Come on Pig, didn't the hedgehog teach you ANYTHING?

Let's be honest. Animals and road safety don't really mix. It seems very hypocritical for a hedgehog to tell kids about crossing the road safely when they're often the first piece of roadkill you see on a morning commute. Foxes aren't exactly the cleverest either. Sure they may be a bit shrewd when it comes to looting from the bins, but the bastards can't cross a road without causing at least 3 cars to swerve out of their way just so we don't end up with Basil Brush's cousin flattened on the grass verge.

But now it seems that pigs have ignored the most basic rules of road safety. Well, when I say pigs, I actually only mean one pig. One very troublesome little pig.

Toddlers call her...Peppa Pig.

Yes that's right, that little poorly animated, poorly drawn cartoon pig that appears on Nickelodeon Jr. and Channel Five has been in breach of safety laws. You see, in several scenes of the TV show, Peppa Pig gets into a car and fails to do her seatbelt up. Now, whilst this unbelievably serious crime (which should be punished by death by firing squad) has been enforced for many decades, the producers of this show have....

...I'm not even going to bother with this sarcastic approach anymore. Honestly. The makers of the show are now reanimating previous episodes to show a seatbelt because ONE parent complained when her toddler refused to wear a seatbelt because the TV Pig wouldn't.

ONE.

When are these TV shows/production companies going to grow a backbone and tell these people to be better parents? They're not. Instead they're grovelling to these (well actually "this") parent(s) saying things like 'If we could turn back the clock we would' and 'we were very naive when we started making Peppa'. Ok, so you have to be quite sensitive when making TV shows for toddlers I admit. If Peppa had a gun, fair enough. If Peppa was explaining how she got turned into sausages and bacon, again fair enough there are probably Jewish kids watching. But no, she was sitting in some poorly animated box car thing, and the animators forgot to draw a line across the character to emphasise she was wearing a seatbelt. I've had enough of over-sensitive muppets having OFCOM on speed-dial and ruining television for everyone else. I guarantee the episode where Peppa gets flung through the windscreen after a 20 car pile up will have the highest ratings for the show, ever.

No seriously this has to stop. We're going to end up with emotionless TV pretty soon. And when that happens, these fuckwits will have something to complain about.