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S02E03 - Gator Watch
While the penguins are visiting with him in his sewer home, Roger, their alligator friend, states that he hates having to live there, but that he loves being in New York so much that he is willing to endure it. The penguins soon decide to help Roger find a better place to live in the city. They first hide Roger inside a log in a nearby pond, but a lady sees him and screams. They try hiding him as a display in a museum next, but Roger blows his cover by becoming "alive" when a boy pokes him. Following this, the penguins try to hide Roger on a rooftop as a gargoyle, but Roger, afraid of heights, soon falls into a public pool below. Throughout all this, the attempts to relocate Roger make TV news headlines, in a segment called "Gator Watch." While trying next to evade humans, Roger unwittingly enters onto a stage via a building's backdoor and is soon captured by animal control. The penguins then set off after the van transporting Roger to break him out, but they fail to do so before the vehicle arrives at its destination: a well-suited habitat at the Central Park Zoo.
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The Red Squirrel
The Red Squirrel
The penguins fall under the spell of Skipper's idol.
Hard Boiled Eggy
Hard Boiled Eggy
While the penguins are engaged in a training exercise, Eggy the duckling enters the HQ, acting in a commando-like fashion. His mother soon locates him there, and tells the penguins that Eggy has been behaving that way ever since their egg-watching adventure. As requested by Eggy's mother, the penguins agree to work with Eggy to convince him that he is not suited to engage in their para-military operations. But when he persists in desiring to become a commando, Skipper leads Eggy to believe that he needs to have a "Penguin Commando License" in order to partake in their operations, and that being able to tackle all the zoo has to offer is requisite for obtaining such. Although briefly successful, this plan soon backfires when Eggy begins to take down all the zoo animals, using the specialized characteristics of each of the penguins that he had learned from them while still in the egg state. Eventually, Julien is the last animal that Eggy had not yet beaten, and thus the only thing standing between him and his "license." But Julien, upon learning that "[his] J.J." (Eggy) wanted to become a penguin, begins dancing to music, and Eggy fails to bring him down as a result. Eggy is then cured of his commando desires but, to the dismay of the penguins, now has taken up Julien's behaviors.
The Lost Treasure of the Golden Squirrel
The Lost Treasure of the Golden Squirrel
The opening of a time capsule buried at the zoo a century ago forces the penguins, Julien, Maurice, Mort, Marlene and Fred into a search for the legendary cursed treasure of the Golden Squirrel, which they must find and destroy before the rats claim it for themselves, but matters are complicated when the treasure includes a curse that will drive those who seek it to fight each other until one who is 'pure of heart' claims the treasure. This episode was originally scheduled to be aired in the U.S. on April 25, 2010, but remains unaired there. However, it aired on April 25, 2010 on the Canadian Network YTV as part of a "Penguin Marathon".
Operation: Cooties
Operation: Cooties
The penguins and Julien believe Marlene has cooties after overhearing a group of schoolchildren.
Mr. Tux
Mr. Tux
Bent on an agenda to defeat "Mr. Tux" in a round of mini golf, an armadillo comes to the zoo believing that one of the penguins is him.
Concrete Jungle Survival
Concrete Jungle Survival
Private must pass a difficult test on the New York streets in order to move up in rank and share a classified joke. In order to move up ranks Private must face a "haunted bus" but he is forced to safe the lemurs as they have been caught by the "haunted bus".
Stop Bugging Me
Stop Bugging Me
A group of cockroaches ask the penguins for help with their exterminator problem.
Field Tripped
Field Tripped
When a boy on a school trip sees the Penguins in action, the team scrambles into action to steal his notebook; meanwhile, Julien attempts to form his own team to claim his old backscratcher from the museum (Mort=Skipper, Fred=Kowalski, Maurice=Rico, and Julien=Private). This episode was released only on the Nickelodeon website.
The Helmet
The Helmet
Julien causes chaos at the zoo when he steals Kowalski's new invention.
Huffin' and Puffin'
Skipper's old puffin enemy Hans comes to the zoo, claiming to be interested in friendship while really seeking to steal the penguins' lair for himself. While it has not aired in the United States, the episode aired with "The Penguin Stays in the Picture" on YTV (in Canada) on April 17, 2010 and again on May 1, 2010.
Command Crisis
After getting a kid's balloon back, Skipper mentions something about The Big One. He explains he has been waiting for it to come for months and he hid some plans in a remote area of the zoo for when the big one comes. But it is revealed that they are building a children's zoo on the spot he hid the plans, so now they try to get the plans before The Big One Comes. But Skipper then starts acting like a news reporter. Can Skipper stop acting like a reporter, and can they get the plans in time before the Big One comes?
The All Nighter Before Christmas
When the zoo closes for the Christmas holiday, the animals gather to begin work on Kidsmas, their annual holiday festivities mainly designed to delight the younger animals. Each animal is assigned a Kidsmas preparation task to perform, but Julien, desiring a different one, rearranges each animals' task.
Brush With Danger
Brush With Danger
Burt the elephant discovers a love for painting, and he's remarkably talented.
Love Hurts
Love Hurts
Private keeps injuring himself so he can see the new zoo nurse he has a crush on.
The Officer X Factor
The Officer X Factor
Officer X fills in for a vacationing Alice and keeps a very close eye on the penguins.
Brain Drain
Brain Drain
Kowalski's experiment on his brain goes awry, and he becomes dumber instead of smarter.
Right Hand Man
Right Hand Man
Julien has fun barking orders at new zoo occupant Clemson, whom Mort is suspicious of.
Danger Wears a Cape
Danger Wears a Cape
Private finds a stack of comic books and ignores Skipper's request to destroy them.
Operation: Break-Speare
Operation: Break-Speare
Shakespeare in the park has inspired Private as he struts around quoting from the Bard's works.
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The Penguins of Madagascar is an American CGI animated television series airing on Nickelodeon. It stars nine characters from the DreamWorks Animation animated film Madagascar: The penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Private, and Rico; the lemurs King Julien, Maurice, and Mort; and Mason and Phil the chimpanzees. Characters new to the series include Marlene the otter and a zookeeper named Alice. It is the first Nicktoon produced with DreamWorks Animation.
A pilot episode, "Gone in a Flash", aired as part of "Superstuffed Nicktoons Weekend" on November 29, 2008, and The Penguins of Madagascar became a regular series on March 28, 2009. The series premiere drew 6.1 million viewers, setting a new record as the most-watched premiere.
Although the series occasionally alludes to the rest of the franchise, The Penguins of Madagascar does not take place at a precise time within it. McGrath, who is also the co-creator of the film characters, has said that the series takes place "not specifically before or after the movie, I just wanted them all back at the zoo. I think of it as taking place in a parallel universe."