Pingu has a lot of moments that are even funnier than The BBC's comedies!
Original series:
- In general, anything the characters say, especially if it sounds like they're speaking a human word.
- One notable example: BEAT MY BODY NIPPLE!
- And another: WH-WHAT THE SHIT? Pingu can be heard saying "goddamn it" when he rings the doorbell in this episode too.
- More examples here and on the remainder of this article.
- One notable example: BEAT MY BODY NIPPLE!
- In the first episode, Pingu is made to eat his greens which he sucks them up through a straw. After making a hilarious disgusted expression where his eyes roll and tongue flaps out, he waddles to the bathroom where he spits the greens into a toilet and flushes them away. And then he randomly makes a face in the mirror as he is walking out.
- Any time Pingu's dad makes an Angrish dialogue.
- Quarrels with his Mother is this at first, with Pingu trying to evade cutting and moving logs for the day so that he can go off and play with Pingo. This quickly devolves into getting frustrated with Pingu for his behaviour when he trashes the room his mother is working hard to tidy, and eventually slapping him across the face, causing him to burst into tears and run away.
- Runs Away is this at first, when he splats beetroot on his mom's belly, and rocks on his chair too hard and (accidentally) ruins the whole dinner by sending the table flying, causing his dad to scream at him and his mother to spank him, but when he does the titular thing, see Nightmare Fuel.
- As much as a Tearjerker it was when Pingu was crying after his mom spanked him and his dad shook his head "no", but if you listen closely when Pingu rubs his butt, you can hear him saying "My booty is history". (Found in the original version).
- Then after getting out the house, Pingu is still crying before he starts yelling angrily while shaking his flipper before proceeding to run away. The remastered version made this scene funnier with how the music dramatically builds up to this.
- Pingu and the Seagull features a hapless Pingu with his new scooter constantly being crapped on by an oversized seagull.
- In Pingu Looks After the Egg Pingu dances so enthusiastically that his head briefly detaches from his body.
- In the infamous Pingu's Lavatory Story episode, you can clearly hear Mother say "I farted" while she is helping Pingu build the toilet throne.
- From the same episode, during Pingu's Potty Emergency, he's unable to use the bathroom because his father is occupying it. Clearly desperate, Pingu attempts to use Pinga's tiny little potty... while she's already using it. Since Pinga is chronologically still a baby (she's shown being fed from a bottle by their mother), just the idea and image of Pingu shoving her off the toilet, making her land on her butt and start wailing loudly, is both hilarious and ridiculous.
- Just after said moment, when Pingu runs outside and rings the doorbell, he can be heard saying something that sounds like "Goddammit!". This is only on the remastered version, though.
- When Pingu finally makes it to the bathroom, he ends up urinating on the floor (the toilet is too high) - cue Father yelling at him and saying what appears to be "What the shit!?" at the beginning of his rant.
- While difficult to understand, Penguinese sounds funny, and much of it will stay with parents and kids for a long time. Mep-mep!
- Essentially anytime Pingu does his trademark "Noot noot!"
- Pingu is helping the old busker have a rest in Organ Grinder by turning the crank for him and asking passing penguins for change. One avoids paying by looking away and pretending not to see Pingu as he goes by, which results in him not noticing the icy hole full of water in his path.
- Yet another Failed a Spot Check moment occurs in "Stinky Pingu" where Pingu causes some unlucky guy to get distracted and fall into an icy hole full of water. There's another moment in the episode where Pingu's scent is so bad that it causes Pingo to pass out, though he's luckily revived by a quick thinking paramedic.
- Pingu and Pinga Don't Want to Go to Bed:
- Pingu kicks Pinga's potty while she's still on it, sending her across the room. She tattles to their mother, who sends Pingu off to bed.
- Pingu is bouncing on his bed, making various "boing" sound effects as he does it. His mother crossly orders him to stop doing it, but Pingu still just says "beowng bung" in response.
- Pretty much all of Pampering Pingu.
- In Pingu's Visit to the Hospital, Pingu and his mother are visiting Pinga, who's apparently sustained a badly enough broken wing to require an overnight stay. Pingu draws her a picture illustrating how she broke it in the first place, which delights her.
