Mere minutes ago, 6 months after messaging him, Brian Stepanek replied to me on Cameo and confirmed he WAS the voice of Skipper whenever Tom McGrath wasn’t available. Insane!
the fact that apparently the penguins never once have ever had a misunderstanding episode is weirdly wholesome, especially given how easy it'd be to write something like that.
i actually like that skipper and marlene weren’t made into a couple. a lot of times in kids shows the main guy and main girl were forced to be together no matter the lack of compatibility, and to see them just be friends/coworkers is nice.
I thought it was actually comical how script Keynan, kept being like, they are just co-workers, people who know each other and have problems sometimes but get along, like, king it's a friendship😭 /lh
This show was a perfect "Come along for the wild ride" sort of show, you mostly don't question anything and go with the flow, watching what these guys would do next. As many fellow Polish had said, this show was quiet a hit in Poland, thanks to the amazing localization (done my the same people who localized the Shrek series, which it too was a big hit in Poland). Goes to show that with the right people in the right place, something niche to others can be quiet treasured for generations by some.
I still use "Kowalski analysis" in my everyday conversations Especially If someone's last name is Kowalski It was such a hit in Poland. Everyone knows it. The realisation that in the original he was also named Kowalski made my poor Polish heart melt.
i know people are talking about the polish dub, but the serbian dub is INSANE. like, theres jokes i couldnt explain to you without sitting down and giving you a rundown of the enrire history of the balkan peninsula. they added those "adult jokes" with nothing but accents. all of the America References were changed to relevant serbian equivalents. unironically i still watch this show as an adult because the dub did SO much it actually made it legit funny. honestly its one of the most impressive works of dubbing ive ever seen
Is there any site you would recommend to watch it? :D I mostly remember the horrors from snippets of the YuGiOh dub or the (to me off sounding) dub of nick live-action-series during holidays... 😅
I am in no way Polish nor of Polish descent but reading all the comments talking about what a huge hit it is there and in other Eastern European countries just makes me so happy as a long time fan of the Madagascar franchise! Knowing that this brilliant show has relevancy in other parts of the world fills me with joy ☺️☺️☺️
Can we all agree that Kowalski, Rico, Private, and Skipper have more personality than the entire power ranger samurai team combined? Which is fitting because both aired on Nickelodeon and this show already had more than a two-year heads-start.
@@SisterNeroeDidn’t he barely appear or I guess, appear less than the main cast? It’s hard to remember since I only watched it when it came out and very sparsely as well.
@@FilthyCasualty I mean, he was the sixth ranger, so he did technically appear less. But, after he became apart of the team, he was basically a main character
This. He is meant to be an annoying self absorbed asshole. Some say that they shouldn't annoy the audience but in this case it seems to make sense. He is always meant to be the intrusive annoyance.
I always thought of him as the shows first main antagonist, like he was the first act reoccurring antagonist before blowhole showed up and things got real
What is even more baffling is that they actually made him a likable protagonist in "All hail king Julien" prequel so there was basically two different characters in that universe.
@@glebkrawez5046funny enough I actually personally know the VA for king Julien and he’s in both of those shows! Isn’t that crazy? If you don’t believe me you can look on my community tab and I actually have a photo of his Emmy award he won
I love how the Polish part of Keyan's audience is showing up strong in this comment section, that rules! I love how certain shows and franchises make such different impacts outside of the USA. it's a good reminder that there's so much more world out there
Interesting thing I learned recently. Penguins are actually incredibly hard to gender and often zoos have to send away blood work to be told what gender a penguin is.
thats most cases with birds! i was content letting my bird be a boy and gamble on if eggs were fertile or not with my other bird but another person told me about the SMALLEST detail that i didnt realize indicated he was also female lmao (hes still him tho since it doesnt matter for em) we have even bred chickens to have a single feather thats different depending if its female or male for farmers (a fact i learned from pokemon, of all things.)
31:10 The reason Tara Strong sounds different after a while is actually explained in the story. In Eggy's second episode he decided that Julien was the zoo's greatest warrior and decided to model himself after him instead of the penguins. To this effect, he ends the episode impersonating Julien. The reason Tara sounds different is because they kept that change. It's pretty neat continuity.
It's a shame the show doesn't get the recognition it deserves in America. Although in german speaking countries it was a big success. In the movie the penguins were voiced by a semi famous german band but in the show they were voiced by really famous voice actors making them way more charismatic. Plus King Julien is REALLY popular around here even more than the 4 OG Madagascar animals. "Penguiner takes all" is one of the best cartoon episodes I've ever seen on Nick, where the quality is even competing with season 1-3 spongebob.
Maybe the show didn't leave a mark in your country but in Poland it was everywhere, from memes, quotes, music and vulgar fan dubs. Also Polish dub was fenomenal, aside from greate performance from ours dub actors/actresses, it even changed some jokes from og dub to some from our culture, one of the bests shows i remember from my childhood years
Ok, i need to tell this. There is on TH-cam an Montenegrin abridge dub of Penguins from Madagascar Christmas special and its sits on 3.6 mil views (Type: Pingvini s Madagaskara-Bozicna avantura (parodija)). If you know any of the languages from that area of Ex-yu states, because there is A LOT of swearing (all tho its everyday language down there) and its most funniest things that you can find online.
Words cannot express how fucking happy I am that this exists. This show was so formative to me as a young child and yet barely anyone talks about it. I never imagined someone else would care enough about it to make a video like this. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart!
Another somewhat popular show that never gets talked about is Big City Greens. That show is currently on it's 4th season, yet I heard more people talk about Amphibia, The Owl House, and The Ghost and Molly McGee.
Polish person here! This show is definitely one of the most beloved cartoons here. People still mention it, make memes with it and remember it fondly as one of those "smart animated shows with actually funny jokes that kept the both kids and adults entertained". In my family we still quote the show a lot, my family members notify me when it's playing on Puls or Nickelodeon, my school friends use memes with them... For sure still my favorite childhood show ❤ Also the dub is amazing and a staggering majority of the jokes are very funny!
I don't know if that can be counted as fandom, but Polish version has a lot more recognition "nation wide". There are many people quoting the show, I saw a lot of memes using quotes from the show (or even full clips), and overall it's quite appreciated due to the translation and voice actors. Sometimes I saw 50+ adults knowing the show or watching it from time to time.
I get curious about international reaction to when they reference different nationalities. Kinda like the Swedish Chef changing nationalities in Sweden. Are the Danes still the ones who ban Skipper?
Good heavens, I made an error (the first time in my entire life). In the movies, Maurice is voiced by Cedric the Entertainer. Kevin Michael Richardson just did such a phenomenally good impression that I didn’t hear any difference in the performances and thought it was him all along.
@@weirdguy1495 Granted, Richardson played Maurice far more prominently than Cedric, who only voiced Maurice as a minor character in the movies and cinematic specials (and Maurice is a footnote there outside the first movie), while Richardson voiced him as a main character in POM and AHKJ.
22:30 as someone who has seen all hail king julien , i can confidently say that mort is straight up an interdismensional eldritch being. this is not me joking or exaggerating. thats just the lore
it was arguably bigger than spongebob in poland and still has a ton of relevance here. when you said it has no fandom it kinda broke my heart because i used to write fanfics based on the show with my internet friends as a kid :D
I just realized in the episode Return of the Revenge of Dr Blowhole, Dr Blowhole tried to turn Private, Kowalski, and Rico into mutants monsters using the diaboligizer. Then in the movie Dave basically did the same thing with the Medusa Serum.
For any soul that stumbles upon this I'd like to share an interesting bit of background on the Penguins of Madagascar: Skipper will on occasion mention 2 other former team mates that are gone: Manfredi and Johnson This is a reference to my favorite movie of all time - the 1953 film Stalag 17. This film is about prisoners in a prisoner of war camp that discover one of the men in their barracks is an undercover German stitching on their plans. At the very start of the film, we see Manfredi and Johnson try to escape the compound, but the get brutally murdered and their corpes are displayed publicly in the mud the next day. They became a sort of honored memory for the rest of the film, a reminder that the person who indirectly killed them still lives in the same room as everyone else. Why is this important? Because Stalag 17 is the direct inspiration for one of the most popular television shows of its time: 1965's Hogan's Heros - another prisoner of war media piece, this time a TV series centered around the confident, bold, Hogan and his wacky wartime shenanigans. Hogan is a CARBON COPY of Skipper, I mean down to just about EVERY personality trait (confident, brave, flirtatious, etc) . Even Shultz and Klink have been combined into King Julian, and there are other character comparisons. The stories play out in a similar comedy style, even the Zoo is similar to the Prison in setting (the prisoners have secret underground tunnels and treat the prision as if they basically own it). To me it feels very similar, and I 100% think the writers grew up watching Hogans/Stilag17 and mentioned Manfredi and Johnson as a sort of sign of respect to a part of their inspiration.
