History WesternAnimation / ThePenguinsofMadagascar

** After accidentally being zapped by the penguins's enhancement ray, Mort (a tiny mouse lemur) quadrupled in size and strength, capable of bringing down animals larger than himself and many times taller than his bossy, but absent-minded ring-tailed lemur leader, King Julien. Julien's advisor, Maurice, takes note of this transformation immediately.

** After accidentally being zapped by the penguins's enhancement ray, Mort (a tiny mouse lemur) quadrupled in size and strength, capable of bringing down animals larger than himself and many times taller than his bossy, but absent-minded ring-tailed lemur leader, King Julian. Julian's advisor, Maurice, takes note of this transformation immediately.

* IdiotBall: Julian seems to have one predominantly attached to him.

* MechanicalAnimals: One episode involves Julian encountering a robot lemur named Lemmy. He teaches it to dance and the penguins teach it to spy.

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

* RevoltingRescue: In one episode, Kowalski creates a [[AnthropomorphicFood sentient jello cube]] named Jiggles, who grows every time he eats and eats all the fruit in sight. Then, he eats Kowalski and Julian, and to get him to spit them out, Kowalski throws up because he ate fish for lunch and Jiggles [[DoesNotLikeSpam hates the taste of fish]].

* ShipSinking:
** What Kitka's debut tried to do to Skipper/Marlene. It didn't work. Possibly lampshaded in that even Skipper acknowledged that it wasn't working out.
** Almost every time Fred appears, one or more ships are sunk. Skipper/Kitka, Julien/Marlene, Fred/Marlene and Marlene/Antonio... And usually, it happens due to Fred's stupidity.

* TheCameo: Series/BigTimeRush get one. In beaver form.

* TheCastShowoff:
** Kowalski's "Graveyard Eight" song lets Creator/JeffBennett show off his singing ability.
** "The Return of the Revenge of Dr Blowhole" seems made to allow the cast to show off. Kowalski even gets a duet with [[Creator/NeilPatrickHarris Dr. Blowhole]]. Blowhole even gets two songs to himself afterwards.

A spin-off of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' films that aired on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}. It is an AllCGICartoon featuring the [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguins]] of the ''Madagascar'' 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.

[[TheMovie A feature film]], drawing heavy inspiration from the cartoon, but otherwise set in the continuity of the other films, was released in November 2014. Click [[WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar here]] for its page.

* AdaptationExpansion: Sort of. The four main characters from ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' proper never show up, but the Penguins and the zoo have their lore expanded upon.

** In ''The Penguins of Madagascar in a Christmas Caper'', the camels are portrayed celebrating Hanukkah, implying that they are Israeli.

* PilotMovie: The 2005 theatrical short ''The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper'', while differing from the series in many ways, particularly in it being set before the Madagascar movies instead of after, still features many elements that would make it into ''The Penguins of Madagascar'', including the Penguins' base and Rico's redesign.

* GrandFinale: "The Penguin Who Loved Me", notably resolving some of the series longest running gags: [[spoiler:Doris finally likes likes Kowalski, and Manfredi and Johnson appear.]]

** In "Cute-astrope", Private learns how to ramp his own cuteness factor [[UpToEleven 138%]], resulting in a ''weaponized'' CutenessProximity that makes everyone who witnesses it faint from sheer sugar shock.

** "It's About Time" ends with Kowalski building a snowcone machine and burying New York in shaved ice.

** Private gets left behind in the plush factory in "Operation: Plush and Cover," but is back in the next episode.

* NiceHat: King Julien's crown.

* {{Expy}}: Marlene the Otter is one for Gloria the Hippo. She also exhibits some behavior similar to Alex the Lion (arguably). In fact, one could argue she's meant as an {{Expy}} for the entire original ''cast'' of the movies.

* AbortedArc: At the end of one episode it's revealed that Rhonda the walrus [[spoiler: works for Dr.Blowhole and has stolen one of Kowalski's inventions, a tool that can morph instantly into other tools as needed.]] She shows up again as a background character, but her role and the invention are never brought up again.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Eight characters comprise the primary cast: four penguins, three lemurs, and Marlene, who is prominent enough to appear in the intro. Among the large cast of recurring characters are Alice the zookeeper, Mason and Phil the chimps, Roger the alligator, Fred the squirrel, Bada and Bing the gorillas, Joey the kangaroo, Max the stray cat, Burt the elephant, and more.

