The Penguins of Madagascar (2008)

Action · Adventure · Animation

The adventures of four penguins—Skipper, Kowalski, Private, and Rico, who perform various commando-like missions to protect their home in the Central Park Zoo. The penguins often have to deal with problems caused, or made worse, by their zoo neighbors, King Julien XIII (a ring-tailed lemur), Maurice (an aye-aye), and Mort (a mouse lemur).

IMDb rating: 7.5 (25,680 votes)
Episode average: 7.7 ↑ +0.2 vs IMDb
Seasons: 3
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 3 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2008)

7.57 avg 31 episodes 7.2 → 7.8 23 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Gone in a Flash	7.2	342
2	Launchtime/Haunted Habitat	7.3	226
3	Operation: Plush and Cover	7.5	227
4	Happy King Julien Day!	7.1	256
5	Paternal Egg-Stinct	7.3	180
6	Assault and Batteries	7.3	174
7	Penguiner Takes All	7.7	165
8	Two Feet High and Rising	7.3	165
9	Tangled in the Web	7.2	167
10	Crown Fools	7.4	167
11	The Hidden/Kingdom Come	7.5	162
12	Little Zoo Coupe/All Choked Up	7.6	158
13	Popcorn Panic	7.7	178
14	Go Fish/Miracle on Ice	7.7	168
15	Needle Point/Eclipsed	7.6	161
16	Mort Unbound/Roomies	7.4	161
17	Misfortune Cookie/Lemur See, Lemur Do	7.9	152
18	Roger Dodger/Skorca!	7.9	141
19	Otter Gone Wild	7.8	143
20	Cat's Cradle/Monkey Love	7.6	142
21	Tagged	8.0	133
22	What Goes Around/Mask of the Raccoon	7.7	136
23	Out of the Groove/Jungle Law	7.6	135
24	I Was a Penguin Zombie/Sting Operation	7.7	207
25	All King, No Kingdom/Untouchable	7.6	143
26	Miss Understanding/Over Phil	7.5	126
27	An Elephant Never Forgets/Otter Things Have Happened	7.6	130
28	Zoo Tube/Snakehead!	8.0	140
29	Jiggles	7.6	122
30	The Falcon and the Snow Job/The Penguin Stays in the Picture	7.5	126
31	Dr. Blowhole's Revenge	7.8	200

Season 2 (2010)

7.89 avg 41 episodes 8.0 → 8.3 24 min avg

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Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Red Squirrel/It's About Time	8.0	138
2	Gator Watch/In the Line of Doody	8.0	108
3	Can't Touch This/Hard Boiled Eggy	7.7	111
4	The Lost Treasure of the Golden Squirrel	8.0	122
5	Fit to Print/Operation: Cooties	8.1	101
6	Mr. Tux/Concrete Jungle Survival	8.1	107
7	Stop Bugging Me/Field Tripped	7.4	96
8	Badger Pride	7.6	97
9	Kaboom and Kabust/The Helmet	8.1	103
10	Night and Dazed/The Big Squeeze	8.0	102
11	Wishful Thinking/April Fools	7.9	102
12	Hello, Dollface/Huffin and Puffin	7.8	98
13	Invention Intervention/Cradle and All	8.0	104
14	Driven to the Brink/Friend-in-a-Box	7.8	99
15	Work Order/Hot Ice	7.8	103
16	Command Crisis/Truth Ache	7.9	105
17	The All Nighter Before Christmas	7.2	160
18	Whispers and Coups/Brush with Danger!	7.4	99
19	Love Hurts/The Officer X Factor	7.8	91
20	Brain Drain/Right Hand Man	8.3	92
21	Danger Wears a Cape/Operation: Break-Speare	8.0	89
22	Rat Fink/Kanga Management	8.0	84
23	King Julien for a Day/Maurice at Peace	7.8	89
24	Cute-astrophe	8.1	91
25	Operation: Neighbor Swap	7.6	90
26	All Tied Up with a Boa	8.4	95
27	Rock-a-Bye Birdie	8.1	83
28	Herring Impaired	7.9	80
29	A Visit from Uncle Nigel	8.1	91
30	The Hoboken Surprise	8.0	106
31	The Return of the Revenge of Dr. Blowhole	7.5	190
32	Pets Peeved/Byte-Sized	7.5	85
33	Operation: Good Deed/When the Chips are Down	7.8	90
34	Time Out/Our Man in Grrfurjiclestan	8.8	116
35	Gut Instinct/I Know Why the Caged Bird Goes Insane	8.0	80
36	The Big S.T.A.N.K./Arch-Enemy	7.8	84
37	Operation: Antarctica	7.4	130
38	The Big Move/Endangerous Species	7.9	81
39	Loathe at First Sight/The Trouble with Jiggles	7.5	80
40	Alienated/The Most Dangerous Game Night	8.0	78
41	Friend in a Box/Badger Pride	8.3	78

Season 3 (2012)

7.66 avg 23 episodes 7.6 → 7.5 23 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Feline Fervor	7.6	78
2	King Me	7.7	75
3	The Otter Woman	7.5	82
4	Action Reaction	7.7	81
5	Thumb Drive	7.5	79
6	Operation: Big Blue Marble	7.7	84
7	Hair Apparent/Love Takes Flightless	7.3	82
8	Smotherly Love/Littlefoot	7.6	75
9	Antics on Ice/Showdown on Fairway 18	7.6	84
10	Street Smarts/Nighty Night Ninja	7.6	77
11	A Kipper for Skipper/High Moltage	7.9	83
12	Nuts to You/Terror on Madagascar	7.8	76
13	Mental Hen/Siege the Day	7.6	80
14	Tunnel of Love	7.2	90
15	P.E.L.T./Private and the Winky Factory	7.9	82
16	Best Laid Plantains/Skipper Makes Perfect	7.4	81
17	Marble Jar Head/Good Night and Good Chuck	8.2	79
18	Operation: Swap-panzee/Snowmageddon	8.0	80
19	Operation: Lunacorn Apocalypse	7.8	78
20	The Penguin Who Loved Me	8.2	102
21	Best Foes/Night of the Vesuviuses	7.3	87
22	Night of the Vesuviuses	7.5	55
23	Operation: Swap-anzee	7.5	55