I am replying to remember this comment at some point so that someday I remember to watch this because it sounds super fucking interesting and this show was one of Those Shows that I'd rather watch growing up than "oh boy another generic episode of SpOnGeBoB" (that won't make much sense to anybody but me probably I was a weird kid and it's a very distinct feeling I don't have the words for rn)
To me, it was far easier to separate the "Movies Penguins" from the "Show Penguins" and see them as completely different timelines since here in Brazil, the main franchise movies were dubbed in Rio and the show in São Paulo. The voices are wildly different haha
I've seen several people mention this show being a hit in Poland, Serbia and Ukraine and I just wanna add it was very popular in Bulgaria too with an awesome dub. I guess for some reason slavic countries really nailed dubbing this show and had all of us remembering it years later
I think that slavs are nailing dubs, translation or changing jokes to be more relevant in their countries in general because to this day I prefer the polish version of Penguins of Madagascar and even Shrek movies. I mean I also like original ones but in comparison they seem a bit bland
@ptys_rozowy the bulgaria dub of the new puss in boots movie changed goldilocks and the bears to match Bulgarian accents and cultures so you're definitely right about that.
@@Pepstep_07 oh I like that, in Poland they are nice but still they been lacking of something more individual because they didn't have any accents when in original they were so British. It's such a shame because in Poland every region has their own more or less distinguished way of talking and even their own language. On TH-cam there is also a fun dub of scene from Shrek Forever After in Kashubian language - I don't even know what they are saying
As a fellow Club Penguin fanatic who watched this show as a kid, there's this one line from the episode "Hello, Dollface" that lives rent-free in my head to this day and I'm a little surprised you didn't mention it. At one point a man picks up Private thinking he's a toy and says "Talking penguins? What is this, 2005?". It turns out that while there was a surprising amount of penguin-related media released in the mid 2000s, the only things that, to my knowledge, meet both these criteria are the original Madagascar film and Club Penguin. Therefore, I choose to believe that this is some obscure Club Penguin reference that only I ever picked up on.
As a kid, this was one of my favorite shows ever, and to finally find someone recognizing and breaking down this show makes me extremely happy. Thank you for this.
@11:35 I can’t believe the Quibi thing was so catastrophic that Katzenberg is more known for that than for beefing so hard with Disney that he founded Dreamworks to make a Shrek about it
Penguins' shake becoming a thing almost 10 years on tiktok later makes the whole situation even more hilarious. I seen so many people learn this dance over last 2 months just because someone found that old animation and started putting diffrent songs in the background. Whoever had this idea back in 2014 must be punching a wall right now
I believe that a large reason why this show got treated poorly by Nickelodeon at the end of its run was that the network didn’t want to continue paying licensing fees to DreamWorks Animation for airing it along with the Kung Fu Panda and Monsters vs. Aliens shows (Nick owns half of the copyright to those shows as well as broadcast and streaming rights hence why most of them are on Paramount+). It became even more evident when Nick’s sister studio Paramount Pictures stopped releasing the DreamWorks films after 2012. Since Nick wanted to focus more on its own properties, DreamWorks went to Netflix starting with the Turbo series. It’s a shame, because this show was one of my favorite Nicktoons growing up. I even still have the Operation Blowhole DVD!
Look at Back to the Barnyard show it was a huge hit and was still cancelled in it’s 2nd season. Which led to the crew deciding to go ‘F it’. In an audio session the voice actors to sing a vulgar song, and a representative of the network walked. Which the VAs said “What are you going to do Cancel us again?!’
Also, John DiMaggio had behind the scenes voice recording footage for his voice acting documentary “I Know That Voice” which harmless in itself, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Viacom was paranoid over the idea of people being curious on what’s going on behind the scenes, considering all the criminal activity that keeps happening under their roof. Stuff they keep letting happen may I add.
The idea of Penguins of Madagascar sequel - Puss in boots style is so good acctually Just like you said, having the team face some serious problems or emotions, conflicts even, like c'mon I can't be the only one who would want to see a conflict in between the group. "Every penguins personality is different but it somehow works", yes and I love that dynamic but conflicts happen in between everyone from time to time, and Skipper, Kowalski, Privete and Rico have soooo much potential for it i can't even explain it. I can't be the only one, right? Now I want a POM sequel PIB style, thanks
I remember everyone loving this show when I was kid. Very many Germans also have fond memories of this series (to expand the conversation about the global impact), I used to play penguins with my cousins lmao
There actually are some notable differences between movie and series Private. Private seems to be...not all there. He's barely focused on the mission and seems more confused. The not being all there pretty much went over to Rico, but in a more insane way. Private's innocence was less out of intelligence and more morality. However, his kind and reasonably intelligent personality from the series came into the movies quicker, as soon as the second Rico's thing about spitting out stuff was very gradually exaggerated. Just a paper clip in the movie, struggles to cough up dynamite in a Christmas Camper, and the GBA video game tie in had him to easily burp up weapons. I think he was meant to be a foreign agent at first since he says Hai (Japanese for yes) and making sushi, before they went for the deranged maniac
I loved "The Penguins of Madagascar"; I watched all the episodes so religiously, I had a "Mandela Effect" remembering an episode where Kowalski first met "Doris the Dolphin"; THAT NEVER EXISTED.
Everyone has that one show that instilled an irrational monster fear in them for longer than it should. Mine was Kickin It with Zompires. Those aren't even real in a mythological sense
You know who really loved this show. Manfredi and Johnson. They loved the show so much they tried their hardest to make sure it would never be forgotten. Sadly they made it so everyone would forget it ever existed instead.
I remember watching this show religiously back and I was so upset that nobody seemed to care about it besides me where I lived. So thank you for making this video.
I remember being so upset that Dr. Blowhole wasn't the main antagonist of the Penguins of Madagascar movie because I always knew him to be their greatest enemy. But instead I got some lame octopus guy I don't even remember the name of 😭
"there is no fandom" look. There might not be a big huge one but the fandom exists!! It was my first Tumblr fandom ten years ago and I'm still mutuals with my best fandom friend and she still blogs mostly about PoM!! I remember having to dodge spoilers when the movie came out and there was a lot of discourse about the implications of the movie on the show canon since they were in a separate continuity. It might max out at five people but please don't say our fandom doesn't exist ;w;
There’s actually a huge Penguins of Madagascar fandom, it even has it’s own country! Although I’m not sure why it’s name is completely unrelated to penguins at all
That’s true, I was also part of a Madagascar fandom, where we talk about everything Madagascar. I sorta became like, the only Madagascar fan who edited the Penguins of Madagascar show on the Madagascar Wiki for fixing corrected airdates, as well as stuff to the lore that not many people knew, like adding references to the games, and that kind of stuff. Sadly, I was removed from the wiki for some controversial reason.
@@ShockwaveFPSStudios that's a shame! I was actually mostly into the mainline movies, and fell into the pom fandom because there really truly wasn't a fandom on Tumblr at all for the rest of Madagascar. I wasn't tuned into fandom wikis at the time, sadly. I probably would have loved the Madagascar wiki.
What I like about Dr. Blowholes appearance is,) that with confirming some of Skipper's crazy (and strangely one-man-missions, making him sound waaay older and more experienced in this field than the others): You never know, what story is true/based on his actual life (in case of over-exaggerated storytelling on his part) or when he is actually delusional 😂
Doesn’t help that they later reveal that Manfredi & Johnson, two characters only mentioned in passing for some bizarre noodle incident, are real and very much alive
I was very deranged about this show when I was younger so it makes me really happy to see someone actually talking about it for once + It's pretty cool that this video was made by a Transformers channel because I'm also deranged about that lol
@@johnappleseed366 Oh man! I was absolutely ballistic about that show as well!! They used to air the Kung Fu Panda and Peguins Of Madagascar shows together and I used to be glued to the tv screen watching them back to back it was a great time
Hoboken, New Jersey has always been a running joke in general. In an old Bugs Bunny cartoon where he helps a baby get to Antarctica, the little penguin reveals it was actually raised in the Hoboken zoo and Bugs just loses his mind at the thought of going there. Then, towards the end of “Dude, Where’s My Car” one of these alien guys is like “we banish you to Hoboken, NJ”. I think it gets referenced a few times in “How I Met Your Mother”.
In one of my favorite childhood shows "Ultimate Spiderman", they also have a running joke about New Jersey being a place no one wants to be. What does the US have against NJ?
When i was like 11 or 12 my parents went to tom mcgrath's wedding because my dad was coworkers with his wife, and i almost went to a party at his house a few years later once i was actually interested in becoming an animator but then the pandemic happened 😭 ive been begging my dad to try to see if i can meet him because he's done so many big things at dreamworks
I never realized how much of the charm this series had in my country was the dubbing. The Latin American Spanish dub of the penguins is so iconic that listening to them in English feels...hollow
I'm so glad you touched upon the lack of notoriety this show has despite it's popularity, it always seemed to puzzle me why this was the case. Nevertheless, the show takes up a lot of real estate in my own head and has a lot of pop cultural significance to me haha
It's interesting that you say the show had no cultural significance. Maybe it's true in America. But I'm from Poland and from the Penguins-obsessed generation, and here the show is still fondly remembered and there are lots of memes from it and youtube videos about it. Maybe it's just because one of the main characters is named Kowalski wich is a typical polish last name, and somehow that made us like the show more lol
Glad the series is finally getting the recognition it deserves. It was a huge hit in Ukraine and it still remains a cult classic, with regular airings across various TV channels to this day.
