Pingu (Korean English dub)

The Korean English dub of mh:besttvshows:Pingu (also called "English Pingu" ) is an English dub of Pingu in South Korea made by Dongsung Productions Co., Ltd. and Elite Production. The dub never aired on television, so the only season of the dub was split into six VHS tapes (where the third one is currently lost) and released that way. At the end of each episode, there is a "Listen & Repeat" segment where a female announcer repeats the dialogue in the dub.

Why It Cannot Be Forgiven

 * 1) The idea of dubbing Pingu into English for educational purposes is very unpractical since the show does much better without it through body language and characters speaking the made-up language "Penguinese" whenever they do.
 * 2) This dub has plenty of errors:
 * 3) *The grammar is on the same level as typical "Engrish", such as some sentences not starting with a subject pronoun and the copula "to be", an example of the unnatural dialogue: "Delicious dinner. Very good."
 * 4) *Misspellings sometimes appear in the subtitles; sometimes the subtitles do not cover every word in the dialogue either: In the first episode, Pingu says "Mom, brush my nose please.", but the subtitles misspell "nose" as "noise". Also, in the following episode, Pingu says "oh my goodness", but the subtitles read "oh my goddess".
 * 5) *Characters may talk when they shouldn't, adding awkward exposition: "I am sad. Sad story."
 * 6) *Characters even speak the same sentence twice a few times: Pingu once said "I have a good idea." twice.
 * 7) Poor, emotionless voice acting that makes some of the characters sound and feel different such as Pingu's mom sounding like something between a sweet housewife and a MILF, Pinga sounding like a poor version of Webby from DuckTales, Robby sounding like a cross between Willem Dafoe's Green Goblin and Nermal from The Garfield Show, and the giant walrus from Pingu's dream sounding like a goofy pedophile wanting to eat him.
 * 8) Some examples of laughable dialogue include (the misspellings are intentional):
 * 9) *Pingu saying "Mine. Give me back." to Pingg when he has his ball, only for the former to say "Catch it! Here it is."
 * 10) *"I will blow it [up] again."
 * 11) *Pingu's dad saying three things in "Pingu Looks After The Egg": "I bet laundries are done. Very clean.", "Very cold out there." after his wife thanks him, and "I am hanging out laundries."
 * 12) *"Oh my goodness!"
 * 13) *"Eggs, Big trouble."
 * 14) *"Oh my baby. I will protect you boys."
 * 15) *"Wow! Cool Pingu!"
 * 16) *"Hi, little postman Pingu?"
 * 17) *"You come here to help your father?"
 * 18) *"Sad news. I am sorry."
 * 19) *"[Uh oh,] sorry. Go home right away."
 * 20) *"Eggs are hatched."
 * 21) *"Don't worry too much. Baby is coming out of the egg."
 * 22) *Pingu's dad saying two things in "The New Arrival": It is coming out. Oh, my baby!" and "Cute baby." before Pinga even hatched.
 * 23) *"He relieved himself!" (this is when the writers thought that Pinga was a male)
 * 24) *"No! Don't smoke here!"
 * 25) *"You can sleep alone."
 * 26) *"Wow, so tired."
 * 27) *"Oops, I am stunned."
 * 28) *"Don't laugh."
 * 29) *"Don't laugh at me!"
 * 30) *"I must be looking great. Right?"
 * 31) *"Yes, making a doll with it."
 * 32) *"It is just a doll!"
 * 33) *"Wow! A sled!"
 * 34) *"Help! My friend is kept in the stack of snow."
 * 35) *"You must care more."
 * 36) *"Wow, you are cool!"
 * 37) *"Yes, I especially give you a chance to ski!"
 * 38) *"Oh my ski! Broken..."
 * 39) *"Oh, my ski. Now I can not ride on!"
 * 40) *"Delicious dinner. Very good."
 * 41) *Pingu's dad saying three things in "Pingu Runs Away": "Pingu! You are such a bad boy.", "Boy like you must pay for this." and "Pingu, do you want me to give you a bad time?". Pinga's mom then says "You bad boy. Do you want to get whipped?"
 * 42) *This conversation:
 * 43) **Pingu's dad: "I can not forgive you. Never."
 * 44) **Pingu: "Forgive me father."
 * 45) **Pingu's dad: "No."
