Pingu Plays Fish Tennis
Robby jokingly attacks Pingu with snowballs. Pingu is enticed immediately to join an acrobatic game in which a large pink fish is the object of their japery. Pingu, in a bizarre moment of claustrophobic inertia, finds the fish's mouth trapped over his head and Robby, briefly abandoning his joking around, aids his relatively new friend by removing the fish from Pingu's head. They then play a tennis-style game using the fish. However, the fish is eventually caught on the rope and, after a futile attempt to retrieve the fish, Pingu retrieves it using a pair of ice-stilts placed conveniently by his igloo. Robby strips the fish of its meat and the two share it as a snack. Afterwards, they resume playing with Pingu still using his stilts.
- Features Pingu and Robby.
- In the original version when Pingu gets the fish's mouth trapped over his head, some Indian music plays in the background.
- In the current version an error occurs when Pingu was about to play with Robbie is shown but in the early version it does not.
- Aired on September 11, 1988
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