History Headscratchers / ThePenguinsOfMadagascar

** The third movie has Alex, Marty, Gloria, Melman, and Julien arrive at the zoo, but they decide not to stay (Julien even gives up being king) - and Tom McGrath has said that the show isn't canon to the movies. Which doesn't explain things like Skipper mentioning that the Penguins have been to Madagascar in "Field Tripped" or Alex showing up in the second Dr. Blowhole special and mentioning that he and Skipper were once neighbors, but eh...

** BiTheWay?

* The episode "Brush With Danger" bugs me. So, in this episode, burt gets hold of a brush and starts painting, an becomes a major attraction. Them, a critic comes and labels all of Burt's paintings as crap. Seriosuly, did she ever realize that those paitings were done BY A FREAKING ELEPHANT? I really don't understand art at all, but if I saw a picture done by an animal, I'd be amazed, no matter how cruddy it could be.

* Weird question, but "In the Line of Doody", what was the significance of [[BirdPoopGag Frankie's poop]] having blueberries in it? Surely any poop would be bad.

** There are people who distrust certain group of people for whatever reason, but still don't want to hurt them and will even gladly protect them. For example, there are people who do not hate LGBT community as much as they are just kind of weirded out by them and do not actually want to hurt them. I guess there are just different levels on discrimination and penguins' racism towards humans works the same way. I mean, Skipper has prejusticed throughts about mammals in general, but is still friends with Marlene...

** My guess would be because the two who voiced Kowalski and Private were career animators who, unlike Tom [=McGrath=] (Skipper), were not involved in creating the show, they likely wanted to work on other projects in their field without being constantly needed for voice work as major characters (with the most lines, no less) of a TV show. In other words, they wanted to be free to work in their field instead of doing voice work on a show they don't animate for. So the studio just hired two career voice actors for the roles. And I agree, Creator/JeffBennett's 1950s sounding voice was ''made'' for the role of Kowalski.
*** It makes him sound sexier too.
** It's also possible that even if Chris Miller and Chris Knights actually wanted to, it could have been easily accommodated along with their regular duties. I doubt if most animators would not jump at the chance for even more recognition. Even though they are full time animators on other shows, it is possible for them to dedicate a few days to recording voice over for several ten minute episodes. Voice actors often record their lines separately so it's not impossible for them to record them whenever they have the time. The issue might be that they are not professional voice actors. Kowalski and Private's dialogue was sparse in the movies so we didn't see a wide range of character from them (this was before their Solo movie). Skipper carried most of the lines for the Penguins. It's plausible that the studio didn't feel the need to invest in professional voice actors for two characters that would have minimal dialogue at best. But when the Penguins proved to be unexpected [[BreakoutCharacter BreakoutCharacters]], the studio may not have felt confident that the two Chris' acting skills could carry a series in which their roles would naturally be greatly extended. Hence the need for pro voice actors who can really inject something into the character. And it's hard to deny the fact that Jeff Bennett really does this for Kowalski.

* In episode ''Mental Hen'', Kowalski tries to distract Blue Hen by dancing and singing a weird song. While he does that, the other three penguins are watching and are weirded out, as if they weren't expecting Kowalski to do that. Skipper then tells Rico to "put the man out of his misery". Rico chokes up a bomb and gets to throw it at Kowalski. However, after Kowalski gets stopped by Alice, it's revealed that it was just a plan to distract Blue Hen so that Rico could switch her bowls. The same Rico that wasn't informed about Kowalski's plan and was ready to throw a TNT bomb on him to "end his misery"... huh?

* Unlike most other cartoon franchises with talking animals, the Penguins never befriend any humans, not even children. In fact, their [[FantasticRacism prejudiced attitude towards humans]] seems to be consistent. Yet they go out of their way to make sure that no humans are harmed in either their activities or the activities of other animals.

* Unlike most other cartoon franchises with talking animals, the Penguins never befriend any humans, not even children. In fact, their [[FantasticRacism prejudice towards humans]] seems to be well established. Yet they go out of their way to make sure that no humans are harmed in either their activities or the activities of other animals.

** It's possible that Kowalski just counted in them catching on. They've been working together for so long that if they think about it they would understand the plan quickly enough. And apparently he bet on the right penguins.