 * 46) *"I am so scared, scared, scared."
 * 47) *"You are frozen."
 * 48) *"I will show you very interesting thing."
 * 49) *This conversation in "Music Lessons":
 * 50) **Female penguin: "I have heard this song. It is so mellow... nice."
 * 51) **Male penguin: "Yeah, very nice song."
 * 52) **Female penguin: "But there is [a] better song."
 * 53) **Male penguin: "Who is it? Who?"
 * 54) *"No one like my playing."
 * 55) *"It is the sound of accordion."
 * 56) *"Oh, baby audience."
 * 57) *"No no. Playing in a careless way like you do is not a play."
 * 58) *"Here is a rope. Now we survive."
 * 59) *"It is so scary. I can not do it."
 * 60) *"Don't worry! I will go first. Like Tarzan."
 * 61) *"No, so scary."
 * 62) *"Oh my god. So scary."
 * 63) *"Mom, mom, help, so scary."
 * 64) *"We are escaped. Great."
 * 65) *"You broke the blocks."
 * 66) *"Pingu, you hate me, hate me."
 * 67) *"Brush every teeth."
 * 68) *"Mom, my nipple." (Pinga means a pacifier)
 * 69) *"Kids, let's walk to the bed together."
 * 70) *"Give me small fish."
 * 71) *"Give us juice as much as this big fish."
 * 72) *"How can you take a pee here?"
 * 73) *"Move, move over there. I am serious."
 * 74) *"Mom, Pa, please go out. I need to take a pee."
 * 75) *"Get into the water." (this is said twice)
 * 76) *"Stop laughing, Pingu."
 * 77) *"A fur seal is a friend of yours. Take him to here."
 * 78) *"Is there any penguin who knows?"
 * 79) *"Very interesting class today."
 * 80) *"Pingu, fur seal, thank you."
 * 81) *"That is just fishborn."
 * 82) *"I am Pingu's grandfather. I am sick."
 * 83) *"Don't get too close to me, kids."
 * 84) *Pingu says: "Handshaking grandpa.", and then Pingu's grandpa says "Good idea."
 * 85) *"Yes, good kids, good kids." (said while he is sneezing)
 * 86) *"Sorry, I am sick. So please be quiet."
 * 87) *"Yes, it is exciting. Wow, great."
 * 88) *"They are little demons."
 * 89) *"Hey you, you are so noisy, Go home. Right now!"
 * 90) *"Eat more. You need to recover. How about one more bowl."
 * 91) *"Oh my god!"
 * 92) *"Hey! Get back here!"
 * 93) *"Uh... the bed is moving."
 * 94) *"Fun! Move! Wow!"
 * 95) *"Interesting! Moving bed."
 * 96) *Everything that the giant walrus says in "Pingu's Dream".
 * 97) *"Monster!"
 * 98) *"Watch out [for] your head."
 * 99) *"Don't laugh at my mistakes. I am angry."
 * 100) *"Seems like very interesting."
 * 101) *"Never mind. You have [a] very beautiful mind."
 * 102) *"Mr., help. Spare him."
 * 103) *"Help him for beautiful music, help."
 * 104) *"Help. Help poor people."
 * 105) *"There is a crack."
 * 106) *"Very great dinner."
 * 107) *"I will be exciting."
 * 108) *"Hey! Get lost! This is my land."
 * 109) *"There must be something wrong with him, psychopathic."
 * 110) *"Uh, it is a big problem. Scary lady took our ball!"
 * 111) *"It is of no use."
 * 112) *"Get me delicious things."
 * 113) *"Interesting, interesting..."
 * 114) *Pingu's mom says "Dear.", and then her husband says "Uh, I was just off."
 * 115) *Pinga says "I am the ghost of the box.", and then Pingu says "Are you? Then I am the ghost of the blanket."
 * 116) *"Let's clean up all these. It doesn't fit well."
 * 117) Only the first season is dubbed.
 * 118) The dub renamed the episodes for no reason, such as "Pingu Runs Away" being called "I Hate Mom", "Pingu Plays Fish Tennis" being called "Play Volleyball", and "Pingu in the Ice Cave" being called "Adventure". Since the third tape is lost, it is unknown what the episodes "Lost Baby", "Ice Hockey", "Building Igloos" and "Sledging" are called.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) This dub is definitely so bad it's good.
 * 2) People have pointed out least voice actors who can speak decent, if not good English were hired. It's just that they got bad scripts to work with.

Trivia

 * 1) The writers used to believe that Pinga was a male, something that was fixed once she got a voice.
 * 2) Robby is called a "fur seal" by everyone.

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