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Season 2 aired from 1991 to 1994. Even though Pingu is a children's television series, many of the episodes have been censored before they reached UK television. Some episodes were even banned completely from being shown. For a full list, see Pingu Censorship.
Episodes[]
Screenshot | Title of episode | Production year | Episode | ||
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Pingu at the Doctor's | 1991 | #1 | |||
Pingu gets carried away while playing and hurts his beak. | |||||
Pingu's Admirer | 1991 | #2 | |||
Pingu is irritated to find out that he has a female admirer. | |||||
Pingu and the Seagull | 1992 | #3 | |||
Pingu is plagued by a mischievous seagull that becomes a constant irritation. | |||||
Pingu Goes Ice Surfing | 1992 | #4 | |||
Pingu goes surfing with his mother's freshly-washed bed sheet. | |||||
Pingu's First Kiss | 1992 | #5 | |||
Pingu and Pingi want to have their first kiss, but everyone keeps interrupting them. | |||||
Pingu's Curling Game | 1992 | #6 | |||
Pingu is using a hot water bottle as a curling stone, but he is not very good. | |||||
Pingu's Family Celebrate Christmas | 1992 | #7 | |||
Pingu and Pinga can scarcely wait for the handing out of presents. | |||||
Pingu the Icicle Musician | 1992 | #8 | |||
Pingu uses icicles to make music. The sound leads his friends to an amazing ice cavern. | |||||
Pingu The Chef | 1992 | #9 | |||
Pingu and Pinga, at home alone, feel hungry and try to cook popcorn. | |||||
Pingu Goes Away | 1993 | #10 | |||
Pingu feels homesick when he visits his aunt in another village. | |||||
Pingu the Photographer | 1993 | #11 | |||
Pingu takes lots of photographs, but forgets to take the cap off. | |||||
Pingu's New Kite | 1993 | #12 | |||
Pingu and Pinga's kite is stuck on the roof, and they try to get it down. | |||||
Pingu and the Many Packages | 1993 | #13 | |||
Pingu goes shopping to find a perfect gift for Grandpa. | |||||
Pingu the Conjurer's Apprentice | 1993 | #14 | |||
Pingu is holding a magic show. | |||||
Pingu's Birthday | 1993 | #15 | |||
It's Pingu's birthday, and his friends are coming over to celebrate. | |||||
Pingu at the Funfair | 1993 | #16 | |||
Pingu goes to the fair ground with his family. | |||||
Pingu the Babysitter | 1993 | #17 | |||
Pingu is left to look after the two baby twins. | |||||
Pingu Cannot Lose | 1993 | #18 | |||
Pingu has some bad luck while bowling. | |||||
Pingu and the Game of Fish | 1994 | #19 | |||
Pingu helps out a disabled penguin. | |||||
Pingu Gets a Bicycle | 1994 | #20 | |||
Pinga is miserable and distraught, Pingu gives Pinga his scooter. | |||||
Pingu's Visit to the Hospital | 1994 | #21 | |||
Pingu and his mother visit the hospital to see Pinga and Pingi. | |||||
Pingu on the School Excursion | 1994 | #22 | |||
Pingg gets stuck in a whale. | |||||
Pingu and Pinga at the Kindergarten | 1994 | #23 | |||
Pingu tags along with Pinga at kindergarten | |||||
Pingu and the Strangers | 1994 | #24 | |||
Two unfamiliar penguins come to town and everyone is frightened of them, but Pingu helps them to realise that one should not judge by appearances. | |||||
Pingu Helps His Mother | 1994 | #25 | |||
Pingu helps Mother around the house. | |||||
Pingu Builds a Snowman | 1994 | #26 | |||
Pingu and friends build an enormous snowman. |
Trivia[]
- In the mid 1990s, due to the new soundtrack and voicing made for Season 3, Season 2's audio was re-done and the title sequence was replaced with a section of David Hasselhoff's "The Pingu Dance".
- This is the last season to have the original Küchenchef theme tune, composed by Antonio Conde.
- This is the last season to have Antonio Conde as the composer.
- Pingu and Robby gain deeper voices in the original version.
- Episodes for Season 1, this season and Season 3 had the HiT Entertainment logo added at the end of every episode on DVD releases.
- This is the last season to have all episodes directed and animated by creator Otmar Gutmann, as he died of a heart attack on October 13, 1993. "Pingu Cannot Lose" was the final episode released during his lifetime. For seasons 3 and 4, all episodes would be directed by Spanish-Swiss animator and director, Javier Garcia, and Japanese director, Seishi Katto.
- Since 2002 when this series and possibly all the other classic seasons aired on CBeebies, the episodes have been either cropped and presented in 14:9 ("halfway widescreen") or retain the full aspect ratio and been presented in 4:3 for later CBeebies airings.[1]