Pigs

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   **Pigs** is the fourth episode of the animated series, A Bunch of Munsch, after The Paper Bag Princess, which is based on the 1989 Robert Munsch's book of the same name. It was followed by David's Father.

## Plot

A bunch of pigs are doing an aerobic exercise class 80s-style (similar to the time era of the show and episode) on a farm in a pen until they hear an alarm clock go off, and go back to being normal pigs. A young schoolgirl named Megan wakes up, goes downstairs to go to school for a big math test, but before she leaves her father reminds her to feed the pigs and not to open the gate. She does, and she laments to herself that pigs are dumb, are worthless, and that they wouldn't do anything if she did open the gate. So she does, ignoring her father's instruction and warnings. She then yells at them, calling them are dumb.

The pigs then go crazy from hearing this, and start invading the house to show to the humans that they are smart. She goes inside the house, notices all the trouble they are causing, and her father is outraged by all of the destruction they're causing, and she then calls for her to get out of the house, and calling them dumb again, and she brings some of the back into the pen, only for a huge amount of small them to hijack the school bus unknown to her, and then runs after the school bus.

She then makes it to school barely on time for the math test looking dirty, but she then spots muddy hoofprints all over the front of the school, and thinks they're footprints of other students. She then hears squeals and oinks coming from the school, and notices the pigs have in-fact went to the school, and are invading it in the same way to show they're smart. The Principal is outraged and calls them dumb loudly before they all go out, but a young pig takes the answers for her math test and brings it into the classroom and hides under her desk, intending on helping her pass it.

She finally makes it to class for the math test, only for her to leave her paper and pencil on her desk and the young little piglet underneath her desk solves her math quiz with perfect answers. She then slowly starts to learn that pigs are not so dumb after all as she thought they were, the pig then invades the classroom and leaves Mr. Buggenhammer, her math teacher to be humiliated by the students, and she and the pig gain the respect of all of the students in the school when she befriends him, and names him Einstein. In which she keeps him as a pet as a result of this.

The bus then comes to pick her up and she brings Einstein along with her. But she then notices once again that the bus is now entirely inhabited and driven by the pigs who previously drove it to school earlier, and they even surprisingly do better than the human driver. She then goes home with Einstein, apologizes to her father for her ignorance, unveils Einstein to her parents, and has had a good day with him.

She then is seen at the zoo with Einstein, assuring to him that the trouble they went through will never happen again. She shows him by opening up the gate of the zoo to the elephant pen, and calls the elephants dumb in the same way as she once did with the pigs, and nothing happens as they leave the zoo. This assumption however changes, when as soon as they leave, all of the elephants escape from all their cages, dancing as they escape from the zoo, and ending with the same instrumental as the "Pigs Are Smart" song.

## Trivia

* This was the first A Bunch of Munsch-themed episode, hinted by the advanced and prototypical nature of the animation and art style, and the title card being rather basic compared to the others.
* This episode tales place in the 80s.
* This is the only episode to use photorealistic-styled backgrounds.