Mummy Pig is pregnant, and it's the good news Peppa Pig fans didn't know they needed
A new piglet will be joining Peppa Pig after 21 years of the beloved British kids' show
We've needed some good news, haven't we?
What with the politics and the polarization and the measles and the bird flu and the tariffs. And if the sheer number of TikTok videos about taking a bath with a toaster and social media posts about lying down in the woods and letting the moss reclaim you are any indication, people are pretty done with the current state of, you know, everything.
But finally, there's something to be excited about! And if the good news happens to arrive in the form of a cartoon pig's cartoon womb, honestly, at this point we'll take the win.
Mummy Pig, Peppa Pig's mom on the beloved British children's cartoon Peppa Pig, is pregnant. After 21 years as a family of four, Mummy and Daddy Pig will break the news to Peppa and George in a new episode on March 31, Hasbro announced in a press release on Thursday.
And the new sibling will arrive in Season 11 later this year.
"OH BABY, The secret's out. Mummy and Daddy Pig are expecting baby #3 ... and are about to be outnumbered," reads a post on the Official Peppa Instagram account on Thursday.
The post includes two photos: the first, of a visibly pregnant Mummy Pig; the second of an ultrasound photo of a tiny, smiling, piglet fetus (words we never thought we'd write, but here we are).
To those of you not well versed in the world of Peppa Pig, the scale of the announcement is arguably akin to if Marge announced she and Homer are having a fourth baby after nearly 40 years of The Simpsons, or if the Bradys added a seventh child to their bunch, or if Anna and Elsa had a secret third sister in Frozen 3, which is to say unexpected and a little shocking.
After all, fans of the British preschool animated television series have been listening to cheeky Peppa introduce her family in the opening sequence the same way for the past 21 years: "I'm Peppa Pig. This is my little brother, George. This is Mummy Pig. And this is Daddy Pig."
As Hasbro points out in its announcement, "everything is about to change."
"While Peppa is already a big sister to George, fans will see her welcome and adjust to having a new baby sister or brother," the announcement notes.
Mummy Pig, for her part, says she's thrilled and a little overwhelmed, as anyone might be when expecting their third child.
"We're having another baby!" she said in an interview with Good Morning Britain on Thursday, showing off her rounded form and then holding up an ultrasound of a piglet fetus (never thought we'd write those words twice).
In the news segment, the cartoon Mummy Pig, voiced by British actress and comedian Morwenna Banks, admitted she's "a little overwhelmed at the thought of having three children under five running around, but mostly just completely delighted."
Fans appear to be delighted, too.
"Happy tearsss," wrote a commenter on the Instagram pregnancy announcement.
"Well, now THIS is news," wrote another.
"Peppa Pig's Mummy is pregnant. This is the sort of news I want to see," wrote a fan on X.
We'll take it.
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