Monday, April 4

Just what is the penguin/beer exchange rate ?

I've just caught the end section of a countdown of the "best childrens TV moments".

I didn't see any full rundowns or get an idea of where I was in the list for the part I saw.....so don't quiz me as to what won. It most likely (and predictably) involved an elephant. In black and white. With some people skidding about.

No, the bit I did see was an episode of Pingu.

I've often heard that, contrary to the child-friendly facade, this was a series full of hidden meanings, disguised swearing and things you never normally allow the blessed little ones to see.

Wouldn't you know it - that seemed to be right.

The episode in question featured, in glorious bright-clay-o-vision, the following lurid story line:-

Pingu needs food for the family.
Pingu goes out to catch fish.
Pingu catches fish.
Pingu takes the fish to the pub and trades them for beer.
Pingu drinks the beer through a straw.
Pingu gives beer to a young child-penguin.
Pingu's little relation drinks until his eyes spin and he pisses himself.
Pingu laughs and keeps drinking.
Pingu goes home and needs the toilet.
Pingu doesn't get to the toilet in time.
Pingu pees all over the floor in a huge yellow arc that defies belief.
Pingu cleans his mess up off the floor with a towel.

Now, that wasn't exactly what I expected and, I have to admit, caused outloud laughfests here at the Towers.

I'm trying to find screens as we speak so you may also cause salty water to issue from the corner of your eye sockets........

4 Comments:

At 8:37 am, Blogger Ray Banks said...

God, you can tell it's coming up to the summer when they're repeating that again. Even I saw that. So it shows how long it's been since it was shown.

 
At 1:24 am, Blogger arthur decko said...

few things are funnier than a drunken penguin

 
At 2:02 am, Blogger arthur decko said...

oh yeah, and on your "things i wanna see in the movies" post, the suggestion about a movie filmed from the characters point of view was actually done in "dark passage," an old humphrey bogart film. the first part is shot from his "eyes"

 
At 12:22 am, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Found a copy of this at:
http://motorola.nocrew.org/pingu/

You're looking at the pingu2.wmv

Copy at:
http://mediaczar.com/archive

 

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