Pingu: Revenge Of The Walrus

(Author’s note: this story is a semi sequel to Thomas & Friends: Bye Bye BoCo, and stars the same protagonist who I’ve decided to name Jason. You don’t have to read the last story before reading this one but if you did I’d appreciate it. I wrote a Wiggles creepypasta that I was going to post but the wiki wouldn’t let me post it for some reason. Don’t worry though, this story is better anyway.).
You know, working as an intern for HiT entertainment was probably the most fun job I have ever had. Normally I’d just clean places up around the office and watch new episodes that were being worked on, but every now and then I’d get the chance to do something really exciting. Like for instance, the time in early 2003 when I got to visit the hot animation studio in the UK.
For those of you who don’t know, hot animation was the name of a studio HiT owned, where they animated most of their stop motion shows. And in 2003, I got to go to the UK to see the studio behind the scenes on business trip. It was amazing seeing everything that was happening at the time. 2003 was one of the studio’s busiest years. They were working on animating Bob the Builder, as well as their newest show, Rubbadubbers. They were also working on the 5th season of Pingu, an older show that HiT had bought a couple years prior. I was in the studio where they were animating Pingu, when I saw something that looked really cool. Someone was working on a scene of Pingu running away from the giant walrus from the infamous “Pingu’s Nightmare” episode of the original series. I asked one of the cameramen what episode they were shooting, and they said the new episode was called “Revenge of The Walrus” and that I’d be able to watch it in the test audience when it was done at the end of the year.
Fast forward to the end of the year. I had gotten to watch all the new Pingu episodes as part of the test audience. Except one: Revenge of The Walrus. I was sick when they showed the episode, and as fate would have it, the episode was canned and never aired. I wanted to see what I had missed, see why they cancelled the episode.
A couple more months later I got my chance. I was cleaning the archive room where they keep all the DVDs with unfinished episodes on them, when one specific DVD caught my eye. It was the one with revenge of the Walrus. I was happy to see it, but sad because I knew I most likely wouldn’t be allowed to watch it. I still asked the manager about it though. He explained that the episode was cancelled because the original episode with the walrus had been banned in some countries, and too my surprise, he said since I did a good job cleaning I could take the DVD home for the night and then put it back next day. To say I was excited was an understatement, that night as soon as I got home and had something to eat I put the DVD in my PS2 and saw everything it had to offer.
The DVD didn’t have a menu, but started with a screen similar to the FBI warnings at the start of HiT DVD releases from the 2000s. The screen said: “Warning: This DVD is the sole private property of HiT entertainment studios. It is strictly prohibited to view this DVD outside of the premises without special permission, or to distribute this DVD anywhere. ©2003 HiT entertainment/ The Pygos Group all rights reserved.”
After that, the Pingu season 5 intro played and the actual episode began. It was nighttime, and Pingu was out camping with his sister Pinga, his best friend Robby the Seal, his girlfriend Pingi (Yes Pingu canonically has a girlfriend google it) and a few other penguins. They were sitting around the campfire eating fish and telling  scary stories in penguinese. Robby finished telling his story and passed the flashlight to Pingu. Pingu began saying something as it faded to a flashback to the original Pingu’s Dream episode. The flashback went on for about 20 seconds while Penguin narrated it in Penguinese. The flashback ended and it faded to Pingu again. The other penguins looked scared, but Robby laughed. Pingu laughed too. Then Pingu’s Dad came by and said something to Pingu. I’m guessing he said it was time for bed because after that all the penguins went to their tents and went to sleep.
It zoomed it to Pingu sleeping soundly, when suddenly his stomach rumbled and his eyes open. He got up to find something eat, when he saw that Pinga, who was sleeping in the sleeping bag next to him earlier, was no longer there. He walked out and looked in all the other tents. They were all empty too.
“Noot Noot!” he called out. There was no response, just the sound of wind blowing eerily.
Pingu picked up the flashlight and walked to the right of the screen, glancing all around him, until suddenly the snow beneath him collapsed and he fell into a dark cave. He looked all around. Suddenly, behind him, appeared the walrus. Pingu froze in fear as he heard the walrus breathing heavily. He turned around shakily, looked up and screamed. The walrus let out a roar as Pingu began booking it down the cave. The walls of the cave became narrower and narrower as he ran, until he hit a wall. The floor beneath him collapsed again, and he fell.
He fell through the air while screaming for 30 seconds while distorted footage of flames and various creepy sounds played in the background. The screaming faces of Pinga, Pingu’s parents, Robby and all the other penguins also faintly appeared. As he was still falling, he looked down to see the Walrus looking up at him with red eyes and his mouth wide open. Pingu screamed louder than ever and fell into the mouth of the walrus.
Right when he hit the mouth of the walrus, it cut to him screaming in his bed at day time. It was just another dream. Pinga woke up and went to see if Pingu was ok. Pingu got out of bed, hugged Pinga and sighed of relief. He went outside, where everyone else was waiting for him. He smiled and once again said “Noot Noot!” and the episode ended.
Honestly, I was kind of disturbed by the episode. I could definitely see why it was never released. Still, I was very happy to have been able to watch the episode after all. I returned the DVD to it’s rightful place next morning.
Where is the DVD now? I have no idea. Maybe it was moved to Mattel’s archives after Mattel bought HiT, maybe it was sold or auctioned to someone, maybe it was just destroyed. I hope not. No matter what though, I’ll always remember the special experience I had watching Bye Bye BoCo and Revenge of the walrus. I’ll never forget it.
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Category:Lost Episodes
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