This show was one of my absolute favorites when I was a kid. 😭 This and the Kung Fu Panda cartoon, which is also strangely obscure despite how much Nickelodeon used to hype it up. Would love to see a video on that one if you're up to it. Or TMNT 2012 which completely consumed my soul when it came out lmao
@37:20 I remember this joke so vividly as the thing that taught me scarlet and crimson were shades of red. This is such a wild memory to suddenly appear but I suddenly have such a clear moment of me watching this scene as a kid.
Haha, it's weird how we both had similar Skipper and Marlene relationship. I even remember also speculating that 2:26:54 the Tunnel of Love would be about Skipper and Marlene. Even though now as an adult, I can say they didn't really have any chemistry, but I'm pretty sure it was caused by Marlene being basically the only female character in the main cast and Skipper being the leader.
I love that most of the tools and gadgets Kowalski makes look like they’re made from random toys and pieces of trash that they found lying around at the zoo. What I love even more is that while this is true, they’ve also got a functioning thermonuclear reactor powering their base.
Although I can't relate to the needle fear, I also remember that episode fondly, but more so for the seductive distraction dance skipper does that just mesmerized me as a child
I remember watching this show nonstop everytime it aired on nickelodeon, there's just something offly cool about the penguins going from trying to head to Antarctica to planning out the most whackiest spy missions, and the show was actually very self aware that even if it takes place in a different parallel universe it's still fun to watch as it expands on beyond what the penguins do and how they interact with characters in the show.
As a kid I was absolutely obsessed with this show. I remember watching the series premiere after the 2008 kids choice awards. When they had toys at McDonald’s I went until I had each one of the penguins and constantly carried them around with me. I would even go onto the Nickelodeon website and post short stories on the POM discussion boards. It’s so incredible to see people who were as fond of this show as I was. Also Kowalski FTW 8 year old me would have died for him.
this show is one of the most famous cartoons in Poland and is loved by adults and children alike, not to mention the iconic dabbing of the main characters and their sayings
My best friend in middle school and I were OBSESSED with this show, and even opened a fan blog just to talk about it between us and rank the best episodes.
This show had the perfect amount of borderline insanity that I loved and still do (Also I'm from Poland and yes we love the penguins. A big part in this played the polish dubbing I think, the jokes were more unhinged and less family-friendly sometimes and it was hilarious)
38:17 You mentioned being curious how the episode "Miss Gendering" aged. As I am a media student with a focus on gender studies, I was curious as well and watched that episode very close. It's actually pretty good even for today's standards, though they do work with a lot of cliché especially the Ms. Pacman Trope. (Basically, through adding a ribbon, Skipper is set apart as female and the penguins who until then had no physical gender implications became male-coded.) Skipper tries to find out what it means to be female and calls Marlene for help. Marlene tries to explain to him that you don't have to be girly to be a girl which is a nice message. However, Marlene rarely gets listened to and Skipper follows his own strain of thought, believing he has to wear a ribbon and act all girly. In the end, he realises that nothing changes despite being female, which is a very modern way of thinking. After all, gender according to Judith Butler can be seen as a performative act that isn't determined by biological sex. Gender is a construct that gets reinforced and therefore performed by being constantly repeated (like calling someone male or female, media practices, media representation etc.) The episode is quite interesting from a scientific perspective (Kowalski, get your butt into gender studies, please) but not because it's progressive but rather showing the clichés from back then.
keyan you're so real for this. thanks for always picking the underdog least-talked-about shows to make deep dives about. really validates my childhood interests
Nickelodeon DreamWorks shows need more attention. They played an integral part in my childhood, but aside from Penguins, we've had Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness and Monsters Vs Aliens 2013(the last we'll ever see the IP again). Maybe the other two could have their separate multi-hour reviews, but the voice acting within these shows(excluding MvA, which was decent) were so good imo. Wally Wingert literally mirrored the performance of Ben Stiller and Jack Black as Alex in the Penguins of Madagascar specials, and Po in Legends of Awesomeness. Absolute talent within both; Jeff Bennett and James Patrick Stewart also did great as Kowalski and Private, same goes with Tom McGrath as Skipper.
Wait hold on Legends of Awesomeness *didn't have Jack Black?* that impression was so on point I was fully under the impression he came for the show all these years
Not giving the penguins any personal internal conflict between each other is one of the best decisions of the writers ever did. Those plots tend to be dumb and cheap, since they are usually caused by a simple miscommunication problem or the characters acting really selfish out of nowhere. The only time this kind of thing happen in the show is usually due to supernatural or sci-fi means, which meant that under normal circumstances, the penguins have an unbreakable bond that is stronger than steel.
I'm back in my PoM phase, writing fanfics again. Taking a small break from writing and rewatching the show to listen to this. Thanks for doing this video! I'm so glad this show gets some recognition again!
Dude, this was one of the best series to watch on Nickelodeon back then. My whole family was on board with the show, and we even got the DVDs of the series. We still watch them whenever we want, and it still holds up after 10+ years.
As an old Penguins Of Madagascar fan the fandom was really big the AMV community went crazy over it and the biggest ship was Julien X Skipper or Dr. Blowhole X Skipper. The fandom even fought nick to bring it back and once the movie happened fans loved or hated it.
extremely cringe anecdote but me and some other friends had a yaoi club in middle school (yes im serious) and everyone shipped dr blowhole and kowalski cus they were both scientists
I totally agree with the dream of a Puss in Boots: The Last Wish moment for The Penguins of Madagascar series. I personally was really disappointed that the movie returned to the characterisation of the Madagascar films, and would love to see them return to the series characters for something that has the freedom to stray away from the toilet humour the show often devolved into that instead capitalised on the absolute insanity the show pulled off at its best moments. Marlene deserves more screen time, Julien's character deserves to be more balanced and less annoying and Mort deserves to be rewritten to be not insufferable. I've always felt this series was PERFECT for some sort of completely wacky and artistic reboot focusing on just being as absolutely insane and fun and action-packed as possible. It also upsets me that King Julien as a character has been able to have multiple spin-off series since the ending of this show, and yet the Penguins have never had a shot at an actual reboot of their show that retains their wacky and nostalgic series-style characterisation, with Marlene and the cast from the series returning.
I still remember there being a promo for the first Dr. Blowhole special that included a scene that was cut from the episode (at least I think it was cut, it might never have been intended to be part of it, but I doubt they would have made a fully animated scene for a promo). It was Skipper going around the base being super over paranoid about Blowhole and annoying all the other penguins in the process. It’s been over half my life since I saw it, but I still have vague memories of it.
I always thought of this series as one of those laidback type of cartoons that aren't heavily focused on being storydriven. It reminds me of robot and monster and fanboy and chum that were also on nicktoons around that time. it also reminds me of the looney tunes show. Shows like that i use to watch before school or just in the afternoon on weekends. I always enjoyed those types of shows, i didn't have to keep up with the show too much and it was a great to just unwind and relax to these shows
I can’t tell you how many years I’ve waited for someone anyone to make some kind of deep dive video of this UNDERATED GEM of a show. I loved watching this when I was little the musical episode with Alex and blowhole was my favorite! And the fact that I was showing this to my cousin just a few days ago
Learning that Keyan used to copy the plots of TV show episodes and submit them in class makes me feel slightly less guilty about the time I copy/pasted the plot of the Zeke and Luther episode with the exploding skateboard (except it was about Tony Hawk and his friend, "Jack Eagle"), and submitted it as my own story in class.
I did stuff like this as a kid too. I think that's just how kids learn how to write, similar to how kids learn how to draw by tracing and copying art styles they like. Even if you know what plagiarism is as a kid, you don't fully comprehend it, lol.
No because the penguins different catch phrases, and best lines are still used by my entire family on my mums side. The Christmas story is one we watch every year (that and the sherk Christmas dvd). There’s something so special to me about this dapper penguins. 46:36 also the fact that they didn’t make private the possible girl penguin is also nice to see.
I remember watching this a lot on Nickelodeon, because not only did this show come right around when both SpongeBob SquarePants & The Fairly Oddparents jumped the shark, but it had better humor than those shows at the time.
My dad and I still constantly quote from this show, but especially from the episode Tagged! The “different coloured” red buttons is still one of our favourite bits ever
Huh it's wierd to hear that the Penguins of Madagascar isn't talked about in the US. Here in Poland it is very well known and popular. Nearly everyone is familiar with it regardless of age. It aired on multiple channels including government television. Not to mention that the dub is excellent, way funnier than the original with the legendary Jarosław Boberek as King Julien. There are lots of memes and edits. There was even a TH-cam channel where some guy role played as King Julien and played video games in character. COBI the Polish building blocks manufacturer made a line of officially licensed the Penguins of Madagascar sets which is really funny when you realize that since Skipper is public enemy #1 in Denmark LEGO would never make sets based on the show. And the cherry on top is that one of the main characters in literally named Kowalski. Need I say more...?
