Pingu and his parents are eating their lunch one day, but Pingu doesn't want to eat his seaweed. After a comical lunch, Pingu goes outside to play with his red rubber ball but it is stolen by two mischievous penguins named Pingo and Pingg.
Pingu's family has an egg and Pingu is in charge of incubating it. Soon, he becomes bored and decides to listen to music, causing the egg to wreak havoc in the igloo.
After being incubated for a while, the egg starts to crack. Father phones the doctor and Pingu is desperate to see his new sibling. When the egg is finally opened, it turns out to be a girl and the family decide to call her Pinga.
Pingu is going fishing. He manages to catch a fish, but a seal named Robby eats his bait. When the seal gets his flipper hurt, Pingu has remorse and he and Robby become friends.
Pingu is upset when Mother pays attention to his baby sister, Pinga. He tries everything to get Mother's attention, but unfortunately, he does not succeed. Mother soon makes up with a tearful Pingu.
Pingu and Robby are tobogganing using an old broken barrel. However, things backfire when Pingu ends up inside an ice pillar. Robby goes for help and the doctor helps Pingu out of the pillar.
Robby brings a large fish and he and Pingu have fun playing with it. Unfortunately, it gets stuck on the washing line, but Pingu gets it down by walking on stilts.
Pingu is admiring his friend Pingo's fantastic new skis. He is even allowed to stand on the back of them and ski along with him. As they go, he spots a broken barrel. He soon has a pair of home-made skis and they set off again.
Pingu and friends Pingo and Pingg meet for a toboggan race. They all race down the mountain but Pingu's toboggan does not seem to be working properly and he just cannot keep up. Pingu knows just what to do and makes a few adjustments.
Pingu has a playdate with Pingo, but he has to take Pinga along. He selfishly forbids Pinga from playing with him and Pingo. As a result, Pinga runs away and Pingu and Pingo search for her, only to find her back at home.
Pingu and his friends, Robby and Pongi, arrive to see some professionals play ice hockey. They decide to join, but as the game progresses, the professionals suddenly become violent and display bad sportsmanship.
Pingu and his parents are eating their dinner one night, but Pingu is not happy because he has to eat seaweed. After ruining the dinner and getting spanked, Pingu runs away from home in tears thinking his parents don't love him anymore.
Pingu and his friend Pingo decide to build an igloo. They search for a place to build the new igloo but cannot agree on the spot. They end up fighting over the ice blocks and decide to build their own igloos.
The two penguin children try everything in order not to have to go to bed. First they need to go to the loo again, then they're thirsty, then they have to have the light on, and then the door has to be left just a little bit ajar.
Pingu finds an accordion in his toybox and has fun playing with it. The noise is so disturbing that Pingu is sent outside, so he goes to his paternal grandfather's house to be taught how to play the accordion.
Pingu has to rush to the toilet because he drank too much. When he gets home however, Father is in the bathroom, and then when he does get in the toilet, it is simply too high. Pingu then has to clean up the mess he has made.
Pingu meets Robby on the way to school and Robby slips into the school ice-hole. During their lesson the class all have to dive into the ice-hole in order to find out what types of fish live beneath the ice.
During a game of catch with Pingo, Pingo's ball rolls out of sight. Whilst trying to retrieve it, the two friends get trapped in a tunnel. Although at first despairing with ingenuity on Pingu's part, they manage to get out and back home.
When Mother reads him a bedtime story, Pingu falls asleep and dreams about the igloo floating away like a spaceship and his bed galloping like a horse. Pingu finds this fun, but his dream becomes bad when a giant walrus torments him.
Grandfather is sick, so Pingu and Pinga set off with their mother right away. While Mother is looking after Grandfather, brother and sister play together, but their noise and nuisance soon means their mother sends them home.
Mother and Father are going out to a concert, leaving Pingu and Pinga to manage themselves. They make a mess in the igloo, but clean everything up when their parents are coming back home.
Pingu and his friends Pingo and Pingg are playing ball. They are so excited that they do not notice how loud they are. A neighbor is annoyed at the noise the youngsters are making and keeps chasing them away.
Pingu feels sorry for the poor organ grinder. He puts some money in his hat and wants the adult penguins to do the same but they all look the other way. Pingu takes the poor man to his run-down igloo.
Pingu, Pinga and Robby play at putting on a circus. Their performances meet with a huge applause, even though not all of them go to plan, in fact, the more they go wrong, the funnier they seem to be.