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| 3 | ->''"Cute and cuddly, boys!"'' |
| 4 | -->-- '''Skipper''' |
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| 6 | A spin-off of the ''Franchise/{{Madagascar}}'' films that aired on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}. It is an AllCGICartoon featuring the 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 seen as a hallucination of Skipper). Private, Kowalski, Maurice and King Julien have all had their voice actors [[PoorMansSubstitute replaced]] with some names you might recognize just the same. |
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| 8 | In it, the penguins and other aforementioned characters are all residents of the Central Park Zoo. Led by Skipper, the penguins deal with various missions within the zoo. At times, they are at odds with IncidentalVillain King Julien, but at other times, he and the other two lemurs are needed to help in the missions. |
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| 10 | The show is very much in an AlternateContinuity, but as its own vehicle, it manages to stand up rather well. The series premiere drew 6.1 million viewers, setting a new record for viewership on the network. |
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| 12 | The spin-off debuted in 2008. After several years of success on Nickelodeon, the show was shafted to sister network Nicktoons in 2012, causing ratings to slide. It was announced canceled on December 23rd, 2013 after an over year long hiatus. Five episodes that were left unaired were burned off to the network two years later in 2015, with no advertising whatsoever. |
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| 14 | A feature film given the similar title of ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar'' draws heavy inspiration from the cartoon, but is otherwise set in the continuity of the other films, and was released in November 2014. |
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| 16 | Tropes about specific characters can be found on this [[Characters/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar character sheet]]. |
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| 21 | * 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. |
| 22 | * AccidentalMisnaming: Julien repeatedly gets Rico's name wrong in Misfortune Cookie and has to be corrected every time. |
| 23 | * AchievementsInIgnorance: The penguins have trouble removing a hornet nest. They discover that Mort isn't hurt by the hornets because he is protected by a "halo of ignorance". Kowalski uses a machine to [[PhlebotinumInducedStupidity drain their minds of bad thoughts]] so that they could then deal with the hornets. HilarityEnsues. |
| 24 | * ActorAllusion: |
| 25 | ** A villain played by Creator/NeilPatrickHarris causes the cast to start singing against their will? [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold Where have we seen that before?]] |
| 26 | ** He sings "Brand New Plan", which contains several shout outs to [[WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog another]] VillainSong Creator/NeilPatrickHarris has sung. |
| 27 | ** Creator/JennetteMcCurdy, who voices the badger Becky, being part of a somewhat over the top [[Series/ICarly girl duo]] who get up to crazy antics. |
| 28 | ** Kendall Schmidt, Carlos [=PenaVega=], James Maslow, and Logan Henderson play 4 beavers who help the penguins, who tell them that they "Gotta Rush, Big Time." |
| 29 | * AdaptationExpansion: Sort of. The four main characters from ''Franchise/{{Madagascar}}'' proper never show up, but the Penguins and the zoo have their lore expanded upon. |
| 30 | ** Skipper gets an archenemy in a dolphin named Dr. Blowhole, and it's revealed that he can't go back to Denmark due to an incident involving a puffin named Hans. |
| 31 | ** Kowalski, on the other hand, is revealed to be in love with a dolphin named Doris[[spoiler: (who's later revealed to be Dr. Blowhole's ''sister'').]] We also get to see his MadScientist side. |
| 32 | ** Rico, who had very little characterization in the movies, is established as an AxCrazy [[PersonOfMassDestruction Penguin of Mass Destruction]] with a [[BruiserWithASoftCenter Soft Center]]. |
| 33 | ** Private has a past as a miniature golfer who goes by "Mr. Tux." |
| 34 | ** Mason and Phil, while not as prominent as the penguins or the lemurs, do have more personality: Mason is a NeatFreak and Phil is a laid-back slob. |
| 35 | ** The following zoo animals get their introduction here: Marlene the otter (who's originally from an aquarium in Northern California), Burt the elephant, Roy the rhino, Bada and Bing the gorillas, Joey the kangaroo, Leonard the koala, Pinky the flamingo, Roger the alligator, Barry the poison dart frog, and Darla the baboon. [[note]] Burt and Roy seemed to be based on Darnell and Reggie, respectively, from the Madagascar video game.[[/note]] |
| 36 | * AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Skipper and King Julien didn't have much of a relationship in the movies but they seemed to be in mostly cordial therms, given the Penguins had no oposition for him to join them in the airplane and even gave him a first class service. In this show they are SitcomArchNemesis, with King Julien being the most recurring problem the penguins suffer. |
| 37 | * AliensAreBastards: Private believes that an alien is a peaceful being only to be disproven wrong many times that it is an invader and is calling its people to invade Earth. |
| 38 | * AllergicToLove: Rico and his "mushy love sensitivity" is the perfect example. |
| 39 | * AllJustADream: The ending of "Wishful Thinking" makes it seem like the events of the episode were just that, until Bert the Elephant is seen holding a loaf of French bread and wearing a beret. |
| 40 | * AllThatGlitters: Subverted. The Lost Treasure of the Golden Squirrel is in fact a room full of gold. |
| 41 | --> '''Julien''': This is real treasure, right? Not one of those "friendship is the greatest treasure of all" deals? Because you can't trade friendship for, you know, the goods and the services. |
| 42 | * AllYourPowersCombined: Eggy the duck was cared for by the penguins as an egg, which involved training. As a result after hatching, the duckling possessed all of the penguins' skills and personality traits. At the end, King Julien teaches Eggy how to dance, which also results in him mimicking Julien's BuffySpeak. |
| 43 | * AlternateContinuity: This is how producer Tom [=McGrath=] (who is also Skipper's VA) sees this series in association with the films. It's been established that the lemurs are still from Madagascar, and that the penguins have been there, but it's never explained how or why they returned. Basically it's what would happen if the main cast chose to remain in Africa while the Penguins and chimps chose to return to New York. |
| 44 | -->'''Alex''': We used to be neighbors, and then a lot of crazy stuff happened? |
| 45 | * AlwaysChaoticEvil: Hornets and rats. |
| 46 | * AmbiguouslyGay: King Julien is this incarnate, complete with [[GirlfriendInCanada imaginary girlfriends]]. He also declared that he was given a diamond necklace by the Sky Spirits for "kicking up the fabulous, baby!" Complete with air-humping. |
| 47 | -->'''Julien''': To impress this girly monkey, you must sweep her off her feet. That is how I got my many girlfriends.\ |
| 48 | '''Maurice''': What girlfriends?\ |
| 49 | '''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. |
| 50 | ** Hans the Puffin ''really'' adores his rivalry with Skipper. He tried giving him a card of them embracing with hearts drawn on it. (Skipper was drawn much more scribbly than Hans though.) In a later episode where Skipper thinks his enemies are his friends, he treasures their connection even more and gets jealous when other characters step in. |
| 51 | * AmbiguousSituation: How much of the events of the movies happened in this AlternateContinuity is never clarified. Is confirmed that The Lemurs are from Madagascar, the Penguins were there once and that Alex was living in the Central Park Zoo at some point before "a lot of crazy stuff happened". Besides that, it mostly ignores the movies. |
| 52 | ** "The Terror of Madagascar" makes things more confusing by revealing that King Julien suffering the attacks of the Fossas did happen.....while the Penguins have no idea what they are until Kowalski explains it. |
| 53 | ** Given, we never see his kingdom (in this show at least) and that he's a major CloudCuckoolander, is left ambiguous whatever this version of King Julien is truly the King of the Lemurs or is [[SmallNameBigEgo just something he likes to proclaim about himself]]. |
| 54 | * AmusingInjuries: Frequent. |
| 55 | * AnAssKickingChristmas: "The All Nighter Before X-Mas". Pummeled Fake Santas! Stolen trees, including big car chase! Generic mayhem! Spirit of Christmas, only slightly lampshaded! |
| 56 | * AnimalsNotToScale: |
| 57 | ** Everyone but Mort is unusually small for their species — no one seems to be over 2 feet tall. |
| 58 | ** The gorillas, on the other hand, are about the same size as the rhinoceros - so it's either extremely big gorillas or an extremely small rhinoceros. |
| 59 | ** Especially blatant when the (scaled-up) gorillas and the (scaled-down) chimpanzees share a screen. While in RealLife, chimpanzees are only slightly smaller (although much more gracile) than gorillas, in this show a chimp could fit into a gorilla's hand. |
| 60 | * AnimalSweetOnObject: Zigzagged, where one of the eponymous penguins is in love with a doll named "Ms. Perky". It'd be pretty odd if he thought she/it was another penguin, but he doesn't seem to think she/it is a human as [[AnimalJingoism the penguins are usually prejudiced against humans]]. He doesn't seem to realise it's a doll either, though. |
| 61 | * AnimalTalk: Humans can't understand animals, so the Penguins have to rely on special software to communicate for them. Santa Claus, on the other hand, can understand them directly. |
| 62 | * AntiHero: Type II - they're the good guys but all four of them show some morally ambiguous traits. |
| 63 | * AppeaseTheVolcanoGod: Referenced in "Huffin and Puffin." One of the characters ties up the penguins and attempts to trap them in a hollow plastic volcano in the lemur exhibit so that he can cause mayhem. Maurice notices and wonders aloud what is going on. Julien replies: "Someone is sacrificing penguins to the volcano ... eh, these things happen." |
| 64 | * AprilFoolsPlot: "April Fools" focuses on King Julien pulling pranks even though it's not April 1st. |
| 65 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: |
| 66 | ** In "Fit to Print", the penguins are concerned over a picture of the lemurs that also has the penguins doing their secret things in the background ... but Skipper's even more concerned that the picture also shows him with toilet paper stuck to his foot. |
| 67 | ** In "The Hoboken Surprise" [[spoiler: when Skipper learned that the deranged zookeeper of the Hoboken Zoo would be working at the Central Park Zoo, he realized that everyone there would be replaced with bio-androids and imagined Marlene being thrown off a cliff by her double, Phil and Mason's doubles throwing them in a underground chamber, and ... Julien's double using him as a punching bag, to which he stated "Eh, [[ICanLiveWithThat I could live with that one"]]]]. |
| 68 | ** Kowalski warns Skipper of the dangers of a kid's backpack, saying it's a minefield that could have firecrackers, shaken up soda cans, and sharpened number 2 pencils. |
| 69 | --->'''Skipper''': I know! Free arsenal, right? |
| 70 | * ArtifactOfAttraction: The key and the treasure itself, in the episode, "The Lost Treasure of the Golden Squirrel". |
| 71 | * ArtifactTitle: The penguins aren't in Madagascar anymore. |
| 72 | * ArtisticLicense: Biology, cloning etc. in the cloning episode. Somehow Dode the Dodo remembers everything that happens before his death despite cloning only copying the genetic code of a person/animal instead of bringing them back to life. RuleOfFunny applies here. |
| 73 | * AshFace: Julien HAD to tamper with Kowalskis chemicals ... Kaboom ensues. |
| 74 | ** Occurs also in "Smotherly Love" (and probably a dozen other occasions when either Kowalski's inventions go haywire or Rico deals a few rocket-propelled grenades). |
| 75 | * AssShove: Not exactly shown onscreen, but Julien's expression when Kowalski shoves a flipper under the table he's sitting at and yanks out a thermometer makes it pretty clear. |
| 76 | ** "Action Reaction" features Julien repeatedly falling afoul of Roy's butt. First, he gets catapulted at the Rhino by Mort, then he gets sat on after tunneling into the Rhino enclosure. The first time, he might've just smacked into Roy since it happens offscreen; but the second time, it happens on screen, the light from his mining helmet comes shining out of Roy's eyes, and Skipper landing on Roy's back causes the Rhino to [[BowelBreakingBricks "launch" Julien back into his tunnel at high velcoity.]] |
| 77 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: "Mental Hen" features a "psychic" chicken whose powers are actually a result of being so intelligent and analytical that she simply arrives to the likely outcome by deduction. |
| 78 | * BabyCarriage: In "Cradle and All". Of course they manage to save it, but of course the baby escapes again, of course to a wrecking site, giving rise to a nod to Buster Keaton's famous window-over-man scene and some (lampshaded) ScoobyDoobyDoors. |
| 79 | * BadassAdorable: |
| 80 | ** Mort, who is usually rather cute and pathetic, but he has been known to beat Skipper at arm-wrestling, uproot whole trees and smash things with them, and beat up gorillas (though the last one was a result of one of Kowalski's experiments accidentally making him extremely large and muscular). Private may also qualify. Despite being very "cute and cuddly" he's been shown to be an excellent fighter, able to fend off Skipper's attacks while training blindfolded in one episode. And all without breaking a sweat. Then there's Eggy the duckling, who possesses the fighting skills of all the penguins [[spoiler:before he gave it up for dancing]]. |
| 81 | ** The titular characters also count, being small penguins capable of their cute moments that just so happen to be [[PintSizedPowerhouse able to beat some stronger and bigger animals]] and get their job done every time. Private is the most obvious example. |
| 82 | * BadassBoast: Occurs in "The Falcon and the Snow Job": |
| 83 | -->'''Skipper''': I eat fright for breakfast.\ |
| 84 | '''Kowalski''': With skeleton marshmallows! |
| 85 | * BadassCrew: The penguins. |
| 86 | * BadassFingersnap: This turns out to be how [[spoiler: The Red Squirrel activates his mind control of Buck Rotgut]]. Kowalski realizes that they can do the same to break his control ...[[spoiler: but then realizes that the penguins lack the necessary digits]]. |
| 87 | * BadImpressionists: Julien tries to imitate Mason, which results in "Ook ook! I sure do love the tire swing!"). When asked to do one of Private, Julien says, "Ook ook! I sure do love a stinky fish!" Private himself copies Julien's imitation of Mason spot on while luring out Savio. |
| 88 | * BallCannon: In "Badger Pride", the other penguins uses a tennis ball launcher as an artillery piece to blast Private and Marlene out of the zoo and into the park. Later, Private uses it to bombard the badgers, and accidentally hits Marlene again. |
| 89 | * BalloonBelly: |
| 90 | ** Kowalski gets one in "The Big Move" When he accidentally zaps himself small with a body altering ray gun and leaves it to Burt to zap him back to his original size and shape. He becomes big, small, fat, thin and polka doted. |
| 91 | ** King Julien in "Time Out" where he eats a hot dog whole and becomes quite round. |
| 92 | ** In "Thumb Drive" Skipper gets one after eating a pile of fish, and asks Rico to move him around. |
| 93 | * BambooTechnology: Considering what he has to work with, Kowalski has come up with some amazing inventions. Also played literally in "Sting Operation" and "Untouchable", where Skipper reveals that one of Kowalski's ultimate inventions is a six-foot bamboo whacking pole. It doubles as one of Kowalski's less disastrous inventions too. |
| 94 | * BeYourself: Spoofed, King Julien tries being nicer after the Chimps pull a prank on him and the Penguins have to convince him to be a [[WeWantOurJerkBack jerk again]] as his being nice [[UnwantedAssistance made him MORE ANNOYING]]. |