-->'''Skipper''': I am '''not''' vacationing in New Jersey's own Ninth Portal of Hades!

-->'''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.

-->'''Julien''': To impress this girly monkey, you must sweep her off her feet. That is how I got my many girlfriends.
-->'''Maurice''': What girlfriends?
-->'''Julien''': You don't know them, [[GirlfriendInCanada they're all in Canada]], but trust me when I tell you that they are [[StealthPun made up]]... I mean with lipstick and powders and such, but you know, tastefully.

-->'''Private''': But, Skipper, doesn't violence beget more violence?
-->'''Skipper''': It sure does, Private. It's a win-win!

-->'''Skipper''': I know! Free arsenal, right?

-->'''Skipper''': I eat fright for breakfast.
-->'''Kowalski''': With skeleton marshmallows!

--> '''Red Squirrel:''' Nooooooo - ''(gets caught by a lasso)'' I really should have run away instead of yelling.

--> '''Kowalski:''' With my heightened... Uh... You know, intelligence... stuff... I should be more gooder at the thinking... Thing. Huh. That sounded kinda... Not-so-smartery.

--->'''Skipper''': I'm waiting for my away team to report before declaring Defcon Red.
--->'''Marlene''': Uh-huh. Real quick: what's Defcon Red?
--->'''Skipper''': Classified. Just hope you never live to see one, sister.

--->'''King Julien''': Uh, where did that cage come from?
--->'''Kowalski''': Sorry, that information is classified.

-->'''Maurice:''' Do you, uh, notice anything different about Mort?\\

-->'''Private''': Lulu?
-->'''Kowalski''': Hans? Savio? Clemson and Rhonda too?
-->'''Skipper''': What in the name of returning guest characters? It's villain-mageddon!

--->'''Randy''': Yeah, last night he told me to "surrender my puffy wooliness." I just about surrendered my hoof into his-
--->'''Kowalski''': Then our goals are the same!

-->'''Skipper''': Monster trucks, men!

-->''"They're watching us like hawks. Except for that swooping down and devouring us part."''

-->'''Julien''': So I face danger and the adventure of a lifetime and nobody will ever know about it?!
-->'''Skipper''': Welcome to my world. That makes you an honorary penguin.
-->'''Julien''': Does that mean I am your BFF?
-->'''Skipper''': Eehh... we'll keep that code on the QT.

--> '''Skipper:''' They had the initial advantage, but this time we are prepared, it won't happen twice.
-->''[cut to the team being chased by hornets yet again]''
--> '''Skipper:''' It happened twice!

-->'''Skipper''': Gentlemen, we are going to the moon!
-->''(Private raises his hand)''
-->'''Skipper''': And no, there's no zoo on the moon.
-->''(Private's hand goes down)''

--> '''Julien:''' Oh, so ''now'' it's a problem.

-->'''Julien''': Ah! Thank goodiness you are here to help my chunky monkey to carry me.
-->'''Maurice''': I'm big boned!

-->'''Mama duck:''' Be careful!
-->'''Eggy:''' I'll keep an eye on the homefront, sir!
-->'''King Julien:''' I'm taking your TV if you don't make it back!

-->'''Julien''': So you see, we have the crates with the real fish, while yours are filled with only the phony fish cake. So hahaha-ing.
-->'''Skipper''': Oh, nice try, Ringtail. But I know how much you hate the smell of fish. I was expecting a move like that, which is why I switched the crates before you even got back to the zoo.
-->'''Julien''': Ah, but I was expecting you to be expecting that, so we switcheroo-ed the crates on the pier before the fish got loading on to the truck. Ha ha!
-->'''Skipper''': Doesn't really matter, because I just switched these crates during your last flashback.
-->'''Julien''': Well I switched them while you were saying you switched them.
-->'''Skipper''': And I switched them last the time you blinked.
-->'''Julien''': Yes, but I pretended to switch them so you actually switched them back.
-->'''Skipper''': Oh, but I double switched.
-->'''Julien''': And I triple switched.
-->'''Skipper''': I million zillion switched.
-->'''Julien''': And I switched them to infinity! So you have to shut up a little bit.
-->'''Skipper''': Ah, but what you didn't see coming is that... [reveals that he's really Julien] [[MindScrew I am actually you]]!
-->'''Julien''': Okay, nicely played. But if you are me, then by processing of elimination, [reveals that he's really Skipper] I must be you!
-->'''Skipper who is really Julien''': Maybe, maybe. But if you are me, and I am you, then we must both be?