I remember so much about this show growing up that I could recite The Hoboken Surprise word-for-word, sound effect-by-sound effect when I was in high school, and ran it in my head when I had extra time after finishing an exam in high school. The fact that you're giving attention to this series now is one of the best things that I've seen all week!
A 2 and a half hours video about my first ever hyperfixation and my first favorite franchise?? Never been so invested in a youtube video this much, this is peak content to me, I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who wrote fanfics and made fanarts of this show as a kid! I rewatch the whole series every now and then and know almost every episode by heart. Fun fact: the Penguin shake has become a tiktok trend in 2023, I couldn't believe it LMAO another fun fact: in the italian dubbing I grew up with, the Big Time Rush voice actor's in their cameo episode were the same as their actual show which I also loved, and that was so important to me that I still point it out to this day because I've never seen such a dedicated voice reference back then (I think I was the only one who cared about it lol)
sucks to hear the penguins of madagascar show isnt talked about much in north america. Down here in South America it´s pretty common to see it in memes! It´s dub is really highly regarded so that probably helped a lot
I REMEMBER there being a musical portion of an episode starring Doctor Blowhole, which now to me makes so much sense because going back to another childhood classic show of mine recently, Batman: the Brave and the Bold, there was an entire musical episode with the villain Music Meister as the headlining threat. Music Meister, of course, being played by celebrity guest star Neil Patrick Harris. At a point in this video all of a sudden it clicked that TWO of my childhood favorite shows had Neil Patrick Harris guest star for a musical episode. (also good video!)
I'm so incredibly happy to see someone talk about this series for this much time. It was one of my favorites growing up, especially as someone who didn't get to watch the Madagascar films very much as we didn't own them. I swear I was obsessed with these silly little spy penguins. I remember frequently watching the series on TV, and loved renting the DVD for Blowhole's Revenge. It was literally my favorite episode to watch. My family and I still quote Dr. Blowhole's Pen-gu-ins line to this day.
I didn't know how much of this series was so alive and well in my memory, especially the Blowhole special. Thank you so much for this trip down memory lane. My whole family and I loved this show back in the day
The show's meme potential was exploited by latinamerican viewers, mainly due to to the translated version, which featured a lot of expressions used there. The voice acting was also more unique, Julian's voice as well as Skipper's are so well known, that they reprise them outside anything Madagascar related.
bro you have no idea how excited i got over seeing this video recommended to me. NO ONE i know seems to have ever watched this show and I'm over here as that one kid who watched it religiously and still goes back to watch it every so often.
I always used to watch the Penguins before going to school. I have very fond memories of that, so I am SUPER THRILLED to watch your video about this series that is so engrained into my memory. Love you Key!
I remember as a kid when I was allowed to stay up past my bedtime my siblings and I would watch this show with my dad in the living room. It felt minor back then but it's very nostalgic for me now that I've grown up and am reminded of this show, I sometimes binge shows in the same manner my family and I did back then for the nostalgia feeling even though I'm alone now (for school purposes).
There is in fact a penguins of Madagascar fandom on tumblr! I found it on accident in 2018 when looking for pictures of Pomeranians and just searched pom. Just checked rn and there is in fact still several people posting penguins of Madagascar content under the pom tag.
I remember the thing that solidified skipper and Marlene being a ship for me was simply the fact that skipper has like a “pet” name that he calls her (doll/dollface) and I remember always thinking it was so cute
This might be a kind of depressing comment but my dad died back in 2016. I’m not sure why but he used to love the penguins ever since watching the movies with me as a kid. We used to watch this show together a lot before he died so thanks for a bit of nostalgia and good memories ❤
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Mere minutes ago, 6 months after messaging him, Brian Stepanek replied to me on Cameo and confirmed he WAS the voice of Skipper whenever Tom McGrath wasn’t available. Insane!
lets fuckin go, good on him for answering
Oh my gosh, what timing! I'm glad you got a response back! XD
@@ShockwaveFPSStudioswait Rico has hair now I forgot about him lol
That has nothing to do with what I said.
@@ShockwaveFPSStudios oof
the fact that apparently the penguins never once have ever had a misunderstanding episode is weirdly wholesome, especially given how easy it'd be to write something like that.
They truly are The Boys.
I’m guessing that’s what King Julien being an annoyance is for XD
Yeah they did.
There was one where the other penguins thought skipper died and came back as a zombie
And miss understanding
@@markdevonport3274
That doesn't really count, they were actually distraught after they thought skipper died
i actually like that skipper and marlene weren’t made into a couple. a lot of times in kids shows the main guy and main girl were forced to be together no matter the lack of compatibility, and to see them just be friends/coworkers is nice.
I thought it was actually comical how script Keynan, kept being like, they are just co-workers, people who know each other and have problems sometimes but get along, like, king it's a friendship😭 /lh
I never ever saw them as lovers and just saw them as friends too
@@smbd1234I recognize you from SMG4(BTW, I left SMG4 a few weeks ago).
@@skullglaze8755this like it had me laughing that friends was that last word on his mind 😭😭😭
Theres always that Hawaiian Bobble Head.
Weirdly enough, this show is still culturally relevant in Polish communities. This cartoon had such an iron grip on all of us growing up
Is this like a Mexico/Dragonball situation where the show greatly impacted the country's culture or is it something else?
@@terrortaste6389 not only mexico, all of latin america
omg FR!?!?! i thought i was the only one!
huge
Yeah! The series has basically become a cult classic here.
How interesting 😅
This show was a perfect "Come along for the wild ride" sort of show, you mostly don't question anything and go with the flow, watching what these guys would do next.
As many fellow Polish had said, this show was quiet a hit in Poland, thanks to the amazing localization (done my the same people who localized the Shrek series, which it too was a big hit in Poland). Goes to show that with the right people in the right place, something niche to others can be quiet treasured for generations by some.
Yes, I watched the entire series in polish dub as a kid
This show may be chaotic, but it’s so fun to watch and everyone is fun to watch to watch and actually want to see what’s going on.
I still use "Kowalski analysis" in my everyday conversations
Especially If someone's last name is Kowalski
It was such a hit in Poland. Everyone knows it.
The realisation that in the original he was also named Kowalski made my poor Polish heart melt.
Also the Polish dub is like 100% better
Every polish person keeps hyping up the polish dub😭 I wish I spoke polish to watch it
@@artiseen Maybe there's an English subtitled version of the Polish Dub?
In what type of conversation would one theoretically use this phrase?
@@BrunoSantos-jp1lvwhen you’re with a friend and don’t understand what you’re looking at is one
i know people are talking about the polish dub, but the serbian dub is INSANE. like, theres jokes i couldnt explain to you without sitting down and giving you a rundown of the enrire history of the balkan peninsula. they added those "adult jokes" with nothing but accents. all of the America References were changed to relevant serbian equivalents. unironically i still watch this show as an adult because the dub did SO much it actually made it legit funny. honestly its one of the most impressive works of dubbing ive ever seen
Is there any site you would recommend to watch it? :D
I mostly remember the horrors from snippets of the YuGiOh dub or the (to me off sounding) dub of nick live-action-series during holidays... 😅
The Hungarian dub is also good.
In Croatia they did the same thing and it was most played cartoon at nickelodeon
BEEN SEARCHING FOR SERBIAN DUB PRAISE, THANK YOU!
One of the best serbian dubs imo
Theory: Kowalski still can’t read, he just happens to know exactly what a poison dartfrog smells like
Fun fact:
Poison dart frogs get their poison from their food. If they are feed in captivity, they do not have poison
😮😮😮
>TFW Wilbur, Morris, the frogs, Queen Bee, and the big lemur from the Madagascar videogame don’t make a cameo in the show
How did he know what the book is?
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I am in no way Polish nor of Polish descent but reading all the comments talking about what a huge hit it is there and in other Eastern European countries just makes me so happy as a long time fan of the Madagascar franchise! Knowing that this brilliant show has relevancy in other parts of the world fills me with joy ☺️☺️☺️
Can we all agree that Kowalski, Rico, Private, and Skipper have more personality than the entire power ranger samurai team combined? Which is fitting because both aired on Nickelodeon and this show already had more than a two-year heads-start.
I know you aren't slandering my guy Antonio. Dude straight up carried the team
@@SisterNeroe that is true, the only competitor to the penguins.
Even so, one Ranger, regardless of color, did not save that team. The Penguins were clearly superior.
@@SisterNeroeDidn’t he barely appear or I guess, appear less than the main cast? It’s hard to remember since I only watched it when it came out and very sparsely as well.
@@FilthyCasualty I mean, he was the sixth ranger, so he did technically appear less. But, after he became apart of the team, he was basically a main character
I would argue that Julian's oppressive unwantedness is actually important to the show. He's an antagonist to the penguins, the zoo, and the audience.
This.
He is meant to be an annoying self absorbed asshole.
Some say that they shouldn't annoy the audience but in this case it seems to make sense.
He is always meant to be the intrusive annoyance.
Honestly, that’s a valid point.
I always thought of him as the shows first main antagonist, like he was the first act reoccurring antagonist before blowhole showed up and things got real
What is even more baffling is that they actually made him a likable protagonist in "All hail king Julien" prequel so there was basically two different characters in that universe.