| 95 | * BeingWatched: The entire episode "Tangled in the Web." |
| 96 | * BerserkButton: |
| 97 | ** Never, EVER touch King Julien's feet. And if you ever decide to ''skate'' over them... well, say hello to Julienderung. "Friend-in-a-Box" suggests that a FreudianExcuse may be involved. After Mort becomes obsessed with a portable video game, Julien goes out of his way to try and force Mort upon his feet, claiming that he wants to experience the joy of kicking Mort off. Eventually, he even goes so far as to beg Maurice and the penguins to pay attention to the royal feet. |
| 98 | ** NEVER forget or ignore King Julien Day, for that matter... "Which forgetter is next for the whooping?! Come on, I want you to hurt LIKE I DO! [[EvilLaugh UAHAHAHAHAA!]]" |
| 99 | ** Rico's berserk buttons are messing with his dolly or hurting his friends, especially Skipper. |
| 100 | ** Skipper has a few: |
| 101 | *** Okay, so he doesn't go berserk, per se, but he really doesn't like it when you call him fat, or any of its synonyms. He likes to claim it's muscle. |
| 102 | *** He '''''really''''' doesn't like Hoboken, NJ. |
| 103 | *** Or Denmark. |
| 104 | ** The two badgers Becky and Stacy hate it when someone says "badgering", or calling their games silly, or making fun of their species. |
| 105 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: |
| 106 | ** Private sometimes shows elements of this, such as his reaction to TheReveal in "Mask of the Raccoon" or "Untouchable". |
| 107 | ** Burt the elephant also qualifies, such as in [[spoiler: "The Big Squeeze"]]. |
| 108 | * BigEater: Rico doesn't just choke things up, it's been shown that he also eats almost anything too. He's also the fattest of the penguins, with something resembling a double chin. |
| 109 | * BiggerOnTheInside: The penguin's HQ. Outside it just looks like a small penguin exhibit; but underneath is a main room where the penguins live that somehow has space for an elevator and elaborate security systems like lasers and giant spring panels. There's also a side room that is either the bathroom, food storage, Kolwalski's lab, or an extra security room (that leads to even more rooms) depending on the gag. |
| 110 | * BigThinShortTrio: Maurice, Julien and Mort; in that order. |
| 111 | * BigRedButton: Played with in "Tagged." The lemurs have to hit the right-colored one to prevent the heat/air conditioning system (which Kowalski doctored) from blowing up, but all seven are virtually indiscernible shades of red (brick, crimson, scarlet etc.). Mort finally hits the right one, but they've installed the pressure mechanism on the air conditioning system ''instead'' of the heater by mistake. |
| 112 | * BigNo: |
| 113 | ** Skipper in "Skorca!" when he sees Private get carried off by the "dying" skorca. |
| 114 | ** Julien also lets one off in "Out of the Groove" when he finds out he can't dance anymore. |
| 115 | ** In "Snakehead" when Skipper gets eaten by the large fish, the other penguins let this off. |
| 116 | ** Skipper does yet another Big No when he discovers Rico's gone hippie on them. |
| 117 | ** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] by the Red Squirrel in "Our Man in Grrfurjiclestan" when he gets captured during it. |
| 118 | --->'''Red Squirrel:''' Nooooooo - ''(gets caught by a lasso)'' I really should have run away instead of yelling. |
| 119 | ** See more examples at SlowNo. |
| 120 | * BigShutUp: Mort shouts one in "Happy King Julien Day" in order to get everyone's attention. |
| 121 | * BirdPoopGag: In "In the Line of Doody", Frankie plans to "drop one" on the city commissioner. He ends up covered in his own poop. |
| 122 | * BizarreAndImprobableGolfGame: The climax of "Mr. Tux". |
| 123 | * BlandNameProduct: Parodied in "Kaboom or Kabust", where a billboard advertising a drink [[ShapedLikeItself literally called]] "Beverage" and sporting the tagline "Now with real liquid!" is perched right outside the lemur habitat. |
| 124 | * BloodlessCarnage: "Endangerous Species" is basically 11 minutes of Dodo massacres but despite all the gruesome deaths not a drop of blood is seen. |
| 125 | * BodyWipe: |
| 126 | ** "An Elephant Never Forgets" with Burt the elephant crushing Kid Kazoo with the "Two Cheeker" |
| 127 | ** "Misfortune Cookie" near the end with a brown duck landing on Rico |
| 128 | ** "Antics on Ice" with Roy the Rhinoceros landing on Skipper |
| 129 | * BowelBreakingBricks: Max the stray cat "hairballs" himself in "Cat's Cradle" upon seeing Officer X. |
| 130 | * BreadEggsBreadedEggs: In "Arch Enemy", Skipper suggests a proper nemesis for Private (instead of Dale the snail) - a tiger, or a shark, or a tiger shark. |
| 131 | * BreakTheHaughty: |
| 132 | ** King Julien, whenever he does something wrong, something stupid or both. |
| 133 | ** Once in a while, the penguins get a wake up call that they are not the invincible fighting force that they make themselves out to be like in the episode, "Fit to Print". After the Penguins make a big talk about the importance of keeping their actions hidden, the Lemurs point out to them that they unknowingly exposed themselves on camera. They try to destroy the evidence but every time they do, they just make things worse. By the episode's end, even though the evidence had indeed being destroyed, they lost their home due to their self-destruct device which they activated in their paranoia and now new evidence has been made. |
| 134 | * BrickJoke: Done a lot; occasionally mixes with ContinuityNod. |
| 135 | ** In the first episode, Kowalski is suggested to have a crush on a dolphin named Doris. About 70 episodes later, a sleep-talking Skipper mutters, "No, no Doris, Kowalski must never know ..." It's now become somewhat of a RunningGag, as she's been mentioned twice afterwards. |
| 136 | ** During the official series premier episode, Skipper mentions that he can't set foot in Denmark. Again nearly 70 episodes later, we meet Hans, who was involved with Skipper in the [[NoodleIncident Copenhagen Incident]]. "''You're'' the reason Skipper can't go to Denmark?!" |
| 137 | ** Most of the stuff Skipper's paranoid about is always brought up again. During the episode with a lemur robot, Skipper brings up "space squids". "I Know Why The Cage Bird Goes Insane" shows that Space Squids ''do'' exist. [[spoiler: And they came to Earth for '''''Kowalski's inventions'''''.]] |
| 138 | * BrokenMasquerade: [[spoiler:The Penguins' secrets had been exposed to the world in "Goodnight and Good Chuck" but due to how bizzarre and outright silly their antics are, everyone thinks that its just a fake video.]] |
| 139 | * BuffySpeak: In "Brain Drain", when Kowalski realizes that his intelligence-boosting invention has backfired and is making him dumber, he speaks like this. |
| 140 | -->'''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. |
| 141 | * BulletSeed: Rico uses popcorn kernels to (literally) shoot out the lights in "Popcorn Panic." |
| 142 | * BulletTime: Done in "Untouchable" when Barry the poison dart frog tries to touch King Julien. |
| 143 | * ButForMeItWasTuesday: In the episode "Arch-enemy", a snail shows up looking for revenge on Private, who he claims stepped on him. Private doesn't recall. Funny enough, it actually did happen on a Tuesday. |
| 144 | * ButtMonkey: When painful things happen, it usually starts with Kowalski, who has the worst luck of the four with countless AmusingInjuries, {{Sanity Slippage}}s and his inventions frequently backfiring in his face. |
| 145 | * ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: |
| 146 | ** ''Operation: Plush and Cover'' has this inside a hot dog cart. |
| 147 | ** ''Go Fish'' has this inside a truck. |
| 148 | ** "I Was A Penguin Zombie" has this happen when Kowalski, Private, and Rico are mourning Skipper and a bolt of lightning knocks out the electricity, before Skipper falls into their home base and Private turns on the flashlight. |
| 149 | * {{Calvinball}}: One episode features the penguins playing a card game called Stomp the Wombat, which involves betting fish and placing cards on one's head. |
| 150 | * CameraSpoofing: The penguins try this in "Tangled in the Web," using a crudely drawn sketch on lined paper. |
| 151 | * CaptureTheFlag: "Penguiner Takes All" featured an high-stakes game of CTF between the penguins and the lemurs. |
| 152 | * CardboardPrison: The animals, even the dangerous ones, seem able to get out of their habitats with ridiculous ease. |
| 153 | * CassandraTruth: |
| 154 | ** Private has problems with this while trying to warn others about the title's "Skorca!" |
| 155 | ** According to "Operation: Blowhole", the team's exploits ''outside'' the zoo also qualify. |
| 156 | ** The little boy in "Field Tripped" who keeps seeing the penguins. |
| 157 | ** The people who first saw Roger in the wild in "Gator Watch" get even ridiculed on a news show. |
| 158 | * CastingGag: When the celebrity voice actors were replaced in the transition from the film to the series, Creator/SachaBaronCohen (Julien's voice actor in the movies) was replaced by Danny Jacobs. Jacobs previously played an impersonation of Cohen's ''Film/{{Borat}}'' character in ''Film/EpicMovie''. |
| 159 | * CelebrityCameo: Series/BigTimeRush get one. In beaver form. |
| 160 | * CerebusSyndrome: Starting with "Dr. Blowhole's Revenge", the show began playing up the science-fiction and spy-like aspects more, and the overall feel is a little less cartoonish. |
| 161 | * ChainOfDeals: The episode, "Operation: Good Deed". |
| 162 | * CheekCopy: Kowalski does this in "Fit to Print". |
| 163 | ** and then it gets done several more times. Julien one-ups the others by, when a copier isn't available, using a crayon. |
| 164 | * ChekhovsGag: For tons of jokes in the series. Pretty much every episode has something at the start that ends up either saving the day or showing up again as a final joke before it ends. |
| 165 | * ChekhovsGun: Rico's "mushy love sensitivity" in "All Choked Up." At the beginning of the episode, Rico swallows a time bomb, but is given anti-regurgitation medicine. After several unsuccessful attempts to make him cough up the bomb, the other penguins' tearful farewells repulse him enough to make him gag. |
| 166 | * TheChessmaster: [[spoiler: The Blue Hen tampers with the stop-clock making Skipper think he isn't fit for leaderdom anymore. And everything else in the episode she planned beforewing too]] in "Operation P.E.L.T.". |
| 167 | * ChronicallyCrashedCar: Every time something is thrown off screen with an explosion, you can hear the same guy scream "My Car!!!" |
| 168 | * CivilizedAnimal: The animals may not be able to talk to humans, don't exactly live in houses, and usually don't wear clothes, but they do fit this trope a lot of the time. |
| 169 | * ClassTrip: The point of the episode "Field Tripped." |
| 170 | * ClassifiedInformation: |
| 171 | ** "Operation: Plush and Cover": |
| 172 | --->'''Skipper''': I'm waiting for my away team to report before declaring Defcon Red.\ |
| 173 | '''Marlene''': Uh-huh. Real quick: what's Defcon Red?\ |
| 174 | '''Skipper''': Classified. Just hope you never live to see one, sister. |
| 175 | ** "Otter Gone Wild", after a cage is produced from {{Hammerspace}} to capture a feral Marlene: |
| 176 | --->'''King Julien''': Uh, where did that cage come from?\ |
| 177 | '''Kowalski''': Sorry, that information is classified. |
| 178 | ** The Officer X/Alice exchange quoted below. |
| 179 | * ClaustroPhobia: Or something like that. When Kowalski is captured in Fred's tree house during the "Snowmageddon". (Probably that he is ''captured with Fred'' is the problem.) |
| 180 | * ClearTheirName: "The Falcon and the Snow Job" revolves around Skipper's efforts to clear [[GirlOfTheWeek Kitka's]] name despite his TrueCompanions believing that he's blinded by love. |
| 181 | * CoincidentalAccidentalDisguise: In "I Was a Penguin Zombie," Skipper escapes from the vet after breaking his wing, and through a combination of green topical ointment (which numbs his mouth, making him unable to speak), tangled gauze, talcum powder, and a sprained ankle, ends up looking and acting like the living dead. |
| 182 | * ComicallyCrossEyed: Private has [[FishEyes outward cross-eyes]], giving him a constantly goofy expression, which is in line with him being childishly naive. He's still TheHeart of the team, and considered the cutest one, and is often the OnlySaneMan compared to his AxCrazy comrades. |
| 183 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint: |
| 184 | ** After accidentally being zapped by the penguins's enhancement ray, Mort (a tiny mouse lemur) quadruples 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. |
| 185 | --->'''Maurice:''' Do you, uh, notice anything different about Mort?\ |
| 186 | '''Julien:''' Well yes, he's obviously doing something different with his hair! It's nice actually. |
| 187 | ** In another episode, Maurice takes over as king while Julien is sick, becomes mad with power after eating rotten lychee nuts, and threatens to take over the entire zoo. After hearing about this, Julien's reaction is, "I cannot believe what I am hearing. Maurice ''ate my lychee nuts!''" |
| 188 | ** Julien, when mocking the rats who are playing against the penguins at hockey, sneers "[[GretzkyHasTheBall You probably can't even get the ball into the hoopy-thingy]]!" Kowalski tells him it's called a "puck", to which Julien responds "Oh, thanks ... You probably can't even get the ball into the puck thingy!" |
| 189 | * ComicTrio: The lemurs form one: King Julien ([[ItsAllAboutMe the egomaniacal leader]]), Mort (the ditzy FearlessFool), and Maurice (the OnlySaneMan). |
| 190 | * ContinuityCavalcade: "The Hoboken Surprise" features the Penguins ending up in the Hoboken Zoo, where every minor character the penguins had gotten rid of by sending them to the Hoboken Zoo is waiting for them. |
| 191 | -->'''Private''': Lulu?\ |
| 192 | '''Kowalski''': Hans? Savio? Clemson and Rhonda too?\ |
| 193 | '''Skipper''': What in the name of returning guest characters? It's villain-mageddon! |
| 194 | ** Roger, the Alligator, is first introduced in the episode that Marlene believes he's a monster living underneath her habitat. Later, in "Gator Watch", [[spoiler: Roger is caught and moved to the zoo. When Roger shows up again in subsequent episodes he always appears in the zoo.]] |
| 195 | ** Max the cat is first met when the penguins believe they've traveled to the moon. Later, the penguins greet him as "Moon Cat", and he's seen in cameo in a later episode. |
| 196 | ** Barry the poison dart frog, first seen in the episode "Untouchable", is seen in the reptile habitats in "The Big Squeeze". |
| 197 | ** In "Launchtime", Private holds up a tour guide map of the zoo with him on the cover. Many episodes later it's a plot point that Private has ''always'' been on the cover of the zoo's tour guide. |
| 198 | ** The Russian repairman from "Work Order" shows up again in "Kanga Management". |
| 199 | ** In the climax of "Untouchable", Private builds himself an iron penguin suit to protect him from the toxic touch of Barry. He uses the suit on several more occasions afterward, such as a super hero suit in "Danger Wears a Cape", a hazmat suit in "Siege the Day" and even as a space suit in "Operation: Big Blue Marble". |
| 200 | ** In a season one episode King Julien has Maurice build him a floating throne. In season 3's "Feline Fervor," when the team looks for King Julien in the city they use the throne as a vehicle to search. |
| 201 | * ContinuityNod: |
| 202 | ** The entire "It's About Time" episode may be a nod to a remark that Kowalski made in "Two Feet High and Rising" about inventing a time machine. |
| 203 | ** "I Was a Penguin Zombie" gives a slight one to "Needle Point," in that the doctor acknowledges Skipper's fear of needles and gives him a topical application instead. It goes horribly right. |
| 204 | *** It pops up again in "King Me," apparently worse than before because said needles were just sewing needles. |
| 205 | ** "Tangled in the Web" and "Go Fish" mention a video of an old lady beating up a lion. |
| 206 | ** "Hard Boiled Eggy" is a sequel episode to "Paternal Egg-Stinct", with several flashbacks. |
| 207 | ** In "Badger Pride", Marlene goes feral when she's outside the zoo, like in "Otter Gone Wild". |
