Peppa Pig such as sadness, happiness, irritation, bewilderment and confusion. Although the main characters - mostly mammals - are anthropomorphic, other animal characters are not, for example, Tiddles the tortoise, Polly Parrot, and the ducks. In addition, the narrator of the series John Sparkes reinforces the action and humour, saying things like "Oh, dear" when something unfortunate happens (such as George starts crying) or "Look out!" when a character is doing something unsafe (such as Peppa riding her bicycle without looking where she's going). The first series of 52 five-minute episodes started on Channel 5 on 31 May 2004, and had its
Peppa Pig dispensing medicines rather too freely. The media company responsible for Peppa Pig offered no comment when contacted about the article by the BBC. In May 2018, content relating to Peppa Pig was blocked on the Chinese video app Douyin. At least 30,000 clips referenced under "#PeppaPig" were removed by the site. The ban was a result of Peppa Pig's popularity within shehuiren (; literally "society person") subculture, which used Peppa Pig as a subversive "gangster" icon, with members of the subculture creating memes and getting tattoos using images from the cartoon. Although original Peppa Pig cartoons remain accessible on the