Since Daisy was born I’ve been watching a lot of children’s television. Most of it is pretty dire. The makers of the Teletubbies should go and sit on the naughty step, I reckon. But through sheer repetition there are a few that I have actually come to like. The Koala Brothers. Miffy – particularly the episode where Boris moonwalks. And Hi-5 before Kelly started stacking on the weight.
Lately Daisy and I have been enjoying Pingu. Pingu is a naughty little claymation penguin and he’s on Ceebeebies at 8.45 a.m., just before I have to leave to catch the train to the library.
The humour in Pingu is very slapstick. He knocks things over. He crashes his sledge. And he picks on his little sister, Pinga. Daisy thinks it’s hilarious.
Pingu is made in Switzerland. Sometimes I think the rarefied air affects the director because some of the episodes are a bit ‘out there.’
Like this morning’s episode for example. Pingu and his mates were playing ice hockey with some older, meaner penguins. Not content with scoring a blizzard of goals, the mean penguins started jabbing Pingu in the rib cage with their hockey sticks. Pingu and his friends threw down their sticks in disgust and walked off.
Then they started ice dancing.
Now, I don’t know how things work in the Swiss Alps but I wouldn’t have thought that the best way to get back at bullies is to go all Torvell and Dean on their ar*es. But it worked. The mean older penguins joined in and started doing routines that would have earned them perfect 10s at the last Winter Olympics. All soundtracked by an old Scorpions power ballad about holding hands and understanding each other.
It’s the first episode of Pingu I’ve seen that has had a soundtrack.
I don’t think Daisy was impressed. She grabbed hold of the remote and tried to change the channel.
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What a great lesson. I’m going to do that next time someone picks on me. That’ll teach ‘em.
Maybe I could try next time I take my papers down to the District Office … mmm, although it could get me deported too. Daisy was probably right in wanting to move on…
Maybe he’s taking the same thing the Socceroos took earlier in order to pull off that win against Japan in the last 15 minutes!
Pingu is a great favourite in our household.
I particularly like the episode where Pingu’s dad is doing the ironing whilst his wife sits down and reads the newspaper. Exactly how it should be, eh?!
Peter,
Adam’s right, enough of the penguins and get to the point: footy.
A great win and marvellous entertainment – which is more than can be said for the English side right now.
How does that feel?
(Shame about the Brazil thing though.)
Hey Adam and Ian,
Sorry I took so long to get up a blog entry about yesterday’s fantastic victory. I meant to do it after the match but I got a little bit sidetracked. So sidetracked that I had to beg the guard at the British Library to let me back in after closing time to extract my laptop from a locker there.
My plan, you see, was to watch the match and then return and do some work. Not my brightest plan – whatever the outcome I doubt I would have been very productive!
Anyway, bring on Brazil! I reckon Cahill’s got a few more goals in him!
Well, Pingu makes alot more sense when you’re stoned..
not that i do drugs, but when you’ve been up all night and pingu is on
it becomes profound, like kung fu: the legend continues.
Oh my god I love Pingu – he is the best………………..I wanna have his babies
**Joke**
………….but I do think he is one cool animation.
Pingu is the $h!zzl3. No denying it. I’d be more worried about the negative influence South Park character Mr Mackay is setting by being dull, boring, tedious and making a motto of “Drugs are bad, mkay?”
But nobody cares about my opinion because I am left-wing. So go f**k yourselves, you insufferable middle class mail reading housewives.
Loved the entry but just a minor correction: pingu is made in Finland.
Your crazy pingu is not on drugs he is cute
are you on drugs when you wrote this
Kiss my ass!
ure all sad shits! was u pissed or drugged up wen u writteen this??