Little Accidents (also known as "Pingu's Lavatory Story") is the nineteenth episode of the first season.
Plot
After finishing his lunch, Pingu goes to the pub to get a drink. Pinga follows him there and asks if she can have a drink too. Pingu buys her two, but when she drinks them, she accidentally goes to the toilet on the ground. Pingu hurriedly sends her home and she makes it to her potty just in time.
Pingu then drinks too much and realizes that he too has to go to the toilet. The bartender tells him not to pee at his pub, so Pingu rushes home, but his father beats him to the bathroom. He tries to use Pinga's potty instead, which his mother is not happy about. Pingu rushes outside and rings the doorbell so that Father has to rush out of the bathroom to answer the door and Pingu runs in to use the toilet. However, he ends up urinating on the floor, because the toilet is too high.
When he has finished cleaning up the mess, Pingu tries to go to the toilet using stilts. Mother comes in and tells him that his stilts aren't allowed in the house, but Pingu explains to her that he was only using them because he cannot reach the toilet. Mother suggests that they build some steps for him out of ice. They do so, and Pingu is finally able to go to the toilet in peace.
Censorship
- Because of this episode's heavy focus on uncensored urination, toilet humor and possible alcoholic references, it has been banned from television broadcasting throughout much of the world to this day (the UK and Canada being the only exceptions).
Trivia
- The pub that was seen in this episode was reused in Pingu and the Barrel Organ, albeit with a different bartender.
- In the original version, the scene in which Pingu urinates on the floor was shortened and the part where he looks at Father was taken out.
Goofs
- When Mother tells Pingu not to use the toilet with stilts, the door behind her moves slightly.