History WesternAnimation / Pingu

* {{Animesque}}: Inverted with the CGI anime adaptation ''Pingu in the City'', with the slightly slower frame rate and the characters making the odd face fault. Of course, that's expected since it was made in Japan.

* {{Animesque}}: Used to some degree in ''Pingu in the City'', with the slightly slower frame rate and the characters making the odd face fault. Of course, that's expected since it was made in Japan.

* LicensedGame: With respect to the Platform/GameBoy game in 1994 and the Platform/PlayStation game in 1999, there were also 2 edutainment games released worldwide. The first is a Barrel of Fun in 1997, and the second is Pingu and Friends in 1999. Both games run on the MacromediaDirector engine.

* BreakTheCutie: Pingu in "Jealousy", "Pinga is Left Out", ","Pingu Runs Away", "Pingu's Dream", "Pingu The Photograph", "Pingu Quarrels With His Mother", "Pingu and the Ghost", "Pingu Plays Tag" "Pingu Gets Carried Away" and "Pingu Makes a Splash and to lesser extent Pinga in "Pinga is Left Out", "Pingu Gets a Bicycle" and "Pingu And The Doll"
* BrokenAesop: In the episode "Pingu Steals", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Pingu steals]] a jam biscuit from a baker's stall. When his mother finds out, she marches him back and she and the baker decide Pingu should make up for it by cleaning out the baker's chimney. When Pingu has done the job, the baker rewards him with another jam biscuit. Pingu comes home and leaves the biscuit on the table, but when he comes back into the room, Pinga has stolen it and is now eating it. Their mother decides not to help Pingu or make Pinga give it back. So basically, it's okay for Pinga to steal someone else's belongings but not when her brother does it.

* LicensedGame: With respect to the Gameboy game in 1994 and the UsefulNotes/PlayStation game in 1999, there were also 2 edutainment games released worldwide. The first is a Barrel of Fun in 1997, and the second is Pingu and Friends in 1999. Both games run on the MacromediaDirector engine.

* AgelessBirthdayEpisode: "Pingu's Birthday".
* AnAesop: Most episodes tend to have one.

** In another example in a Pingu in the City (“Pingu’s Magnet Muddle”), both Pingu and Pinga are in the midst of a sibling squabble on who has control over the remote. At one point, Pingu suddenly chooses the invention to the blue side and starts to bring EVERYTHING to him (and better yet, he marked everything with the orange sticker that allows this). Despite Pinga’s warnings, said thing happens and Pingu is left in shock of the whole ordeal.

** In another example in a Pingu in the City (“Pingu’s Magnet Muddle”), both Pingu and Pinga are in the midst of a sibling squabble on who has control over the phone. At one point, Pingu suddenly chooses the invention to the blue side and starts to bring EVERYTHING to him (and better yet, he marked everything with the orange sticker that allows this). Despite Pinga’s warnings, said thing happens and Pingu is left in shock of the whole ordeal.

%%* AnAesop: Most episodes tend to have one.

%%* BreakTheCutie: Pinga in "Pingu Gets a Bicycle".

* MonstrousSeal: The seal-ish creature that menaces Pingu in "Pingu Dreams" actually got the episode banned in several countries.

** Pingu's father is clearly going through this in "Pingu Gets a Bicycle" when he accidentally drives over Pinga's toys and destroys them, leaving her in tears.

* BilingualBonus: In "Pingu's Admirer", Pingu and his new girlfriend say goodbye at a signpost with one sign saying "PERESTROYKA" and the other "GLASNOST" -- in Cyrillic, which looks a little but not quite like the random Pingu script used throughout the series.
** Given Otmar Gutmann's Swiss-German background, most character names in the show are derived from German. ''Pingu'' comes from ''Pinguin''("Penguin"), while Robby is derived from ''Robbe'' ("Seal")

** On BBC airings of "Pingu Quarrels With His Mother," Pingu's mother slapping him on the cheek is censored.

** "Pingu Looks After The Egg": On the BBC VHS release of this episode, the scene where Pingu is stuffed inside the cupboard worried about how his parents will respond to what happened was removed completely, likely due to it unintentionally mirroring a self-harm attempt.
** "Jealousy";

* BreakTheCutie: Pinga in "Pingu Gets a Bicycle".

A quintessential part of the show that added to its international appeal was the lack of a specific language for dialogue between characters. [[SpeakingSimlish A nonsensical "Penguin Language", which was more or less a composite of bits and pieces of many different languages, was instead used.]]. This, combined with the simplistic plots and thoroughly entertaining tongue-in-cheek body language, a viewer, regardless of nationality, hardly needed dialogue in order to discern what was happening. However, there is a version of the show called ''The Pingu Show'' (formerly aired on the Canadian station APTN) which has an English-speaking voiceover interacting with Pingu between two original episodes. This version was bowdlerized when aired in the UK, thus [[AmericansHateTingle giving the original APTN version a very bad reputation to many Pingu fans in that country]].

* CatchPhrase: "Noot noot!" (Official sources state that the phrase is actually "Nug Nug!", but "Noot Noot" is the form that is used by the meme.)

[[caption-width-right:350:NOOT NOOT!]]

The series lasted for six seasons constituting 156 episodes between 1986 and 2006. The original series lasted from 1986 to 2000, was then on hiatus for three years, and then had a UK-produced reboot in 2003 lasting until 2006. The series had another CGI animated reboot titled ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pXKDR_VMhg Pingu in the City]]'', premiering in Japan on October 7th, 2017.

A quintessential part of the show that added to its international appeal was the lack of a specific language for dialogue between characters. [[SpeakingSimlish A nonsensical "Penguin Language", which was more or less a composite of bits and pieces of many different languages, was instead used.]]. This, combined with the simplistic plots and thoroughly entertaining tongue-in-cheek body language, a viewer, regardless of nationality, hardly needed dialogue in order to discern what was happening. However, there is a version of the show called ''The Pingu Show'' (formerly aired on the Canadian station APTN) which has an English-speaking voiceover interacting with Pingu between two original episodes. This version was bowdlerized when aired in England, thus [[AmericansHateTingle giving the original APTN version a very bad reputation to many Pingu fans in that country]].

Another notable aspect of the show was many episodes of it being decided as containing objectionable subject matter (predominantly in the form of NightmareFuel) and consequently being [[BannedInChina banned in some countries]]. See the Trivia page for more details...

* TheKiddieRide: A Pingu ride was made by British ride maker OMC Electronics in the early 90s. It was a strange looking ride in the shape of a half-barrel/sled-like thing with Pingu and Robby on it. [[http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/181602258600]]