Pingu (series 3) - Pingu Plays Superman

Pingu Plays Superman

Pingu is out walking when he comes across Pingo, who is brandishing a sword and making mock attacks. Pingo explains that he is acting like the character he’s found in a comic book, and shows it to Pingu. Pingu takes the comic book home to read and tosses it down onto a chair. It lands open at a picture of a superhero in a red cape (similar to Superman) fighting a helicopter. Pingu finds a red blanket in the wardrobe, puts it on as a cape, and acts out the fantasy by beating up the room. Pinga hears the noise and comes in. She finds a book on the floor that has fallen open at a picture of a princess and decides to play at this. Pingu, meanwhile, is still playing at being a superhero, getting more and more boisterous. The game ends when he falls off the table onto the floor and hurts his foot. Pingu is taken to the doctor by motorized sledge ambulance, accompanied by Mother and Pinga. Already waiting to be seen are Pingg, with a hurt foot and Pingo, who has hurt his arm and broken his sword. While they are all waiting Pinga explains what was also in the book, to the amusement of them all.

• Features mainly Pingu and Pingo. Mother, Pinga, Pingg and an ambulance driver also appear.
• Goof: When Pingu hurts his foot, it's his right foot that's hurt. But at the doctor's, it's his left foot that's bandaged up.
• July 4, 1996
• This was an adaptation of the "Superman" comics.

Father is mysteriously absent in this episode. The ambulance driver driving on the ambulance sledge looks like Father's sledge ( Father's sledge also looked like a lorry). The ambulance sledge is the same in the episode"Pingu's first visit to the Hospital". The Pygos Group confirmed that Father was just working in the post office.