Editing Peppa Pig (section)

==Why It Doesn't Deserve To Jump In Muddy Puddles==
#Unlike shows such as ''[[Bluey]]'' and ''[[Pingu]]'', which usually portray the main characters as realistically as they can, the characterisations in this show are not only unrealistic, but also really poor and clichéd:
#*Peppa Pig herself is a terrible role model as well as an extremely unlikable protagonist. Though she sometimes helps out with occasions and defends the toddlers (such as Zuzu & Zaza in “The Sleepover“, and George, Richard and Edmond in “[[International Day (Peppa Pig)|International Day]]“), she is mean to her family (especially her brother) and her friends, fat-shames her own father now and then, and she always gives out bad or clichéd morals to children:
#**In many episodes where Peppa has a friend coming over to her house, she often excludes George from any games that she plays claiming that he can't do anything because he's too little. Sometimes she even forces George to play with her games and even refuses to let him play his way, which is notable in "[[Richard Rabbit Comes to Play (Peppa Pig)|Richard Rabbit Comes to Play]]" where she and Susy forcefully make George and Richard play their games and they refuse to let them play the games that they want to the point where they both make both boys cry, which came off as misandrist. It's bad enough to forcefully make George and Richard play a game that they don't want to play, but apparently, Peppa thinks it's acceptable to force them to where they both cry?
#**As mentioned earlier, she constantly fat-shames her father (especially before Gerald Giraffe was introduced) with little to no remorse whatsoever instead of encouraging Daddy Pig to stay healthy and fit or to try to make him feel comfortable with his body. So basically, she just straight up makes fun of him and insults him about his body. She even makes her password to her treehouse "Daddy's Big Tummy" in "The Tree House."
#**She also counts as one of the worst examples of a Karma Houdini since nothing bad happens to her all the time, nor does she get punished for her actions, even if she did at times.
#***She also doesn’t get on the naughty list in Christmas-related episodes.
#*George Pig, despite not being as bad as Peppa and is somewhat understandable for his crying most of the time as he's only two years old and Peppa bullies him too, is mostly pretty annoying as he often says the word "Dinosaur". His crying is pretty annoying and repetitive when used in any episode of the series and he can be mean to other characters as well.
#*Daddy Pig, while sympathetic, feels like a clichéd cartoon father most of the time. He's like a British preschool version of Homer Simpson from ''[[The Simpsons (Disambiguation)|The Simpsons]]'' with none of the same charm while also being the butt monkey of the family since he lets everyone walk over him.
#** That said, even if Daddy Pig is fat and should do some exercise, it's hypocritical on his family's part to fat-shame him for this because all male adults in the show have the same body build. In addition, and as PhantomStrider mentions, as far as we know '''he's the most fit out of the whole family.''' He's the only one who can swim underwater, run in marathons, etc.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfyaUrBluko</ref>
#*Mummy Pig, while likable for the most part as well can somewhat be more tolerable and entertaining than Daddy Pig at times (like in "Funfair" and "The Blackberry Blush") is a cliched mother.
#*Suzy Sheep is even bossier than her "best friend" Peppa. She tries to make the toddlers do her bidding more than Peppa (such as in "International Day"), and also picks an argument quite often (such as in “[[The Quarrel (Peppa Pig)|The Quarrel]]").
#*Richard Rabbit is basically a clone of George, having the exact same interests and personalities.
#*The Queen is also problematic, due to being an offensive stereotype of Queen Elizabeth II.
#*Edmond Elephant is a clichéd smart kid and a know-it-all Gary Stu. He’s just a preschool version of Lisa Simpson, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Bill Nye, and Lisa Loud from ''The Loud House.'' but with a blander personality, though he can be charming at times.
#*While sometimes a funny character, Mr. Potato’s omnipresence in the series itself is random, especially when Super Potato was introduced. His annoying theme music and jingle that plays every time he appears and the fact that his design looks out of place doesn't help matters, either.
