Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
As The Muppets refocuses on positivity, and topical allegory (almost akin to ABC's old TGIF series, Dinosaurs), "A Tail of Two Piggies" wove a sweet story about being confident in one's own skin. With an uptick in humor and a decrease in depression spirals.
Now, not everything about Piggy's "wardrobe malfunction" story lined up. I mean, she's a pig...but a talking one...in a world where somehow her pig-ness isn't accepted? And where, of course, people still eat pigs? It's a weird line here. One that The Muppets have always sort of straddled just being talking animals. But this was the first time - even after all the human/Muppet mating that went on in the first half of the season - that we got the idea that attributes of their "animal" side were somehow unsavory. Specifically here, Piggy's short, curly tail.
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As The Muppets refocuses on positivity, and topical allegory (almost akin to ABC's old TGIF series, Dinosaurs), "A Tail of Two Piggies" wove a sweet story about being confident in one's own skin. With an uptick in humor and a decrease in depression spirals.
Now, not everything about Piggy's "wardrobe malfunction" story lined up. I mean, she's a pig...but a talking one...in a world where somehow her pig-ness isn't accepted? And where, of course, people still eat pigs? It's a weird line here. One that The Muppets have always sort of straddled just being talking animals. But this was the first time - even after all the human/Muppet mating that went on in the first half of the season - that we got the idea that attributes of their "animal" side were somehow unsavory. Specifically here, Piggy's short, curly tail.
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