I am not sure how many of you have heard of Pingu the Penguin, but we stumbled upon him back in January. Like many other videos we add, we didn’t announce this broadly, so I thought I would do a follow up post here.
Apparently Pingu dates back to 1986. Since then it has spread from Switzerland across Europe over to Japan and more recently here in the U.S. There is a Nintendo DS game featuring Pingu and all his antics. On ebay, you can find a wide variety of silly plastic creations and fuzzy stuffed animals.
Pingu has a fan base that includes a Professor at King’s College and David Hasselhoff. The Professor wrote a paper on Pingu-Lingo (since Pingu doesn’t speak English but rather his own creative language) and David Hasselhoff did a song called “The Pingu Dance.” (I think every good blog needs to use Hasselhoff in a post at least once a year)
Madonna is not a fan of Pingu. She complained that her daughter wouldn’t turn the TV off when Pingu was on. She went on to say Pingu was not a good influence on children. (I think I just won double-jeopardy by having a post with both Hasselhoff and Madonna! Ding Ding Ding!).
In claymation, the series tracks Pingu and his family as they go about their daily lives, doing silly things like pancakes, encountering the abominable snowman, and in the video below, bouncy fun! Check out the many other Pingu clips in the Fun Shows category, along with thousands of other safe videos, in our iphone app.
