Piggy Tales Season 1, Episode 2: Roughnecks

1

Trampoline

A pig finds a trampoline with a warning sign that says not to use. Regardless, he jumps for a while, but the trampoline won't move. Furious, he stops trying to jump, but then he notices his weight is stretching the trampoline downward, and then he is flung to the ceiling where he is stuck along with other pigs. Another pig arrives, breaks the fourth wall, and it happens again.

2 min

2

Roughnecks

A construction pig climbs a makeshift spiral staircase to work on top of a tower of crates. When he drops his hammer, another construction pig picks it up and swaps it for a hand saw. When the first pig returns, he is confused, but picks up the saw and climbs back to the top to use it. He then falls from the tower along with the saw.

2 min

3

Abduction

A small spaceship lands next to the big pig and a tiny alien pig comes out of it. The tiny alien pig conversates with the big pig, who then starts laughing, but then the tiny pig gets back in its spaceship and flies it into the big pig's mouth. The big pig's eyes glow and it starts floating and flies off.

2 min

4

Teeter Trotter

Two pigs are on a seesaw, but one of the pigs is too big to move. The small pig tries various schemes to help lift the big pig up, mostly by attaching more and more rockets. When he lights a whole array of them, the rockets fly up and all of them come crashing down in a big explosion, which finally sends both of them flying up in the air.

2 min

5

The Hole

A pig peers over a hole in the ground that acts like a vertical wind tunnel, constantly pushing air up. Another pig joins. Then the pigs jump on the hole and hover, until the air stops blowing and they fall. When they got to the bottom, they were having fun with their echoes for a few seconds. Some time later, they are spit out of the hole.

2 min

6

Push Button

A pig pushes a button on a box, which makes a sound and then a crashing noise. The pig finds this very amusing and pushes it several times until he gets bored. He walks around and discovers a bunch of pigs that have been smashed in on the ground. Then he hears the sound and a weight from above almost smashes him. He dodges several of these, then chuckles, but then he got smashed in as another pig has pushed the button. After that, laughing sounds can be heard.

2 min

7

The Mirror

A pig poses in front of a wood-framed mirror. Then another pig arrives and calls the pig in the mirror over, who then leaves. The first pig sits there embarrassed.

2 min

8

Super Glue

A pig picks a rolled up tube of super glue. When another pig arrives, the first pig drops the tube and leaves but the second pig is attached to the back of the first pig. Another pig comes and ends up attached to the pigs. More pigs do the same and they end up having to act like an inchworm to move around.

2 min

9

Piggy in the Middle

Two pigs are heading a soccer ball back and forth. As some opera music starts, a third pig wants to join in but is found in the middle. He tries to increase his reach by standing on a stool, but it fails. Eventually he brings a cannon and shoots it up to try to stop the ball, but it brings down a piano and a pig, who then continues playing and singing the opera music.

2 min

10

Epic Sir Bucket

A pig wearing a bucket for a helmet swings around a wooden sword pretending to be in a sword fight when he bumps into an anvil suspended in midair by a balloon. At first he pokes around the bottom of the anvil but nothing happens. Then he stands on the anvil and cuts the string from the balloon but nothing happens. Then the balloon falls on him with the force of the anvil and smashes him, and then pops.

2 min

11

Push Button Trouble

A pig finds a push button, this time on top of a crate. After several attempts, he jumps on top and lands on the button, but the entire floor rotates at different angles. He struggles to climb back to push the button several more times until the side of the crate with the button falls to the floor, causing the floor to go on different angles constantly, causing the pig to panic. Eventually, the "floor" with the crate is the ceiling, and the pig, after regaining consciousness, giggled, but then the crate falls on him, causing the button to be pushed once more, and send the whole place spinning.

2 min

12

Sha-Zam!

Two pigs take turns using a magic wand to transform each other into different objects and then back to normal. However, one of the pigs transforms the pig into a mirror, and on the second waving of the wand, the spell bounces off the mirror and transforms the caster into an umbrella.

2 min

13

Puffed Up

Two pigs take turns taking a deep breath and holding it, puffing themselves up to see which pig is bigger. One takes such a big breath that the other pig leaves and returns with a cork to plug up the first pig's mouth. When the first pig starts floating like a balloon, the second pig uncorks the mouth, and the first pig deflates and flies around, landing in a splat. The second pig drops the cork and walks away.

2 min

14

Peekaboo!

Two pigs are hanging out by a crate. One of them nudges the other to play hide and seek, but after the first one does the count, the second one has not moved. After several tries, the second one has hidden, and the first one is unable to find. After the first one leaves, the second one opens its eyes, having painted itself into the white background.

2 min

15

Up Or Down?

A pig pushes a button for an elevator, but neither of the two doors will open, despite the floor indicator arrow moving around and lighting up. After several tries, both elevator doors open: one is full of pigs and the other is empty. After a little bit of thought, the pig begins to laugh, and he joins the elevator full of pigs.

