Some have complained that Peppa Pig teaches their children to to be naughty. Strong social lessons about kindness, being thoughtful, and loyalty run throughout each episode. According to The Guardian, Peppa Pig does a fine job at mirroring or even satirizing family life - creating a television show that both parents and children will enjoy.Ĭommon Sense Media, a website that rates programming for children, gives the program a five star review, saying this about the show: The show's animation is simple and pleasant, and crises revolve around the things that preschoolers worry about: visiting grandparents, playgroups, riding bikes. Peppa is also very active and enjoys the simple things in life, like her time in the mud puddles. Since then, there have been five more seasons of the show, which totals it out to be six seasons of Peppa Pig thus far. It aired its first-ever episode on May 31, 2004, and that season followed with 51 more episodes after that. Peppa loves visiting her fellow animal friends including best friend, Suzy Sheep. Peppa Pig has been on television since 2004, so 2020 marks the 16th year of the shows existence. "She's got a tremendous amount of confidence and a real sense of self that I think both boys and girls respond to."Īn episode of Peppa Pig, which airs on Nick Jr., generally features Peppa and her family doing fun activities. "It's an adorable show with a really strong female character, with a very specific point of view," Terri Weiss, executive vice president of Nickelodeon Preschool told The New York Daily News, in a December 2014 interview. (Holy moly.) That means parents everywhere are definitely watching the show and loving what they see - enough to go out and buy their children merchandise because of it.
The Daily Mail reports that Peppa Pig raked in more than $1 billion in revenue in U.S. The general consensus seems to be a resounding yes, primarily because of the way the show took the United States and the world by storm in the past few years. But should your kids watch Peppa Pig, just because it's popular? While we enjoyed watching Arthur the aadvark from Arthur or Blue, the clue-dropping dog from Blue's Clues, children these days are loving Peppa Pig from the eponymous U.K. Peppa Pig is undoubtably one of the most popular children's shows of the past decade. A bright pink pig has taken over children's televisions all over the world, from the United States to Australia - and she goes by the name of Peppa.