Pingu (1986)

Episode Overview

While out for a stroll, Pingu encounters Pingo, who is playfully wielding a sword and pretending to fight. Pingo shares that he's imitating a character from a comic book and shows it to Pingu. Intrigued, Pingu takes the comic home, carelessly dropping it onto a chair where it opens to a picture of a superhero in a red cape battling a helicopter. Inspired, Pingu grabs a red blanket from the wardrobe to fashion a cape and begins to reenact the action, energetically thrashing about the room. Pinga, hearing the commotion, enters to find a book open to an image of a princess and decides to join in the fun. Meanwhile, Pingu’s superhero antics escalate until he tumbles off the table, injuring his foot. He is taken to the doctor in a motorized sledge ambulance, with Mother and Pinga by his side. At the clinic, they find Pingg with a hurt foot and Pingo with a