Pingu (show)

Pingu is a Swiss-British children's animated series created by Otmar Gutmann and Erika Brueggemann. The show was originally produced by Trickfilmstudio Otmar Gutmann, before rebranding itself to Pingu Filmstudio and Pingu Studio after the death of Gutmann in 1993.

The show is characterized by its short runtime, with every episode around 5 minutes long; its use of slapstick, and by its lack of a real language. Instead, the characters speak in a variant of Grammelot labeled "Penguinese", identified by a series of babbles and squawks with some words from real languages thrown in. The main character is a young penguin boy named Pingu, for which the same show was named after. He is characterized by his signature honking sound, interpreted as "Nug, nug", "meep, meep", or more famously, "noot noot!".