-->'''Private:''' So, after Rico trounces the rats inside Roger's body, we switch them back?
-->'''Skipper:''' Exactly. It's 100% fool-proof.
-->'''Kowalski:''' More precisely, it's 2.7% foolproof. There's a 97.3% chance that this will backfire and result in a horrific abomination that will be an affront to the most elemental laws of nature and the universe.
-->'''Skipper:''' I like those odds.

-->'''Buck''': ''(to Phil and Mason)'' Read any good books lately? Read? Red...'''THE RED SQUIRREL!'''
-->'''Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico''': ''([[{{GASP}} collective gasp]])''
-->'''Private''': [[LampshadeHanging That one doesn't even make sense!]]

-->'''Julien''': That is a misfortune cookie. It's just like a regular fortune cookie, only it's full of [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking hate and bile and sugar]]. And evil!
-->'''Private''': That doesn't sound very good, except for the sugar part.
-->'''Julien''': You need the sugar. Otherwise, the bile will overwhelm the flavor.

-->'''Vet:''' Don't worry. I know you don't like the big, scary needles, so we'll use a topical cream instead.
-->'''Skipper:''' Oh, yeah? You try anything and I'll cream your topical!

--> '''Private:''' We're going for yummy snow cones, Marlene. Wanna come?
--> '''Marlene:''' Snow cones? Oh, snow cones are the best! Real quick: A snow cone is…?

-->'''Skipper:''' Kowalski, options.
-->'''Kowalski:''' I recommend a strategic retreat.
-->'''Skipper:''' Explain.
-->'''Kowalski:''' It's like running away, but manlier.

-->'''Kowalski:''' It appears that the ghostly death rattle is coming from your own respiratory system.
-->'''Marlene:''' Oh, well, yeah, of course. Can somebody just spit it out in English?
-->''Rico simply demonstrates her loud snoring.''

-->'''Kowalski:''' Were it not for our failure, Julien would be... sleeping with the hot dogs.
-->''[[{{Beat}} (the others stare)]]''
-->'''Kowalski:''' ...dead.

-->'''Dr. Blowhole''': Just try and stop me, and your fuzzy little buddy sleeps with the fishes! (cue EvilLaugh)
-->'''Kowalski''': Uh, technically fish don't sleep so much as rest. You'd ''think'' a dolphin would know that. ({{Beat}}) Unless he means... (shudder)

-->'''Kowalski''': They're taking him straight to the gray-bar hotel.
-->'''Private''': Oh, a hotel? Well, that'll solve his housing problem. I wonder if he'll find a mint on his pillow?
-->(the others stare; after a beat, Skipper reaches over and pats Private lightly on the head)

-->'''Marlene''': Okay, all I wanna know is, do you know about-?
-->'''Private''': Yes.
-->'''Marlene''': And how I like to-?
-->'''Private''': Yes.
-->'''Marlene''': With the-?
-->'''Private''': Yes.

-->'''Julien''': That was a great idea I just had. I must compliment my brain. Good idea, brain.
-->'''His brain''': Thanks, I think it was nice that you had an idea that you didn't pull out of your booty.
-->'''Julien''': Hey, do not speak ill of the booty!
-->'''His brain''': Oh, booty, booty, booty! Shut up about the booty!
-->'''Julien''': You shut up about the shutting up!
-->'''His brain''': Fine, then I am not talking to you!
-->'''Julien''': And I am not talking to you! Stupid brain.

--->'''Skipper''': The clock... is... ticking.
--->'''Kowalski''': So were the dramatic pauses really necessary, then?
--->'''Skipper''': (''another sting, camera zooms in closer'') Yes.

-->'''Marlene''': ''(frantically)'' Guys, Barry's tongue is caught in the cotton candy machine winding up and it's going to get really ugly real soon!!
-->'''Kowalski''': [[LampshadeHanging Wow, never in the history of language have those words been put together in that order!]]

-->'''Kowalski''': It appears Private has discovered some sort of "Quantum Hyper Cute!" 132% adorability!

-->'''Skipper''': Glowing red eyes? That's almost never good.

