The Queen's agent, Peppa Pig, has American kids talking all British again
Children's binge-watching during the pandemic quarantine is a boon to influencer wannabe parents everywhere
Ring the alarms: British mole agent, Peppa Pig, is corrupting our American youth yet again, goddamnit. Despite seeming like a harmless cartoon character designed to entertain children, she has been uncovered as an agent of British cultural hegemony actively working to undermine the sovereignty of nations around the globe. As the Wall Street Journal reports, thanks to a year-and-a-half’s worth of pandemic-induced stay-at-home life, parents are noticing their kids talking nonsense about “lorries,” “petrol stations,” and “biscuits” to their beloved “mummies and daddies.” The culprit? Hours of Peppa Pig binge-watching.
One 6-year-old Rhode Island girl spent last December “[insisting] on the British holiday traditions of wearing a crown and baking mince pies for ‘Father Christmas.’”
“Mummy, are you going to the optician?” a California kindergartener named Dani apparently asked their mom (say it right!) the other day. “We were like, ‘the what?’ That’s like a college-level word… At least, I wasn’t using it,” Dani’s self-deprecating father, Matias Cavallin, told the WSJ. As parents like Cavallin balanced work and raising children, they increasingly relied on kids’ programming to help distract and educate during their Zoom meetings and work-from-home scenarios. Soon, “The Peppa Effect,” as some call it, became a nationwide epidemic.