@@glebkrawez5046funny enough I actually personally know the VA for king Julien and he’s in both of those shows! Isn’t that crazy? If you don’t believe me you can look on my community tab and I actually have a photo of his Emmy award he won
I love how the Polish part of Keyan's audience is showing up strong in this comment section, that rules! I love how certain shows and franchises make such different impacts outside of the USA. it's a good reminder that there's so much more world out there
Keyan Carlie summoning thousands of unnamed (or rather named, but the names are too complicated for Americans) to make his video a hit
The 2 ways to summon us:
1. Mention Poland in any way, shape or form
2. Mention Penguins of Madagascar
@@W.d_Gaster You forgot mentioning polish asterix and obelix
Now it is a holy triad of polish summoning
Interesting thing I learned recently. Penguins are actually incredibly hard to gender and often zoos have to send away blood work to be told what gender a penguin is.
There was an entire episode where Skipper was misgendered, and had to learn how to be a “girl”.
@@pepearown4968as a trans masc, I honestly find that kinda relatable
You mean gender and sex are synonyms!?
@@cajunking5987 in the case of most animals.... yes. bc they dont have gender roles like humans do
thats most cases with birds! i was content letting my bird be a boy and gamble on if eggs were fertile or not with my other bird but another person told me about the SMALLEST detail that i didnt realize indicated he was also female lmao (hes still him tho since it doesnt matter for em)
we have even bred chickens to have a single feather thats different depending if its female or male for farmers (a fact i learned from pokemon, of all things.)
31:10 The reason Tara Strong sounds different after a while is actually explained in the story. In Eggy's second episode he decided that Julien was the zoo's greatest warrior and decided to model himself after him instead of the penguins. To this effect, he ends the episode impersonating Julien. The reason Tara sounds different is because they kept that change. It's pretty neat continuity.
That's awesome.
It was technically his third episode. I recall he had one other episode where he got a single line.
I thought she was doing a stereotypical Asian accent. Probably because of some recent controversies surrounding Tara…
It's a shame the show doesn't get the recognition it deserves in America.
Although in german speaking countries it was a big success.
In the movie the penguins were voiced by a semi famous german band but in the show they were voiced by really famous voice actors making them way more charismatic.
Plus King Julien is REALLY popular around here even more than the 4 OG Madagascar animals.
"Penguiner takes all" is one of the best cartoon episodes I've ever seen on Nick, where the quality is even competing with season 1-3 spongebob.
As a German PoM fanfic author, I 100% agree with you.
I blame Nickelodeon fans who were angry over the Early to Mid 2010s Nicktoons being terrible.
I always liked this show way more than the movies just because of the penguins, the German voice actors just feel right
Maybe the show didn't leave a mark in your country but in Poland it was everywhere, from memes, quotes, music and vulgar fan dubs. Also Polish dub was fenomenal, aside from greate performance from ours dub actors/actresses, it even changed some jokes from og dub to some from our culture, one of the bests shows i remember from my childhood years
Exactly this! I enjoy hearing the original VAs but the polish dub is god-tier
The polish dub is unimaginably good. It feels so weird listening to the original because it's not even half as well done...
yess!!
Ok, i need to tell this. There is on TH-cam an Montenegrin abridge dub of Penguins from Madagascar Christmas special and its sits on 3.6 mil views (Type: Pingvini s Madagaskara-Bozicna avantura (parodija)). If you know any of the languages from that area of Ex-yu states, because there is A LOT of swearing (all tho its everyday language down there) and its most funniest things that you can find online.
Suszymy ząbki panowie.
Words cannot express how fucking happy I am that this exists. This show was so formative to me as a young child and yet barely anyone talks about it. I never imagined someone else would care enough about it to make a video like this. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart!
Yeah i agree Someone (who's not Jordan fringe) made a video about this show it was my favorite as a kid and even now i stay up to watch it
same here! this was a hyperfixation of mine as a kid lmao
Another somewhat popular show that never gets talked about is Big City Greens. That show is currently on it's 4th season, yet I heard more people talk about Amphibia, The Owl House, and The Ghost and Molly McGee.
Samee
@@irenaciric8126 Why Fargle? It's Fringe.
This show was brilliant. I don’t care if it’s not culturally relevant.
Whose the hot chick in your profile picture?
What u mean it's culture
Interesting fact, in Poland this series has become part of our pop culture and is still quoted, memed and even broadcast on TV x))
The penguins were and are great
You didn't see anything
Polish person here! This show is definitely one of the most beloved cartoons here. People still mention it, make memes with it and remember it fondly as one of those "smart animated shows with actually funny jokes that kept the both kids and adults entertained". In my family we still quote the show a lot, my family members notify me when it's playing on Puls or Nickelodeon, my school friends use memes with them... For sure still my favorite childhood show ❤
Also the dub is amazing and a staggering majority of the jokes are very funny!
I don't know if that can be counted as fandom, but Polish version has a lot more recognition "nation wide". There are many people quoting the show, I saw a lot of memes using quotes from the show (or even full clips), and overall it's quite appreciated due to the translation and voice actors. Sometimes I saw 50+ adults knowing the show or watching it from time to time.
I get curious about international reaction to when they reference different nationalities. Kinda like the Swedish Chef changing nationalities in Sweden. Are the Danes still the ones who ban Skipper?
@@gohawks3571 I Polish dub?
Yes.
Good heavens, I made an error (the first time in my entire life). In the movies, Maurice is voiced by Cedric the Entertainer. Kevin Michael Richardson just did such a phenomenally good impression that I didn’t hear any difference in the performances and thought it was him all along.
Your first error!! (Except in Suite Life when you kept calling Chris Brown Chris Rock)
Another 2 plus hour video!? When do you sleep?
We all make mistakes. The best way to make up for mistakes is by making a 5 hour video essay on sweet life on Deck.
I thought Kevin Michael Richardson voiced him the whole time too, that's crazy.
@@Skypost4ever😂
@@weirdguy1495 Granted, Richardson played Maurice far more prominently than Cedric, who only voiced Maurice as a minor character in the movies and cinematic specials (and Maurice is a footnote there outside the first movie), while Richardson voiced him as a main character in POM and AHKJ.
22:30 as someone who has seen all hail king julien , i can confidently say that mort is straight up an interdismensional eldritch being. this is not me joking or exaggerating. thats just the lore
This is my reminder to watch that insane video essay series about that version of Mort.
Man I fucking love that show man it's never talked out about outside of mort though.
I was hoping he would mention The Theorizer who is steadily losing his mind over this show😭
...What. Can someone explain me that?
@@hyde6889 Watch All Hail King Juilen or just check out the theorizer.
it was arguably bigger than spongebob in poland and still has a ton of relevance here. when you said it has no fandom it kinda broke my heart because i used to write fanfics based on the show with my internet friends as a kid :D
same. Not Polish, but I was apart of the fandom in my tween years on deviantart
Oh my God I used to write Kowalski fanfics 😢
Penguin fanfics isn’t something I wanted to know about 😭
@@KingOfGaymes Yeah, but it's fun to creep yourself out thinking about it.
@@KingOfGaymes that shit was pg as far as im concerned, just fanmade episodes and characters
I just realized in the episode Return of the Revenge of Dr Blowhole, Dr Blowhole tried to turn Private, Kowalski, and Rico into mutants monsters using the diaboligizer. Then in the movie Dave basically did the same thing with the Medusa Serum.
It’s almost like Dave is just a rehash of Blowhole.
That's hilarous
For any soul that stumbles upon this I'd like to share an interesting bit of background on the Penguins of Madagascar:
Skipper will on occasion mention 2 other former team mates that are gone: Manfredi and Johnson
This is a reference to my favorite movie of all time - the 1953 film Stalag 17. This film is about prisoners in a prisoner of war camp that discover one of the men in their barracks is an undercover German stitching on their plans. At the very start of the film, we see Manfredi and Johnson try to escape the compound, but the get brutally murdered and their corpes are displayed publicly in the mud the next day. They became a sort of honored memory for the rest of the film, a reminder that the person who indirectly killed them still lives in the same room as everyone else.
Why is this important? Because Stalag 17 is the direct inspiration for one of the most popular television shows of its time: 1965's Hogan's Heros - another prisoner of war media piece, this time a TV series centered around the confident, bold, Hogan and his wacky wartime shenanigans.
Hogan is a CARBON COPY of Skipper, I mean down to just about EVERY personality trait (confident, brave, flirtatious, etc) . Even Shultz and Klink have been combined into King Julian, and there are other character comparisons. The stories play out in a similar comedy style, even the Zoo is similar to the Prison in setting (the prisoners have secret underground tunnels and treat the prision as if they basically own it).
To me it feels very similar, and I 100% think the writers grew up watching Hogans/Stilag17 and mentioned Manfredi and Johnson as a sort of sign of respect to a part of their inspiration.
I feel like skipper just watched that movie and just decided to base his personality around it and made a fake back
story
I knew Skipper had to be an homage to something
I am replying to remember this comment at some point so that someday I remember to watch this because it sounds super fucking interesting and this show was one of Those Shows that I'd rather watch growing up than "oh boy another generic episode of SpOnGeBoB" (that won't make much sense to anybody but me probably I was a weird kid and it's a very distinct feeling I don't have the words for rn)
To me, it was far easier to separate the "Movies Penguins" from the "Show Penguins" and see them as completely different timelines since here in Brazil, the main franchise movies were dubbed in Rio and the show in São Paulo.