#**In the episode "Richard Rabbit Comes to Play", he is seen on the TV with his wife, Ms. Potato, saying "potato-potato" (the pronunciation of which switches back and forth between "po-tay-to" and "po-tah-to") non-stop, which gets really annoying quickly.
#*Out of the kids in Peppa's playgroup, Pedro Pony is the most unbearable. This is because of him being annoying, absent-minded, his voice, and the Baked Beans Song he sings in an episode that made him even worse. He basically uses the Clumsy Cliché 24/7.
#*While the rest of the characters are likable, most are pretty bland, clichéd and/or have little to no depth whatsoever. Some are underdeveloped, are introduced just to sell toys or to replace other characters. Some can also be annoying, unlikable and/or mean-spirited (though not as bad as the ones above )
#*There is little to no evident character development throughout the show. And because of this, most of the characters barely even learn or grow as the show goes along.
#Some of the voice acting and most of the animal noises are both just annoying to listen to.
#*Some of the animal noises don't even sound like their real-life counterparts. For example, the sheep noises sound more like nervous laughter than what an actual sheep sounds like, while Pedro Pony only says "neigh" and Rebecca Rabbit only says "squeak".
#*Not to mention that in "Teddy's Day Out", Zoe Zebra made a "neigh" like a horse despite both horses and zebras being equines and looking similar. zebras also don’t make that sound in real life.
#*While John Sparkes did a good job at voicing the characters he plays (The Narrator, Mr. Potato, Uncle Pig, and their variants), his narration is repetitive and obnoxious, because he constantly states the obvious (for example, "Peppa and George love building sand castles" and "Oh no! Cheeky Mrs. Duck has ran off with Peppa's boots") and never allows viewers to observe the information and take it in themselves. Even though he is a great actor and has done wonderful performances in other kids' shows like the fifth season of Fireman Sam and Shaun the Sheep, his narration in ''Peppa Pig'' isn't exactly one of them.
#*While the rest of the voice acting pretty okay, some can get pretty irritating and bland.
#*In some episodes, there is some laughable dialogue such as, "''I'm '''BORED'''..''" and "'''''ME too'''''" from "Garden Games"
#*In earlier seasons, Mummy Sheep uses the same exact animal sounds as Suzy, which feels extremely awkward as the animal sound is much higher pitched than Mummy Sheep’s normal voice.
#*In ''Peppa Pig Tales'', '''none''' of the original cast reprises their roles.
#Some of the characters don't resemble their real life counterparts, with the head shapes of the pig characters in particular looking more like a hair dryer, a whistleblower, a turbo, or a shell than that of an actual pig.
# The character designs and animation, while both simplistic, kind of cute and not too bad, are quite sloppily drawn, looking like they were made in some budget paint program. Because of that, the animation is stilted and stiff most of the time.
#*In earlier episodes, the animation is '''abysmal''' since it's extremely stiff, stitled, laggy, cheap, lazy, and looks like a PowerPoint presentation.
#*The crying looks rather unusual and pretty unrealistic since it looks more like a garden sprinkler than how it'd typically look in a cartoon. Also, it happens very frequently (mostly with George).
#**It also gets abused in some episodes such as "Digging Up The Road", "Edmond Elephant's Birthday", "George's Friend", “[[The Noisy Night (Peppa Pig)|The Noisy Night]]" (the most infamous example) and "The Baby Piggy".
#*They also look outdated in their aesthetic and look more like children's drawings (albeit intentionally, as the show was meant to be seen from a child's perspective):
#**The arms and legs of the main characters are long thin sticks, with the feet looking like upside down L's and hands that look like trees.
#**The lines of the characters' outlines overlap. 
#**Perhaps most infamously is the characters' faces, due to how they never look directly at the screen and as such, their faces are always viewed from the sides.
#***Since only the sides of the characters' faces are shown, it gives of an impression that the characters have two eyes on both sides of their faces, therefore emerging a theory that they have four eyes and four nostrils. This was parodied in the "Jobs" episode of [[Don't Hug Me I'm Scared|''Don't Hug Me I'm Scared'']].