- Pingu spends most of Pinga is Born trying to watch his new sibling hatch, only to be constantly put to the side by his parents. When Pinga is finally out and Pingu is allowed to look at her, what's the first thing he does? "NOOT NOOT!!" And then she poops. Pingu looks downright stunned at this. And then, when he's pointing it out to the midwife, you can clearly hear them both say "Caca" and "Poopoo" at certain points.
- In Pingu Builds A Tower, Pinga is assigned by Pingu and Robby to get more snow blocks for them to build their tower from. After a while she runs out of blocks, but continues bringing some for Robby anyway. She later reveals she got them from the bottom of the tower. Cue Oh, Crap! reaction from Robby before the unsupported tower collapses with Pingu on it.
- In Pingu and the Hose, Pingu plays pranks on everyone by using a hose to play ventriloquist. His instance with Robby backfires however when he pretends to be a fish Robby tries to eat. Despite the ambiguous Penguinese, Pingu is visibly pretending to be the fish pleading for its life. Robby shrugs and eats it anyway.
- In Pingu the Painter Pingu tries to paint Robby, but he won't hold a pose long enough. The frustration escalates into Pingu strangling Robby at one point.
- In Pinga Is Left Out, after the heart wrenching moment where Pingu and Pingo believe Pinga has fallen into a hole and met her demise, a tearful Pingu comes back home with only her scarf to show for it. As it turns out Pinga is fine and had just walked back home, leading an exasperated Pingu to start thrashing her with the scarf. Pinga's well-being may not be ensured just yet.
- Pingu and Pinga squabbling in Pingu Teases His Sister. It's humorously accurate to real-life siblings arguing.
- The subplot of the mother leaving their father to do some ironing while she goes shopping and the father continually dozing off mid-job, only to be repeatedly woken up by his children arguing.
- In Pinga's Balloon, Pingu uses an air pump to inflate the titular balloon, but he ends up blowing it up to the point where it starts flying all over the house, manages to knock over a vase that he quickly catches before it flies right at Pingu and manages to push her out of the house and into a snow bank.
- Even funnier is that when Pingu and his father go out to check on Pinga, the former hands his mother the vase as they leave, while she stands there in pure bewilderment.
Pingu in the City:
- "Power Up Pingu" has Pingu trying to generate electricity on his neighbor's treadmill, but he keeps getting distracted by the football channel on the television. And then it escalates when Pinga changes the channel to a cartoon, leading to yet another sibling squabble.
- "The Instinct of Penguins" has one unlucky soccer-player get a football straight to his groin. Ouch.
- "The Great Blue Chase" involves Pingu getting mistaken for a Criminal Doppelgänger that has stolen a purse after the both of them get splattered with blue paint. The result is the crowd trying to chase the thief, only to get led astray when one or the other pops out a different corner. To add to the hilarity, the penguins inability to go above a waddle makes it a Low-Speed Chase.
- "Pingu's Magnet Muddle", where Pingu uses some magnet-device made by the neighbourhood Mad Scientist for everyday activities, but when Pinga comes in it becomes what is essentially Tom and Jerry with penguins.
- "Flower Power" involves a Love Triangle with the florist, the chef, and the firefighter chief, the latter two competing for the former's affections by getting Pingu to make them a bigger bouquet than the other. When Pingu runs out of flowers, he resorts to using whatever stuff he can pick up. Finally, the bouquets get so big that they cause the two penguins to stumble and fall over from the weight when they try to show off to the florist, leading to a shower of flowers.
- "Pingu Plugs a Leak" involves Pingu and the construction worker dealing with a leak that keeps popping up somewhere else whenever they plug it. At two points, the leak splatters into the construction worker's face.
- In "Pingu's Catch of the Day", Pingu manages to catch his second fish. But when Chef Fred goes to retrieve it, it has been reduced to a skeleton. Cut to Robby lying on his back, rubbing his noticeably larger belly.
- The ending where Pingu, Robby, and Chef Fred reel in a gigantic fish... which at the sight of it causes all of Chef Fred's customers at his outdoor restaurant to run away in fear, much to the chef's dismay.
- In "Pingu the Living Statue", Pingu accidentally breaks a statue meant for the park so he covers it up by posing as the statue. Hilarity Ensues as Pingu starts messing with his friends and two toddler penguins.
