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Pingu and His Cup is twenty-sixth and final episode of Season 4 of Pingu.
Plot[]
Today is the school sports days' final with the finalists Pingu, Pingo and Robby. Pingu and Robby have a long way to go with them not gaining any points yet and Pingo wining at everything so far. Then Pingo and Robby both successfully knock the ball through the hole in the ice, gaining Robby his first set of points, but Pingu accidently kicks the ball into Mr. Peng-Chips' head, so he gets a third cross on the scoreboard and still ends up with no points.
Now it is time for the sledge race, but Pingu cannot get his sledge going, so he takes a running start towards the slope and then jumps onto his sledge. Pingu soon catches up, racing well ahead of Robby and has a narrow lead with Pingo. On the way back, Pingo is determined to beat Pingu, but he hits a rock buried under the snow, catapults out of control off the cliff and crashes head first into a ledge, destroying his sledge upon impact. Seeing that Pingo has disappeared, Pingu stops and goes back to see what happened to him. When he sees Pingo with his head in the snow, Pingu plops his unconscious friend onto his sledge and helps him to the finishing line and into the medical tent. Robby has already won the race (Albeit without a turn over), but when Pingo speaks up for Pingu for saving his life and Mr. Peng-Chips makes him the winner of the sports days' finals. Pingu is awarded the sports day' cup and he has his photograph taken for the newspapers.
Pingu rushes straight home to tell his dad. He puts the cup down on top of the stove and to look for him and eventually finds him sawing wood outside. Pingu excitedly explains about how he won and rushes inside to show Dad the cup, but he has left it on top of the stove for so long that it has melted into a big puddle. Pingu is most upset, but then remembers the photograph that was taken of him holding the cup, and he shows it to Dad. Dad is most impressed and Pingu is glad to have something that will forever say he won the sports days' finals, even if the cup is now just a puddle.
Characters[]
Trivia[]
- This is the final Pingu episode for a big list of things:
- The last episode in the original series of Pingu. The show remained three years off production until it returned in 2003 with two new seasons made under HiT Entertainment.
- The last episode to feature Carlo Bonomi as the voice of Pingu and the other characters, until his death on the 6th August, 2022.
- The last episode to be produced and animated by The Pygos Group. Hot Animation would take over for the animation from the next season onward.
- The last episode produced using a 35mm camera. From the next series onwards, all future episodes of the original stop-motion series use digital cameras.
- The last episode to feature Andy Benedict as the composer. Keith Hopwood took his place in the next series.
- The last episode to use the "EMU Proteus 2 orchestral" to compose the music.
- The final ever Pingu production to be released in the 20th century.
Goofs[]
- In the close-up shot of Pingo stuck in the snow, we can see a slit in his right foot.