| 208 | * ConvenientEclipse: The monkeys use it to trick Julien into "being nice". You can guess where this ends. |
| 209 | * ConveyorBeltODoom: Occurs in "Operation Plush and Cover." The conveyor belt leads to a {{Nightmare Fuel}}-ing chomping machine of doom, from which the penguins, as well as Maurice and Mort, are rescued at the last second by King Julien. At the end, it turns out that [[spoiler:Private]] is somehow on the conveyor belt still. |
| 210 | * CoolToy: "Hello Dollface" has the Chatty Ms. Perky, so popular that crowds snap up the inventory everywhere the penguins attempt to get one. |
| 211 | * CountingSheep: In "Two Feet High and Rising," Mort tries to do this but the sheep turn into King Julien's feet. |
| 212 | * CucumberFacial: Julien gets one while in the hospital. |
| 213 | * CurseCutShort: In "Neighbor Swap", when the penguins send the lemurs to the petting zoo, and Roger the alligator into the lemur's. They're both annoying in their new habitats. |
| 214 | -->'''Randy''': Yeah, last night he told me to "surrender my puffy wooliness." I just about surrendered my hoof into his-\ |
| 215 | '''Kowalski''': Then our goals are the same! |
| 216 | * CutenessProximity: |
| 217 | ** Not even Skipper is immune from succumbing to his brooding instinct when the penguins are tasked with hatching an egg. Although he tried. |
| 218 | --->'''Skipper''': Monster trucks, men! |
| 219 | ** In "Cute-astrope", Private learns how to ramp his own cuteness factor 138%, resulting in a ''weaponized'' CutenessProximity that makes everyone who witnesses it faint from sheer sugar shock. |
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| 221 | |
| 222 | [[folder:Tropes D-I]] |
| 223 | * DartboardOfHate: Officer X uses a poster for the zoo with the penguins on it as one. |
| 224 | * ADayInTheLimelight: The whole show, for the penguins. And the lemurs. And the chimps. |
| 225 | * DefeatMeansFriendship: [[spoiler: TykeBomb Eggy fails to defeat Julien when he uses his dancing skills to dodge attacks. Eggy decides to drop the commando routine and take up dancing lessons with Julien instead.]] |
| 226 | * DemolitionsExpert: Rico, to the point where "Kaboom!" is one of the few intelligible words you can get out of him. |
| 227 | * DemonicPossession: In the episode "Operation: Lunacorn Apocalypse", Private's Lunacorn doll gets possessed by an [[SealedEvilInACan evil spirit]] named Kuchikukan - the Destroyer of Worlds. Mort also gets possessed by the spirit of [[SealedGoodInACan General Shinjin]] in the same episode. |
| 228 | * DescriptionCut: In "I Was a Penguin Zombie", after believing Skipper is dead, Kowalski declares that they will honor Skipper the way he would've wanted: "by soldiering on like men." The next scene cuts to them in their home base, crying. |
| 229 | * DeusExitMachina: Happens in "Snakehead!" when Skipper gets eaten by a snakehead, leaving his crew to face the beast by themselves... |
| 230 | * DinkyDrivers: Occurs any time the penguins need to operate a vehicle. |
| 231 | * DisabilityImmunity: |
| 232 | ** Mort is actually ''too stupid to feel pain''. |
| 233 | ** Kowalski, until it is pointed out to him, in "Brain Drain". |
| 234 | * {{Dissimile}}: |
| 235 | ** In "Tangled in the Web". |
| 236 | --->''"They're watching us like hawks. Except for that swooping down and devouring us part."'' |
| 237 | ** In one episode, Skipper compares them to Literature/TheThreeMusketeers. Except there are four of them. And they're birds. And they aren't French. |
| 238 | * DistractedByTheSexy: |
| 239 | ** Skipper, out of sheer desperation, tries this on the other three penguins in "Needle Point." Kowalski responds, "You ''really'' don't want to get that shot, do you?" |
| 240 | ** Faced with a enemy that knows them so well that she can essentially predict and counter any attack they try through logical reasoning, Kowalski decides he has to use the most illogical course of attack there is, and attempts to seduce her, which works long enough for them to defeat her. |
| 241 | * TheDitz: Fred the squirrel. |
| 242 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: |
| 243 | ** "The Red Squirrel", poking fun at the post 9/11 (or generic) paranoia. Unfortunately, RuleOfFunny demands a BrokenAesop - [[spoiler: The Red Squirrel actually exists.]] |
| 244 | ** In "King Me", Clemson produces the birth certificate of Julien (if you ''need'' to know, his baby butt print) to "prove" Julien isn't born on Madagascar and thus legally unfit to rule as King. [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Now who would think of such a silly device?]] |
| 245 | ** "Big Blue Marble" pokes fun at Global Warming and denial thereof. Kowalski makes a fish/churro hybrid food that's addictive 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 questioning whether or not it was a penguin made disaster. |
| 246 | ** In "Miss Understanding", Skipper going through an identity crisis and trying to act like a female after Kowalski’s DNA test seemingly identified him as female is very reminiscent of a transgender person experiencing gender dysphoria and feeling pressured to act like the gender they were assigned at birth. |
| 247 | * DoomsdayDevice: "Blowhole's Revenge," Dr. Blowhole creates a Doomsday machine that draws heat from the earth's core to melt the polar ice-caps and therefore raise the sea-level and destroy all life on earth that cannot swim. |
| 248 | * DramaQueen: Ma the Opossum from [[MyBelovedSmother "Smotherly Love"]] who always plays dead at the slightest hint of trouble. (Justified, since this is natural opossum habit -- or so they say.) |
| 249 | * DuctTapeForEverything: The penguins restrain Officer X with duct tape in "Stop Bugging Me." |
| 250 | ** They also use duct tape to make hockey sticks in another episode. |
| 251 | * EatTheBomb: Rico. And then he spits it up, already lit. |
| 252 | * EarWorm: When "Hard Boiled Eggy" flashes back to Julien's "Me and My JJ" song from "Paternal Egg-Stinct", Skipper invokes this trope by saying that said song will be in his head all day. |
| 253 | * EggshellClothing: Happens with Eggy in the episode where he's introduced. |
| 254 | * ElephantsAreScaredOfMice: Burt the elephant is afraid of mice. Savio knows this, and uses it as a way to remove the enemy when he sends him a mouse so he'll freak panic. |
| 255 | * EleventyZillion: when Kowalski is asked about a number that's less than nothing, he comes up with "neg-finity". |
| 256 | * EmbarrassingSlide: Kowalski attempts to show the security footage to the other penguins, but puts in the wrong DVD and shows a film of himself crying and reciting bad poetry devoted to Doris the dolphin. There's even an OhCrap zoom on his face. In another episode, Private shows slides of their holiday vacation with Skipper sunburnt, and is slapped several times. |
| 257 | * EpisodeTitleCard |
| 258 | * EskimosArentReal: In "The All Nighter Before Christmas", Private mentions that Dec. 26 is also known as Boxing Day, only for Skipper to cut him off saying that they don't have time for his made-up holidays. |
| 259 | * EurekaMoment: In the episode where the Penguins keep losing to the lemurs in capture the flag, Skipper hits upon a realization when he remembers Kowalski's earlier words about how no land mammal can move that fast: lemurs don't travel by land, they travel by treetop. The lemurs were winning by jumping through the trees and, since the flag was always kept next to a tree, appearing directly above the end. |
| 260 | * EverybodyCries: In "I Was a Penguin Zombie," Skipper gets a broken wing. In an attempt to escape the hospital room, it triggers a series of events which make Skipper sound like he's dying. When the other penguins hear this, Kowalski says they'll honor him by going on like men. Jump cut to this. |
| 261 | * EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: The penguins are the embodiment of the trope. |
| 262 | * EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Ze Archer until its revealed that his real name is "Archie" and that he's [[{{Fauxreigner}} not really French]]. He's also a RascallyRaccoon. |
| 263 | * EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: Skipper gets set up to appear as this to the other three penguins in "I Was a Penguin Zombie". |
| 264 | * EvilGloating: King Julien gets a round of this in "Kaboom and Kabust". |
| 265 | * ExactWords: King Julien asks Burt to paint him. Cue Julien getting the paintbrush dragged across him. (And then subverted when he's smashed onto the canvas, leaving a likeness that Julien actually likes.) |
| 266 | * ExoticEquipment: Not shown onscreen, but apparently the penguins are built like actual penguins with no external equipment, given that they can't tell their own sexes without a DNA test. |
| 267 | * ExpansionPackPast: |
| 268 | ** Skipper has apparently been involved in every major conflict since UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and more than a few minor conflicts as well. Even though that is a biological impossibility, but then again, Skipper's never been one to let a little thing like reality stand in his way. He also believes in (and may have been to) Atlantis. |
| 269 | ** Dr. Blowhole seemed to be a one-off gag... until the viewers meet one of his agents reporting in. He then appears himself in "Operation: Blowhole". |
| 270 | * ExplainExplainOhCrap: All of them in "The Officer X Factor". They think Officer X is in the pretzel cart. They are wrong. [[spoiler: But the reality isn't much better. He's in the umbrella, [[{{PlotHole}} which only raises further questions.]]]] |
| 271 | * FakeRabies: The penguins decide WeNeedADistraction when their friend Max the cat is being chased by Officer X of Animal Control, and use cream and fake ears to disguise Mort the mouse lemur as a rabid chihuahua. It works fine until he eats the cream. "[[CloudCuckooLander I like diseases!]]" |
| 272 | * FallingInLoveMontage: |
| 273 | ** Skipper and Kitka have one in "The Falcon and the Snow Job." |
| 274 | ** Phil gets one in "Monkey Love" with the one-shot female chimp who enters their habitat. |
| 275 | * FantasticRacism: |
| 276 | ** Skipper occasionally makes less-than-complimentary comments about mammals. |
| 277 | ** The closest thing to religion in this show (the lemurs' belief in spirits) is generally scoffed at by the other characters. |
| 278 | ** In "Hard Boiled Eggy", one of Skipper's main arguments against Eggy joining the team is that he isn't a penguin. However, he later makes a comment along the lines of "That boy will make a darn fine penguin" after being impressed by his skills. |
| 279 | ** This is why every penguin but Private is against helping the young leopard seal, Hunter, in "Operation: Antarctica". However, this is justified as leopard seals are their natural enemies. |
| 280 | ** Marlene tells a couple of badgers to "stop badgering [her]", which they perceive as an unfair stereotype and a particularly nasty ethnic slur. |
| 281 | ** The citizens of Hoboken get this treatment too, from both the animals and the humans. |
| 282 | * {{Fartillery}}: This is how Rico tries to [[spoiler:win the car race]] in "Little Zoo Coupe." |
| 283 | * FascinatingEyebrow: Skipper and Kowalski do this a lot, typically when annoyed or unimpressed. |
| 284 | * FatAndSkinny: Maurice and Julien, respectively. |
| 285 | * FearlessFool / FeelNoPain: Mort is stated - and in the same episode, ''shown'' - to be too stupid to feel pain. This is why he's TheChewToy. |
| 286 | * FiveStagesOfGrief: Skipper goes through this in the episode "Miss Understanding", when he thinks he's a girl, just immediately after Kowalski mentions each stage. |
| 287 | * {{Flanderization}}: |
| 288 | ** King Julien has become a bit more of an idiot and a JerkAss in comparison to the movies, but he still has his moments (such as saving Skipper's life in one episode). |
| 289 | ** Kowalski and Rico didn't escape this either. Kowalski went from Skipper's right hand man to a super genius egomaniac. Rico went from puking up a paperclip, to being able to contain absolutely ''anything'' within his gut. |
| 290 | ** 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 trying to remain unnoticed. |
| 291 | * {{Flashback}}: Used heavily in "Hard Boiled Eggy", with at least one LampshadeHanging from Skipper. |
| 292 | * FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: |
| 293 | ** Mort once had his foot fetish cured, only to regain it while rescuing King Julien. |
| 294 | ** In an inversion, the penguins once ''lowered their intelligence down to Mort's level'' (see DisabilityImmunity above), but then became their smart old selves again (well, "smart" is a bit of an overstatement for Rico). |
| 295 | ** In another twist on this trope, in "Brain Drain" Kowalski zaps his brain and gets super smart, but the effects are temporary and his brain shrinks down to even lower intelligence. [[spoiler:He eats fish full of [[GeniusBonus omega-3 fatty acids]] and gets better though.]] |
| 296 | * ForScience: Kowalski justifies more of his dangerous and questionable inventions with this trope. |
| 297 | * FourFingeredHands: Averted with humans, chimpanzees and gorillas. Played straight with non-primates and lemurs except Maurice. |
| 298 | * FourManBand: Too many roles are doubled up on for this to be a FiveManBand - but the smaller comedy-based group dymanic works well. |
| 299 | ** Skipper is the OnlySaneMan. Of course, that doesn't mean he's normal; just that he's the basis for normal within the group. |
| 300 | ** Kowalski is TheSmartGuy. |
| 301 | ** Rico is the CasanovaWannabe. The other penguins constantly comment on his perverted mind. |
| 302 | ** Private is the ButtMonkey who catches a lot of suffering for being the team's rookie. |
| 303 | ** Gets parodied when King Julien builds his own Four Man Band in "Field Tripped". Since they are only three (Julien, Mort, Maurice) they got the needed [[TheSmartGuy smart guy]] from outside - which is...[[TheDitz Fred]]. |
| 304 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble: Skipper (choleric), Kowalski (melancholic), Private (phlegmatic), and Rico (sanguine). |
| 305 | * FriendOrIdolDecision: Treasure or falling into lava. Julien decides for them and dumps the treasure. |
| 306 | * FriendlyEnemy: Skipper and Julien. They spend most of their shared screentime arguing and generally being annoyed by the other, but Skipper will go out of his way to help Julien, and Julien has gone to Skipper to have his problems fixed. It was to the point that they were actually mistaken as 'BFF's by Skipper's Arch Nemesis Dr. Blowhole... [[EveryoneCanSeeIt and the other penguins agreed with him.]] |
| 307 | -->'''Julien''': So I face danger and the adventure of a lifetime and nobody will ever know about it?!\ |
| 308 | '''Skipper''': Welcome to my world. That makes you an honorary penguin.\ |
| 309 | '''Julien''': Does that mean I am your BFF?\ |
| 310 | '''Skipper''': Eehh... we'll keep that code on the QT. |
| 311 | * FunnyBackgroundEvent: At the beginning of "Antics on Ice", the penguins patrol the zoo for "ongoing evil". Too bad they overlook everything relevant... |
| 312 | * GambitPileup: Exaggerated to the point of parody in "Go Fish." |
| 313 | * {{GASP}}: In one episode, everyone gasps upon hearing that Mort had been kidnapped. Everyone, that is, except King Julien, who momentarily forgets who Mort is, then reassures them that "I too am gasping in horror, but on the inside." |
| 314 | ** In the Red Squirrel episode Skipper, Kowalski and Rico keep gasping in horror at Rockgut's accusations, much to Private's frustration. |
| 315 | * GelatinousEncasement: The titular monster in the episode Jiggles does this to Julien and Kowalski after mistaking them for fruits. |
| 316 | * GentleGiant: Roger. Big? Check! Muscular? Check! Angry Looking...ok, he's an alligator and thus [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile kinda always smiling]]. But he surely is a very nice person who could as well be the cousin of [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Louis]]...as long as you don't switch his brain with Rico's. |
| 317 | * TheGhost: Doris the dolphin, until the episode "The Penguin Who Loved Me", where she makes her first actual appearance [[spoiler: and is revealed to be Dr. Blowhole's sister]]. |
| 318 | * GiantEnemyCrab: ''(With deep dramatic voice)'' '''CHROME CLAW'''. |
| 319 | * GilliganCut: |
| 320 | ** In "Sting Operation". |
| 321 | --->'''Skipper:''' They had the initial advantage, but this time we are prepared, it won't happen twice.\ |
