Pingu (series 1) - Pingu's Dream

Pingu's Dream

It is time for Pingu's bedtime, and he falls asleep while Mother is reading him a story. As Pingu sleeps, the igloo jumps up and down before floating away. His bed then sprouts legs and moves around. Although being rattled at first, he has lots of fun riding the bed, but he is unaware that a giant non-tusked whiskered walrus (or a leopard seal) is stalking him. The walrus/leopard seal eventually shows himself to Pingu and puts the igloo on top of him and the bed. The walrus/leopard seal takes the igloo off, squishes and stretches Pingu as if he were a plaything, and as the bed tries to escape, the walrus/leopard seal takes the mattress from it and eats it like a chocolate bar. While the walrus/leopard seal is distracted, Pingu and the bed run off in fear, but Pingu trips over a ledge and falls down a steep mountain slope. The minute he lands at the bottom, Pingu wakes up, finds out that his "snowy mountain" is actually the bed, which isn't moving, and soon realizes that it was all a dream. Pingu then sadly tells Mother all about it as she comforts him.

• Features Pingu, his bed and a giant walrus/leopard seal. Mother has a minor role.
• This episode was placed on unofficial ban from broadcast distribution due to the walrus (leopard seal) because it was frightening for young viewers. It was also removed on British television in 2003 and was one of the few episodes pulled from Cartoon Network. PBS Kids Sprout never aired this episode because of its content.
• In the exterior shots of Pingu's house jumping, it has no door and only one room. (Pingu's bedroom, to be precise.)
• Pingu and the Mother Bird and this episode wasn't seen on VHS due to its unknown release.
• Aired on November 5, 1990
• Father and Pinga were mysteriously absent from this episode.
• At one point in the new version, at the part in which Pingu and the bed run off in fear, the sound from the early version is mixed, due to an audio mistake.