Characters
The characters are as innumerable as the plots are inscrutable. The mainstays are:
- Pokey the Penguin
- Mr. Nutty, an alcoholic British snowman and capitalist
- A young female penguin, variously identified as "Small Child" or "Little Girl," who is apparently Pokey's sister
- Skeptopotamus, a skeptic who says he is unrelated to the hippopotamus
- Headcheese, a French Canadian female penguin, with whom Pokey has something of a love/hate relationship
- Gustavo, a potato chip-shaped character whose long moustaches, named "Democracy" and "Stalin", can be moved individually like arms
- The devil, which looks like a red, horned penguin
- A boxing glove purportedly possessed by the devil
- The Italians, Pokey's enemies who want to steal his Arctic Circle-Candy
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