#****This is further evident by how in the case of characters who wear glasses like Daddy Pig, said glasses don't visibly reach over their noses.
#****And besides, it makes the show 2D because none of the episodes reveal the face from the front. But for some reason, the real-life Peppa Pig toys reveal that their faces are facing forward, rendering this part of the show's art direction meaningless.
#**The characters' clothes are just shirts, there’s no sleeves when worn. and even worse, they wear their underwear '''IN PUBLIC!!!''' (except when wearing fancy clothes or overalls)
#***In the episode "Washing" short sleeves randomly appear on Peppa's "dress".
#***In the episode "Potty Training" viewers can see that George's shirt is in half, this proves characters don’t wear pants.
#**This is also quite unacceptable for its time of release on 2004, as both ''Bleach'' and ''Justice League Unlimited'' came out the same year before ''Peppa Pig'', and both look miles better than this.
#*The houses have a generic design (being a two level house with a door).
#**The houses even flip depending on an episode.
#**Also, every location is on top of a hill. 
#*The paragraphs are gibberish, examples include the writing Mummy Pig was doing in the episode "Mummy Pig at Work".
#**This could easily be bypassed by having a squiggly line to represent the writing much like in other media. Or maybe if they wanted to go the extra mile, put '''actual English writing''' rather than gibberish.
#*The locomotive looks inaccurate to real life locomotives, proving that the makers of the show didn't do any research:
#**It has a steering wheel. which in real life, locomotives obviously don’t have.
#***What purpose was this? To go around switches? To prevent derailment?
#**The train is mechanical, instead of running on steam.
#***This carries it out information that the firebox is replaced with a control panel.
#**The train doesn’t even have a whistle, instead having the "whistle" sound coming out of the funnel.
#**The train doesn't even have a tender or tank.
#**The train doesn't even have valve gears.
#**The coaches don't even have buffers. 
#**Its dining and sleeping cars (coaches/carriages in British UK) have doors, which is just absurd.
#***It even has non-existent cars, such as a playing carriage and a cinema carriage, seen in Peppa Pig Tales episode "Cars, Buses, and Trains".
#***If the train has only 3 carriages, Then why are there four? '''''In the words of Rob Paulsen "Who built this train?".'''''
#*The show's credits are absurdly lazy, at the beginning, there are just a list of people who voice the characters. 
#*This proves that the art designers never learned to draw or did research.
#It has very little common logic. Even though this is a preschool show, that does not excuse how nonsensical its logic is. 
#*Miss Rabbit (and her father Grampy Rabbit) has a lot of jobs, in real life, if she missed her jobs, Miss Rabbit would either learn to live frugally with many restrictions, or quickly would become a burden on others. 
#**Also, Miss Rabbit would technically pass out and die, due to working almost every day with no sleep. Yes, really.
#**How does Miss Rabbit handle her jobs? Does she have super speed? does she clone herself? '''nobody knows'''.
#*In one episode, the whole town is "flooded", and Granny and Grandpa Pig bring their boat on the flood, in real life, boats would break and crash in floods, yes boats work on water, but not ''floodwater''.
#*In one episode, it "snows" in the summer, which is just absurd.
#*In one episode, Peppa and her friends go to the zoo, even though all the characters in the show (except the pirate, the Queen of England, and Santa Claus/Father Christmas) are '''animals''', which makes absolutely no sense.
#**Although it certainly wasn't the creators' intention, this leads to the theory that the caged animals are wild and not sapient, but the characters are sapient animals, that is, the caged animals are '''slaves'''.
#Most of the morals are either poorly handled, shoved down kids' throats, clichéd or nonexistent in most of the episodes, not to mention some of them are very dangerous and irresponsible.
#*Peppa and George jumping on the bed in every morning scene to wake up Mummy and Daddy Pig encourages kids to do the same, which can be dangerous to the people and it could potentially run the risk of breaking the bed.
