Pingu (series 2) - Pingu Helps His Mother

Pingu Helps His Mother

Mother is ironing and feeling a bit harassed, as she realises that there’s a lot of clearing up and other jobs that need doing, and she asks Pingu if he could help. Pingu, who is reading, is not at all keen to help and suggests that Pinga should. Mother does not want Pinga to help because she's too small though, but she helps anyway. But Pinga drops some on the floor on the way to the cupboard and Mother tells her off. Pinga bursts into tears and Mother comforts her. Mother then tells Pingu to help and gives him some large cloths to put away. Pingu balances them on his head, to the amusement of Pinga and the consternation of Mother, carries them on his head to the cupboard, puts them away and then goes back to his book. Mother then enlists Pingu’s help again, this time to wash the floor, and prepares a bucket of soapy water for Pingu to use. Pingu reluctantly comes over to do it, but then thinks it would be a good idea to make the water soapier, and does this when Mother is not looking. Pinga comes over to see what is going on, and Pingu covers her head with soapsuds from the bucket. Pinga goes over to Mother who wipes the suds off, and tells Pingu to get on with it. Mother then goes out with the washing. Pingu and Pinga play a game with the mop and washing cloth, then Mother comes to get Pingu to help her, leaving Pinga with the mopping to do. She accidentally knocks a blanket from the table into the bucket and then puts it in the oven to dry. When Mother and Pingu return, Pinga has finished mopping the floor and is busily playing with her toys. Later, Mother is cooking dinner when Father comes in. He greets them, and Mother goes to serve the dinner, but finds the nicely warmed blanket in the oven. Mother and Father are annoyed and question the children about this but Pingu and Pinga say that they don't know, but Mother and Father are pleased when they see Pingu's idea for it. When Pingu and Pinga go to bed they snuggle into the warm blanket.

• Features Pingu, Pinga, Mother and Father.
• Pingu's duty helping Mother, as seen here, would almost entirely be reversed in a later episode, Pingu Refuses to Help, where Pingu does not help Mother despite her demands.
• Aired on April 12, 1994