Pingu (series 1) - Pingu's Circus

Pingu's Circus

Pingu, Pinga and Robby put up signs announcing a circus and lots of penguins start to go see the circus, and during the performance, Pingu plays the drum, Pinga plays the trumpet and Robby plays the accordion, Robby does roly-polies, Pinga juggles balls (which failed when Robby laughed when she dropped them, though she threw one at Robby's hat knocking it off his head.), Pinga and Robby do a "lion-tamer's act" and Robby does dog acts. Pingu does a bunch of dances and actions during Robby's accordion performance and he lifts a big faux dumbbell, drops it (to make it look heavy) and Pinga, in true Laurel and Hardy fashion, takes it away with no effort at all. In the next performance, Pingu and Pinga jump on top of a board and Pingu lands in a bucket of blue paint which splatters all over Pingu and Robby, Pinga arrives and scolds Pingu to be more careful and jeers at him by laughing. After this, Pingu decides to spit blue paint onto Pinga, covering her in paint too. The audience laughs and then for the rest of the episode, Pingu, Pinga and Robby are clowns using their instruments again.

• Features Pingu, Pinga, Robby, and an audience of penguins. One of them is eating popcorn, one of them appears to be a teenager, and one of them appears to be Punki (without his stripey trousers).
• Aired on December 10, 1990.
• The circus is labelled 'zirkus', German for 'circus', which is one of Switzerland's official languages.
• The earlier version had the famous Cuckoo Theme from Laurel and Hardy at the part where Pinga takes away the bell.