| 322 | ''[cut to the team being chased by hornets yet again]''\ |
| 323 | '''Skipper:''' It happened twice! |
| 324 | ** And again in "King Julien for a Day". Just as Marlene says that she thinks Skipper and Julien's SwappedRoles will help them gain an understanding for each other, the show cuts to the two arguing all over again. |
| 325 | ** In "The Big Squeeze". |
| 326 | --->'''Marleen:''' "Skipper! Oh! He'll have a plan, he's always got a plan!"\ |
| 327 | ''[cut to the Penguins staring down Savio]''\ |
| 328 | '''Kowalski:''' "Got a plan?"\ |
| 329 | '''Skipper:''' "No!" |
| 330 | * GirlfriendInCanada: King Julien claims he has girlfriends in Canada, but you can trust him that they are made up... with lipstick and mascara, he means, but tastefully. |
| 331 | * GirlsHaveCooties: Played with in "Operation: Cooties". Julien sees girls chasing after boys and "spreading" cooties throughout the zoo, right after Marlene has offered leaves of poison ivy to the penguins. The penguins then conclude that Marlene has given them cooties once the poison ivy kicks in. |
| 332 | * GoingColdTurkey: This is how the penguins try to break Mort free from his foot fetish. |
| 333 | * GoodBehaviorPoints: In "Marble Jarhead", Rico drives the car to a store after spotting a poster for Princess Ms. Perky accessories, causing the thermonuclear bomb the penguins had to explode. Due to this, he is put under marble jar probation, where he receives marbles when he behaves well and has them taken out of a jar when he misbehaves. Once it's full, he'll get the accessories. While he causes mischief like destroying Private's house of cards, he soon compensates for them like building a bigger one with regurgitated cards. After he battles Julien when he believes the doll was kidnapped by the penguins, the jar is emptied, but he vomits dynamite to blow up jars of marbles in the store to fill up his and ultimately receives the reward. |
| 334 | * GoodTimesMontage: Rico and King Julien have one during "Kaboom And Kabust" that hews surprisingly close to a FallingInLoveMontage. |
| 335 | * 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.]] Production code wise "Goodnight and Good Chuck" is the true final episode (which aired like that in many countries as the episode following "The Penguin Who Loved Me") featuring a subtle call back to Popcorn Panic (the first episode production code wise) and ''actually'' exposing the penguins to the public in a video going global that features moments from them across the entire series. |
| 336 | * GratuitousDiscoSequence: Private suddenly starts busting moves while cleaning the lair in "Over Phil". |
| 337 | ** In another episode the penguins need to get past a laser-protected area in a museum. They place a disco ball on the floor that reflects the lasers away while they dance in a stack on top of it. |
| 338 | * GravityIsAHarshMistress: Toward the end of "I Was a Penguin Zombie," Private, Kowalski, and Rico tackle Skipper off a rooftop after they don't believe he was telling the truth about not being a zombie, as Kowalski says, "Nice try, zombie!" Then they all get a second to realize they're not on the roof before falling down and ending up at the vet with broken flippers. |
| 339 | * GreenGators: Roger the SewerGator and other members of the Crocodile Kingdom are green. |
| 340 | * GrievousHarmWithABody: In "Mort Unbound", the muscular Mort uses Julien as a weapon to smack the penguins around. |
| 341 | * {{Hammerspace}}: Rico's stomach, quite often. Kowalski also pulls notebooks and inventions out of nowhere when commenting on something. |
| 342 | * HandsGoDown: "Launchtime": Skipper wants to go on vacation and Private suggests going to a zoo (which is shot down because they already live in one). Later... |
| 343 | -->'''Skipper''': Gentlemen, we are going to the moon!\ |
| 344 | ''(Private raises his hand)''\ |
| 345 | '''Skipper''': And no, there's no zoo on the moon.\ |
| 346 | ''(Private's hand goes down)'' |
| 347 | * HandSignals: While infiltrating a plush toy factory, Skipper gives King Julien hand signals to go ahead and keep a lookout. Julien doesn't understand the signals, obviously, so Skipper simply screams the instructions to him, who responds with "Why didn't you just say so?" |
| 348 | * HardWorkMontage: Parodied in "Lemur See, Lemur Do," where they decide to fix a broken robot. After the montage, Skipper says, "Well, now that we fixed the coffee machine, let's get working on that robot." |
| 349 | * HatesBeingTouched: Again, "NO ONE MAY TOUCH THE ROYAL FEET!" |
| 350 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: King Julien in the first "Blowhole" episode, [[spoiler:though he ends up [[TheMole back on the side of the penguins in the end]].]] |
| 351 | * HehHehYouSaidX: |
| 352 | ** The common "duty"/"doody" variant occurs in "All King, No Kingdom." Maurice says that he has duties, and Mort starts giggling about Maurice saying "doody." |
| 353 | ** After a scene where the penguins [[ItMakesSenseInContext rub Max's butt against a tree to leave his scent and fool Officer X]], they move off to the side to watch Officer X. Private starts snickering when Officer X starts saying things like "no ifs, ands or buts," "get to the bottom of this," etc., and then loses it when Skipper remarks that he hasn't seen Private laugh so much since the time that they were in Butztown, Pennsylvania. |
| 354 | ** Happens again in "Herring Impaired" when Skipper remarked about the 'poop deck' of his model ship. |
| 355 | * HeroicComedicSociopath: Rico. Skipper also shows occasional tendencies... All in the name of the mission, of course. |
| 356 | * HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: Skipper's arch-nemesis Dr. Blowhole started as this, only to [[AvertedTrope avert]] it in "Dr. Blowhole's Revenge (Operation: Blowhole)". |
| 357 | * HighFiveLeftHanging: In the first episode, when the penguins find Maurice to take him back to the zoo, they high five each other, then Skipper offers a high five to Maurice, who rejects it since he doesn't want to go back. |
| 358 | * {{Hipster}}: In "Antics on Ice", Skipper fears Private would turn into Dark Phoenix... eh, a hipster (complete with BeardOfEvil and ironic shades) if he disappoints him by cancelling the mission of going to "Lunacorns On Ice". |
| 359 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: |
| 360 | ** A non-fatal version occurs in "Jiggles" when the cube absorbs Kowalski right after he hugs it, because he's been handling so much fruit to feed it. Cue MyGodWhatHaveIDone, and then Julien does a little snarking. |
| 361 | --->'''Julien:''' Oh, so ''now'' it's a problem. |
| 362 | ** At the end of "Return of the Revenge of Dr. Blowhole (Blowhole Strikes Back)" [[spoiler:Skipper uses the device Blowhole used to steal his memories at the beginning, then puts him in a habitat at the zoo where he jumps through flaming hoops as he did before.]] |
| 363 | ** Dale in "Arch-Enemy" intends to use Private's "{{Mecha}}" against him after the latter "uses" it to stomp on him. Dale even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] about the irony. But Private corrects him that it's Kowalski's invention making Dale realizes that it is Kowalski who hurt him. With that misunderstanding cleared, Dale turns his wrath onto Kowalski who runs for his life when the snails fires everything upon him. |
| 364 | ** In "Private and the Winky Factory", Skipper constantly pressures Private to prioritize the mission over his friends. When Skipper is in peril and begs Private for help, Private refuses to help and abandons him to procure the Winky bar box. |
| 365 | * HollywoodChameleons: The chameleons that appear in one episode use their colors as a means of communication. |
| 366 | * HollywoodHacking: In one episode, the penguins hacked into a computer by ''literally'' hacking the CPU with a chainsaw. |
| 367 | * HomemadeInventions: Kowalski builds several of the things they use. |
| 368 | * HostageForMacGuffin: Marlene in ''The Lost Treasure of the Golden Squirrel'' and Julien in ''Dr. Blowhole's Revenge''. |
| 369 | * HowDidThatGetInThere: On one occasion, the Penguins' holiday snaps got mixed in with their mission slides. |
| 370 | * HumanlikeFootAnatomy: The penguins. |
| 371 | * HumansAreCthulhu: The Bus Called Graveyard Eight. |
| 372 | * HurricaneOfEuphemisms: In "Field Tripped", Julien is forcing the other lemurs (and Fred) to imitate the penguins. Eventually he tells Maurice to throw up something useful, a request that confuses him. |
| 373 | -->''You know, spew. Hork. Blow chunkies. Laugh at the carpet. Rainbow yawn. Yell at your shoes. I don't care what you do, but give me something useful from your gut!'' |
| 374 | * HurricaneOfPuns: Zookeeper X in "The Officer X Factor," which proves too much for the Penguins to bear. |
| 375 | * HyperspaceArsenal: Exaggerated with Rico's stomach. |
| 376 | * HypocriticalHumor: When Skipper learns about Private's past in "Mr. Tux", he states he doesn't like it and prefers that his men be one-dimensional, yet he has a MultipleChoicePast. Looks like he feels he's the only one who should have a complex past. |
| 377 | * IAmBigBoned: |
| 378 | -->'''Julien''': Ah! Thank goodiness you are here to help my chunky monkey to carry me.\ |
| 379 | '''Maurice''': I'm big boned! |
| 380 | * IAmNotWeasel: The lemurs are mistaken for cats on several occasions. Max even inverts this to convince a dog that he is a lemur instead of a cat. |
| 381 | * IComeInPeace: Occurs in "Launchtime" when greeting Max the stray cat, whom they think is a "moon cat": "We come in peace. For now." |
| 382 | * IdiosyncraticWipes: Some early episodes used a wipe that comprised silhouettes of the penguins running against a striped background. "Mask of the Raccoon" used a wipe that showed a silhouette of Skipper holding a butter knife. |
| 383 | * IdiotBall: Julien seems to have one predominantly attached to him. |
| 384 | ** Especially prevalent in the April Fools episode. Why in the name of heaven would anyone purposefully piss off a Rhinoceros?! It's a freaking Rhinoceros! |
| 385 | ** 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 before and 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]] |
| 386 | --->'''Marlene:''' Don't do it.\ |
| 387 | '''Kowalski:''' Bad idea.\ |
| 388 | '''Roy:''' Horrible idea.\ |
| 389 | '''Rico:''' Nuh uh.\ |
| 390 | '''Burt:''' No way.\ |
| 391 | '''Private:''' Are you loopy?\ |
| 392 | '''Phil:''' ''shakes his head''\ |
| 393 | '''Skipper:''' Even you can't be that stupid!\ |
| 394 | '''Joey:''' Those gorillas will rip you apart!\ |
| 395 | '''Pinky:''' Don't even THINK about it, baby!\ |
| 396 | '''Mort:''' It is the most, GOODEST IDEA EVER!\ |
| 397 | '''King Julien:''' YES! Mort, you are sooo wise... |
| 398 | * IfYouDieICallYourStuff: In "Snakehead!" |
| 399 | -->'''Mama duck:''' Be careful!\ |
| 400 | '''Eggy:''' I'll keep an eye on the homefront, sir!\ |
| 401 | '''King Julien:''' I'm taking your TV if you don't make it back! |
| 402 | * IHaveNoIdeaWhatImDoing: Basically one of Kowalski's {{Catch Phrase}}s. |
| 403 | * IHaveThisFriend: Occurs in "Monkey Love." Mason and Phil get a female named Lulu staying in her habitat; Phil falls in love with her and asks Mason to speak on his behalf. Lulu thinks Mason is speaking of himself when he talks about his "friend", and the rest of the episode is spent trying to get her to fall in love with Phil instead, with disastrous results. |
| 404 | * IKnowYouKnowIKnow: Things get out of hand when Skipper tries to get back real fish instead of the tasteless fish cakes the penguins have been forced to eat. Julien tried to sabotage the operation. |
| 405 | -->'''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.\ |
| 406 | '''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.\ |
| 407 | '''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!\ |
| 408 | '''Skipper''': Doesn't really matter, because I just switched these crates during your last flashback.\ |
| 409 | '''Julien''': Well I switched them while you were saying you switched them.\ |
| 410 | '''Skipper''': And I switched them last the time you blinked.\ |
| 411 | '''Julien''': Yes, but I pretended to switch them so you actually switched them back.\ |
| 412 | '''Skipper''': Oh, but I double switched.\ |
| 413 | '''Julien''': And I triple switched.\ |
| 414 | '''Skipper''': I million zillion switched.\ |
| 415 | '''Julien''': And I switched them to infinity! So you have to shut up a little bit.\ |
| 416 | '''Skipper''': Ah, but what you didn't see coming is that... [reveals that he's really Julien] [[MindScrew I am actually you]]!\ |
| 417 | '''Julien''': Okay, nicely played. But if you are me, then by processing of elimination, [reveals that he's really Skipper] I must be you!\ |
| 418 | '''Skipper who is really Julien''': Maybe, maybe. But if you are me, and I am you, then we must both be? |
| 419 | * ILikeThoseOdds: "Roger Dodger" has: |
| 420 | -->'''Private:''' So, after Rico trounces the rats inside Roger's body, we switch them back?\ |
| 421 | '''Skipper:''' Exactly. It's 100% fool-proof.\ |
| 422 | '''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.\ |
| 423 | '''Skipper:''' I like those odds. |
| 424 | * ImprovisedZipline: In one episode, King Julien actually uses ''Mort'' as one. The penguins also regularly use coat hangers. |
| 425 | * InSeriesNickname: "Ringtail" for Julien and "Sad Eyes" for Mort. |
| 426 | * InflatingBodyGag: In "Action Reaction", Skipper gets dosed with Inflatium, which causes him to swell up like a balloon whenever he gets stressed. [[spoiler: Julien also gets in on the ballooning at the end of the episode.]] |
| 427 | * IncidentalVillain: King Julien. Being a spoiled ego-maniacal control freak, he's the most common antagonist on the show, with his schemes often being the catalyst for larger plots or being the main threat of the episode. But, despite being something of a JerkAss, he is only casually disliked by the rest of the cast. The other characters tolerate him when he's not doing anything antagonistic, since he's not generally a bad guy, just a spoiled jerk who occasionally screws with people to get his own way. |
| 428 | * InstantChucks: |
| 429 | ** Rico makes some in "Whispers and Coups" by grabbing two of the chameleons by their tongues and swinging them around. |
| 430 | ** In a later episode, Julien and Mort get used as some by a sleep walking ninja koala. |
| 431 | * InstantWebHit: Private's accidental fall when stepping on a roller skate (ItMakesSenseInContext) turns him into an internet celebrity overnight, until [[DisasterDominoes they turn the camera on to Alice the female zookeeper doing a silly dance while thinking she was alone]]. |
| 432 | * InsaneTrollLogic: In the episode "The Red Squirrel", Buck Rockgut thinks that if any animal likes nuts, likes drawings of red squirrels, has a bushy tail, or reads a book with a red cover, they automatically work for the Red Squirrel. Private somewhat calls him out on the last one. |
| 433 | -->'''Buck''': ''(to Phil and Mason)'' Read any good books lately? Read? Red...'''THE RED SQUIRREL!'''\ |
| 434 | '''Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico''': ''([[{{GASP}} collective gasp]])''\ |
| 435 | '''Private''': [[LampshadeHanging That one doesn't even make sense!]] |
| 436 | * InstrumentalThemeTune: An unusual variation: a brassy, detective-like theme for the penguins, and an upbeat dance section in the middle when the lemurs appear. |
| 437 | * InsubstantialIngredients: |
| 438 | -->'''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!\ |
| 439 | '''Private''': That doesn't sound very good, except for the sugar part.\ |
| 440 | '''Julien''': You need the sugar. Otherwise, the bile will overwhelm the flavor. |
| 441 | * 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. |
| 442 | * InterspeciesRomance: |
| 443 | ** 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]]. |
| 444 | ** Kowalski often pines over a dolphin named Doris. When we meet her, [[spoiler:she's dating a platypus]]. |
| 445 | ** Skipper dates a falcon in one episode, and has a crush on Marlene [[ItMakesSenseInContext while thinking she's an arctic mink]]. |
| 446 | ** Private fell in love with Shawna, a human vet. |
| 447 | * InvoluntaryDance: Skipper in "Out of the Groove". |
| 448 | * ItTastesLikeFeet: Skipper's monkfish surprise recipe apparently tastes like elephant sweat "but everyone pretends they like it to spare Skipper's fragile ego". |