-->'''Skipper''': Rico! Hacksaw!
-->'''Private''': Skipper? How long will it take to saw through the bracelet?
-->'''Skipper''': Bracelet? I was just going to saw off my foot. But maybe you're on to something there, Private.

-->'''Kowalski:''' The things I've seen...

-->'''Skipper''': Hans, It's a fake volcano! There's no lava down here!
-->'''Hans''': Oh, I had no plans to fry you Skipper. I only need this phony baloney volcano to hold you for precisely 38.2 seconds, in which time, I will complete my- ''(The penguins have already escaped)'' Ahhhhh!

-->'''Julien''': Okay, not working, let us move to Plan H.
-->'''Maurice''': Don't you mean Plan B?
-->'''Julien''': No, no, Plans B through G are much too ridiculously dangerous.

* YouMonster: In "Arch-Enemy", a series of mishaps involving a snail causes the entire zoo to think that Private is a vicious brute. Julien asks Private why everyone is acting so strange, and he tells him that he stepped on a snail. Julien doesn't see the big deal, since accidents happen. Private then tells him that he accidently sat on him too. Yeah okay, sometimes accidents happen twice. But when Private tells him that he stepped on him ''again'', he yells "What is wrong with you?! You monster!"

-->'''Roger:''' A mind-switching machine. Is this gonna hurt?
-->'''Kowalski:''' Just a slight pinch, followed by the brief sensation of a thousand suns exploding in your skull.

* TastesLikeDiabetes:[[InvokedTrope Invoked]] with Private's favourite TV show, The Lunacorns.
-->"I call rainbows upside-down colour smiles!"

[[TheMovie A feature film]], drawing heavy inspiration from the cartoon, but otherwise set in the continuity of the other films, was released in November 2014. [[WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar Click here for its page.]]

A spin-off of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' films that aired on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}. It is an AllCGICartoon featuring the [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguins]] of the ''Madagascar'' film series (Skipper, Rico, Kowalski, Private), as well as the [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys 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.

* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Three lemurs, two chimps and two gorillas.

* TheNicknamer: Skipper has a few shades of this, referring to King Julien exclusively as "Ringtail" and Mort as "Sad Eyes." And "Moon Cat" for Max. And "Sstingtail" for the leader of a hornet hive. And "Big Grey"/"Long Trunks" for Burt.

** Julian towards the baby Fusa once he realizes it thinks Julian is its daddy.

** Also, the [[ThingOMeter Cute-O-Meter]] which prompty explodes when Private overloads it with his total adorableness.

** Skipper warning his men against certain cicrumstances by saying some variation of "Just ask Manfridi and Johnson. Except you can't, because they fell for [situation]. We had to [horrible description]." This might also be a shout out, since Manfridi and Johnson were the two guys machine gunned at the start of Stalag 17.

* SillyAnimalSound: The [[GiantEnemyCrab giant lobster]] "Chrome Claw" roars like a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' from ''WesternAnimation/JurassicPark''.

* SpikesOfDoom: Seen in "Popcorn Panic" when the birds are getting pushed towards the ceiling by a wave of popcorn:

** In another episode, Kowalski briefly interpets BFF as Buffalo Fire Fighters. Waaay at the end of the episode, after hearing Julien and Skipper are now BFFs Mort cries out "Yay, they're Buffalo Fire Fighters!"

** Rico made sushi for Alex at the end of the first movie. Whenever sushi is on the menu, it's Rico that prepares ** In "Field Tripped," ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' is mentioned several times.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Professor Blowhole even says "Thank you Kowalski!" when Kowalski accidentally activated his machine to melt the polar ice caps.

-->'''Alice''': X? ''Scoffs'' Is that the name ''your mommy'' gave you?

* OctopoidAliens: There are giant space squid from Mars. One of them wants to invade the Earth, or, in other episode, at least wants to steal an invent from [=InvExpo=]. [[spoiler: Kowalski only thinks this when the squid actually wants his invention - a robotic hand.]]

* PersonaNonGrata: [[UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}} Denmark]] does not like Skipper. Nobody dares ask why.

* PlankGag: King Julien challenges Fred the squirrel to a duel with staffs. Fred beats him without even trying, just by moving around with the staff on his shoulder.

