To want some answers about Peppa Pig and her universe?

[CrazyOldCatLady]

For instance:
A) Are George and Richard Rabbit G&T? They've just set up Dinosaur World in George and Peppa's bedroom, with an upturned laundry basket as a volcano, a forest of toy trees and a river made of blue building blocks. They're not like any 18 month old I've ever seen!

B) Do you have no choice but to marry the only available instance of the other gender of your species in existence? How did Mrs Rabbit and Miss Rabbit decide who got to marry Mr Rabbit?

C) Why did Daddy and Mummy Pig call George George when it so definitely doesn't start with P? Did she not get shot down on a Baby Names thread for that one?

I love love love this thread.

What DH and I want to know is why are all the other kids always already there together wherever Peppa & George go??

Are Peppa & George not liked and never invited???

Or my own theory is that Mummy Pig made a social faux pas at the school gate one day (eg she wore trainers with bootcut jeans when everyone knows that knee highs with skinny jeans are required) and was cut out of the social circle leaving Peppa & George to forever be arriving somewhere and finding all their friends already there)!!

Personally my favourite bit is when Granda Pig "changes the system" of take it in turns at the park despite Mummy Pig warning home of the consequences! Never mess with the system!!

Does no one else worry about the fact that both eyes are on the sides of their heads? And move to the other side when they turn?

Madame Gazelle = mademoiselle

head/desk

(And that web chat was the thread I was thinking of!)

well bugger me, I'd never clocked the Madam Gazelle / mademoiselle thing. Well I never. Peppa Pig clearly too highbrow for me.

Nathan, Miss Rabbit is voiced by Sarah Ann Kennedy according to a very quick google.

Bah. I had always had her down as Jo Brand. She's a busy lady anyway. Maybe she does escort work at night.

Presumably Uncle & Auntie pig aren't in the flashbacks as they are older so would have been in a different class.

Unlike everyone else who were all exactly the same age, married eachother and had children at exactly the same time.

at being thought of for being high brow for noticing the Madame Gazelle/Mademoiselle thing, especially as I had never notice Miss Rabbit doing everything!

My DS is obsessed with PP he's 16mo and rather than talking snorts like a pig all the time....id say its time to switch tv off but he finds the remotes and puts it back on.

They have corn on the cob on the BBQ (as per the kangaroo episode).

I feel sorry for Daddy Pig. Mummy pig constantly belittles him and Peppa calls him fat. He may not have much common sense but he's good at his job and clearly provides for his family. (We all now Mummy Pig is MNing when she claims to be working on her computer).

Peppa was the very first TV that DS, now 5.11 watched.

I liked it because all the characters spoke nice and clearly, you could hear DS emulating the speech. Is was cause for wild celebration when a new set of episodes aired and could be memorised

Whenever we go to the GP he addresses all of them men and women as Dr Browbn Bear.

My favourite is the camper van episode where the sat-nav (aka Morwenna Banks) says "Welcome to the car of the Fuu-tuuoore".

I pronounce it like this at every available opportunity.

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On the speech thing: does George have a really weird speech delay?
Hard to say how old he is, but the only word he seems able to say is 'dinosaur' - which would be a concern at 2.5. If he can only say one word than I'd assume it would be monosyllabic or recognising a kinship of some kind ('Daddy', 'Mummy', 'Peppa' etc).

No babbling going on either; just random crying. I would at least have raised it with Dr Brown Bear by now.

no sure whats worse, that theres a thread for this or that I was lurking in interest.

I remember that sketch Booboo, brilliant. I had no idea that was her

I'm now watching Shadwell sketches.

Bugger.

The reason they all live on hills is that Peppaland is prone to terrible flooding - there was a flood once and it almost reached their front door.

DP has pointed out that Mr Potato appears in a different resolution to the other characters. The line round the edge of him is thicker, as if he's been blown up from a small size.

I don't like him, I feel much the same about him as I did about Marcel the monkey in Friends. Just took things too far and ruined it.

I love Sarah Ann Kennedy, especially as Nanny Plum. But my fave PP episode has to be Grampy Rabbit in Space, where he loses his voice while telling the children about his career as an astronaut and Dr Brown Bear is reluctant to fix it. :o

Also, Daddy Pig is some kind of actuary or academic who knows a lot about incredibly complex maths - it's a running joke that he's brilliant at equations. We love the episode where they go to his work and everyone else there is a pointless pen-pusher while he does mindboggling equations on a whiteboard.

The new PP's definitely have something to please the adults as well. Favourite quote was Mr Bull takes his broken teapot into Miss Rabbit's China Shop (aother job!!) and Miss Rabbit shrieks "oh no. A bull in a China Shop"....brilliant!!

There is loads of crossover between PP and B&H.

Mrs Elf is Mrs Poney
Wife Old Elf is Grandpa Pig
The Narrator in PP is Mr Elf.
Of course nanny plus is Miss/Mrs Rabbit.
I know Ben Elf popped up in one episode of PP as a new animal - can't for the life of me remember who it was though.

PP is watched too much in my house my 20month old DS was singing the Bing Bong song in the bath on Sunday, and on Monday had progressed to the 'I'm a wriggly worm' song.

WHO I HAVE JUST DISCOVERED NARRATES PEPPA PIG!!!!!

This has been a most productive day

My favourite episode is Potato City. I really want to go to that theme park, where the magic of vegetables never ends!

I didn't know there was a Mrs and Miss Rabbit and am very confused.

vladthedisorganised In some episodes George just seems to be able to say "dine-sore raaaah" and in others like the one I watched yesterday he repeats the types of dinosaur "brontosaurus" & "tyrranosauras rex" and in another episode he can be seen singing happy birthday. I think he is a selective mute.

Here's some PP trivia for you. Miss Rabbit/Nanny Plum was working for the production company and just happened to be around when they realised they needed an extra voice. She's not a trained actress.

oh and TSSDNC I didn't mean to make you unduly worried re Ben & Holly it's just I was watching it the other day (think it was a new episode) and it all looked a tiny bit different and ben and holly sounded different - it could be that the voice over artists voices have matured (as it's been a few years since the other episoders were made) or that they have new voice over artists.
Google won't help me find the answer and I draw the line at posting on their facebook page.

DH cracks up every time we watch the episode when Delphine Donkey comes to visit to practice her English and Daddy Pig does his usual 'I'm an expert at this' and Delphine asks him about double infinitives.

I have no respect for Dr Hamster though, she's utterly hopeless and might as well hand over to Miss Rabbit, who's sure to do a better job and not lose Tiddles all over the place.