Pigs Next Door is a 2000 Irish-German American animated television series produced by Saban Entertainment, Magma European Scripting House, EM.TV and Waverly B.V., and created by Sherman Goodrich. The series is the first to come out of a three-year deal signed in late 1998 between EM.TV and Magma to develop two animated series per year.
When a farmer decides to move, he gives his land to his loyal pigs: father Phil, mother Clara and their two little piglets, Chuckie and April. But Phil, feeling himself drawn to a higher calling, insists on offering his children the chance of a good education, so he persuades his family to sell the farm and move to the city. No sooner said than done and before long the pig family have settled into their new surroundings. Phil finds a job as a car salesman, while Clara gets interested in fashion and the kids of course go to school. You wouldn’t notice anything out of the ordinary if it weren't for the fact they’re the only pigs in the neighborhood.
The series featured the voices of John Goodman, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janice Kawaye and Michael Bacall as the Stymingtons; John Ratzenberger and Jennifer Tilly as Ike and Cookie Stump, Ed Begley Jr. and Eddie Deezen as Bradley and Ben Crenshaw, Brian Doyle-Murray as Phil's boss Jungle George, Cheryl Chase as Helen, and Maurice LaMarche, Scott Menville, April Winchell, John Vernon and Tifanie Christun as several minor characters.
The series was supposed to air on Fox Family in the United States, but its debut was cancelled.
The series can be watched for free on Tubi.
Pigs Next Door provides examples of the following tropes:
- Funny Animal: The titular pigs are the only talking animals in the series.
- Honest John's Dealership: Phil works at Jungle George's car dealership
- Messy Pig: The Stymington family, but Clara is the only one who is neat and tidy.
- Pink Means Feminine: April is a girl that wears pink dresses.
- Token Nonhuman: The Stymington family are pigs living in an otherwise human town.
