Pinky & Pepper Forever

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Entertainment: ★★★★☆, Personally, I love a story that has the perfect balance of a fascinating universe/concept but enough mystery/questionability so the reader can come to their own conclusions, and I feel this just managed to create that condition. This works really well for me, especially with morally concerning characters, but can leave other readers unsatisfied and agitated. I also loved the art, it's rough around the edges but nails the 2000s Hot Topic edgy yet cute eyestrain aesthetic, feeling childlike yet refined. It's short enough to warrant a reread to catch certain motifs (baths/underwater/torture) and how they play into the story. The subtle ways Pinky and Pepper both fail each other, culminating into a mutually destructive relationship which lands the two in hell, further exposing their flawed communication and combative behavior. There's plenty of subtextual exploration of lesbophobia (Characters hinting at Pepper eating a lot of clams while she's presenting her art, later saying she's in hell for "lesbianism") and the violence of it through the fates of Pinky and Pepper, think MONTERO by Lil Nas X. It's also an interesting dynamic subverting the classic one out of the gay pair dies trope, and continues their story beyond death, beyond hell, proclaiming eternal queer connection and solidarity. The reader has to think critically beyond their relationship and its clear pitfalls, and understand with the context of lesbophobia: In spades, with one good example being one of the books the show is based on called "Pinky Stinky Doo". In it, Pinky eats a burrito and farts at school. In each episode, there is also a "Great Big Fancy Word", which varies with each episode, but when somebody is about to say the word, Mr. Guinea Pig will blow a trumpet and then the character says the word. The pigs featured in series, such as Pinky and Perky's Pop Parade and Pinky and Perky's Island, for 11 years until 1968 on the BBC before transferring to ITV until 1972. There were no real people, sketches or stories in the shows at all. Instead, the puppets would be seen lip-synching and dancing to songs by the likes of Petula Clark. In this incarnation, each episode would end with the characters singing the Scaffold's hit "Thank U Very Much". At this point, there would be the only piece of spoken dialogue, which went along these lines:

Pinky and Perky are mentioned in The Bank Job, a 2008 British crime film, in reference to two supporting characters. Their show included other puppets such as the Beakles (an avian parody of the Beatles), Topo Gigio, a mouse puppet who appeared in many later episodes, as well as a female pig. Other puppets included Ambrose Cat, Basil Bloodhound, Bertie Bonkers the baby elephant, Conchita the Cow, Horace Hare and Vera Vixen.

Pinky Dinky Doo provides examples of:

spoilers maybe although the plot of the book is pretty upfront in the blurb, a thematic discussion of the book]

Shaking the Rump: Pinky, Tyler, and Mr. Guinea Pig shake their rears before they go into the Story Box. Fooled by the Sound: In "Pinky and the Grumpy Alligator", Pinky and her father hear Aloysius the titular bad-tempered alligator stomping and snarling. Her dad wonders if it's Pinky's stomach.a key difference is that while pinky and pepper are shown as existing in hell, in danez smith's poem the vision is of a kind of paradise free of white supremacy. but what the narratives share is both holding the weight of the deaths of marginalised people while also imagining the possibility that things could be otherwise and on their own terms. In "Try It, You'll Like It... Pretty Much", Tyler is subjected to butternut squash for dinner, which he thinks looks disgusting but he doesn't know what it tastes like, although decides not to try it anyway. Pinky tells a story about herself going to another planet to taste out-of-this-world food in a contest made by aliens, which all looks very off-putting. However, she gives all of the foods after hesitation a try and finds them all to be very good. Tyler learns that even disgusting-looking foods can be tasty. Pinky and Pepper are two artists in love. They’re both students trying to refine their craft and find their audience, but neither one feels like they’re having much success. Pepper’s classmates criticise the singular focus of her art and her technique, whereas Pinky’s classmates applaud her technique, but argue that her work is devoid of meaning. Turning to each other for validation, the line between the devotion to their art and their devotion to each other becomes fuzzy. Co-dependent doesn’t even begin to describe their relationship. Pinky has "Yessarooni Positooni!", "Now THAT'S something you don't see every day.", and "I love to make up stories. I'll bet you can make up a story too." There are also catchphrases in the form of a song: "If I have a problem and don't know which way to go, I think and think and think and think and suddenly I know!"