2 min

16

Gloves

The pigs find a pair of rubber gloves. The two bigger pigs play with them in all sorts of ways such as using it as a balloon, trumpet or pretending to be a cow or rooster. The third pig inflates them and shows its actual purpose, but the first two pigs disapprove.

2 min

17

Snooze

Two pigs are sleeping. When the second one starts snoring, the first one tries to wake him up with all sorts of methods, but nothing works. The first pig gives up and collapses, but when the second pig wakes up, he notices the first pig snoring, and tries to wake him up.

2 min

18

Superpork

Two masked superhero pigs (resembling Batman and Robin) chase a robber pig, but the robber pig crosses a chasm. The superhero pigs try different schemes to cross the chasm but fail. Eventually they use balloons to cross, but the robber pig jumps on the balloons and crosses back.

2 min

19

Cake Duel

A slice of cake on top of a crate attracts two pigs who then don top hats, wigs, and moustaches to duel each other in a sword fight with their tails. During the fight, the cake and crate split in two.

2 min

20

Dr. Pork, M.D

A pig doctor treats a pig affected by measles, by using a stethoscope, a hammer for reflexes, and then giving them some medicine on a spoon, and the sick pig almost immediately became better. He does the same with the opera pig from "Piggy In the Middle", who has caught pneumonia. His third patient is the floating pig who swallowed the alien ship from the previous episode, "Abduction". He uses the stethoscope, but hears weird sounds. He tries the hammer, but it gets zapped into dust. He has the pig open his mouth, and then the alien ship flies out. The third pig feels better and leaves. The doctor, who believed he was having a mental breakdown, drank the whole bottle of medicine, then throws it away.

2 min

21

Hog Hoops

A pig doctor treats a pig affected by measles, by using a stethoscope, a hammer for reflexes, and then giving them some medicine on a spoon, and the sick pig almost immediately became better. He does the same with the opera pig from "Piggy In the Middle", who has caught pneumonia. His third patient is the floating pig who swallowed the alien ship from the previous episode, "Abduction". He uses the stethoscope, but hears weird sounds. He tries the hammer, but it gets zapped into dust. He has the pig open his mouth, and then the alien ship flies out. The third pig feels better and leaves. The doctor, who believed he was having a mental breakdown, drank the whole bottle of medicine, then throws it away.

2 min

22

The Cure

A pig has a drippy nose. A second pig brings a bottle of medicine, but is unable to remove its cork. He uses his tail as a corkscrew and removes the cork, only to use the cork to plug up the sick pig's nose. After this, the first pig inhaled through his nose, swallowing the mucus and they both laugh.

2 min

23

Up The Tempo

A pig uses a mallet to pound in some nails on a staircase, but the mallet makes funny noises. He discovers another pig who has been making the sound effects with a microphone. He climbs the stairs with the effects and then jumps off, literally climbing into the air until he stops and then crashes to the ground. The sound effects pig makes the sound for a ambulance siren.

2 min

24

Jammed

Two pigs try different tools to open a jar of orange jam. Their last resort is dynamite, but the explosion ends up putting the two pigs inside the jar, with the jam splattered outside.

2 min

25

Fly Piggy, Fly!

A pig fashions various contraptions out of open crate frames and motors in order to fly. On the last try, he hits the ceiling.

2 min

26

The Game

Two pigs are playing hexapawn. When the first pig makes a move, the second pig has a hard time figuring what to do. When the first pig gets bored and turns around to whistle, the second pig rotates the board around. The first pig is now puzzled.

2 min

27

The Catch

A pig cuts a hole in the floor to go ice fishing, but his first few casts bring nothing. He changes his bait to different items, but has no luck. After using the hand saw, he loses the bait, but then the saw blade appears and cuts a hole around where he is.

2 min

28

Snowed Up

A pig gets his tongue stuck on a giant snowpig, and tries to get it off.

2 min

29

The Wishing Well

Two pigs find a wishing well but do not know how it works. A third pig comes by with a bucket, and tosses an apple into the well, and soon a bunch of apples fall from the sky and into his bucket. The two pigs try this with a hammer, but then must dodge the hammers falling from the sky. One of the last ones falls on a pig who then falls in the well. The sky then darkens and at the same time, the only remaining pig stares up into the sky and starts to panic.

2 min

30

Stuck In?

A pig finds a sword in the stone but is unable to pull it out. Other pigs join to help, but no luck. A little pig comes and pulls it out. The other pigs celebrate and take the stone. The pig who pulled out the sword looks dejected and leaves, tossing the sword aside.

2 min

31

It's a Wrap

The pigs clean up and put away the props of the first season. A pig notices a smudge on the camera, and cleans it with a sponge. He is the last one around so as the lights go out, he opens a door and leaves.

2 min