| 449 | * ItsQuietTooQuiet: Spoken by Skipper in "Haunted Habitat." |
| 450 | * IntelligibleUnintelligible: Rico can fall into this, with the other penguins translating via RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear. |
| 451 | * IWasNeverHere: |
| 452 | --> '''Skipper''': ''(waving flippers)'' You didn't see anything. |
| 453 | * IWillShowYouX: In "I Was A Penguin Zombie": |
| 454 | -->'''Vet:''' Don't worry. I know you don't like the big, scary needles, so we'll use a topical cream instead.\ |
| 455 | '''Skipper:''' Oh, yeah? You try anything and I'll cream your topical! |
| 456 | * IveHeardOfThatWhatIsIt: Occurs in "Otter Gone Wild": |
| 457 | -->'''Private:''' We're going for yummy snow cones, Marlene. Wanna come?\ |
| 458 | '''Marlene:''' Snow cones? Oh, snow cones are the best! Real quick: A snow cone is…? |
| 459 | [[/folder]] |
| 460 | |
| 461 | [[folder:Tropes J-P]] |
| 462 | * JerkassBall: The Penguins, even Private, would occasionally grab this, making them more psychotic than they already were. They could even be bigger nuisances than [[RoyalBrat King Julien]]. |
| 463 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: King Julien stands out, but there are many others, including Skipper. |
| 464 | ** In fact, this is a good example of the penguins showing softer sides to their personalities so that they're more than just psychopaths. |
| 465 | * JokeAndReceive: In the episode when they get stuck in Hoboken, one of several options Kowalski brings up is that all the animals are replicants. While fighting Skipper touches them and dismisses the idea. [[spoiler:Turns out the other animals are biosynthetic androids.]] |
| 466 | * JustEatGilligan: In all of the latter episodes where the Penguins have problems sleeping because of the Lemurs making too much noise, they never re-consider using earmuffs like they did in "Assault and Batteries", the first time in the series where this was an issue. Even odder, in "Operation: Break-Speare", Rico regurgitates a pair of earmuffs just so he can ignore Private citing Shakespeare, but the penguins never consider them using them for blocking the sound of the Lemurs. |
| 467 | * JustSmileAndNod: "Just smile and wave, boys." |
| 468 | * KangarooPouchRide: Skipper ends up in Joey's pouch in "Assault and Batteries." |
| 469 | * KangaroosRepresentAustralia: Joey, ''mate''. |
| 470 | * {{Keet}}: King Julien. |
| 471 | * KillerRabbit: |
| 472 | ** In "Operation: Neighbor Swap", Julien sics the Petting Zoo rabbits on the penguins. To the penguins' surprise and Julien's, the rabbits are efficient, deadly fighters and they beat the penguins senseless till they dropped on the floor defeated. |
| 473 | ** In "Operation: Lunacorn Apocalypse", while the BigBad of the episode is in a Lunacorn's body, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Private's blabbering]] about the toy is what make him realize he can control an army of Lunacorns and access RealityWarper powers. |
| 474 | * KitchenSinkIncluded: Rico hacks one up (surprisingly, this old gag was only used in one of the last episodes, "Operation Swap-panzee"). |
| 475 | * TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: In "The Red Squirrel," Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico all squee over meeting and working with the legendary Special Agent Buck Rockgut. Skipper even claims to have "patterned his whole life" after Rockgut. Their enthusiasm fades when he accuses first Private then Kowalski of being the villainous Red Squirrel. |
| 476 | * KnowWhenToFoldEm: Lampshaded. |
| 477 | -->'''Skipper:''' Kowalski, options.\ |
| 478 | '''Kowalski:''' I recommend a strategic retreat.\ |
| 479 | '''Skipper:''' Explain.\ |
| 480 | '''Kowalski:''' It's like running away, but manlier. |
| 481 | * LaserGuidedKarma: |
| 482 | ** In "Mort Unbound", King Julien uses the now [[HulkingOut Hulked Out]] Mort to strong-arm everyone in the zoo into giving him fruits. When Julien refuses to give Mort a cut of the spoils, Mort turns on him. |
| 483 | ** In "Operation: Neighbor Swap", the Penguins can't stand Julien's singing so they send him, Maurice and Mort [[DisproportionateRetribution to the petting zoo]] in hopes they suffer there and get Roger as a neighbor. Unfortunately, Roger is actually an even worst neigbor than Julien as he unintentionally gets them into trouble whenever he visits. When the Penguins tried to undo their actions, King Julien sics his new rabbit entourage upon them and they suffered the most brutal yet adorable CurbStompBattle they ever had. Adding more salt to the wound, the Penguins are forced to hear Roger's singing, the very reason this whole mess started. |
| 484 | ** The animals at the Zoo turn on the Penguins after they learned that they spied on them to learn about their embarrassing 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. |
| 485 | * LatexPerfection: See IKnowYouKnowIKnow. |
| 486 | * LawfulStupid: Buck Rockgut. |
| 487 | * LaymansTerms: From "Haunted Habitat": |
| 488 | -->'''Kowalski:''' It appears that the ghostly death rattle is coming from your own respiratory system.\ |
| 489 | '''Marlene:''' Oh, well, yeah, of course. Can somebody just spit it out in English?\ |
| 490 | ''Rico simply demonstrates her loud snoring.'' |
| 491 | ** Skipper often asks Kowalski this after he gives an explanation too full of science jargon. |
| 492 | * LiteralMetaphor: The "punch" in Julien's Sour Mango Punch bubble gum is apparently so strong that it literally punches Julien in the face. |
| 493 | * LoveDodecahedron: In "Tunnel of Love". Add four beavers [[{{Pun}} (The animals! The animals!)]], two badger girls and Marlene, stir for a minute and you get...utter chaos. Complete with ''LoveChart''. |
| 494 | -->'''Kowalski:''' Wait. This is a map of the tunnel system. THIS is the love chart. |
| 495 | * 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. |
| 496 | * MacGuffin: In "It's About Time", the key component Kowalski needs to finish his time machine is an isotope called [=MacGuffium-239=].[[note]]239 as in Plutonium-239[[/note]] Could also be considered an example of {{Unobtainium}}. |
| 497 | * MadScientist: Kowalski always showed hints, but in "Jiggles" he really was going bonkers. |
| 498 | * MagicVersusScience: Kowalski is highly skeptical of any supposedly 'supernatural' phenomena, like ghosts or psychics. |
| 499 | * {{Malaproper}}: King Julien has shades of this. "These stitions are very super!" |
| 500 | * MalingeringRomancePloy: In "Love Hurts", Private gets injured and falls in love with the zoo nurse. He then starts purposely getting injured so he can keep seeing her. |
| 501 | * 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 in the episode of the same name.) |
| 502 | * MayItNeverHappenAgain: In "Truth Ache", the penguins decide to spy on their zoomates in an attempt to be CrazyPrepared. However, this plot comes crashing down when Private accidentally consumes truth serum and reveals their plans to the other animals. After Private induces LaserGuidedAmnesia on his squad and the zoomates via a spray Kowalski had invented, he subsequently destroys the spy footage to avoid another incident like it. |
| 503 | * MeaningfulName: Joey. ("Joey" is the word for a baby kangaroo.) |
| 504 | * MechanicalAnimals: One episode involves Julien encountering a robot lemur named Lemmy. He teaches it to dance and the penguins teach it to spy. |
| 505 | * MickeyMousing: Happens in "Operation Break-Speare", as the Penguins try to slip into a prop room, the soundtrack punctuates their light footsteps with violin plucks. And a glockenspiel, when they have to backtrack a few steps to retrieve a narcoleptic Skipper. |
| 506 | * MissXPun: There's an episode called "Miss Understanding", which is about the penguins wrongly believing Skipper to be female. |
| 507 | * MistakenForUndead: Skipper in "I Was a Penguin Zombie", due to numbing medical cream (as well as the others overhearing a medical TV drama that made them think he had died). |
| 508 | * MonstrousSeal: Subverted with Hunter, a friendly leopard seal pup who Private saves from a fishing net. Her family are all right too, when they aren't trying to eat the heroes. |
| 509 | * MultipleChoicePast: More like Multiple Choice Deaths. What the hell happened to Manfredi and Johnson anyway? They're part of the Seaville show now. With lost eyes and broken limbs. |
| 510 | * MusicalEpisode: The latter half of "The Return of the Revenge of Dr Blowhole". [[MusicalWorldHypotheses Induced]] by a combination of a high-power energy cell, a MirrorMoralityMachine, and a mp3 player. |
| 511 | * TheMusicMeister: In "The Return Of The Revenge Of Dr. Blowhole", Dr. Blowhole's new device accidentally fuses with an experimental power cell and an [=MP3=] player to form a machine capable of doing this. Blowhole himself becomes this when he takes control of it. No surprise there, since he's [[ActorAllusion voiced by]] [[Creator/NeilPatrickHarris the]] TropeNamer. |
| 512 | * MushroomSamba: Tree frog venom is implied to cause this, with Kowalski commenting that he "could taste sound". |
| 513 | * MyCarHatesMe: Literally, in "Driven to the Brink". Rico accidentally destroys the car, and when he rebuilds it it comes to life and starts violently attacking him. |
| 514 | * MyFriendsAndZoidberg: |
| 515 | ** In the cooties episode, Skipper remarks that "my men and Mort" have come down with cooties. |
| 516 | ** Likewise, "my men and Marlene" in "All Tied Up With a Boa", but maybe he was just being exact/courteous/politically correct/alliterative/all of the above. |
| 517 | * MyFutureSelfAndMe: Kowalski meets not one but two of his future selves. [[TimeCrash It doesn't end well.]] |
| 518 | * MyLittlePhony: The ShowWithinAShow "Lunacorns" is Private's favourite tv programme. |
| 519 | * MythologyGag: |
| 520 | ** In the first movie, the Penguins were tunneling out of their habitat and hiding the tunnel under their food dish. Here, they've built an entire underground base of operations with the entrance hidden under their food dish. |
| 521 | ** King Julien has claimed the King of New York's throne as his own; Julien's throne sits on Alex's old podium, with the lion engravings covered up. |
| 522 | ** Iconic lines from the movie; "Smile and wave", "Cute and cuddly" and "You didn't see anything" all show up with varying frequency. |
| 523 | ** Rico made sushi for Alex at the end of the first movie. Whenever sushi is on the menu, it's Rico that prepares it. |
| 524 | ** In "Field Tripped," Madagascar is mentioned several times. |
| 525 | ** In "The All Nighter Before Christmas", Santa greets Julien, to which he says they go back, a nod to ''Merry Madagascar''. |
| 526 | * NanoTechnology: Kowalski created a bunch of nanites capable of animating any machine. In an attempt to keep them from ending up [[GoneHorriblyWrong like his other creations]], Kowalski programmed them to never allow harm to come to the penguins. Unfortunately, considering their commando lifestyle, the nanites naturally took their programming too far. |
| 527 | * NationalAnimalStereotypes: Some of the side characters. |
| 528 | ** Joey the Kangaroo speaks with [[KangaroosRepresentAustralia an Australian accent]]. |
| 529 | ** Hans the Puffin is Danish. Seabirds like puffins are often associated with Nordic countries. |
| 530 | ** Savio, the boa constrictor, a South American species, speaks with a Hispanic accent. |
| 531 | * NegativeContinuity: |
| 532 | ** "Jiggles" has a giant gelatinous blob break a large hole in the penguins' headquarters which is replaced in the next episode. |
| 533 | ** "Little Zoo Coupe" has the penguins modify their car to make it "boss," but it is back to its pink, frilly self in later episodes. |
| 534 | ** "It's About Time" ends with Kowalski building a snowcone machine and burying New York in shaved ice. Come next episode, everything is back to normal. |
| 535 | ** "Kaboom and Kabust" ends with Rico completely destroying the lemur habitat, which is back to normal in the next episode. |
| 536 | ** Private gets left behind in the plush factory in "Operation: Plush and Cover," but is back at the zoo with no explanation in the next episode. |
| 537 | * NeverLearnedToRead: Following the movies, Phil seems to be the only literate animal in the zoo, requiring others to consult him for translations when something needs to be read. |
| 538 | * NeverSayDie: Subverted. |
| 539 | -->'''Kowalski:''' Were it not for our failure, Julien would be... sleeping with the hot dogs.\ |
| 540 | ''[[{{Beat}} (the others stare)]]''\ |
| 541 | '''Kowalski:''' ...dead. |
| 542 | ** In another example, they lightly lampshade this trope but still play it straight: |
| 543 | --->'''Dr. Blowhole''': Just try and stop me, and your fuzzy little buddy sleeps with the fishes! (cue EvilLaugh)\ |
| 544 | '''Kowalski''': Uh, technically fish don't sleep so much as rest. You'd ''think'' a dolphin would know that. ({{Beat}}) Unless he means... (shudder) |
| 545 | ** In "Roger Dodger", Kowalski's [[SidetrackedByTheAnalogy turn of phrase makes it soar right over Private's head]]: |
| 546 | --->'''Kowalski''': They're taking him straight to the gray-bar hotel.\ |
| 547 | '''Private''': Oh, a hotel? Well, that'll solve his housing problem. I wonder if he'll find a mint on his pillow?\ |
| 548 | (the others stare; after a beat, Skipper reaches over and pats Private lightly on the head) |
| 549 | * NeverTheSelvesShallMeet: Kowalski invents a TimeMachine, but a future Kowalski has come to get Private to stop him, warning him that if both Kowalskis were to ever meet, it would cause a rip in the space-time continuum. Also, a ''third'' Kowalski has come to get Skipper to keep the time machine from being destroyed. When the two future Kowaslkis meet, they reassure the others that it's okay, as long as the original Kowalski doesn't see them. And that's when original Kowalski sees them, causing the space-time rupture that led them all here in the first place. |
| 550 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Professor Blowhole even says "Thank you Kowalski!" when Kowalski accidentally speeds up his machine to melt the polar ice caps instead of deactivating it. |
| 551 | * 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 "Stingtail" for the leader of a hornet hive. And "Big Grey"/"Long Trunks" for Burt. |
| 552 | * NightmareFetishist: Rico is perfectly happy with things that give the other penguins nightmares. Like serenely munching away on popcorn while watching a Brutal Nature Documentary with penguins getting gobbled up by leopard seals. And when Kowalski and Private are clearly horrified/nauseated at Skipper's broken flipper in "I Was a Penguin Zombie," Rico looks... a little ''too'' interested and in "Roger Dodger", as Roger is being pummeled offscreen by the rats, Rico stares at said [[CurbStompBattle beatdown]], a blank smile on his face, his left eye twitching, and licks his beak at the end. |
| 553 | * NoFlowInCGI: Since it's just a TV show, in order to save money, the lemurs aren't visibly fuzzy, instead they're textured to merely look like they are. Similarly, the penguins' feathers have a lot less sheen to them then they do in the movies. Noticeably subverted however with the leaves on King Julien's crown, which still realistically sway when he moves around. |
| 554 | * NoNameGiven: Officer X. |
| 555 | -->'''Alice''': X? ''[scoffs]'' Is that the name ''your mommy'' gave you? |
| 556 | -->'''Officer X''': Mother never told me my real name. Said it was [[ClassifiedInformation classified]]. |
| 557 | * NonSequiturThud: In "Miracle on Ice," Kowalski gets knocked out during a hockey game and starts babbling in an oddly erudite manner, since he's the CunningLinguist of the group. "Flibbery-gibbit, man! I'm as juxtaposed as the next hamburger!" |
| 558 | * NoodleIncident: |
| 559 | ** Skipper [[PersonaNonGrata can't go back to Denmark]] because of the Copenhagen Incident. |
| 560 | ** In "Kaboom and Kabust", King Julien pieces together one of the penguins' shredded, highly-classified documents: |
| 561 | ---> '''King Julien:''' This one makes a penguin!... But why is he shaking hands with a Sasquatch and the King of Sweden? |
| 562 | ** Occurs again in "Hot Ice", After Julien concludes that the "sky spirits" are mad at him for something Mort did, Mort asks the "sky spirits" if it was for the "you know what" in Maurice's oatmeal. |
