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Piggsburg Pigs!

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Piggsburg Pigs!	label	Piggsburg Pigs!
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Piggsburg Pigs!	comment	Piggsburg Pigs! is a forgotten little series released in 1990 by Ruby-Spears as part of the very first season of the Fox Kids block. It took place in the town of Piggsburg, which as the name implies was inhabited by anthropomorphic pigs, and focused on the adventures of the Bacon brothers Bo, Portly and Pighead, and their (pet?) duck Quackers.They were constantly ducking the schemes of the wolves Huff and Puff to eat them for lunch, but supernatural danger would also frequently appear from the Forbidden Zone, the menacing swamp on the edge of town. The heavy usage of some pretty genuinely menacing monsters for a cartoon where the main characters were silly anthropomorphic animals probably explains a lot about why this show isn't more remembered.The series had a limited Region 2 DVD release, but has yet to be seen again in the States.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: Pighead and one of the wolves have voices that make them sound like Art Carney.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: Of the Funny Animal variety, the pigs and the wolves, who can be understood perfectly by human scientist Dr. Sargasso and his minions, one of which is a werewolf-type creature. He even attended one of Piggsburg's universities before being kicked out.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_2937826d	type	Hurricane of Puns
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_2937826d	comment	Hurricane of Puns: Every pig-related bit of wordplay they could come up with.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: The episode "Creatures" has a pair of monsters packing the Critters-expies into a crate and throwing them into Piggsburg to get rid of them.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_51df4e54	type	Kids Driving Cars
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_51df4e54	comment	Kids Driving Cars: The title pigs drive around in motor vehicles. In fact, the episode "Vampire Dogs of Mars" actually has Pighead and Portley stopping at a gas station to fuel up their car.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: This show is one half of a pair for Fox Kids as a whole, being one of the first shows to be produced for the block. Before the block went defunct in 2002, one of the last shows it would produce would be Pig City, another show about a city of anthropomorphic pigs.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_5889ca1d	type	Mineral MacGuffin
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_5889ca1d	comment	Mineral MacGuffin: The Crystal of Darkness that an evil spirit needs to escape his prison under the Forbidden Zone. It was being displayed in a jewelry store when his henchman found it!
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_5db59a03	type	Brown Note
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_5db59a03	comment	Brown Note: The sight of Artemis Night's true face in "Carnival of Evil" turns anyone who looks at it into either a monster or carnival decor. Even looking at just a photograph of it yields the same effect.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_644eca71	type	Rich Bitch
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_644eca71	comment	Rich Bitch: Male example with Rembrandt Proudpork.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_685a6461	comment	Circus of Fear: Or "Carnival of Evil."
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_704d7e91	type	No Ontological Inertia
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_704d7e91	comment	No Ontological Inertia: At the beginning of one episode a vampire brings the eponymous Vampire Dogs From Mars to life from a movie at a drive-in. When the vampire's destroyed at the end of the episode the dogs turn into a poster for the movie. Likewise in "Carnival of Evil" the monster falling victim to his own power automatically changes all his victims back to normal.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_7431b974	type	Vile Villain, Saccharine Show
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_7431b974	comment	Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: As noted the talking pigs are pretty typical of most Funny Animal fare, but each episode ends up being about some monster or other being that's portrayed as menacing as they could get away with on a Saturday morning cartoon. The wolves are also into wanting to eat the pigs and openly express it, but difference was they were never presented as being an actual threat.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_76d6c3df	type	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_76d6c3df	comment	I Don't Like the Sound of That Place: The Carnival of Night. And no wonder, it's being run by zombies.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_787a34e7	type	Swiss-Army Superpower
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_787a34e7	comment	Swiss-Army Superpower: Quackers was often used as a replacement for whatever tool the pigs needed to get out of the current problem, from a harpoon to a squirt gun to an axe (!) to an outboard motor. One of the more common (and weird) uses he was put to was having a flashlight shoved in his bill with the pigs then walking around holding him up by the feet.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_7c889239	type	Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_7c889239	comment	Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: The entire porcine cast, though their shoes were cut to resemble pig hooves. The wolves are instead Half-Dressed Cartoon Animals.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_ac7b87df	type	Off-Model
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_ac7b87df	comment	Off-Model: "Pighead's Brain" has numerous errors, including plenty of outfits that change colors between shots.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: In "Case of the Troublesome Monster" Pighead's learning to imitate voices at the beginning of the episode. At the end it lets him imitate the voice of the only person who can say a magic spell to de-animate a giant killer statue, saving everybody (even though he doesn't sound a thing like the person he's supposedly copying).
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_ae0bbe52	type	Living Statue
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_ae0bbe52	comment	Living Statue: In one episode a pair of gargoyles are trying to find out the secret spell to bring a giant gargoyle statue to life.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_aec3d8b2	type	Expository Theme Tune
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_aec3d8b2	comment	Expository Theme Tune: Two versions. The song is the same, but one was done by a singer with a distinctly rougher voice.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_af98df4e	type	They Called Me Mad!
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_af98df4e	comment	They Called Me Mad!: The Freudian Excuse used by Dr. Sargasso in "Pighead's Brain".
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation: The power of Artemis Night from "Carnival of Evil." Seeing his true undead face turns people into merry-go-round animals, of all things.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Bo, Lorelei and Dottie might be slightly unusual names, but they're real ones. Portly isn't that weird, but "Pighead"??
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_be67d52b	type	Invisible Holes
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_be67d52b	comment	Invisible Holes: In one episode the wolves accidentally end up in a carnival shooting gallery. They escape, then have a drink and find out they didn't get away unscathed after all.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: There were a couple episodes such as "Pighead's Brain" and "Mystery of the Swamp Mansion" with human characters who never thought anything at all of meeting anthropomorphic pigs and wolves or vice versa. A few times the guys' pigs were shown being attracted to beautiful human women, with the girl pigs getting jealous of the beautiful human women too.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_dfa71e43	type	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_dfa71e43	comment	Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Huff and Puff, who were there mainly to keep the episodes from getting too scary.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: The episode "Creatures" is basically a G-rated version of Critters.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_e9604359	type	Monster of the Week
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_e9604359	comment	Monster of the Week: The plot was always driven by some supernatural evil escaping the Forbidden Zone, which is kind of an unexpected choice for a cartoon about talking pigs.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_f61cddc9	type	Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_f61cddc9	comment	Lions and Tigers and Humans... Oh, My!: The show featured both Funny Animals and humans.
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Piggsburg Pigs! / int_f651b980	type	Forbidden Zone
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_f651b980	comment	Forbidden Zone: The swamp outside town, and actually called the Forbidden Zone, even. Home to all manner of swamp monsters, evil spirits, undead and more than one Mad Scientist. However since every episode ended up there eventually, there was really nothing keeping anybody from going in (or out...), so the "forbidden" part seems to have been more of a suggestion that nobody really followed.
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Piggsburg Pigs!	hasFeature	Pig Man / int_f8a5411b
Piggsburg Pigs!	hasFeature	Predators Are Mean / int_f8a5411b
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Piggsburg Pigs!	hasFeature	Swamps Are Evil / int_f8a5411b
Piggsburg Pigs!	hasFeature	The Big Bad Wolf / int_f8a5411b

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