Pingu (series 2) - Pingu The Babysitter

Pingu The Babysitter

Mother is going out with a friend, and Pingu has the job of babysitting the friend's twins a boy in a blue dipper and a girl in the pink dipper. After Mother and her friend have gone the troublesome twins, who were lying peacefully in bed, throw their pillows at Pingu, hitting him on the head. He shouts at them, causing one twin to cry and drop his pacifier. While Pingu is retrieving the pacifier and washing it, the other twin crawls off and pulls the tablecloth off the table. Pingu is just in time to stop the vase smashing on the floor. While he is reprimanding the second twin, the first twin then grabs the frying pan that’s on the stove. Pingu eventually gets both of them into their high-chairs and feeds them. While he’s feeding one, the other is yelling, and vice versa. Eventually they both stop crying and Pingu checks their dippers. Luckily only one has a dirty diaper so Pingu changes it, and tucks them both back into bed. He then sits down with a book, but they both start to wail again. They don’t want their teddies, but doze off when Pingu rocks the bed. Pingu goes back to the chair, but they start crying so he rocks them back to sleep again. Then he has an idea, and ties a cord to the end of the bed, with the other end of the cord tied to his foot. Now, when they start crying, he can waggle his foot and rock the bed without having to get out of the chair. When Mother and her friend arrive back the twins are fast asleep while Pingu is in the chair with his foot rocking the bed, also fast asleep too and mother hugs him.

• Features Pingu and the friend's twins. Mother, Mother's Friend, and Mother's friend's husband (apparently a Japanese artist) have minor roles.
• Aired on April 20, 1993
• Father is mysteriously absent from this episode.