| 563 | ** When a TruthSerum-addled Private exposes the secrets of the zoo-dwellers, Marlene has two; first he reveals to everyone that she performs imaginary pop concerts in her room, which the viewers actually saw her do earlier in the episode, and later: |
| 564 | --->'''Marlene''': Okay, all I wanna know is, do you know about-?\ |
| 565 | '''Private''': Yes.\ |
| 566 | '''Marlene''': And how I like to-?\ |
| 567 | '''Private''': Yes.\ |
| 568 | '''Marlene''': With the-?\ |
| 569 | '''Private''': Yes. |
| 570 | ** He also mentions that she thought that was embarrassing, she should see what Kowalski does when he thinks no one is looking. |
| 571 | ** Manfredi and Johnson have suffered many [[NoodleIncident Noodle Incidents]], all vaguely alluded to as terrible warnings from the past, but none ever fully explained. |
| 572 | * NoSell: In "Littlefoot", Private is tasked to deliver an incredibly timid Marlene. Her constant fretting annoys Private so much that he decides to break his vow never to use his Hyper Cute again to knock her out and get some peace, but she is so timid that it simply scares her instead. |
| 573 | * NoseNuggets: TropeNamer. In one episode, King Julien gets trapped in Burt the Elephant's trunk. When he finally gets out, he says that his life "and many nose nuggets" flashed before his eyes. |
| 574 | * NotMeThisTime: In "Lemur See, Lemur Do", Julien accuses the penguins of sending a copy-cat robot to mock him, and Skipper admits they really are planning a way to mock him...but they're still working on it. |
| 575 | * NotWhereTheyThought: In one episode, the penguins try to land on the moon, but end up on a rooftop instead. They still think they're on the moon, and refer to a cat they meet as "Moon Cat". |
| 576 | * NowDoItAgainBackWards: In "Wishful Thinking", but it's hinted that Private did not ''really'' hit the Reset Button. |
| 577 | * NumberTwo: Kowalski seems to be Skipper's Number Two. |
| 578 | * OctopoidAliens: There are giant space squid from Mars. They seem to want to invade the Earth and/or steal the most advanced technological inventions from [=InvExpo=]. [[spoiler: They end up going for Kowalski's robotic hand instead.]] |
| 579 | * OddCouple: Mason and Phil. One is proper and speaks with a British accent; the other is mute and, according to one episode, is a complete slob. |
| 580 | * 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 [[RankScalesWithAsskicking pulls off the craziest stunts]]. |
| 581 | * OhCrap: A very common and familiar facial expression for the cast. Especially the penguins, who even get one during the title sequence. |
| 582 | * OlderThanTheyLook: The writers seem to delight in providing implausibly high ages for the characters. [[AllThereInTheManual According to her Nickelodeon profile]], Marlene was born in 1952, and WordOfGod is that Mort is actually thirty-five. Private, despite appearing to be a teenager and occasionally acting like a small child, is old enough to have had at least one previous identity, as shown in "Mr Tux". |
| 583 | * OnlySaneMan: |
| 584 | ** Private treads into this during episodes like "The Red Squirrel." |
| 585 | ** Maurice and Marlene fit this trope as well. |
| 586 | ** Rico, [[HeroicComedicSociopath of all people]], becomes this in "Herring Impaired" when the others came down with a disease that made them just about as crazy for fish as him. |
| 587 | * OrganAutonomy: In "Mort Unbound," Julien gets into a squabble with ''his own brain'' while congratulating himself on using the suddenly muscle-bound Mort to intimidate the other zoo animals to giving their stuff to him. He even turns from side to side to pantomime speaking to somebody else. |
| 588 | -->'''Julien''': That was a great idea I just had. I must compliment my brain. Good idea, brain.\ |
| 589 | '''His brain''': Thanks, I think it was nice that you had an idea that you didn't pull out of your booty.\ |
| 590 | '''Julien''': Hey, do not speak ill of the booty!\ |
| 591 | '''His brain''': Oh, booty, booty, booty! Shut up about the booty!\ |
| 592 | '''Julien''': You shut up about the shutting up!\ |
| 593 | '''His brain''': Fine, then I am not talking to you!\ |
| 594 | '''Julien''': And I am not talking to you! Stupid brain. |
| 595 | * OperationBlank: All of the penguins' missions are dubbed "Operation _____." There is also a DVD compilation titled ''Operation: DVD Premiere'', and one episode is titled "Operation: Plush and Cover." |
| 596 | * OutOfControlPopcorn: In „Popcorn Panic” after getting caught Skipper and Private decided to [[DestroyTheEvidence destroy stolen popcorn bag]] [[TooDumbToLive in incinerator]], which caused to poping it out so much, that it overflowed the zoo. |
| 597 | * PapaWolf: |
| 598 | ** "Paternal Egg-Stinct" shows Private to be one. Private is so horrified by the other penguins' rough handling of the egg that he steals it and snaps at Skipper. Also, Kowalski towards Jiggles the goo monster. |
| 599 | ** Julien towards the baby fossa once he realizes it thinks Julien is its daddy. |
| 600 | * PainfulAdhesiveRemoval: In "Crown Fools", when King Julien won't stop screaming after his crown falls into the sewer, Marlene shuts him up by sticking an adhesive leaf over his mouth. He rips it off and begins talking for a second before realizing how painful what he did was. |
| 601 | * PaperThinDisguise: Skipper likes this. Also works magic in "Antics on Ice" (although the rhino and the gorilla technically aren't disguised, just [[ItMakesSenseInContext cosplaying]] as Lunacorns). |
| 602 | * PassThePopcorn: When it looks like Joey and the penguins are going to have a fight in "Kanga Management", Julien and the other lemurs turn up to watch. With a carton of popcorn. |
| 603 | * [[PersonOfMassDestruction Penguin of Mass Destruction]]: Rico. |
| 604 | -->'''Rico''': [[RunningGag Kaboom]]! |
| 605 | * PercussiveMaintenance: Skipper tries to smack a malfunctioning flashlight. It works...for all of about three seconds, and then fizzles out again. |
| 606 | * PersonaNonGrata: UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}} does not like Skipper. Nobody dares ask why. |
| 607 | * PhlebotinumInducedStupidity: |
| 608 | ** "Sting Operation," the penguins use one of Kowalski's inventions to make themselves stupid so that they can't feel the hornet's stings. |
| 609 | ** Happens with Kowalski in "Brain Drain", owing both to a malfunction in a brain-enhancing machine and a lack of fish in the diet. |
| 610 | * PhraseCatcher: If Skipper looks in Kowalski's direction, expect either "Kowalski, analysis" or "Kowalski, options." |
| 611 | * PilotMovie: The 2005 theatrical short ''WesternAnimation/TheMadagascarPenguinsInAChristmasCaper'', 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. |
| 612 | * PlaceWorseThanDeath: Skipper views Hoboken as a living cesspool and has vowed to never end up there. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, he did end up there, but the trope is subverted at first when it seems to be a nice place....[[DoubleSubversion then played straight again]]]]. |
| 613 | * PlankGag: King Julien challenges Fred the squirrel to a staff duel. Fred beats him without even trying, just by moving around with the staff on his shoulder. |
| 614 | * PlayfulOtter: Marlene, the inspiration for this trope. |
| 615 | * PlayingPictionary: Julien and Marlene are missing and Kowalski shows a picture he drew of them to Fred the squirrel. |
| 616 | -->'''Fred''': Which one's the otter?\ |
| 617 | '''Kowalski''': This one, obviously. Note the whiskers?\ |
| 618 | '''Fred''': Oh, I thought that was a cat.\ |
| 619 | '''Kowalski''': Did I ask "have you seen this lemur and cat?"\ |
| 620 | '''Fred''': No, that's why I thought it was odd that you drew a cat.\ |
| 621 | '''Kowalski''': It's not a cat.\ |
| 622 | '''Fred''': Then why does it have whiskers?\ |
| 623 | '''Kowalski''': You know what? Forget the otter.\ |
| 624 | '''Fred''': Cat.\ |
| 625 | '''Kowalski''': Whatever! |
| 626 | * {{Portmanteau}}: King Julien coins "skorca" in reference to the "sky orca" (really an inflatable in a parade) and then lampshades it by saying that it's popular to put two words together that way. In a later episode, he acquires a "neck decoration" (a diamond necklace), which he renames a "neckoration." |
| 627 | * PostInjuryDeskJob: In "Action Reaction" Skipper is forced to pick desk job to avoid stress, which could make him explode. |
| 628 | * PostTreatmentLollipop: Roger the SewerGator is about to have his brain switched with Rico. After Kowalski explains how painful the procedure will be, Roger asks "Do I get a lollipop?" Kowalski shows him the lollipop. |
| 629 | * PottyDance: King Julien remarks in "Friend In A Box" that he never learned "that dance." Being the king, he just goes wherever he is. Kowalski takes two steps away from Julien upon hearing that. |
| 630 | * PottyEmergency: Utilized as a weapon by Kowalski and Julien during "Friend-In-A-Box" to try and distract Mort long enough for Kowalski to snatch the circuit board from the game Mort was playing. |
| 631 | * PottyFailure: Played with in "Operation: Antarctica". When Hunter roars at Private, a yellow puddle appears at his feet. He then steps to the side, revealing a tipped-over styrofoam cup. |
| 632 | -->'''Private''': You made me spill my lemonade! |
| 633 | * PowerEchoes: |
| 634 | ** Julien declares a new law, and Maurice adds echoes for dramatic effect. |
| 635 | ** Also, CHROME CLAW. |
| 636 | * PoundsAreAnimalPrisons: Well, the zoo anyway. While the animals are treated pretty well, there's a general subtext of prison confinement and underground dealings. |
| 637 | * PowerOfFriendship: ZigZaggingTrope when Private builds a robot suit to hug a deadly poisonous frog who has taken over the zoo with threats. |
| 638 | -->'''Private:''' I'd be a grumpy gus too if no-one ever hugged me. \ |
| 639 | '''Barry:''' 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.\ |
| 640 | '''Private:''' Oh. Well, in that case I can just squeeze you until you pop like a grape.\ |
| 641 | '''Barry:''' No, no, hugging's good! ... Actually I'm liking the hug. |
| 642 | * PrecisionGuidedBoomerang: In one episode, Private uses a butterscotch lollipop as a boomerang. |
| 643 | * ProperlyParanoid: Skipper is insanely paranoid about ''everything.'' It's only logical that sometimes he's also right. |
| 644 | * ProtectionInMouth: In 'Operation Antarctica', Private starts a PredatorPreyFriendship with the leopard seal Hunter. A maneuver the two develop together involves her picking him up in her mouth and tossing him, mimicking her natural way of hunting penguins. While it's occasionally performed for fun, it's primarily used for locomotion, and is done one final time at the end of the episode to save Private from the rest of Hunter's kind. |
| 645 | * {{Pun}}: |
| 646 | ** "We gotta get you otta flirty-flirt town. In a Rush. Big Time!" Said to the beaver gang voiced by Series/BigTimeRush. |
| 647 | ** "I'm an otter failure." |
| 648 | ** The show loves using the otter pun so much they even named three episodes with it. ''Otter Things Have Happened'', ''Otter Woman'' and ''Otter Gone Wild''. |
| 649 | ** Also, Hans' reaction to Skipper's lightsaber in the Return of the Revenge of Dr. Blowhole: "What was that?! We always fish fight!" |
| 650 | * PunctuatedForEmphasis: |
| 651 | ** Alice in "Popcorn Panic," upon catching a boy feeding popcorn to the animals: "Do! Not! Feed! The! Animals!" It's punctuated with her slapping up a "Do Not Feed the Animals" sign on some object with each word. |
| 652 | ** Lampshaded in "In the Line of Doody," with a {{sting}} and a zoom-in on each word. |
| 653 | --->'''Skipper''': The clock... is... ticking.\ |
| 654 | '''Kowalski''': So were the dramatic pauses really necessary, then?\ |
| 655 | '''Skipper''': (''another sting, camera zooms in closer'') Yes. |
| 656 | * PuppyDogEyes: Attempted by Rico in "Driven to the Brink". Skipper tells him it won't work ''this time'', though. |
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| 658 | |
| 659 | [[folder:Tropes R-Z]] |
| 660 | * RankScalesWithAsskicking: Skipper consistently pulls off the craziest, wildest, awesomest stunts. The Rat King also falls into this, [[TheWorfEffect but]]... |
| 661 | %%* RapidFireComedy |
| 662 | * ARareSentence |
| 663 | -->'''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!!\ |
| 664 | '''Kowalski''': [[LampshadeHanging Wow, never in the history of language have those words been put together in that order!]] |
| 665 | * RascallyRaccoon: Ze Archer/Archie. |
| 666 | * RasputinianDeath: Marlene wants to do this to King Julien at the end of "Otter Things Have Happened": "When I find Julien, I'm gonna rip him limb from limb, sew him back together, then rip him apart all over again!" |
| 667 | * RatKing: There is a recurring antagonist named "the Rat King". He is a gigantic, muscle-bound rat in command of a gang of sewer rats. |
| 668 | * ReadingsAreOffTheScale: |
| 669 | ** When Kowalski mentions that readings of spectral activity are off the charts, Skipper suggests getting bigger charts. |
| 670 | ** Also, the [[ThingOMeter Cute-O-Meter]] which promptly explodes when Private overloads it with his total adorableness. |
| 671 | --->'''Kowalski''': It appears Private has discovered some sort of "Quantum Hyper Cute!" 132% adorability! |
| 672 | * RealMenWearPink: The Penguins go-to vehicle is a bright pink toy car that looks like it either came with or goes with Rico's Ms. Perky doll. |
| 673 | * ReedRichardsIsUseless: Frances, the main villain of "The Hoboken Surprise" has enough money and intelligence to create almost identical biomechanical android duplicates of the animals (to the point the Skipper duplicate has some of his fighting abilities) and a DNA scanner builded in the massage chairs. What does is her major ambition to have with this technology? [[AlmightyJanitor Become a zookeeper]]. You will think she could get further in other bigger areas with this amount of technological expertise. |
| 674 | * RedOniBlueOni: Rico and Kowalski. |
| 675 | * ReluctantMonster: Roger the alligator. |
| 676 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: |
| 677 | ** The penguins' car's headlights took on a red glow in "Driven to the Brink" after it targeted Rico. |
| 678 | ** Each of the lemurs' eyes turned a near-red after they became crazy and dangerous from eating lychee nuts. |
| 679 | ** From "Dr. Blowhole's Revenge": |
| 680 | --->'''Skipper''': Glowing red eyes? That's almost never good. |
| 681 | * RedLiveLobster: Dr. Blowhole's lobster minions (including [[GiantMook Chrome Claw]]) are all bright red. |
| 682 | * RedScare: "The Red Squirrel" had fun with this; Special Agent Buck Rockgut has become paranoid in his hunt for the Red Squirrel. He starts accusing and detaining everyone for things that have nothing to do with the Red Squirrel. Private laments that Rockgut's wasted so many years chasing after a threat that may in fact no longer exist. [[spoiler:Then we get to see the Red Squirrel who is still scheming and has been spying on Rockgut all along.]] |
| 683 | * RevengeOfTheSequel: ''Dr. Blowhole's Revenge'' and more [[JustForFun/{{Egregious}} egregiously]], ''The Return Of The Revenge Of Dr. Blowhole''. |
| 684 | * ReverseCerebusSyndrome: In the latter half of season 2, some practices that were abandoned or greatly downplayed by the end of season 1 (e.g. "Kowalski, options", "MY CAR!", Manfredi and Johnson) have returned. |
| 685 | * ReversePolarity: In ''Invention Intervention'', [[spoiler: Kowalski presses a series of buttons in-order to stop his invisibility ray from blowing up and making everything invisible.]] |
| 686 | * 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 Julien, 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]]. |
| 687 | * RetiredGunfighter: Parodied (with mini-golf) in ''Mr Tux''. |
| 688 | * RewindReplayRepeat: Blowhole orders a lackey to rewind a few times so he can catch the exact moment of Skipper's demise, including freezing his death scream. |
| 689 | * ARiddleWrappedInAMysteryInsideAnEnigma: Skipper calls Alice "a riddle, wrapped in mystery, and dunked in nasty sauce" in the cartoon short "All Choked Up." |
| 690 | * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Mort, Eggy, and possibly Private. |
| 691 | * RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Lem-R, who shall learn the "moves" from Julien to be able to roam the Mars terrain. [[note]] The name is a pun on lemur, Lunar Excursion Module and possibly also SF author Stanislaw Lem too, who made the LEM/Lem pun himself. [[/note]] |
