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Pingu's Dream (also known as Pingu Dreams) is the twenty-sixth and last episode of the first season of Pingu.
Summary
It is bedtime for Pingu and he falls asleep while his mother reads him a bedtime story. As Pingu is sleeping, the igloo starts levitating up and down before flying away into the distance. Then his bed sprouts a pair of legs and moves around. Although shocked at first, Pingu finds it to be a lot of fun, unaware that a giant walrus is watching him from afar.
The walrus eventually catches up to Pingu and traps him, before playfully squishing him and stretching him. As the bed tries to escape, the walrus takes the mattress and eats it as if it were a chocolate bar. While the walrus is distracted, Pingu and the bed run away. Pingu suddenly trips over a ledge and falls down the mountainside. The minute he lands at the bottom, Pingu sees that the snowy mountain is actually his bed, and realizes his misadventure was only a dream. Pingu then tells his mother all about his dream and she consoles him.
Characters
Trivia
- Before the episode was created, The walrus first appeared in an earlier short film by Otmar Gutmann, which can be viewed here.
- This is the only time Pingu's mother is shown wearing glasses.
- This is the one of the few episodes to reuse any of Antonio Conde's music in the redubbed version, though due to an editing mistake explained below.
- Amazon Prime names this episode as "Pingu Dreams."
Censorship
- This episode was placed with an unofficial ban from broadcast distribution in the UK due to the walrus being too frightening and haunting for too many young viewers. It was also removed from British television in 2003. It was still broadcast in the United States however, and was also released on DVD in the USA and was released on Amazon Prime Video along with the other banned episodes, but it hasn't been released on VHS by the BBC themselves due to the major controversy towards this episode. However, Sprout aired this because viewers in the USA don't find it scary.
Goofs
- In the exterior shots of Pingu's house levitating, Pingu is shown sleeping, even though he is supposed to be awake.
- During the restored version, from the scene where Pingu and his bed run away in fright onward, you can hear the sound from the original version mixed in with the current audio both composed by Antonio Conde & Andy Benedict at the same time, along with all the original dialogue under the new dialogue.
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