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Spoiler warning: The information in the article below contains spoilers for both the original series and the reboot itself. So, please consider watching the episode(s) in question if you haven't seen them already. |
Season 4 was first broadcast from 1998 to 2000. Although Pingu is a children's television series, many of the episodes have been censored before they reached UK television. Some episodes from this series were even banned completely from being shown. For a full list, see Pingu Censorship.
Episodes[]
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Pingu's Disadvantage | January 5, 1998 | #1 | ||
| Pingu keeps losing hide and seek and climbs up to find them easier. | |||||
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Pingu Refuses To Help | January 6, 1998 | #2 | ||
| Pingu acts selfish and gets left out when his family hangs the wash together. | |||||
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Pingu the Mountaineer | January 7, 1998 | #3 | ||
| Pingu convinces Father to go mountain climbing, but gets tired as they go higher. | |||||
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Pingu and the Big Fish | January 8, 1998 | #4 | ||
| Pingu goes fishing and promises to be home in time for dinner, but forgets his promise after meeting a friend. | |||||
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Pingu Shows What He Can Do | January 9, 1998 | #5 | ||
| Pingu and Pinga play with toys, but when Pingi arrives, he tries to act cool by not playing with toys. | |||||
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Pingu Clears the Snow | January 12, 1998 | #6 | ||
| Pingu tries to keep snow off Father's car. | |||||
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Pingu Has a Day Off | January 13, 1998 | #7 | ||
| Pingu has a day off and refuses to help Mother. | |||||
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Pingu the Archer | January 14, 1998 | #8 | ||
| Pingu finds a bow and arrow. | |||||
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Pingu Gets a Warning | January 17, 1998 | #9 | ||
| Pingu ignores a warning about flying a kite near his grouchy neighbor's house. | |||||
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Pingu and the Magnet | January 20, 1998 | #10 | ||
| Pingu uses a magnet to trick his friend and cheat in a game with a metal ball. | |||||
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Pingu Gets Help | July 19, 1998 | #11 | ||
| Pingu's boat keeps sinking due to a leaky hull, and he gets stranded. | |||||
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Pingu in Paradise | November 20, 1998 | #12 | ||
| Pingu has a dream after playing with toys. | |||||
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Pingu's Dangerous Joke | January 21, 1999 | #13 | ||
| Pingu plays a dangerous trick on Grandfather. | |||||
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Pingu the Pilot | January 22, 1999 | #14 | ||
| Pingu and Pinga see a plane fly over their igloo and want to build their own. | |||||
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Pingu Teases Pinga | January 23, 1999 | #15 | ||
| Pingu plays tricks on Pinga endlessly, so Father teaches him a lesson. | |||||
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Pingu's Wish | July 26, 1999 | #16 | ||
| Pingu wishes for a magic kit in a shop and their parents make it come true. | |||||
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Pingu is Curious | November 27, 1999 | #17 | ||
| Pingu gets a big present on his birthday but is forced to wait, and he tries to figure out what's inside. | |||||
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Pingu Gets Organised | December 8, 1999 | #18 | ||
| Pingu's Father pressures him to be organized. | |||||
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Pingu Builds a Tower | January 1, 2000 | #19 | ||
| Pingu sees a picture of a tower and wants to build one. Pinga ruins the base of his tower. | |||||
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Pingu the King | January 30, 2000 | #20 | ||
| Pingu sees a book about kingdoms and wants to be a king. He starts ordering his friends around like servants and gets abandoned. | |||||
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Pingu the Baker (2000 episode) | February 2, 2000 | #21 | ||
| Pingu accidentally adds too much baking powder to a cake he is baking. | |||||
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Pingu and the Doll | March 3, 2000 | #22 | ||
| The arm on Pinga's teddy bear comes off and Pingu covers up his role, while the toy gets repaired. | |||||
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Pingu Helps Grandfather | March 4, 2000 | #23 | ||
| The snowmobile is delayed, so Pingu goes on foot to help Grandfather. | |||||
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Pingu Has a Bad Day | April 5, 2000 | #24 | ||
| Pingu has a bad day in which he trips on toys, has a bad trip to school, and cannot answer the questions. | |||||
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Pingu Loses the Bet | April 7, 2000 | #25 | ||
| Pingu bets Pinga that he can shoot balls at a can better than her, but Pinga improves. | |||||
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Pingu and His Cup | September 9, 2000 | #26 | ||
| Pingu does poorly on sports day, then stops to help a friend. | |||||
Trivia[]
- This is the first season of Pingu to have no controversial episodes, due to many controversies in the past. Although "Pingu and the Doll" was banned from airing on Cartoon Network for most of North America, due to the depiction of Pingu pretending to be a Native American, which is considered racist.
- And the same thing happened with "Pingu Gets a Warning" in Japan. Mrs. Peng-Sniff has at one point; a carpet beater that was used to chase both Pingu and Pingo which resulted of the episode being banned from airing in Japan and was pulled from the original episode list on the Japanese Website of Pingu, alongside "Pingu and the Doll".
- This season was only shown on US television, but was never released on home video. In 2013, it was released for digital streaming, making it the only way to watch this season in the USA besides watching the episodes ripped from other Pingu DVDs onto YouTube.
- This is the only season where Mr. Peng-Hoven does not appear in any episodes.
- This is the last of several things in the franchise:
- This is the last season to have Andy Benedict as the composer.
- This is the last season to use the "EMU Proteus 2 orchestral" to compose the music.
- This is the last season to be made by The Pygos Group as the company that made Pingu would collapse on 29 October, 2001. They would still be involved, but not as much as they did in the original run.
- This is the last season to feature Carlo Bonomi as the voice of Pingu and all the other characters, until his death on 6 August, 2022.
- This is the last season to be censored.
- This is the last season to be shot on a 35mm film camera since the next season onward will use digital camera starting at the short-lived HiT Entertainment era of Pingu.
- This is the last season to be produced and filmed in 4:3 before they transitioned to 16:9 widescreen for Season 5. However, episodes from that season were cropped and released in 4:3 on some Children's Favourites DVDs which HiT Entertainment was releasing at the time.
- This is the last season where we see Pingu holding a sack in both intro and outro sequences, even though the stick can still be seen only in the outro part.
- This is the last season we see Pingu smiling in the intro.
Gallery[]
Original closing card (1998-2002)
2002-present closing card
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HiT Entertainment logo (remastered episodes only)