| 692 | * RoadApples: Mason occasionally talks about flinging poo. |
| 693 | * RodentsOfUnusualSize: The rat king, who is musclebound and ''taller than the penguins''. |
| 694 | * RoyalDecree: King Julien issued a decree forbidding touching his "royal feet," but eventually "undecreed" it later. |
| 695 | * RunningGag: |
| 696 | ** Mort's foot fetish for Julien's feet, as well as his status as TheChewToy. "Hooray! I'm expendable!" |
| 697 | ** Skipper warning his men against certain circumstances by saying some variation of "Just ask Manfredi and Johnson. Except you can't, because they fell for [situation]. We had to [horrible description]." This might also be a shout out, since Manfredi and Johnson were the two guys machine gunned at the start of ''Film/Stalag17''. |
| 698 | ** Skipper's hatred of hippies. |
| 699 | ** A character will do something destructive, such as cause an explosion, and a voice off camera screams, "My car!" |
| 700 | *** The jokes had its variants over time, such as being shouted in a different language or someone yelling "SOMEONE ELSE'S CAR!" Once, the gorillas tossed Bert the elephant out of the zoo. He yelled "Some guy's car!" |
| 701 | ** If a bag is needed for something, it will invariably say "trail mix" on it. |
| 702 | ** Constant references to Hoboken being a WretchedHive, and many one-shot villains [[FateWorseThanDeath being sent to the Hoboken Zoo]] at the end of the episode. |
| 703 | * RunningOnAllFours: Maurice does this when he rescues King Julien in "Thumb Drive." |
| 704 | * SanityBall: Private held it in episodes such as "The Red Squirrel," whereas it was in the flippers of the other three penguins in "Skorca!" |
| 705 | * SapientCetaceans: Dr. Blowhole, arch-enemy of the penguins of Madagascar, is an EvilGenius bent on having his revenge on humanity for the humiliation he has suffered jumping through flaming hoops on Coney Island. Definitely not [[FriendlyPlayfulDolphin friendly]] or [[HeroicDolphin heroic]]. |
| 706 | * SaveTheVillain: The Penguins relunctantly protects the Vesuvius Twins from the revenge-seeking Zoo animals since they are just children. |
| 707 | * SayMyName: "Driven to the Brink" has Skipper crying "'''RIIIIICCCCOOOO!'''" |
| 708 | * ScaryBlackMan: Officer X, complete with a beard. |
| 709 | * ScaryStingingSwarm: In the episode "Sting Operation", the Penguins deal with a swarm of [[WickedWasps hornets]] who like to sting others ForTheEvulz, complete with the intention to sting a group of kids. |
| 710 | * SecretMessageWink: In "Kaboom and Kabust", after Rico and King Julien are told to stop making things explode, they agree but wink to each other to show they don't intend to change. Private asks why Julien winked, to which he tries to make an excuse before shoving the penguins away. |
| 711 | * SecretTest: [[TheReveal Turns out to be the whole plot of]] the episode "Command Crisis". |
| 712 | * {{Seers}}: In [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Mental Hen"]]. Although [[spoiler: the hen isn't mental at all, just super-intelligent, and super-informed, and thus can predict the events. But what is the difference, anyway?]] |
| 713 | * SelfFulfillingProphecy: In the episode "Truth Ache", the Penguins start collecting embarassing secrets about their zoo neighbors which they can use against them should any one of them become an enemy. They do turn on the Penguins only because Private, thanks to Kowalski's [[HoistBytheirOwnPetard truth serum]], blabbed all about what they've done causing the normally friendly zoo animals to be completely furious at them for invading their privacies. |
| 714 | * SeriousBusiness: The epic mini-golf game between Private and the armadillo in "Mr. Tux". |
| 715 | * ServileSnarker: Maurice. |
| 716 | * SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: Kowalski's mission in "It's About Time." |
| 717 | * ShaggyDogStory: The episode "Crown Fools." The penguins and Marlene go on a wild goose chase trying to recover King Julien's crown, but it turns out that he had a spare crown all along and just didn't tell them that. |
| 718 | * ShipTease: '''''Lots''''' of it, in all sorts of directions. |
| 719 | ** ''Otter Gone Wild'' has Marlene showing interest in King Julien (although she was [[spoiler:in a feral state at the time]]), and "Otter Things Have Happened" has him interested in courting Marlene while she's dating Fred the Squirrel (a relationship that, in itself, looked like it was going to work out but didn't). |
| 720 | ** ''Kaboom and Kabust'' is basically one big Julien/Rico ShipTease. Seriously, just watch their montage. |
| 721 | ** It's ''very'' easy to interpret the penguins' dialogue as ship-worthy. For instance, all the poetry they recite to Rico when they think he's going to die in "All Choked Up". |
| 722 | ** ''The Otter Woman'', SO MUCH for almost ANY pairing, but especially Skilene. |
| 723 | ** Skipper and Marlene hug in ''Miss Understanding'', in a rather suggestive manner. While most of their interactions are usually exaggerated by the fans, this particular one is hard to miss or dispute. |
| 724 | * ShockAndAwe: Skipper uses a static electricity charge [[spoiler: to knock out a bunch of Danish secret agents]]. |
| 725 | * ShorterMeansSmarter: Inverted with Kowalski--along with being the most intelligent of the penguins, he's also the tallest (and thinnest). |
| 726 | * ShoutOut: |
| 727 | ** In "A Kipper for Skipper", Kowalski enters a subway train and reads a "The Flintstones" comic. [[NewspaperThinDisguise Upside-down.]] (The comic, not Kowalski.) |
| 728 | ** Manfredi and Johnson, whom Skipper mentions constantly, are named after the two prisoners who are killed at the beginning of ''Film/Stalag17''. |
| 729 | * ShoutOutToShakespeare: Naturally, "Operation Break-speare" features a great number, such as Private delivering a verbose insult that was mentioned by Prince Hal in ''Theatre/HenryIVPart1''. |
| 730 | * ShownTheirWork: |
| 731 | ** [[WordOfGod Interviews]] state that they hired a consultant to make sure that all of Phil's sign language is accurate. They also go as far as to make sure that he makes the appropriate facial expression while signing. |
| 732 | ** Roger has proper teeth configuration of a real alligator: only the upper teeth are visible when his mouth is closed. |
| 733 | ** Parker the Platypus from "The Penguin Who Loved Me" is depicted with venomous spurs and even makes use of them. |
| 734 | ** A lesser (but still notable for a cartoon) example is in "Paternal Egg-Stinct," where after Skipper says he feels that the incubation process of an egg isn't "manly" after Marlene asks them to babysit an egg she found in her habitat, even Kowalski points that the incubation process ''is'' technically a "guy thing" for penguins. |
| 735 | ** Kowalski points out in "Badger Pride" that the two badgers who appear in that episode are "cousins" of Marlene, even going so far as to say that both are in the family ''mustelidae''. |
| 736 | ** In "Brain Drain", the fish [[spoiler: that restore Kowalski's brain]] actually DO contain omega fatty acids, even the drawing is correct! |
| 737 | ** The one-shot character dodo bird is depicted as a FearlessFool who gets himself [[TheyKilledKennyAgain killed multiple times]] simply because he's not afraid of ''anything''. This was TruthInTelevision (and even mentioned on the show), as part of the reason dodos went extinct is because there were next to no predators on their island, and therefore they evolved no defenses and were oblivious to how dangerous humans were when they first showed up. |
| 738 | * SickeninglySweet: How everyone sees Private's favourite TV show, The Lunacorns. |
| 739 | -->"I call rainbows upside-down colour smiles!" |
| 740 | * SillyAnimalSound: The [[GiantEnemyCrab giant lobster]] "Chrome Claw" roars like a Tyrannosaurus rex from ''Film/JurassicPark''. |
| 741 | * SimpleSolutionWontWork: |
| 742 | ** Parodied in the episode "Popcorn Panic", where Zookeeper Alice greatly enforces the "do not feed the animals" rule (much to the zoo animals' chagrin as it means that they won't be able to get popcorn anymore). To solve the problem, Julien suggests that they simply get rid of Alice, only for Skipper to shoot it down on the belief that more Alices will just take her place (forty-two more to be exact, according to Kowalski). |
| 743 | ** In "High Moltage" the Penguins want to leave the Zoo to catch the premiere of the new Commodore Danger movie, only to discover that the zoo has installed a new security system that shocks animals that try to leave. When several of their plans to escape fail, Kowalski points out that if worst comes to worst they could see the movie another day, only for Skipper to refuse, pointing out that the movie is so popular that unless they go today they'll almost certainly have everything spoiled, ruining the point of going. |
| 744 | * SlowMotion: The writers ''love'' this trope. Nearly every third episode has at least one SlowMotion scene, even if it's for something as simple as Officer X getting hit with a doll. See below too: |
| 745 | * SlowNo: |
| 746 | ** Maurice and Julien get one in "Gone in a Flash" when the camera slips out of both of their hands. |
| 747 | ** Skipper gets one in "Penguiner Takes All" when Julien blows his nose on the flag, and then Julien gets another one later in the same episode when Skipper gets the flag. |
| 748 | ** And Private gets one in "Untouchable" when Skipper gets touched by the poison dart frog. |
| 749 | ** Another one in "Untouchable" -- Mort and Julien get one as Julien is about to be touched by the poison dart frog. |
| 750 | * TheSmartGuy: Kowalski. |
| 751 | * SmokeOut: Occurs regularly, usually from a bomb that Rico has spit up. |
| 752 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: Aside from Alice (who is a minor adversarial character), Marlene is the only main female character. Even then, she isn't featured in every episode. |
| 753 | * SniffSniffNom: Kowalski tends to do this to evidence. He's done it to chameleon footprints and a strand of Julien's hair, among other things. |
| 754 | * SomeKindOfForceField: In "Skorca!", when the penguins attack the killer whale balloon (thinking it's a real whale) and bounce off it, Kowalski remarks that "the creature appears to be protected by some kind of blubbery force field. Also, [[WasntThatFun Whee-hee-hee-hee!]]" |
| 755 | * SoulJar: In one episode, the baboons use "backwoods magic" to steal [[spoiler:King Julien's "groove"]] and seal it in a jar until he gives them an apology. Julien, of course, refuses, and a fight for the jar ensues. It falls and breaks at Skipper's feet; Skipper has remained skeptical about the whole "groove in a jar" thing until he starts dancing uncontrollably. |
| 756 | * TheSpeechless: Phil, who converses only in sign language (it's unknown if he's actually mute or he simply chooses not to speak). |
| 757 | * SpikesOfDoom: Seen in "Popcorn Panic" when the penguins are getting pushed towards the ceiling by a wave of popcorn: |
| 758 | -->'''Skipper''': I knew I shouldn't have installed those decorative spikes. |
| 759 | * SpiritAdvisor: Alex in ''Dr. Blowhole's Revenge'' who Skipper's mind dreams up to help him. |
| 760 | * SpitTake: Kowalski does ''five'' in "Mr. Tux". He even lampshades it twice: first by saying that maybe he should set his cup down, and later on by spit-taking on the security keypad to see if it would fix it. |
| 761 | * SquashedFlat: Kowalski accidentally gets crushed by a billboard in "I Know Why the Caged Bird Goes Insane", kicking off the episode's conflict. |
| 762 | * StableTimeLoop: Occurs in "It's About Time." Or a few, depending on how you look. [[spoiler: More specifically: Kowalski wants to build a time machine. During the expedition to steal necessary materials, a future version of Kowalski appears and asks Private to stop the construction to prevent TimeCrash. Soon afterwards, ''another'' future Kowalski appears and asks Skipper to make sure the machine is finished for the same reason. Eventually [[NeverShallTheSelvesMeet all Kowalskis meet each other]], breaking time. Original Kowalski decides to go back in time and convince Private to stop the construction - cue Kowalski!2 saying it's him. Then Private remarks [[GrandfatherParadox that if he stops the construction, he will be unable to go back and stop the construction]], prompting Kowalski!2 to go back in time to make sure the machine is built - cue Kowalski!3 saying it's him.]] |
| 763 | * TheStarscream: [[spoiler:Clemson the lemur]] is a non-fatal example in "Right Hand Man". |
| 764 | * StatusQuoIsGod: Averted in "The Penguin Stays in the Picture", which ends with Mort's picture on the new zoo brochures instead of Private's. |
| 765 | * StayInTheKitchen: A rare ''self-inflicted'' example in "Miss Understanding"; when Skipper thinks he's actually female, he promptly starts acting out the stereotype, much to Marlene's frustration. The remaining penguins encourage this, complete with Dashing Hero poses and "Don't worry, ladies--Just let us handle things." |
| 766 | * StockScream: The aforementioned "MY CAR!" scream. |
| 767 | * StomachOfHolding: Rico. So much so that an entire episode ("All Choked Up") revolves around him ''not'' being able to vomit up a ticking time bomb, thanks to some medicine that one of the zookeeper's gave him. |
| 768 | * StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Kowalski, while having lost his intelligence, is reminded he's an aquatic bird, to which he responds, "I'm a beaver?!" Later, Julien rejects Kowalski as his lunch, but expresses he would like a different aquatic bird, prompting him to ask "Is the beaver fresh today?" |
| 769 | ** 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!" |
| 770 | * StuffBlowingUp: One of Rico's favorite tropes. Especially obvious in "Kaboom and Kabust". |
| 771 | * SubvertedSuspicionAesop: |
| 772 | ** The penguins are suspicious of a walrus named Rhonda who moves into Marlene's habitat. They think that the walrus a spy bent on stealing their invention, but Marlene thinks she will be nice once she gets to know her. Once Marlene is upset about Rhonda's messiness, they have her PutOnABus. But, they realize that the bus is taking her to a polar bear reserve, and take the bus back and put her on a different one. It is then that they realize she has stolen the penguins' invention. |
| 773 | ** In the episode "Red Squirrel", the penguins meet Rockgut, an old penguin who has spent his life hunting the Red Squirrel, a notorious enemy from nearly fifty years ago. Initially, Private's the only one who realizes that he's "completely mental," but the other penguins realize that Private was right after Rockgut accuses Private and then Kowalski for being the Red Squirrel. So they send him on a SnipeHunt to get rid of him, and Private says that he feels bad for Rockgut, because of how he's wasted so many years chasing after a threat that probably doesn't even exist anymore. In fact, the Red Squirrel does exist, and had been waiting for Rockgut to exit so that he could put his plans in motion. |
| 774 | * SugarApocalypse: Almost literally, at the end of "It's About Time", Kowalski has managed to bury the world (or at least New York City) in shaved ice. |
| 775 | * SuperstitionEpisode: A sort of version. Rico gets a fortune saying he will meet a foul end. Skipper assures him that it's just a superstition. Julien, wanting Rico to believe the fortune, sets up a bunch of incidents to make Rico believe he's having bad luck. |
| 776 | * SurroundedByIdiots: Because Private's the youngest, he has the most common sense. |
| 777 | -->'''Skipper''': Rico! Hacksaw!\ |
| 778 | '''Private''': Skipper? How long will it take to saw through the bracelet?\ |
| 779 | '''Skipper''': Bracelet? I was just going to saw off my foot. But maybe you're on to something there, Private. |
| 780 | * SustainedMisunderstanding: Often done with Fred the squirrel: |
| 781 | -->'''Kowalksi:''' [shows picture of Marlene and King Juilen] You there. Have you seen this otter and lemur?\ |
| 782 | '''Fred:''' Which one's the otter?\ |
| 783 | '''Kowalski:''' This one, obviously. Note the whiskers?\ |
| 784 | '''Fred:''' Oh, I thought that was a cat.\ |
| 785 | '''Kowalski:''' Did I say "have you seen this lemur and cat"?\ |
| 786 | '''Fred:''' No. That's why I thought it was odd that you drew a cat.\ |
