her jobs.
* YesVirginia
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