Peppa Pig is one of the few cultural monoliths to come out of the United Kingdom alongside The Beatles, Harry Potter and the London bridge nursery rhyme. Like the London bridge, many of these monoliths have fallen over the years. Paul McCartney doesn't sing good anymore and he refuses to change the key of his songs to change his aging voice, leaving concertgoers with a subpar experience, and tarnishing The Beatles legacy forever. JK Rowling's Twitter rants and unnecessary political badgering has turned Harry Potter from a monolith for Buzzfeed Millennials into a dogwhistle of hatred. And of course, the London bridge nursery rhyme insists upon itself and is overplayed. But Peppa Pig stands alone, it's quiet steadiness fills the nation of the United Kingdom with pride. It's characters stay the same no matter what. The steadiness and stability of Peppa Pig gives viewers an ideal look into life in the UK, where picnics have amazing looking sandwiches which never get soggy, where careers as a grocery store cashier and funfair attendant are revered, and where there is never a rainy day without a positive spin on it.
Unfortunately, the stability of Peppa Pig is going away, because Mummy Pig just HAD to have another child. Peppa Pig is officially ditching the stability that made the show a mainstay of viewers worldwide for years and taking massive leaps over the shark that it makes their muddy puddle jumping look like sitting in a chair.
Alongside this new baby in Peppa Pig, they are getting a new house, a new car, and a completely new lifestyle, even a new intro, and it's the utter embodiment of what happens when a show jumps the shark.
Will it still be good? Sure. But I think the new generations are more interested in TikTok and Bluey then they are Peppa Pig. And this jumping the shark is only going to make the next generation want to visit the dogs down under.