| 787 | '''Kowalski:''' It's not a cat.\ |
| 788 | '''Fred:''' Then why does it have whiskers?\ |
| 789 | '''Kowalski:''' You know what, forget the otter.\ |
| 790 | '''Fred:''' Cat.\ |
| 791 | '''Kowalski:''' Whatever! Have you seen the lemur?\ |
| 792 | '''Fred:''' What's a lemur?\ |
| 793 | '''Kowalski:''' I think we're done here. |
| 794 | * SwallowedWhole: |
| 795 | ** By Savio the boa. In "The Hoboken Surprise", even voluntarily during a wacky escape plan. |
| 796 | ** Even topped by [[ItMakesSenseInContext Rico confusing Kowalski with an oversized Marshmellow Meow Meow]] in [[Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory "Private and the Winky Factory"]]. |
| 797 | --->'''Kowalski:''' The things I've seen... |
| 798 | * SwappedRoles: In "King Julien for a Day", Skipper and King Julien swap roles. Interestingly, Julien manages to complete that episode's mission successfully (even if by accident) to Skipper's praise, but there's no praise for Skipper on the other side. And then they go back to being FriendlyEnemy at the end of the episode. |
| 799 | * SweetTooth: Private and Kowalski. Most of the cast likes to indulge, but those two particularly love their sweets. Kowalski loves candy so much he's horrified at the prospect of a visit to the dentist despite not having any teeth. |
| 800 | * TailfinWalking: Dr. Blowhole stands on his tailfins in an electric scooter. |
| 801 | * TheTalk: Maurice had to give it to Julien to explain that mammal babies don't come from eggs. Julien didn't believe him. |
| 802 | * TalkingAnimal: Most of the cast--but they're unable to communicate with humans. |
| 803 | * TalkingIsAFreeAction: In "Huffin and Puffin" Hans ties up the penguins and throws them into Julien's plastic volcano to buy him some time. |
| 804 | -->'''Skipper''': Hans, It's a fake volcano! There's no lava down here!\ |
| 805 | '''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! |
| 806 | * TastesLikePurple: After recovering from an attack by a poisonous frog, Kowalski says, "I could taste sound, but that's over now." |
| 807 | * TeamPowerWalk: 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. |
| 808 | * TertiarySexualCharacteristics: When Skipper thinks he's a girl in "Miss Understanding," he promptly dons a [[PinkGirlBlueBoy floppy pink bow]]. |
| 809 | %%** Not to forget the stylish coconut bra (which he needs as much as Marlene...). |
| 810 | * ThankTheMaker: At one point in the episode "Jiggles", where Kowalski creates a BlobMonster, he says "Thank the Maker, which in this case is me." |
| 811 | %%* ThermometerGag: See AssShove. |
| 812 | * ThirdLawOfGenderBending: A faulty DNA test has Skipper convinced he's a female. At first he thinks it won't interfere with his job, but then he does things like wait for the others to open the door for him and ask for directions. So he quits the team, puts on a [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick piiiink]] bow and moves in with Marlene, who is not amused with his outdated ideas of femininity. |
| 813 | * ThirdPersonPerson: Joey the kangaroo almost always refers to himself in the third person. Leonard the koala lampshades this in "Kanga Management." |
| 814 | * TimeForPlanB: |
| 815 | -->'''Julien''': Okay, not working, let us move to Plan H.\ |
| 816 | '''Maurice''': Don't you mean Plan B?\ |
| 817 | '''Julien''': No, no, Plans B through G are much too ridiculously dangerous. |
| 818 | * TimeFreezeTrollingSpree: In the episode "Time Out", [[InsufferableGenius Kowalski]] invents a watch-like device that can freeze time in place. Julien, thinking it's a stopwatch, decides to use it for his own and eventually sticks his gum in the device, causing it to malfunction temporarily. With Kowalski and Julien being the only two people not frozen, they decide to do whatever they want and have fun, bonding in the process. |
| 819 | * TimeStandsStill: In "Time Out" Kowalski invents a watch that stops time. Things get a little complicated when Julien accidentally breaks it, potentially trapping the two of them in frozen time forever. |
| 820 | * TimeTravel: "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's About Time]]" [[PlayingWithATrope plays with this]] with a healthy helping of TemporalParadox and TimeCrash. |
| 821 | %%* TimeyWimeyBall: The Chronotron in "It's About Time". |
| 822 | * TitleDrop: Sort of. In one scene in "Field Tripped," a school kid sees the penguins hiding in an exhibit on Madagascar. His teacher says that there never have been "penguins ''in'' Madagascar." |
| 823 | * ToiletHumor: |
| 824 | ** Subverted in "Two Feet High and Rising." The episode opens with some farting noises, but it turns out it's actually a helium tank inflating balloons. |
| 825 | ** Played straight ''and'' subverted in "An Elephant Never Forgets." Early in the episode, Burt stinks up the zoo's restroom after eating a cabbage and broccoli burrito, but the result is never heard or seen. Later on, he pins down a human with his butt, but instead of [[{{Fartillery}} gassing him]], he just offers the human a kazoo that was lost several years ago. |
| 826 | ** Lampshaded in "In the Line of Doody," where Private calls the pigeon's fate "[[{{Pun}} poo-etic]] justice." Skipper is not amused, even calling Private out on his toilet humor. |
| 827 | ** ''Literally'' in "The Big S.T.A.N.K." which is Kowalskis newest invention, which looks exactly like a giant toilet bowl. |
| 828 | * ToiletTeleportation: When the penguins need to break Julien out of the vet office, and Julien suggets his personal escape route, pointing at the toilet. The penguins reluctantly get in the bowl, and that's when Julien shows them the ''real'' secret exit, a hidden door over the tank. "But, who am I to keep a penguin from water?", and flushes down the penguins before they get a chance to object. |
| 829 | * TooDumbToLive: |
| 830 | ** King Julien is the king of this. |
| 831 | ** Dode the Dodo from "Endangerous Species" is quite literally too dumb to live, requiring [[spoiler: to be repeatedly cloned after killing himself in a myriad of idiotic ways]]. |
| 832 | * TotalEclipseOfThePlot |
| 833 | * TotemPoleTrench: An elaborate one that can fit all four penguins with the occasional extras, using grabbing toys for arms, and a modified speak and spell to communicate with humans. |
| 834 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Fish for the penguins, ''especially'' for Rico. |
| 835 | * TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Most of the ads for "The Return Of The Revenge Of Dr Blowhole" trumpted the fact that [[spoiler:Alex the Lion]] would appear and help Skipper. While they didn't spoil the exact context, anyone who saw them could easily figure out [[spoiler:Skipper's first two spirit guides wouldn't be sticking around long]]. |
| 836 | * TreasureMap: Complete with hidden clues and booby traps. |
| 837 | --> '''Skipper''': A mysterious ancient map. It's classic. |
| 838 | * TheTropeKid: The Amarillo Kid, introduced in "Mr. Tux". |
| 839 | * TrueCompanions: |
| 840 | ** The penguins, arguably. Sometimes it seems that Skipper just keeps the others in line by means of MindControl and [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership open violence]]. |
| 841 | ** Julien's little kingdom, just as arguably. |
| 842 | * TruthSerums: What Private eats by accident in "Truth Ache." |
| 843 | * TurnYourHeadAndCough: Invoked in "Needle Point." |
| 844 | -->'''Skipper:''' Just a routine visit to the doctor. Turn and cough, boys. Turn and cough. |
| 845 | * TwitchyEye: |
| 846 | ** Lampshaded in "Work Order"; Skipper's eyes keep twitching when he realizes how tenacious a worker is on repairing a water main close to their habitat. After a few twitches, he asks the other penguins if the twitching eye looks weird. |
| 847 | ** Private also has a tendency to do this (in a more subtle manner) when out of his comfort zone. |
| 848 | * TwoRoadsBeforeYou |
| 849 | ** In the episode ''The Hidden'', Kowalski can't decide whom to save: Private, who owes him money or Marlene, who has vital information. |
| 850 | ** In the episode ''Brush with Danger'', Kowalski can't decide between saving the world or putting it in the danger of destroying it with his new future invention. |
| 851 | * {{Tykebomb}}: Eggy is an unintentional one, PlayedForLaughs -- Skipper and the boys hadn't realized how effective their in-egg training was until "Hard Boiled Eggy". Leads to DefusingTheTykebomb. |
| 852 | * TheUnintelligible: Rico, a great deal of the time, although as the show has progressed he has gradually became easier to understand. |
| 853 | * {{Unobtanium}}: [[MacGuffin MacGuffium]] in "It's About Time." |
| 854 | * UnsoundEffect: In "Danger wears a Cape", Maurice is holding up signs with standard sound effects like "Blam!" and "Pow!" as Skipper beats up Julien (not yet this trope, although this already plays with the concept). When Julien has enough, Maurice holds up a sign of an old man, meaning "Retirement". |
| 855 | * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: King Julien. |
| 856 | * UnusualEuphemism: Skipper has loads of these. Hoover Dam! Lincoln's itchy beard! Gandhi's nunchucks! |
| 857 | * ValleyGirl: Marlene, at least sometimes. |
| 858 | * VillainSong: Dr Blowhole gets a few in "The Return Of The Revenge Of Dr Blowhole". It's Creator/NeilPatrickHarris, we don't need to say [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic how it is.]] |
| 859 | * VoicesAreMental: Taken to its literal extreme, when Roger the sewer alligator's singing voice becomes a [[ChekhovsGun delayed plot point]]. |
| 860 | * WalkIntoCameraObstruction: |
| 861 | ** "Operation: Plush and Cover" with Rico as he is about to tape up King Julien upside down |
| 862 | ** "Misfortune Cookie" near the end with a brown duck landing on Rico |
| 863 | ** "Antics on Ice" with Roy the Rhinoceros landing on Skipper |
| 864 | * WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: When Rico's destructive habits get too out of control, the penguins decide to make a deal involving a jar of marbles. For every bad action Rico does they'll take one out, and add one for every good action. When the jar is full, they'll let him buy a bunch of accessories for his doll. Private objects to rewarding him just for not doing bad things, and Skipper responds "That's America, baby!" |
| 865 | * WartsAndAll: Buck Rockgut, as introduced in "The Red Squirrel." |
| 866 | * WaveMotionGun: Hans tries...waitaminnit...[[CallingYourAttacks "Plasma Coil! (...) Neutrino Canon! (...) Pulse Blaster! (...) Electrobeam! Ion ray! Particle phaser! Fushion turrent! Lazer wave! Bombzooka! Smash atomizer! Zapomatic 9000! Big Bertha!"]] [[note]] transcipted with original speech impediments [[/note]] but to no avail since Skipper is protected by [[AppliedPhlebotinum inflatium.]] Since Hans tries his luck sequentially, averts BeamSpam, but still makes a colorful effect. |
| 867 | * WeaponizedLandmark: A minor landmark, but in one episode, the Red Squirrel hides a missile inside [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra%27s_Needle Cleopatra's Needle]] at Central Park. |
| 868 | * WeHaveReserves: Doctor Blowhole says as much while trying to rally his {{Mooks}} to take on the penguins. |
| 869 | * WeOnlyHaveOneChance: In "Wishful Thinking" when the Penguins are being taken away after their secret has been exposed, Skipper tells Private that he has only shot at making his wish that none of it ever happened. |
| 870 | * WeWantOurJerkBack: Occurs in "Eclipsed." King Julien is led to believe that the eclipse is caused by him being a jerk to everyone so he decides to be nice but he becomes very annoying trying to help everyone. [[spoiler:An annoyed group of penguins and a made up "sign from the sky spirits" later he's back to normal.]] |
| 871 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: |
| 872 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/TheMadagascarPenguinsInAChristmasCaper'', there are camels and two elephants living in the zoo, camels are never shown in the show and Burt is the only elephant living in the zoo. |
| 873 | ** Before Savio was introduced, there was a different snake living in the zoo that's nowhere to be found in later episodes. |
| 874 | * WhatIsThisFeeling: King Julien's first feeling of guilt, in "Assault and Batteries": |
| 875 | -->'''Julien''': But what is this feeling I am feeling? It is not a happiness. It is a feeling that I have not done all I should have done. I do not like it! How do I make it ''go away''? |
| 876 | * WhatTheHellHero: Kowalski gets an interesting one after confessing to the others ''where'' he got the parts he needed for his mind reading machine. Nobody ''says'' anything, but their expressions--and the mind reader--make it clear. |
| 877 | * WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Dr. Blowhole has the latest expensive technology, but where he got the money for them is never mentioned. |
| 878 | * WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: Inverted. When Private wishes that he was on a TV-show, Skipper replied that a show about the exploits of penguins would be too awesome for viewers to see. |
| 879 | * WildWestArmadillo: The Amarillo Kid is an armadillo with a Texan accent. |
| 880 | * WilliamTelling: |
| 881 | ** Kowalski wishes for a plasma blaster and then uses it to shoot an apple off Rico's head. |
| 882 | ** In "Time Out", Kowalski chases Julien through frozen time and passes by Mason and Phil doing this. Kowalski saves them from a fatal accident by grabbing the arrow so that he has something to throw at Julien. |
| 883 | * WilyWalrus: [[spoiler:Double subverted]] with Rhonda the walrus. She initially appears to be a FatSlob and the source of much ToiletHumor. Her roommate, Marlene, is disgusted by her behavior. However, because Rhonda seems oblivious to how crude she's acting, Marlene and the other animals don't tell her, not wanting to hurt her feelings. [[spoiler:Then, at the end of the episode, it is revealed that she was ObfuscatingStupidity all along, and she's actually a competent spy for [[BigBad Dr. Blowhole.]]]] |
| 884 | * WireDilemma: In "Tagged", the penguins are interrupted while upgrading the zoo's heating system and must rely on the lemurs to finish the job for them before the furnace overloads and explodes. The lemurs open the control panel to reveal seven red knobs. Kowalski says that the knobs are red, crimson, scarlet, brick, cardinal, ruby and rose. They must only twist the scarlet knob but Maurice points out they are all the same shade of red. Mort appears to twist the right knob purely by luck but then the lemurs notice they connected the machine to the zoo's air conditioner instead of the furnace. They manage to save the zoo only by opening the main water valve which relieves the pressure on the furnace preventing the explosion. |
| 885 | * WithLyrics: The main theme at one point. |
| 886 | * WorldOfHam: Skipper and Julien are the two largest hams in the series, but yelling, exaggerated gestures and wild facial expressions pretty much run rampant. |
| 887 | * WorldsSmallestViolin: Duet for gophers in "Showdown on Fairway 18". |
| 888 | * TheWorfEffect: |
| 889 | ** The sewer rats seem to exist mainly so the cast can have moments of awesome against them. |
| 890 | ** Joey is a major offender. |
| 891 | * WoundedGazelleGambit: Though it wasn't his original intent, Private pulls this in "Love Hurts", getting HospitalHottie Shawna to think the others caused his injuries. |
| 892 | * TheXOfY |
| 893 | * {{Yandere}}: Mort for Julien. |
| 894 | * YouAlreadyChangedThePast: See StableTimeLoop Above |
| 895 | * YouFightLikeACow: Hans and Skipper engage in this during their battle in "Huffin n' Puffin". |
| 896 | * 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 accidentally 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!" |
| 897 | * YouSayTomato: Dr. Blowhole pronounces "penguins" as "pen-gyu-ins". Kowalski theorizes that he does it just "to tick us off". In Blowhole Strikes Back, Kowalski responds by calling Blowhole a "dolph-er-in". |
| 898 | * YouWontFeelAThing: |
| 899 | ** ''Needle Point'', with several [[ScreamDiscretionShot Scream Discretion Shots.]] |
| 900 | ** In the episode "Roger Dodger": |
| 901 | --->'''Roger:''' A mind-switching machine. Is this gonna hurt?\ |
| 902 | '''Kowalski:''' Just a slight pinch, followed by the brief sensation of a thousand suns exploding in your skull. |
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