Peppa Pig / YMMV - TV Tropes

Accidental Innuendo: In "Valentine's Day", Daddy Pig get a bunch of Valentine letters from everyone in town due to a misunderstanding, and Mummy Pig asks him in a suspicious voice who sent him all the letters. Get around much, Daddy Pig?
Americans Hate Tingle:
- Apparently, Italian parents are not pleased with the show, pointing out the titular character's bratty nature. What certainly doesn't help was the Italian Holiday arc having several Take Thats against Italy.
- It's also very popular to mock in Russia. It has a share of fans there, but it is mostly hated.
Archive Panic: As of 2019, the show has suffered from this (aside from the following facts: being a Cash-Cow Franchise and a Long Runner). It'll take ten to twenty barns to store its 300+ episodes and everything else in the franchise released so far. With the original programme confirmed to continue through at least 2027, the franchise is not going to stop producing episodes any time soon. Fortunately, there's YouTube, as well as home video releases.
Ass Pull: In "International Day", all the kids break out into an argument. Just then, their parents arrive to listen to their song about world peace. They suddenly stop arguing and perform the song perfectly with no rhyme or reason why.
Base-Breaking Character:
- Peppa can be either funny, or a whiny, obnoxious Bratty Half-Pint.
- George is either seen as an innocent child who tends to get unfairly teased by his sister, or a Bratty Half-Pint whose tendency to sob is annoying.
Broken Base:
- Peppa and Mummy Pig joking about Daddy Pig having a "big tummy". Some see this as overly mean, hypocritical since all Peppa Pig characters have round tummies, or even "body shaming". Others, however, see the humour in it and think of it as just familial ribbing. One episode shows that if someone from outside the family mocks Daddy Pig's weight, it pushes Mummy Pig's Berserk Button.
- The show is this in Italy, while Italian kids don't mind the show (in fact, they even love it) and is where the Peppa Pig YouTube Poop originated from, Italian parents dislike the show with the issues as mentioned above in Americans Hate Tingle.
Common Knowledge: It is assumed by the public that Peppa Pig was Banned in China by the government for the popular "gangster" interpretation of her. Actually, Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok) was the one who did the banning, and only of adult content featuring her, not wanting What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids? reactions.
Crosses the Line Twice: The infants cried so many times in almost every episode of the series is enough to tickle the viewer's funny bone, mostly the teen audience.
Ensemble Dark Horse:
- Gabriella Goat has a pretty sizable fandom.
- A random background frog became insanely popular in 2020.
Fandom Rivalry: With Bluey. Both use being part of the opposing fandom as an insult, and Peppa Pig fans are expected to be Bluey haters. This mainly stems from Bluey fans claiming that the show was similar to Peppa Pig, but a lot better, which rubbed the Peppa Pig fans up the wrong way and caused them to view them as snobs.
Friendly Fandoms: With Angela Anaconda. Back in 2014, there were multiple Peppa Pig fanfics that were word-for-word copies of Angela Anaconda episodes, with Peppa being Angela, Danny being Johnny, Suzy being Gina, Pedro being Gordy, and Emily being Nanette. This also resulted in the odd spectacle of Danny's family owning a pizza parlor, Suzy being a Big Eater, and Emily being an Alpha Bitch.
Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
- The show is a gigantic phenomenon in Latin America, especially in Mexico, despite being almost completely unknown before 2013^note. There, it's so popular among small kids and even older people that Peppa cuddly toys are sold even by street vendors, and that in 2015, an official Peppa Pig live-show tour was sold out several months before it even began. Discovery Kids, the channel that airs the series in the region, runs about four daily hours of episodes.
- China has a humongous fanbase. You'll see Peppa Pig merchandise being sold in many places in China, and it's the second most-popular show on its Chinese channel, YoYo TV, only being beaten by Yo-Kai Watch. It also seems to have influenced the Chinese cartoon Our Friend Xiong Xiao Mi, whose art style greatly resembles that of Peppa Pig. This to the point China received a full-length movie Peppa Pig Celebrates Chinese New Year made just for that country, and will have two Peppa Pig theme parks opening in 2019.
- Its popularity in Italy (Mostly with Italian kids, Italian parents, however, are a different story.) boomed up in 2012 and keeps creeping around the nation. It’s also the notable creator of the Peppa Pig YouTube Poop.
- It's big in Canada, taking the crown from Dora the Explorer as Treehouse TV's most aired non-Canadian program.
- The show's been a pretty big success among children in the United States ever since Nick Jr. got the broadcasting rights. And it's only grown larger since then, as the official Peppa Pig YouTube channel often uploads full episodes for free with billions of views. The merchandise is just as popular as it is in the UK and they even got the live show.
  - And in the wake of COVID-19 lockdowns and other disruptions, some American parents now claim that their kids have picked up British accents from binge-watching the show.
  - As of August of 2023, a Peppa pig theme park is located in Florida on Legoland property, and another theme park is planned to open somewhere in Texas.