The voices are wildly different haha
I always assumed the same thing.
me too
I also tough that😂
Siimm!!! Eu sempre gostei mais do desenho kkkjjj
CARAI UM BRASILEIRO AQUI KKKKKKKKK
I've seen several people mention this show being a hit in Poland, Serbia and Ukraine and I just wanna add it was very popular in Bulgaria too with an awesome dub. I guess for some reason slavic countries really nailed dubbing this show and had all of us remembering it years later
I think that slavs are nailing dubs, translation or changing jokes to be more relevant in their countries in general because to this day I prefer the polish version of Penguins of Madagascar and even Shrek movies. I mean I also like original ones but in comparison they seem a bit bland
As a slav, Russian "Madagascar" dub is soo iconic
It also helps that in Eastern Europe there's love for ragtag, street smart adventurous characters.
@ptys_rozowy the bulgaria dub of the new puss in boots movie changed goldilocks and the bears to match Bulgarian accents and cultures so you're definitely right about that.
@@Pepstep_07 oh I like that, in Poland they are nice but still they been lacking of something more individual because they didn't have any accents when in original they were so British. It's such a shame because in Poland every region has their own more or less distinguished way of talking and even their own language. On TH-cam there is also a fun dub of scene from Shrek Forever After in Kashubian language - I don't even know what they are saying
As a fellow Club Penguin fanatic who watched this show as a kid, there's this one line from the episode "Hello, Dollface" that lives rent-free in my head to this day and I'm a little surprised you didn't mention it. At one point a man picks up Private thinking he's a toy and says "Talking penguins? What is this, 2005?".
It turns out that while there was a surprising amount of penguin-related media released in the mid 2000s, the only things that, to my knowledge, meet both these criteria are the original Madagascar film and Club Penguin. Therefore, I choose to believe that this is some obscure Club Penguin reference that only I ever picked up on.
There's also Happy Feet and Surf's Up which are also 2000's animated penguin movies.
@@morallita True, they didn't come out in 2005 specifically though
March of the Penguins came out in 2005 although none of those penguins talk.
As a kid, this was one of my favorite shows ever, and to finally find someone recognizing and breaking down this show makes me extremely happy. Thank you for this.
@11:35 I can’t believe the Quibi thing was so catastrophic that Katzenberg is more known for that than for beefing so hard with Disney that he founded Dreamworks to make a Shrek about it
The penguins are like a perfect group dynamic, even star wars tried having their own "Penguins" With the bad batch
Maybe I would have enjoyed The Bad Batch if they were penguins
@@awcolorcat
Why don't we just remake Dtar Wars and replace everything with a penguin?
@@davidhong1934then penguins would die tho
@@hendeyjagger7489
Well, the greatest sacrifice is always someone else's
@@davidhong1934 NOOOOO! MEDIC!!!
Penguins' shake becoming a thing almost 10 years on tiktok later makes the whole situation even more hilarious. I seen so many people learn this dance over last 2 months just because someone found that old animation and started putting diffrent songs in the background. Whoever had this idea back in 2014 must be punching a wall right now
Damn.
All they had to do was add Three 6 Mafia to the back track and poof!
I came here to comment this, like that's so funny
I believe that a large reason why this show got treated poorly by Nickelodeon at the end of its run was that the network didn’t want to continue paying licensing fees to DreamWorks Animation for airing it along with the Kung Fu Panda and Monsters vs. Aliens shows (Nick owns half of the copyright to those shows as well as broadcast and streaming rights hence why most of them are on Paramount+). It became even more evident when Nick’s sister studio Paramount Pictures stopped releasing the DreamWorks films after 2012. Since Nick wanted to focus more on its own properties, DreamWorks went to Netflix starting with the Turbo series.
It’s a shame, because this show was one of my favorite Nicktoons growing up. I even still have the Operation Blowhole DVD!
Oh so that's why All Hail King Juilen happened back in 2014. Man that was probably one of the best decisions I love that show.
Look at Back to the Barnyard show it was a huge hit and was still cancelled in it’s 2nd season. Which led to the crew deciding to go ‘F it’.
In an audio session the voice actors to sing a vulgar song, and a representative of the network walked. Which the VAs said “What are you going to do Cancel us again?!’
I still don't understand why did they made the monsters vs aliens show, that show was dogshit.
Kung fu panda on the other hand worked really well.
Also, John DiMaggio had behind the scenes voice recording footage for his voice acting documentary “I Know That Voice” which harmless in itself, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Viacom was paranoid over the idea of people being curious on what’s going on behind the scenes, considering all the criminal activity that keeps happening under their roof. Stuff they keep letting happen may I add.
@@mr.x2567 No way they were paranoid if Nick kept Dan Schneider.
The idea of Penguins of Madagascar sequel - Puss in boots style is so good acctually
Just like you said, having the team face some serious problems or emotions, conflicts even, like c'mon I can't be the only one who would want to see a conflict in between the group. "Every penguins personality is different but it somehow works", yes and I love that dynamic but conflicts happen in between everyone from time to time, and Skipper, Kowalski, Privete and Rico have soooo much potential for it i can't even explain it. I can't be the only one, right?
Now I want a POM sequel PIB style, thanks
The movie would have to be extremely violent and take itself extremely seriously in order to work.
I remember everyone loving this show when I was kid. Very many Germans also have fond memories of this series (to expand the conversation about the global impact), I used to play penguins with my cousins lmao
The German dubs are also sooo good, it's one of the few shows or movies that are better in German imo
I watched the German dub as well but as a child I didn't realise we got a good one. Guesse I have to rewatch it
There actually are some notable differences between movie and series Private. Private seems to be...not all there. He's barely focused on the mission and seems more confused. The not being all there pretty much went over to Rico, but in a more insane way. Private's innocence was less out of intelligence and more morality. However, his kind and reasonably intelligent personality from the series came into the movies quicker, as soon as the second
Rico's thing about spitting out stuff was very gradually exaggerated. Just a paper clip in the movie, struggles to cough up dynamite in a Christmas Camper, and the GBA video game tie in had him to easily burp up weapons. I think he was meant to be a foreign agent at first since he says Hai (Japanese for yes) and making sushi, before they went for the deranged maniac
I loved "The Penguins of Madagascar"; I watched all the episodes so religiously, I had a "Mandela Effect" remembering an episode where Kowalski first met "Doris the Dolphin"; THAT NEVER EXISTED.
see but why does that sound familiar to me..
They do meet in the season 3 episode "The Penguin Who Loved Me", but it's in the present and not their first meeting.
No joke, the episode “penguin zombie” instilled an irrational fear of zombies in me for over 7 years
Dude I'm so happy its not just me 😭😭😭
Everyone has that one show that instilled an irrational monster fear in them for longer than it should. Mine was Kickin It with Zompires. Those aren't even real in a mythological sense
The episode "kingdom come" used to make me terrified at night.
The fog episode of bunk'd
I WAS TERRIFIED
You know who really loved this show. Manfredi and Johnson. They loved the show so much they tried their hardest to make sure it would never be forgotten. Sadly they made it so everyone would forget it ever existed instead.
I remember watching this show religiously back and I was so upset that nobody seemed to care about it besides me where I lived. So thank you for making this video.
I remember being so upset that Dr. Blowhole wasn't the main antagonist of the Penguins of Madagascar movie because I always knew him to be their greatest enemy. But instead I got some lame octopus guy I don't even remember the name of 😭
Daryl?
RIGHT! Me too!
Pretty sure it was Daniel
Who had a boring ass motivation
Nah I'm 98% sure his name was Deborah
"there is no fandom" look. There might not be a big huge one but the fandom exists!! It was my first Tumblr fandom ten years ago and I'm still mutuals with my best fandom friend and she still blogs mostly about PoM!! I remember having to dodge spoilers when the movie came out and there was a lot of discourse about the implications of the movie on the show canon since they were in a separate continuity. It might max out at five people but please don't say our fandom doesn't exist ;w;
There’s actually a huge Penguins of Madagascar fandom, it even has it’s own country! Although I’m not sure why it’s name is completely unrelated to penguins at all
That’s true, I was also part of a Madagascar fandom, where we talk about everything Madagascar. I sorta became like, the only Madagascar fan who edited the Penguins of Madagascar show on the Madagascar Wiki for fixing corrected airdates, as well as stuff to the lore that not many people knew, like adding references to the games, and that kind of stuff.
Sadly, I was removed from the wiki for some controversial reason.
@@ShockwaveFPSStudios that's a shame! I was actually mostly into the mainline movies, and fell into the pom fandom because there really truly wasn't a fandom on Tumblr at all for the rest of Madagascar. I wasn't tuned into fandom wikis at the time, sadly. I probably would have loved the Madagascar wiki.