* In episode ''Mental Hen'', Kowalski tries to distract Blue Hen by dancing and singing a weird song. While he does that, the other three penguins are watching and are weirded out, as if they weren't expecting Kowalski to do that. Skipper then tells Rico to "put the man out of his misery". Rico chokes up a bomb and gets to throw it at Kowalski. However, after Kowalski gets stopped by Alice, it's revealed that it was just a plan to distract Blue Hen so that Rico could switch her bowls. The same Rico that wasn't informed about Kowalski's plan and was ready to throw a TNT bomb on him to "end his misery"... huh?

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* What's with all the unaired episodes? As of this writing there are ''eight'' unaired episodes. One pair ("Kaboom and Kabust"/"The Helmet") was supposed to air in March but didn't; a 23 minute special ("The Lost Treasure of the Golden Squirrel") was supposed to air in April but didn't; two episodes are exclusive to the ''Operation: DVD Premire''; "Field Tripped" was released only on the website; and who knows about "Huffin and Puffin" and "Stop Bugging Me"? The second season of the second most popular cartoon on Nickelodeon should ''not'' be going two months between episodes ''at the beginning of the season''. Are they just afraid of drawing too much attention from their other works?
** All the mentioned episodes have been aired. Hooray!

* In "Skipper makes perfect" [[spoiler: danish guard]] called Skipper "Skipper". So how is it with animals' names, anyway? Clemson and Savio seems to be named by people and [[spoiler: Doris and dr. Blowhole]] got names from people too (and did not keep them, because they already have names)[[spoiler: dr. Blowhole kept his show name Flippy when he was brainwashed and sent to Seaville (he did not know it is not his name), but when his memories were back, he calls himself dr. Blowhole again]]. So if Skipper is called Skipper even from humans there, does it mean, that he [[spoiler: is actually from Copenhagen zoo]]?

* Why does Skipper insist either Maurice or Mort become king when Julien is briefly taken away from the habitats? No one but the lemurs seem to act like the title means anything begin with, and he never seems to be shown doing anything actually important that would require someone fill in for him. If he's worried what the two might do without him there, telling one of them they have power now (even if they don't actually have power) seems completely unhelpful in that situation.

* In "Skipper makes perfect" [[spoiler: danish guard]] called Skipper "Skipper". So how is it with animals' names, anyway? Clemson and Savio seems to be named by people and [[spoiler: Doris and dr. Blowhole]] got names from people too (and did not keep them, because they already have names)[[spoiler: dr. Blowhole kept his show name Flippy when he was brainwashed and sent to Seaville (he did not know it is not his name), but when his memories were back, he calls himself dr. Blowhole again]]. So if Skipper is called Skipper even from humans, does it mean, that he [[spoiler: is actually from Copenhagen zoo]]?

* In "Officer X factor" there is very hot weather in zoo, but water in all of animals' pools, that much, it could not be only evaporated (and if, Alice has to fill their pools up, does not she?)... What, Alice?
* In "Skipper makes perfect" [[spoiler: danish guard]] called Skipper "Skipper". So how is it with animals' names, anyway? [[spoiler: Doris and dr. Blowhole]] got names from people (and did not keep them, because they already have names)[[spoiler: dr. Blowhole kept his show name Flippy when he was brainwashed and sent to Seville (he did not know it is not his name), but when his memories were back, he calls himself dr. Blowhole again]]. So if Skipper is called Skipper even from humans, does it mean, that he [[spoiler: is actually from Copenhagen zoo]]?

* In "Officer X factor" there is very hot weather in zoo, but water in all of animals' pools, that much, it could not be only evaporated (and if, Alice has to fill their pools up, does not she?)... What the [[UnusualEuphemism H...Hoboken]], Alice?

* In "Officer X factor" there is very hot weather in zoo, but the animals have drained all the water, that much, it could not be only evaporated (and if, Alice has to fill their pools up, does not she?)... What the [[UnusualEuphemism H...Hoboken]], Alice?

* In "Officer X factor" there is very hot weather in zoo, but they have drained all the water, that much, it could not be only evaporated (and if, Alice has to fill their pools up, does not she?)... What the [[UnusualEuphemism H...Hoboken]], Alice?

** It could have also been muscle memory, which is a form of procedural memory. People with brain damage such as the famous patient, Henry Molaison, was still able to complete certain tasks despite significant impairment to other brain functions such as severe anterograde amnesia. Penguins are naturally good swimmers, so Skipper would have still been able to swim even if he didn't know how, the same way a person can still walk even if he doesn't know the precise mechanics behind it, kind of like the opposite of the {{Centipede's Dilemma}}. For all his smarts, Dr. Blowhole has shown himself to be something of a [[IncrediblyLamePun blowhard]], so he probably doesn't know everything despite what he says.