- The show is somewhat beloved in Asian territories such as Japan.
Hilarious in Hindsight:
- The favourite song of Peppa's playgroup is called "The Bing Bong Song". It didn't get much attention drawn to it until YouTube visitors were looking for another Bing Bong Song... "Who's your friend who likes to play? Bing Bong, Bing Bong!"
- The show in general is about a female character that wears red and lives with her glasses-wearing Bumbling Dad, mother and younger brother. The latter one, specifically, wears blue and is obsessed with dinosaurs. Hmm...
- In the episode "Pedro's Cough", there's a Running Gag of Madame Gazelle getting her "Miss Polly Had a Dolly" song interrupted twice, but manages to sing it entirely during the end credits. Cut to thirteen years later, where a cricket would experience the same problem.
Memetic Badass: Daddy Pig apparently, mainly because some feel sick and tired of the show's endless Butt-Monkey treatment of him. He may also be a Memetic Psychopath, if the Peppa Pig fanon wiki is anything to go by.
Memetic Mutation: Now has its own page.
Most Wonderful Sound: Peppa's "WEE!" and by an extent, her "YIPEE!" shout is adorable.
Nightmare Fuel: Yes, even Peppa Pig of all shows has a Nightmare Fuel moment. In "The Carnival", Mr. Potato almost ending up getting killed by Ms. Rabbit's helicopter's blades is a very intense moment, at least to the target audience. Even then, it's rather disturbing that someone almost died in such a horrific way in a preschool show.
Older Than They Think: Most Americans figure that the show is a fairly recent creation, but it has been around since 2004. Its popularity really only started exploding in America around the early-to-mid 2010s.
Ron the Death Eater:
- There are multiple fanfics that depict Emily Elephant as a rich, snobby Alpha Bitch who hates Peppa, Danny, Suzy, and Pedro, when Emily is actually very nice and friendly in canon.
- Mr. Potato is this in the Piggy game on Roblox. Mr. Potato is a Friend to All Children in canon, often encouraging them to eat their vegetables. But in Piggy, he is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who caused the apocalypse that takes place in the game. Though it was unintentional, as he was trying to save his dying wife from a disease.
- Daddy Pig, to a lesser extent, is this on the fanon wiki, for very strange reasons. There was once even a section on his page on that wiki claiming him to indulge in domestic violence and child abuse For the Evulz, and go on rampages over bread, water and cheese. Yeah.
The Scrappy:
- Even those who like the series or watch it ironically tend to hate the narrator, since he's the textbook example of Narrating the Obvious. Many believe he supports the ill belief that Viewers Are Morons, though it likely has something to do with the preschool target audience.
- Mr. Potato is disliked by a lot of people too, due to his annoying theme music and jingle every time he appears, his design being out of place, his omnipresence in the entire series and his voice.
- Out of the kids in Peppa's playgroup, Pedro Pony is the most hated. This is because of him being annoying, absent-minded, his voice, and the Baked Beans Song he sings in an episode further added to his hatedom.
- The Queen is also hated, due to being an offensive stereotype of Queen Elizabeth II.
- Delphine Donkey and her family are hated by some people too, due to being offensive French stereotypes.
Signature Scene: The queen's "In Memoriam" screen from Peppa Pig: World Adventures gained notoriety after the game released for being such a shocking tonal whiplash in a kid-friendly game.
Toy Ship:
- Because of the Roblox game Piggy, which is based on the show, people have been shipping Pedro Pony and Zoe Zebra, even though they don't interact much on the show. In fact, Pedro and Peppa have more Ship Tease.
- Aside from Pedro/Peppa, Danny/Suzy is a minor one.
Unfortunate Character Design: Many jokes have been made about Peppa's head looking like a hairblower. Or phallic. Alternatively her eyes and mouth are drawn on the side of her head on both sides, meaning that technically, she should have four eyes and two mouths.
Unintentional Period Piece: Peppa's family owns a CRT TV and a computer that resembles one from the early-mid 2000s (the series released in 2004) and even after time passed on in real life, they kept the old TV and computer. Another thing to point out is the lack of cell phones in the show, with all the phones either being rotary, touch tone, or flip phones. This has become somewhat subverted in recent episodes, with Mummy Pig having a cell phone in "Little Swift", and Mummy Sheep using a more modern laptop in the Castle episode. However, the Pig family still has their old TV and computer.
Values Dissonance: A country-based example; this is why the two episodes related to Mister Skinnylegs were banned in Australia. While most parts of the world have spiders that are perfectly harmless, Australia is infamously home to some of the deadliest spiders in the world, so while teaching kids that spiders are nothing to be afraid of is a perfectly good aesop elsewhere, teaching this lesson to kids in Australia is a disaster waiting to happen.
Watch It for the Meme: Let's face it, anyone outside of the target demographic only watches the show for the memes.

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