-->"I'd be a grumpy gus too if no-one ever hugged me."\\
"Hey, you know what? I never have been hugged. Maybe this is what I needed. Or maybe I'm just a jerk who enjoys bullying other animals."\\
"Oh. Well, in that case I can just squeeze you until you pop like a grape."\\
"No, no, hugging's good! ... Actually I'm liking the hug."

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Eight characters comprise the primary cast: the penguins, the lemurs and Marlene, who is prominent enough to appear in the intro. Among the large cast of recurring characters are Alice the zookeeper, Mason and Phil the chimps, Roger the alligator, Fred the squirrel, Bada and Bing the gorillas, Joey the kangaroo, Max the stray cat, Burt the elephant, and a few one-shots.

* LovesMyAlterEgo: In ''Otter Woman'' Marlene got her fur bleached due to a chlorine accident, and everyone thinks she is a new otter named Arlene. Skipper fell for her and became a StalkerwithaCrush.

* MagicVersusScience: Kowalski is highly skeptical of any 'unnatural' or 'supernatural' phenomena.

* ManlyTears: Skipper cries one "very small, very MANLY" tear when he realizes just how much of his life he's wasted —er, spent— with Julien. (The tear is needed to "defuse" the S.T.A.N.K. machine of selfsame episode.)

* MechanicalAnimals: One episode involves Julian buying a robot lemur named Lemmy. He teaches it to dance and the penguins teach it to spy.

* MultipleChoicePast: More like Multiple Choice Deaths. What the hell happened to Manfridi and Johnson anyway? They're part of the Seaville show now. With lost eyes and broken limbs.

* [[MushroomSamba Mushroom Samba]] Tree frog venom is implied to cause this, with Kowalski commenting that he "could taste sound".

-->'''Skipper''': Eehh...we'll keep that code on the QT.

** 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]]

* IntercourseWithYou: In episode ''Mental Hen'', Kowalski tries to [[DistractedByTheSexy distract the titular chicken with a mating dance]]. The two are birds and this is pretty much how many birds, including penguins, attract their mating partners. As for the song itself, it features lyrics like "You know that you can't handle the Kowalski" and Kowalski's dance is general is quite suggestive, as he constantly shakes his hips and behind right in front of the chicken and finishes it off by lying down and giving her "a look". Don't ask how they got away with that.

-->'''Private''': [[LampshadeHanging That one dosen't even make sense!]]

** Played with in "Otter Things Have Happened". Kowalski invented a device which can locate the ideal mate for someone. When he tested it on Marlene, it turned out that her ideal partner is Fred the squirrel. However, their relationship didn't work out, and it was hinted in the end of episode that [[spoiler:her real ideal one is a male otter who lives near Fred's]]
** In another episode, it's strongly hinted that Kowalski once had a love affair with a dolphin named Doris.
** Skipper once dated a falcon.

* JerkassBall: The Penguins, even Private, would occassionally grab this, making them more psychotic than they already were. They could even be bigger nuisances than [[RoyalBrat King Julien]].

** The animals at the Zoo turn on the Penguins after they learned that they spied on them to learn about their embarassing secrets. Although Private manages to erase everyone's memories including the other Penguins, Burt sits upon the three by accident with Kowalski yelling what did they do to deserve this.

* MeaningfulName: Joey. ("Joey" is the Australian word for a baby kangaroo.)

* FourManBand: Too many roles are doubled up on for this to be a FiveManBand - but the smaller comedy-based group dymanic works well
** . Skipper is the OnlySaneMan. Of course, that doesn't mean he's normal; just that he's the basis for normal within the group.

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%%* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor[=/=]TheMole: King Julien in the "Blowhole" episode.

** Happened again in "Herring Impaired" when Skipper remarked about the 'poop deck' of his model ship.

* ImprovisedZipline: In one episode, King Julien actually uses ''Mort'' as one.

** "Big Blue Marble" pokes fun at Global Warming and denial thereof. Kowalski makes a fish/churro hybrid food that's addicting and delicious. The byproduct is a toxic substance that accumulates somewhere in earths orbit causing weather distortions. When it's discovered, it's suggested that they shut down the hybridization machine. Skipper doesn't want his favorite food to disappear and tries to deflect any accusations that their delicacy is to blame, calling the weather effects a hoax and questions whether or not it was a penguin made disaster.

** In the movies ''and'' the series, the penguins have gone from secretly escaping from the zoo using spoons to coming and going as they please, and doing whatever the hell they like, though still caring if anyone notices.