Dec 02
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TRIVIA: Music

In 1989, David Hasselhoff released (in Switzerland only) the single "Pingu Dance", a rap song based on the Pingu shorts and featuring a number of samples of Pinguish. A portion of this song is used as the theme to Pingu on the PBS Kids Sprout channel in the United States.

 

Pingu (1986)

About The Show

Pingu is a young mischievous Penguin that lives in the South Pole with his Mom & Dad, his Sister, Pinga, his best friends Ping & Pingo (HIT entertainment dubbed Pingo "Punky"), Robby the Seal, & a cast of other colorful characters. The show doesn't use english words, but it's own creative language called "Penguiniese" (OR, "Pengish").

History

The show originally began in Switzerland from the company Trickfilmstudio back in 1986. But over the years, it had spread to America and other countries of the world such as Japan where the show is famous amongst young teen girls (ages 13-17). & also in England where Pingu has become a household name.

Afew years ago, Hit Entertainment had bought the distribution rights to Pingu by releasing DVD's of the short cartoons. also, Hit had changed the music and some of the voices when they got the right's to the show so there were 2 versions, the original Tricksfilmstudio version, & the HIT entertainment version.

The show had been doing extremely well that Hit Etertainment.com had decided to make 52 all new shorts of Pingu in Sep. of 2004 (Though, those episodes have yet to get in america as they only aired in the UK). But before that, They had released an all new DVD called "A Very Special Wedding" which included the introduction of Green Penguin's & was 20 min in length compared to a normal Pingu short of 3 to 5 min.


TaglineA hartwarming hero from the coolest corner of the world!
Also Known As :
* The Pingu Show (Alternative Title)
Status : Ended Edit Status
Running Time : 5 minutes
Number of Episodes : 118
Language : Penguinese
TV Station : BBC-2
Country : Switzerland
Audio Format : Monaural Sound
Genre : [Add A Genre]
Age Rating : GP-8