15 Facts About Peppa Pig

Peppa Pig is a British preschool animated television series by Astley Baker Davies.

Peppa Pig herself has been voiced by several different performers through the years.

Peppa Pig's friends are her age, and Peppa Pig's younger brother George's friends are his age.

Episode DVDs and a variety of licensed Peppa Pig products including video games and other toys such as playsets, playing cards, vehicles, and stuffed toys are sold.

Third game, My Friend Peppa Pig was developed by Petoons Studio and published by Outright Games.

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Peppa Pig was used to promote the pre-2010 Labour government's Sure Start programme, which had the aim of "giving children the best possible start in life".

On 28 May 2014, Minister for Communications Malcolm Turnbull tweeted: "Contrary to media rumours, Peppa Pig's is one snout we are happy to have in the ABC trough".

In 2015 Norman Lamb, a former UK health minister, said that programmes such as Peppa Pig should include gay characters, because having arbitrary boundaries as to what relationships are acceptable in children's television was "not equitable".

The media company responsible for Peppa Pig offered no comment when contacted about the article by the BBC.

In November 2021, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaking at a Confederation of British Industry conference lost his place in his speech for about 20 seconds and diverted into a lengthy tangent about Peppa Pig, describing the character's shape as a "Picasso-like hairdryer".

Since 2019, it has been observed that children in the US, where Peppa Pig had become an extremely popular programme, had been acquiring some Anglo-English, rather than American pronunciation and vocabulary.

Peppa Pig is popular with mainstream China, and has been featured by official news media such as People's Daily, and even endorsed by People's Liberation Army and Chinese weapons manufacturer Norinco.

In May 2018, digitally manipulated contents featuring adult content with Peppa Pig were blocked on the video app TikTok, known as Douyin in China, due to concerns about exposure of adult content to children.

The ban was in response to the prevalence of adult content featuring Peppa Pig created by shehuiren subculture, which used Peppa Pig as a criminal "mobster" icon, with members of the subculture creating memes and tattoos using imagery from the cartoon, containing adult humor.

Original Peppa Pig cartoons remain accessible on all online platforms, including TikTok .