“there is no fandom” is a bold claim to make about anything lol
What I like about Dr. Blowholes appearance is,) that with confirming some of Skipper's crazy (and strangely one-man-missions, making him sound waaay older and more experienced in this field than the others): You never know, what story is true/based on his actual life (in case of over-exaggerated storytelling on his part) or when he is actually delusional 😂
Doesn’t help that they later reveal that Manfredi & Johnson, two characters only mentioned in passing for some bizarre noodle incident, are real and very much alive
SO much fanfic fuel XD
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"As a kid, as of season one, this was my absolute favorite episode. And I don't feel like unpacking that right now"
LOL
He looks like he's been exposed to some chemicals in the water if you know what I mean
As I’m watching I’m slowing remembering I’ve watched almost every single episode of this show as a kid and only now seeing how insane it is
The snow cone episode is a long lost memory
I was very deranged about this show when I was younger so it makes me really happy to see someone actually talking about it for once + It's pretty cool that this video was made by a Transformers channel because I'm also deranged about that lol
I was the same but for the kung fu panda show
i too was a deranged the penguins of madagascar fan as a child
@@johnappleseed366 Oh man! I was absolutely ballistic about that show as well!! They used to air the Kung Fu Panda and Peguins Of Madagascar shows together and I used to be glued to the tv screen watching them back to back it was a great time
Hoboken, New Jersey has always been a running joke in general. In an old Bugs Bunny cartoon where he helps a baby get to Antarctica, the little penguin reveals it was actually raised in the Hoboken zoo and Bugs just loses his mind at the thought of going there. Then, towards the end of “Dude, Where’s My Car” one of these alien guys is like “we banish you to Hoboken, NJ”. I think it gets referenced a few times in “How I Met Your Mother”.
I’m fairly sure that this show is the reason I have a strong hatred of New Jersey that has always confused my parents
In one of my favorite childhood shows "Ultimate Spiderman", they also have a running joke about New Jersey being a place no one wants to be.
What does the US have against NJ?
Maybe it's some sort of in-joke among the writers in the show industry.
Wasn't there even a line in Hamilton where they make a jab at New Jersey?
When i was like 11 or 12 my parents went to tom mcgrath's wedding because my dad was coworkers with his wife, and i almost went to a party at his house a few years later once i was actually interested in becoming an animator but then the pandemic happened 😭 ive been begging my dad to try to see if i can meet him because he's done so many big things at dreamworks
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you should ask him to do the skipper voice the next time you see him
I never realized how much of the charm this series had in my country was the dubbing. The Latin American Spanish dub of the penguins is so iconic that listening to them in English feels...hollow
I'm so glad you touched upon the lack of notoriety this show has despite it's popularity, it always seemed to puzzle me why this was the case. Nevertheless, the show takes up a lot of real estate in my own head and has a lot of pop cultural significance to me haha
It's interesting that you say the show had no cultural significance. Maybe it's true in America. But I'm from Poland and from the Penguins-obsessed generation, and here the show is still fondly remembered and there are lots of memes from it and youtube videos about it. Maybe it's just because one of the main characters is named Kowalski wich is a typical polish last name, and somehow that made us like the show more lol
I just think it's a combination of nickelodeon airing it very often, the madagascar movies already being popular and the dub being very well done.
This is like the tenth comment I've seen about this, is Penguins of Madagascar to Poland what SpongeBob is to us?
@@chuckbatman5Well, we actively use templates from the show and it airs on Tv to this day, so I guess?
Glad the series is finally getting the recognition it deserves. It was a huge hit in Ukraine and it still remains a cult classic, with regular airings across various TV channels to this day.
it definitely wasnt some underground show, ppl heard of it, especially outside of Ukraine lol
This show was one of my absolute favorites when I was a kid. 😭 This and the Kung Fu Panda cartoon, which is also strangely obscure despite how much Nickelodeon used to hype it up. Would love to see a video on that one if you're up to it. Or TMNT 2012 which completely consumed my soul when it came out lmao
I need to rewatch TMNT 2012, so many incredible storylines
oh my goshhhh the kung fu panda show! I completely forgot about that
@37:20 I remember this joke so vividly as the thing that taught me scarlet and crimson were shades of red. This is such a wild memory to suddenly appear but I suddenly have such a clear moment of me watching this scene as a kid.
Using club penguins spy theme as a background music is just genius.
Haha, it's weird how we both had similar Skipper and Marlene relationship. I even remember also speculating that 2:26:54 the Tunnel of Love would be about Skipper and Marlene. Even though now as an adult, I can say they didn't really have any chemistry, but I'm pretty sure it was caused by Marlene being basically the only female character in the main cast and Skipper being the leader.
Actually it already got found
I love that most of the tools and gadgets Kowalski makes look like they’re made from random toys and pieces of trash that they found lying around at the zoo. What I love even more is that while this is true, they’ve also got a functioning thermonuclear reactor powering their base.
I always remember the needle episode because everyone especially me could relate to Skipper’s fear of needles.
Although I can't relate to the needle fear, I also remember that episode fondly, but more so for the seductive distraction dance skipper does that just mesmerized me as a child
I remember watching this show nonstop everytime it aired on nickelodeon, there's just something offly cool about the penguins going from trying to head to Antarctica to planning out the most whackiest spy missions, and the show was actually very self aware that even if it takes place in a different parallel universe it's still fun to watch as it expands on beyond what the penguins do and how they interact with characters in the show.
As a kid I was absolutely obsessed with this show. I remember watching the series premiere after the 2008 kids choice awards. When they had toys at McDonald’s I went until I had each one of the penguins and constantly carried them around with me. I would even go onto the Nickelodeon website and post short stories on the POM discussion boards. It’s so incredible to see people who were as fond of this show as I was. Also Kowalski FTW 8 year old me would have died for him.
this show is one of the most famous cartoons in Poland and is loved by adults and children alike, not to mention the iconic dabbing of the main characters and their sayings
My best friend in middle school and I were OBSESSED with this show, and even opened a fan blog just to talk about it between us and rank the best episodes.
This show had the perfect amount of borderline insanity that I loved and still do
(Also I'm from Poland and yes we love the penguins. A big part in this played the polish dubbing I think, the jokes were more unhinged and less family-friendly sometimes and it was hilarious)
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You mentioned being curious how the episode "Miss Gendering" aged. As I am a media student with a focus on gender studies, I was curious as well and watched that episode very close.
It's actually pretty good even for today's standards, though they do work with a lot of cliché especially the Ms. Pacman Trope. (Basically, through adding a ribbon, Skipper is set apart as female and the penguins who until then had no physical gender implications became male-coded.) Skipper tries to find out what it means to be female and calls Marlene for help. Marlene tries to explain to him that you don't have to be girly to be a girl which is a nice message. However, Marlene rarely gets listened to and Skipper follows his own strain of thought, believing he has to wear a ribbon and act all girly. In the end, he realises that nothing changes despite being female, which is a very modern way of thinking. After all, gender according to Judith Butler can be seen as a performative act that isn't determined by biological sex. Gender is a construct that gets reinforced and therefore performed by being constantly repeated (like calling someone male or female, media practices, media representation etc.)
The episode is quite interesting from a scientific perspective (Kowalski, get your butt into gender studies, please) but not because it's progressive but rather showing the clichés from back then.
keyan you're so real for this. thanks for always picking the underdog least-talked-about shows to make deep dives about. really validates my childhood interests
Nickelodeon DreamWorks shows need more attention. They played an integral part in my childhood, but aside from Penguins, we've had Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness and Monsters Vs Aliens 2013(the last we'll ever see the IP again). Maybe the other two could have their separate multi-hour reviews, but the voice acting within these shows(excluding MvA, which was decent) were so good imo. Wally Wingert literally mirrored the performance of Ben Stiller and Jack Black as Alex in the Penguins of Madagascar specials, and Po in Legends of Awesomeness. Absolute talent within both; Jeff Bennett and James Patrick Stewart also did great as Kowalski and Private, same goes with Tom McGrath as Skipper.
Wait hold on Legends of Awesomeness *didn't have Jack Black?* that impression was so on point I was fully under the impression he came for the show all these years
Who remembers Turbo FAST?
It makes me so happy that this show hasn't been forgotten after all these years
Not giving the penguins any personal internal conflict between each other is one of the best decisions of the writers ever did. Those plots tend to be dumb and cheap, since they are usually caused by a simple miscommunication problem or the characters acting really selfish out of nowhere. The only time this kind of thing happen in the show is usually due to supernatural or sci-fi means, which meant that under normal circumstances, the penguins have an unbreakable bond that is stronger than steel.
I'm back in my PoM phase, writing fanfics again. Taking a small break from writing and rewatching the show to listen to this. Thanks for doing this video! I'm so glad this show gets some recognition again!
Dude, this was one of the best series to watch on Nickelodeon back then. My whole family was on board with the show, and we even got the DVDs of the series. We still watch them whenever we want, and it still holds up after 10+ years.
As an old Penguins Of Madagascar fan the fandom was really big the AMV community went crazy over it and the biggest ship was Julien X Skipper or Dr. Blowhole X Skipper. The fandom even fought nick to bring it back and once the movie happened fans loved or hated it.
The Kowalski sexypedia page is the wildest wiki page I ever read.
