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Pingu on the School Excursion (sometimes known as Pingu on the School Trip) is the 22nd episode of the second season which was first broadcast on August 31, 1994.
Summary[]
Today, Pingu's school is going to see a sculptor, who is carving a giant blue whale. On the way, Pingg, who's in a rather mischievous mood today, throws a snowball at Pingu which hits him in the face, much to Pingo's amusement. Annoyed, Pingu throws a snowball back at Pingg, but he ducks so it instead hits Mr. Peng-Chips in the face, who then gives Pingu a stern telling-off.
Soon the class arrive at the sculpture. As they all watch the sculptor working on the mouth piece of whale, Pingu and Pingo wonder off on their own to look round the other side of the sculpture. Mr. Peng-Chips unsuccessfully attempts to get the sculptor's attention, and Pongi starts to read his book about blue whales. When Mr. Peng-Chips leaves in disgust, Pingg decides to naughtily carve a dent in the whale's belly, much to his and Pengy's amusement. The sculptor, on the other hand, is not pleased and angrily tells Pingg to remove the dent.
On the other side of the sculpture, Pingu watches Pingo climbing the tallest pole on the scaffolding. Pingo then brags that he is now much taller than Pingu, much to Pingu's protests. When Pingo is at the top of the pole, he pretends that he's a pirate in the mast. Mr. Peng-Chips then comes along and makes him slide back down again.
A little later, as the sculptor explains to the class how he designed and made the sculpture, Pingg climbs on top of it and balances on the whale's tail. Pingu sees what he's doing and tries to tell Pingg that is a bad idea, but he just ignores Pingu. Pingg gleefully starts to bounce up and down on the tail to grab the class's attention, only to break a piece off. Pingg just manages to save himself from falling off by grabbing on to the edge of the remaining part of the tail, leaving him precariously hanging on for dear life. While the sculptor weeps over the damage done to his work, Pingo fetches a long pole from amongst the scaffolding to try and help Pingg down, but his flippers can not get a grip. Meanwhile, Mr. Peng-Chips has climbed up on top of the sculpture and is trying to coax Pingg to edge his way across, but he is too scared.
Pingu then comes up with a plan; using some of the poles and a tarpaulin, he and the rest of the class build a makeshift slide for Pingg to come down on. When everything is ready, Pingg releases his grip on the whale's tail and slides down to the bottom of the slide safely. Once the rest class have pacified Pingg and he thanks them for saving him, they realise that poor Mr. Peng-Chips is still stuck up on top of the sculpture. The class can't help but laugh at his misfortune.
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Trivia[]
- This marks Pengy's largest role in the series.
- This marks the first time Pongi is seen wearing his glasses.
- After the damage Pingg did to the whale, the artist decided to transport the whale to the city, where the tail got repaired, which is the why the same whale in Pingu in the City looks exactly the same as in this episode.
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