That show is full of so many inappropriate examples for children, it is unreal. I have banned my kids from watching it.
edit:proved => provide
Posting a search engine result page is not sufficient, I can do the same to "prove" 9/11 was a conspiracy to enable GMO chemtrails.
If I say "Show X is bad" then people will expect of me to back up this opinion somehow. This can be as easy as citing examples of why but not by handwaving as "I watched it and thought it was bad".
Example; I think Steven Universe is a bad show. I've watched it through to Season 2 yet I found it lacking in character attachment and depth, meanwhile the animation and storytelling was quite good. Overall I did enjoy it but not enough to keep consuming it.
That is how you should have approached this so people would not jump on you. You can explain it but lacking any explanation people will demand it.
Read my response below to another poster.
1. Daddy pig is portrayed as an idiot. In fact, there are no positive male figures in the whole show. Check sexism.
2. All of the animals are married to animals of the same type: there are no "inter-racial" marriages. It is also full of racial stereotypes. Check racism
3. The only person in the show who seems to work, Mrs Rabbit, has several jobs that she does badly (perhaps due to exhaustion) and speaks with a working class English accent (while all of the other characters have upper/middle class accents). Check classism.
4. It heavily promotes the British royal family, especially in the recent movie. Check elitism.
Unless you want to fill your kids full of prejudice from an early age, avoid.
Not as bad as Thomas the Tank Engine, though. Don't get me started on that.
I strongly disagree! It looks that way superficially, but he is highly resourceful and skilled. He's an engineer, a champion diver, and superb musician. In contrast, Mummy Pig is mostly a non-entity.
> All of the animals are married to animals of the same type: there are no "inter-racial" marriages.
Species ~ race is your own, silly, interpretation.
> perhaps due to exhaustion
Or because doing things badly is a core component of slapstick humour.
Are you dismissing me as "silly Daddy" now? Sorry could not resist ;-)
2. Let's teach them realistic biology. They're difference species, how could they possibly have rabbit and elephant parents - what would the child be? But the fact every species is friends with each other suggests it's ok to "mix".
3. Daddy pig goes to work, and what about the Doctor? There's a teacher, policeman, mechanic. (straw-man: you have differentiated class by accent)
4. I'm far from a royalist, but there's no harm in teaching about the royal family and our heritage.
Disclaimer: I enjoyed watching Peppa Pig.
Ok if we are going to run with that very tenuous argument, how come there are animals walking around on two legs, wearing clothes, talking to each other? Clearly the lesson for kids is not biology, it's "people" (an analogy thereof in this instance) of the same "type" marry each other exclusively.
> you have differentiated class by accent
No, the show makers have. Either this was a deliberate decision or a mistake.
> but there's no harm in teaching about the royal family and our heritage
I might agree to that if the kids watching were British, but this show is widely exported, so in my case not my heritage (or thankfully my kids).
Maybe they could adopt (a panda bear, for example). Suggesting that marriage is related to reproduction is highly offensive to many people.
Let's dive in:
> Daddy pig is portrayed as an idiot
And yet he is loved by his family. He makes mistakes but also has many successes. It's probably his pride which is made fun of; he thinks of himself as amazing and perfect and yet makes mistakes, which are humorous in that context.
> All of the animals are married to animals of the same type
They sure are. I'm not sure why this is racist (but feel free to educate me at length). The target audience is two-year-olds, after all.
Come to think of it, I don't know that they're even married. Adult relationships aren't touched at all. Perhaps they're cohabiting but divorced due to London property prices.
> The only person in the show who seems to work, Mrs Rabbit,
Except for Daddy Pig, Mummy Pig, various workers at Daddy Pig's office, Mr Bull & friends, teachers, police etc etc.
"Friends" doesn't focus on the working lives of the main characters for the obvious reason that it's boring.
Mrs Rabbit doesn't seem exhausted (except as the explicit topic of one episode); it's more a Homer Simpson thing where it's funny that she does so many different jobs.
Accents are definitely racist though. Let Sarah Ann Kennedy know that she is a bad person.
> It heavily promotes the British royal family
It's a British show; why would you expect anything else?
Here's my gripe: animals never eat animals. It's always corn or carrots. Now, in a multi-racial society filled with animals of different needs, how does one get enough protein? I'm sure Mr. Bull has a little rabbit cage in his basement with a forced breeding program, his dark secret. We could explore it over the course of three episodes, as he is slowly outed and blackmailed by his friends. It culminates in an electric chair scene where he screams "Let's DIG UP THE ROOOOOAD!<zap>". Then everyone has meat for dinner.
I clearly said classist.
> It's a British show; why would you expect anything else?
I was expecting a childrens show, not a reinforcement of a world view that some people (royals) are better than others, just because they are born that way. So elitism. Not a positive message for kids, sorry if you disagree.
Glad you found my post funny though, you should look at some of the other articles online criticizing this show, and remember this is your child's psychology at a very impressionable age being influenced. As a parent, I don't find that funny I take it very seriously.
I agree that Peppa Pig is not a perfect show. I'll take it over Teletubbies (thanks again, Brits!) or Barney (thanks, USA!) But really, I'm not that concerned, because TV is not my primary means of educating my child.
Perhaps your child is different, but mine is indifferent to the subtleties of race/class/diversity politics. My child likes it when Daddy Pig falls down. He likes it when George goes fast in the racing car.
He doesn't know who the royals are and has no concept that maybe they're good and maybe they're bad and maybe it's theoretically unfair that people are treated differently by birth, but really isn't that a true statement anyway about life being unfair and pointless? Why should pigs get different treatment from dogs? Why can't cats dig up the road?
It is generally not a good idea to befriend a spider in Australia unless you know the exact species, even then it is generally best just to give them their space.
Miss Rabbit is a prime example of the perils of zero hours contracts, she's constantly having to find new jobs, and often trying to hold down multiple jobs at the same time.
Peppa and another show that I can’t remember the name but it is about “worms”. This other show is in Netflix Kids but it is very bad for childrens, has some very weird messages.
I am not banning it because it shows a lot of social interactions to the kids.