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Posted on 09/07/2017 2:47:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Episode aired on pay TV after earlier being deemed inappropriate for audiences in Australia, home to dangerous spiders
A controversial episode of Peppa Pig has been pulled off the air in Australia for a second time, after complaints it told children to pick up and play with dangerous spiders.
Mister Skinny Legs, a 2004 episode of the popular children’s show, was removed from online publication by the national public broadcaster, the ABC, in 2012 for sending the “inappropriate” message that spiders were friendly and not to be feared.
In the offending episode, Daddy Pig tells a frightened Peppa that spiders are “very very small” and “can’t hurt you” after the eponymous arachnid enters her room. The children are then depicted picking the spider up, tucking it into bed and offering it some tea.
This advice from the British-produced show was deemed to be “inappropriate for Australian audiences” and the ABC banned it from future broadcast. The episode had not been broadcast on TV because of its unsuitability, but was “accidentally published online due to a technical problem”, the ABC said at the time.
Not all Australian spiders are “very, very small” and some can hurt you. Last year footage of a huntsman carrying a mouse up a fridge in the Queensland town of Coppabella became an internet sensation – the huntsman’s leg span can be as large as 16cm. Australia’s dangerous spider species include the venomous redback spider, the funnel-web spider, white-tailed spider and wolf-spider, according to the Australian Museum. It estimates 2,000 people are bitten each year by redback spiders, and 40 by funnel webs. Data released in January revealed 12,600 people were admitted to hospital for spider bites between 2000 and 2013.
On 25 August, the episode was aired again on Nick Jr, a children’s channel affiliated with Nickelodeon
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In Australia, EVERYTHING will kill you!..............
For once, this kind of public complaint was dead on accurate. Indeed, when the Sydney Funnel Web spider is considered, “dead on” is totally right since those things have highly neurotoxic venom that can kill and adult, let alone a small child. Little kids should be encouraged to play with Aussie spiders as much as they should be encouraged to play with loaded guns, the risk with both being about the same.
There is a very poisonous creature that does NOT live in Australia.
But all the rest do.
LOL!! Great PSA.
Those funnel web spiders will chase you, they can bite right through a sneaker. If your yard has an infestation the entire yard would have to be excavated down three feet and hauled off and new dirt brought in.
Peppa Pig is a favorite around here because my grand-daughters watch it. However, picking up a poisonous spider is not wise. Poor writing, no editing, in my opinion.
What bs is this. Even small spiders can give a nasty bite. Then there are black widows in many places. This claim about spiders is plain wrong.
Maybe the ourpose is a further reduction of population.
Wonder how may Fosters the guy had who wrote that one.
“What bs is this. Even small spiders can give a nasty bite.”
absolutely. even “benign” spider bites can make people EXTREMELY ill, cause MAJOR flesh damage in the vicinity of the bite, and in some cases can leave people with permanent organ damage.
In the US the fiddleback and the black widow can cause serious injury.
I think we can all agree that the producers of the show are real idiots.
Is Peppa Pig a scientific educational show, or entertainment?
Is Al Gore’s movie allwed there?
Scary and repulsive even when dead, and without any of the redeeming features of Rattle Snakes.
Come now. I am an American. This means nothing to me. Is it like 7 feet?
No kidding! I'm convinced Harry Harrison, the Science Fiction writer based his "Deathworld" books on Australia!
Mark
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