History WesternAnimation / ThePenguinsOfMadagascar

* CloningBlues: In "Endangered Species", the penguins kept having to reclone Dode the Dodo due to his extreme stunts getting him killed each time.

* StableTimeLoop: Occurs in "It's About Time."

* AcceptableTargets: InUniverse:
** Hoboken, NJ.
--->'''Skipper''': I am '''not''' vacationing in New Jersey's own Ninth Portal of Hades!
** The Internet.
--->'''Skipper''': Curse you, Internet — 28,000 cat videos, zero useful information!\\
'''Skipper''': Clearly the people have become immune to our adorable antics! I blame the Internet, and its plethora of cheap puppy videos.

* LoveDodecahedron: In "Tunnel of Love". Add four beavers [[IncrediblyLamePun (The animals! The animals!)]], two badger girls and Marlene, stir for a minute and you get...utter chaos. Complete with ''LoveChart''.

** Lampshaded in "In the Line of Doody," where Private calls the pigeon's fate "[[IncrediblyLamePun poo-etic]] justice." Skipper is not amused, even calling Private out on his toilet humor.

* PowerWalk: Parodied in "Launchtime." The penguins are shown walking in what appears to be SlowMotion, until Skipper stops them and says that they'll never get to the moon at that rate.

** Also prevalent in 'Best Laid Plantains', where Julien decides to go eat the gorillas' new batch of plantains... despite being advised not to by every animals he talked to. [[note]] Mort was the one who got Julien to do it, and as for Marlene...when Julien gives her a plantain, she helps the lemur finish them all off. [[/note]]

'''Joey:''' Those gorillas are going to rip you apart!\\

** Also prevalent in 'Best Laid Plantains', where Julien decides to go eat the gorillas' new batch of plantains... despite being advised not to by Maurice, Marlene, Roy, Burt, Phil, Joey, Pinky, and all four of the Penguins. [[note]] Mort was the one who got Julien to do it, and as for Marlene...when Julien gives her a plantain, she helps the lemur finish them all off. [[/note]]
-->'''Marlene:''' Don't do it.\\

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Skipper consistently pulls off the craziest, wildest, awesomest stunts. The Rat King also falls into this, [[TheWorfEffect but]]...

* OfficerAndAGentleman: Skipper has some of these qualities. He is a lot more cultured than the rest of the commando penguins, generally courteous towards ladies, and also [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking pulls off the craziest stunts]].

* RapidFireComedy

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** Barry the poison dart frog, first seen in the episode "Can't Touch This", is seen in the reptile habitats in "The Big Squeeze".

** In "Field Tripped," ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' is mentioned several times.

A spin-off of the ''Franchise/{{Madagascar}}'' films that aired on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}. It is an AllCGICartoon featuring the [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguins]] from the film series (Skipper, Rico, Kowalski, Private), as well as the lemurs (King Julien, Maurice and Mort) in the main cast and chimpanzees Mason and Phil as recurring characters. A new character, Marlene the otter, is part of the main cast, and while various zoo animals are introduced, the main cast from the films are not shown at all (save for Alex in one of the TV specials and even then he's only as a hallucination of Skipper's). Private, Kowalski, Maurice and King Julien have all had their voice actors [[PoorMansSubstitute replaced]] with some names you might recognize just the same.

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Became [[BreakoutCharacter Breakout Characters]] in the Madagascar movies. Why ''wouldn't'' they have their own show?

** The penguins, arguably. Sometimes it seems that Skipper just keeps the others in line by means of MindControl and [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority open violence]].

** Julien towards the baby Foosa once he realizes it thinks Julien is its daddy.