Pingu

The topic of this page has a wiki of its own: Pingu Wiki.

"Noot-noot!"

―Pingu's catchphrase.

Pingu is a Swiss-British stop-motion clay animated children's comedy television series created by Otmar Gutmann and produced from 1990 to 2000 for Swiss television, and from 2003 to 2006 for British television by The Pygos Group. Because HiT Entertainment co-owned Sprout when the channel was launched, it aired a variety of shows from its archive library on Sprout, including reruns of Pingu.

Plot

"Pingu is a cheeky, charming young penguin who spends his time playing with his friends and family and gets into all sorts of comical situations. Part of his unique appeal lies in his hilarious "Penguinese," and his exceptional ability to turn his beak into a trumpet to express feelings." (link)

For Parents

"Families come in all shapes and sizes. No matter what yours looks like, if there's love, your child will treasure it."

History on Sprout

The show premiered on September 26, 2005, along with several other shows, to celebrate the launch of the Sprout network. Before that, they released it on Sprout On Demand under the "Children's Favorites" category.

The series originally aired at 7:55AM, 11:25AM, 1:25PM, 4:25PM, 7:45PM, during The Good Night Show, and 10:45PM ET when Sprout launched. As time went by, it aired at 7AM, later 7:10, during Musical Mornings, 10:30AM during The Sunny Side Up Show, and 3:45PM during The Let's Go Show and later The Sprout Sharing Show. A marathon of the series entitled Pingu's Winter Warm-Up also aired on Sprout twice.

It has a Sprout Diner snack: Pingu's Fishy Fritters, and had another snack called Pingu's Edible Snowflakes.

It has a Birthday Show activity: Pingu's Sugar Cube Igloo.

The show stopped airing on Sprout either on April 23, 2009 or August 23, 2009. There are conflicting reports on which date it actually left.

Games

Notes

The clip of the Sprout Diner segment of Pingu is currently lost, but the Time To Create version is still found. Footage from "Poor Pinga" was used in that segment.
The episodes "Pingu is Introduced", "Pingu Runs Away from Home", "Pingu's Lavatory Story", "Pingu's First Kiss", "Pingu Quarrels with His Mother", and "Pingu and the Doll" were banned from airing on Sprout due to having inappropriate material.
A clip of Pinga sleeping from "Pingu Goes Away" is used in Sprout's Snooze-a-Thon.
Nina and her Sproutlet friends did "Pingu's Belly Stretch" in the Good Night Show episode about penguins. Nina mentions Pingu in the Goodnight Game segment in the same episode.
- Nina once did Pingu Potato Art as a craft in "Art."
Pingu is featured in the Castle ident.
When Sprout Diner was discontinued and Sprout scrapped Pingu, "Pingu’s Fishy Fritters" was themed after Dive Olly Dive!.
The show spawned a Japanese computer-animated reboot, Pingu in the City, on October 7, 2017, and ended on March 30, 2019. Aardman Studios is set to produce another reboot.

Gallery

See Pingu/Gallery

Videos

The Let's go show!

Wikipedia has an article related to:

Pingu