#*"Sun, Sea and Snow" encourages swimming in cold water at a snowy "beach", which can be dangerous.
#*"[[Mister Skinnylegs (Peppa Pig)|Mister Skinnylegs]]" and "[[Spider Web (Peppa Pig)|Spider Web]]" encourages children to '''play with spiders, insects, arachnids, and other kinds of anthropods'''. That's a terrible moral, because not every spider, insect, arachnid, or anthropod in the world is safe to play with. Especially in Australia, wow, several of them can kill an adult quickly. Imagine what they would do to a <u>'''child'''</u>! And even then, many spiders will '''bite''' anyone near them if they feel threatened, although a small number of spiders are deadly. Thankfully, Both episodes were banned from airing on Australian television for having this moral, although DVDs containing these episodes still exist there.
#*"Richard Rabbit Comes to Play" encourages kids to destroy their bedroom and make a mess. They also encourage older siblings to be selfish towards younger siblings. They also encourage someone to invite their friend(s) to one up somebody else (which would be revisited in a ''The Loud House'' episode "Friendzy")
#*"[[Edmond Elephant's Birthday (Peppa Pig)|Edmond Elephant's Birthday]]" teaches kids to always cry nonstop for losing at a game and being a sore loser for it.
#*"[[Pedro's Cough (Peppa Pig)|Pedro’s Cough]]" teaches kids to laugh at their parents for drinking the medicine. They also encourage kids to stay in school when sick with a contagious disease.
#*"[[George Catches a Cold (Peppa Pig)|George Catches A Cold]]" teaches kids that rain can cause sickness when in reality, it can't. Sure, there are some places that cause sickness by air pollution, acid rain and forest fires, but they still don't count.
#*"George’s Friend" teaches kids that taking all of someone else's toys is considered "sharing". Not only that, but they claim it’s okay to destroy someone’s personal belongings, '''which is considered as criminal mischief.'''
#*"International Day" has several terrible morals:
#**If someone wants to play soon, instead of waiting, fight with whoever is playing.
#**When someone is to see an argument, do not tell the person in charge. Join the discussion.
#** Without a doubt, the worst moral of all: When Madame Gazelle asks if the countries of the world fight, Peppa asks: "don't they?" Madame Gazelle replies: "Of course not!" '''This means that the creators want children to think that countries never had conflicts with each other, like World War I, the Vietnam War, the Israel-Hamas War, the Russian-Ukraine War, and World War II''', for example. It gets even more ridiculous when one is to consider that it was made in the [[w:United Kingdom|United Kingdom]], where they have Remembrance Day, '''a day just to remember the soldiers who died''' in those World Wars.
#*** This can however can be somewhat excused because the main environment Peppa Pig takes place in is in Kindergarten, so telling the children the fact that countries do fight can make someone feel upset or scared, but still.
#** It is also offensive and racist to people living in the countries that Peppa and her friends dress up as.
#Most of the music and songs, such as "The Bing Bong Song" aren't any better since they are very repetitive and obnoxious.
#*The theme song is mostly repeated as background music.
#Despite the characters being animals, there are many incidents were they sporadically have visible teeth, which looks VERY out of place (as they aren’t humans), weird and creepy.
#Some episodes such as "Not Very Well", "[[George Catches a Cold (Peppa Pig)|George Catches a Cold]]" and "Pedro's Cough" haven't aged well for...various reasons, including the COVID-19 pandemic.
#Mediocre writing that's confusing and makes the show feel like the writers aren’t trying too hard to write good stories at all.
#*The show has now been running for a very long time to the point where the writers are clearly running out of ideas. For example, the Season 7 episode "Monkey Has a Cough" is just a pretend-play of a toy having a cough. These episodes are made just to milk the show to death. Likewise, some stories were wasted potential.
