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Pingu on the School Excursion (sometimes known as Pingu on the School Trip) is the 22nd episode of the second season which was first broadcast on August 31, 1994.
Summary[]
Today, Pingu's school is going to see a sculptor, who is carving a giant blue whale. On the way, Pingg decides to have a snowball fight with Pingu. When Pingu throws his snowball, it misses Pingg and instead hits Mr. Peng-Chips, who gives Pingu a stern telling-off.
Soon the class arrive at the sculpture. As they all watch the sculptor working on the mouth piece of whale, Pingu and Pingo wonder off on their own to look round the other side of the sculpture while Mr. Peng-Chips unsuccessfully attempts to get the sculptor's attention. When Mr. Peng-Chips leaves in disgust, Pingg decides to naughtily carve a dent in the whale's belly. The sculptor, unamused, tells Pingg to remove the dent.
On the other side of the sculpture Pingu and Pingo are climbing the scaffolding, much to Pingu's protests. When Pingo climbs up to the top of the tallest pole, Mr. Peng-Chips comes along and makes him slide back down again.
As the sculptor explains to the class how he designed and made the sculpture, Pingg climbs on top of it and balances on the whale's tail. He gleefully bounces up and down on it to grab the class's attention, only to break a piece off. Pingg just manages to save himself from falling off by grabbing on to the edge of the remaining part of the tail, leaving him precariously hanging on for dear life. While the sculptor weeps over the damage done to his work, Pingo fetches a long pole from amongst the scaffolding to try and help Pingg down, but his flippers can not get a grip. Meanwhile, Mr. Peng-Chips has climbed up on top of the sculpture and is trying to coax Pingg to edge his way across, but he is too scared.
Pingu then comes up with a plan; using some the poles and a tarpaulin, he and the rest of the class build a makeshift slide for Pingg to come down on. When everything is ready, Pingg releases his grip on the whale's tail and slides down to the bottom of the slide safely. Once the rest class have pacified Pingg and he thanks them for saving him, they realise that Mr. Peng-Chips is still stuck up on top of the sculpture. The class laugh at his misfortune.
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Trivia[]
- This marks Pengy's largest role in the series.
- This marks the first time Pongi is seen wearing his glasses.
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