@@ricardodnda3826 That exists? If so why does it exist?
@@ricardodnda3826 just read part of it...there is a DILF section...Thanks for telling me the page exists, I guess?
@@kinginci357 You have been cursed with knowledge, pal.
extremely cringe anecdote but me and some other friends had a yaoi club in middle school (yes im serious) and everyone shipped dr blowhole and kowalski cus they were both scientists
finally the retrospective of this underrated classic is here
I totally agree with the dream of a Puss in Boots: The Last Wish moment for The Penguins of Madagascar series. I personally was really disappointed that the movie returned to the characterisation of the Madagascar films, and would love to see them return to the series characters for something that has the freedom to stray away from the toilet humour the show often devolved into that instead capitalised on the absolute insanity the show pulled off at its best moments. Marlene deserves more screen time, Julien's character deserves to be more balanced and less annoying and Mort deserves to be rewritten to be not insufferable. I've always felt this series was PERFECT for some sort of completely wacky and artistic reboot focusing on just being as absolutely insane and fun and action-packed as possible. It also upsets me that King Julien as a character has been able to have multiple spin-off series since the ending of this show, and yet the Penguins have never had a shot at an actual reboot of their show that retains their wacky and nostalgic series-style characterisation, with Marlene and the cast from the series returning.
I still remember there being a promo for the first Dr. Blowhole special that included a scene that was cut from the episode (at least I think it was cut, it might never have been intended to be part of it, but I doubt they would have made a fully animated scene for a promo). It was Skipper going around the base being super over paranoid about Blowhole and annoying all the other penguins in the process. It’s been over half my life since I saw it, but I still have vague memories of it.
I always thought of this series as one of those laidback type of cartoons that aren't heavily focused on being storydriven. It reminds me of robot and monster and fanboy and chum that were also on nicktoons around that time. it also reminds me of the looney tunes show. Shows like that i use to watch before school or just in the afternoon on weekends. I always enjoyed those types of shows, i didn't have to keep up with the show too much and it was a great to just unwind and relax to these shows
I can’t tell you how many years I’ve waited for someone anyone to make some kind of deep dive video of this UNDERATED GEM of a show. I loved watching this when I was little the musical episode with Alex and blowhole was my favorite! And the fact that I was showing this to my cousin just a few days ago
We are friends now
It's not underrated, did you miss the parts where he said he was bored, annoyed, and appalled by the show?
Learning that Keyan used to copy the plots of TV show episodes and submit them in class makes me feel slightly less guilty about the time I copy/pasted the plot of the Zeke and Luther episode with the exploding skateboard (except it was about Tony Hawk and his friend, "Jack Eagle"), and submitted it as my own story in class.
"jack eagle" is so hilarious to me for some reason lmao love that for you, honestly.
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“Jack eagle” makes me think of “duke nukem” for some reason
I did stuff like this as a kid too. I think that's just how kids learn how to write, similar to how kids learn how to draw by tracing and copying art styles they like. Even if you know what plagiarism is as a kid, you don't fully comprehend it, lol.
No because the penguins different catch phrases, and best lines are still used by my entire family on my mums side. The Christmas story is one we watch every year (that and the sherk Christmas dvd). There’s something so special to me about this dapper penguins.
46:36 also the fact that they didn’t make private the possible girl penguin is also nice to see.
I remember watching this a lot on Nickelodeon, because not only did this show come right around when both SpongeBob SquarePants & The Fairly Oddparents jumped the shark, but it had better humor than those shows at the time.
“Me And My Jay Jay” has lived rent free in my head for at least 15 years
My dad and I still constantly quote from this show, but especially from the episode Tagged! The “different coloured” red buttons is still one of our favourite bits ever
I loved everything about this show from the characters to the music, plots, humor and... well, everything!
No, the humor is bad
Sometimes the humor was full of toilet humor. That one didn't age well.
@@redpanda6497 OK maybe not all the humor was great.
Huh it's wierd to hear that the Penguins of Madagascar isn't talked about in the US. Here in Poland it is very well known and popular. Nearly everyone is familiar with it regardless of age. It aired on multiple channels including government television. Not to mention that the dub is excellent, way funnier than the original with the legendary Jarosław Boberek as King Julien. There are lots of memes and edits. There was even a TH-cam channel where some guy role played as King Julien and played video games in character. COBI the Polish building blocks manufacturer made a line of officially licensed the Penguins of Madagascar sets which is really funny when you realize that since Skipper is public enemy #1 in Denmark LEGO would never make sets based on the show. And the cherry on top is that one of the main characters in literally named Kowalski. Need I say more...?
Holy shit you just unlocked the Polish King Julien Gaming and Cooking Channel from the depths of my childhood brain. Moris, zwę cię, moją deską.
I remember so much about this show growing up that I could recite The Hoboken Surprise word-for-word, sound effect-by-sound effect when I was in high school, and ran it in my head when I had extra time after finishing an exam in high school. The fact that you're giving attention to this series now is one of the best things that I've seen all week!
A 2 and a half hours video about my first ever hyperfixation and my first favorite franchise??
Never been so invested in a youtube video this much, this is peak content to me, I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who wrote fanfics and made fanarts of this show as a kid! I rewatch the whole series every now and then and know almost every episode by heart.
Fun fact: the Penguin shake has become a tiktok trend in 2023, I couldn't believe it LMAO
another fun fact: in the italian dubbing I grew up with, the Big Time Rush voice actor's in their cameo episode were the same as their actual show which I also loved, and that was so important to me that I still point it out to this day because I've never seen such a dedicated voice reference back then (I think I was the only one who cared about it lol)
Hello, fellow fanfic author xD I also wrote super many fanfics about them as a kid and still do
@@yumestar19 aahhh hello!!🙌🙌
sucks to hear the penguins of madagascar show isnt talked about much in north america. Down here in South America it´s pretty common to see it in memes! It´s dub is really highly regarded so that probably helped a lot
I REMEMBER there being a musical portion of an episode starring Doctor Blowhole, which now to me makes so much sense because going back to another childhood classic show of mine recently, Batman: the Brave and the Bold, there was an entire musical episode with the villain Music Meister as the headlining threat. Music Meister, of course, being played by celebrity guest star Neil Patrick Harris. At a point in this video all of a sudden it clicked that TWO of my childhood favorite shows had Neil Patrick Harris guest star for a musical episode.
(also good video!)
Oh yeah, the 2nd Dr. Blowhole special, now that’s a good one. Probably one of my favorite episodes.
I'm so incredibly happy to see someone talk about this series for this much time. It was one of my favorites growing up, especially as someone who didn't get to watch the Madagascar films very much as we didn't own them. I swear I was obsessed with these silly little spy penguins.
I remember frequently watching the series on TV, and loved renting the DVD for Blowhole's Revenge. It was literally my favorite episode to watch.
My family and I still quote Dr. Blowhole's Pen-gu-ins line to this day.
Kowalski is my favorite penguin, Jeff Bennett is such an underrated voice actor.
Underrated? The guy is literally every animated show with an LA voice cast.
@@daliborjovanovic510That's why Keyan called him "Legendary"
I used to play the Penguins of madagascar. My sibling was Kowalski and I was Skipper and we went on adcentures. I loooved this show
I didn't know how much of this series was so alive and well in my memory, especially the Blowhole special. Thank you so much for this trip down memory lane. My whole family and I loved this show back in the day
Love the content, mate. I have never seen anyone on TH-cam go this in depth on my personal favorite Nick series, ever!
Well he said that only Jordan Fringe and Triforcefilms did make a video on this show.
The show's meme potential was exploited by latinamerican viewers, mainly due to to the translated version, which featured a lot of expressions used there. The voice acting was also more unique, Julian's voice as well as Skipper's are so well known, that they reprise them outside anything Madagascar related.
bro you have no idea how excited i got over seeing this video recommended to me. NO ONE i know seems to have ever watched this show and I'm over here as that one kid who watched it religiously and still goes back to watch it every so often.
I always used to watch the Penguins before going to school. I have very fond memories of that, so I am SUPER THRILLED to watch your video about this series that is so engrained into my memory. Love you Key!
Man this was one of my special interests, just hearing the music again awakens some good memories. Glad they made this show, and you the video!
I remember as a kid when I was allowed to stay up past my bedtime my siblings and I would watch this show with my dad in the living room. It felt minor back then but it's very nostalgic for me now that I've grown up and am reminded of this show, I sometimes binge shows in the same manner my family and I did back then for the nostalgia feeling even though I'm alone now (for school purposes).
There is in fact a penguins of Madagascar fandom on tumblr! I found it on accident in 2018 when looking for pictures of Pomeranians and just searched pom. Just checked rn and there is in fact still several people posting penguins of Madagascar content under the pom tag.
I remember the thing that solidified skipper and Marlene being a ship for me was simply the fact that skipper has like a “pet” name that he calls her (doll/dollface) and I remember always thinking it was so cute
This might be a kind of depressing comment but my dad died back in 2016. I’m not sure why but he used to love the penguins ever since watching the movies with me as a kid. We used to watch this show together a lot before he died so thanks for a bit of nostalgia and good memories ❤