#'''Quantity over quality:''' Like with ''[[Cocomelon]]'', ''[[Teen Titans Go!]]'', ''[[Ridiculousness]]'', and ''[[Alvin and the Chipmunks (2015)]]'', it has lasted for way too long despite the overall reception with the show lasting for '''7 seasons, 394 episodes''', and a lifespan of '''20 years so far!''' This shows how blind [[Nickelodeon (2011-present)|Nickelodeon]], [[Discovery Kids Latin America (Brazilian feed, 2021-present)|Discovery Kids]], Entertainment One and Channel 5 are to the criticisms of the show.
#The pacing is broken or inconsistent. It goes either too fast or too slow that made the show boring and rushed. This could be because each episode is a mere 5 minutes long, not leaving much breathing room. 
#Despite being a preschool show, there are some parts that feel too intense for its target audiences. For example, in "The Carnival", the scene in which Mr. Potato almost ends up getting killed (or turned into French Fries) by the blades of Ms. Rabbit's helicopter when she first flies up in it to rescue him is a very intense moment, at least to the preschool audience, despite no such legitimate scene happening. Even then, it's rather disturbing that someone almost died in such a horrific way. Another example of a tense moment is in "Parachute Jump" when Daddy Pig falls out of a plane without a parachute on. Even though Mummy Pig catches him and him crashing through the school roof does break his fall, this is something that since he was the one with no parachute, Daddy Pig could have '''fallen to his death'''.
#This show has become such a cash cow for Entertainment One, [[Nickelodeon (2011-present)|Nickelodeon]], [[Discovery Kids Latin America (Brazilian feed, 2021-present)|Discovery Kids]] and Channel 5 that it has gotten to an extent where the show commonly introduces new characters, vehicles, and locations just to sell toys and nothing else much like ''[[PAW Patrol|PAW Patrol]]'', ''[[Postman Pat: Special Delivery Service]]'' and [[Fireman Sam (CGI era, seasons 6-present)|''Fireman Sam'' since Season 6]].
#*Their way of handling the YouTube channels aren't much better and might be even worse than the series itself. In fact, '''there’s''' '''too many channels that are no different each other and only exist just to farm cash.'''
#*Also, Discovery Kids went downhill mainly because of Peppa Pig, where it's spammed everyday. Worst of all, Peppa Pig replaces Doki The Dog as the new official Discovery Kids mascot and Peppa Pig does not have the same charm as Doki, especially since the latter teaches very good morals to children which Peppa does barely have any good morals. Even worse, Doki no longer appears in Discovery Kids in any promos or bumpers thanks to Peppa Pig.
#'''False advertising:''' ''Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experiences'' and its sequel ''Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun'' are marketed as "films", but they are just '''''<u>compilations of 10 or so Peppa Pig episodes with live-action-puppet clips spliced in-between.</u>''''' And as a result of this, there has never been a proper theatrical film adaptation of this show even after all this time.
#Due to poor and/or confusing writing, the show has a fair share of mediocre or bad episodes. (See notable bad episodes)
#*At one moment, they once even cluttered the Terrible TV Shows & Episodes Wiki with their own individual pages which caused a ban on niche shows to have their pages here seemingly for good. But as of now, the ban has been revoked and niche shows were allowed there again.
#**Some of these episodes also count as filler as they don't add much to the plot. Also, the events never got mentioned nor brought up again with the characters acting like the events didn't happen at all. Heck, one can skip these bad episodes without missing everything at all!
#Some channels are obsessed with this cartoon, like Nick Jr. (block and channel) and Discovery Kids.  Peppa Pig downright monopolised Nick Jr to the point where Nick Jr Too (the side network to Nick Jr UK) was even renovated multiple times to become '''Nick Jr. Peppa''' for a brief while, much like Nicktoons UK rebranding to NickSpongeBob at times. 
#Every speaking character's last name is absurdly lazy and terrible. It's as if our surnames were "Human" or "Homo sapiens".
#*Every parents' first name is "Mummy" and "Daddy", It’s as if all our names were "Mummy/Daddy Human".
#The annoying use of the "Doot Doot" sound. There is a Soft one, a hard one and a medium one.