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
The Guinea Pig (play) themselves, on a budget of $2,500, which was provided by a rich acquaintance. Sturges later wrote that "The Guinea Pig" contained the biggest laugh he ever received in the theatre, when the ingenue asks the young leading man what a man would say to a woman so that she would instantly give herself to him, and the young man replies, "I wish I knew." An original copy of the 1929 script with a cast photo sold at auction for $2,000 on July 30, 2012 at the Profiles in History auction house. Notes The Guinea Pig (play) The Guinea Pig is