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 (25,324 votes)
Seasons: 3
Streaming (US): Paramount+
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Jul 3, 2026 · 3 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (2008)

7.58 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	334
2	Launchtime/Haunted Habitat	7.3	219
3	Operation: Plush and Cover	7.5	221
4	Happy King Julien Day!	7.1	251
5	Paternal Egg-Stinct	7.4	175
6	Assault and Batteries	7.3	170
7	Penguiner Takes All	7.7	161
8	Two Feet High and Rising	7.3	161
9	Tangled in the Web	7.2	163
10	Crown Fools	7.4	164
11	The Hidden/Kingdom Come	7.5	158
12	Little Zoo Coupe/All Choked Up	7.6	155
13	Popcorn Panic	7.7	173
14	Go Fish/Miracle on Ice	7.7	163
15	Needle Point/Eclipsed	7.6	158
16	Mort Unbound/Roomies	7.4	158
17	Misfortune Cookie/Lemur See, Lemur Do	7.9	148
18	Roger Dodger/Skorca!	7.9	137
19	Otter Gone Wild	7.8	138
20	Cat's Cradle/Monkey Love	7.6	138
21	Tagged	8.0	129
22	What Goes Around/Mask of the Raccoon	7.7	132
23	Out of the Groove/Jungle Law	7.6	131
24	I Was a Penguin Zombie/Sting Operation	7.8	201
25	All King, No Kingdom/Untouchable	7.7	139
26	Miss Understanding/Over Phil	7.6	121
27	An Elephant Never Forgets/Otter Things Have Happened	7.6	126
28	Zoo Tube/Snakehead!	8.0	136
29	Jiggles	7.7	116
30	The Falcon and the Snow Job/The Penguin Stays in the Picture	7.4	121
31	Dr. Blowhole's Revenge	7.8	194

Season 2 (2010)

7.84 avg 41 episodes 8.0 → 8.2 24 min avg

Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Red Squirrel/It's About Time	8.0	133
2	Gator Watch/In the Line of Doody	8.0	104
3	Can't Touch This/Hard Boiled Eggy	7.6	108
4	The Lost Treasure of the Golden Squirrel	8.1	118
5	Fit to Print/Operation: Cooties	8.1	99
6	Mr. Tux/Concrete Jungle Survival	8.0	103
7	Stop Bugging Me/Field Tripped	7.4	93
8	Badger Pride	7.6	95
9	Kaboom and Kabust/The Helmet	8.1	100
10	Night and Dazed/The Big Squeeze	7.9	99
11	Wishful Thinking/April Fools	7.9	98
12	Hello, Dollface/Huffin and Puffin	7.7	94
13	Invention Intervention/Cradle and All	8.0	101
14	Driven to the Brink/Friend-in-a-Box	7.7	96
15	Work Order/Hot Ice	7.8	101
16	Command Crisis/Truth Ache	7.9	101
17	The All Nighter Before Christmas	7.1	158
18	Whispers and Coups/Brush with Danger!	7.3	95
19	Love Hurts/The Officer X Factor	7.8	88
20	Brain Drain/Right Hand Man	8.2	88
21	Danger Wears a Cape/Operation: Break-Speare	8.0	86
22	Rat Fink/Kanga Management	7.9	82
23	King Julien for a Day/Maurice at Peace	7.7	87
24	Cute-astrophe	8.1	89
25	Operation: Neighbor Swap	7.6	88
26	All Tied Up with a Boa	8.4	92
27	Rock-a-Bye Birdie	8.0	81
28	Herring Impaired	7.8	78
29	A Visit from Uncle Nigel	8.1	89
30	The Hoboken Surprise	8.0	104
31	The Return of the Revenge of Dr. Blowhole	7.5	187
32	Pets Peeved/Byte-Sized	7.4	83
33	Operation: Good Deed/When the Chips are Down	7.7	88
34	Time Out/Our Man in Grrfurjiclestan	8.8	113
35	Gut Instinct/I Know Why the Caged Bird Goes Insane	7.9	78
36	The Big S.T.A.N.K./Arch-Enemy	7.7	81
37	Operation: Antarctica	7.3	127
38	The Big Move/Endangerous Species	7.8	79
39	Loathe at First Sight/The Trouble with Jiggles	7.5	79
40	Alienated/The Most Dangerous Game Night	7.9	76
41	Friend in a Box/Badger Pride	8.2	75

Season 3 (2012)

7.58 avg 23 episodes 7.5 → 7.5 23 min avg

Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Feline Fervor	7.5	74
2	King Me	7.7	71
3	The Otter Woman	7.4	78
4	Action Reaction	7.6	77
5	Thumb Drive	7.4	75
6	Operation: Big Blue Marble	7.7	81
7	Hair Apparent/Love Takes Flightless	7.3	78
8	Smotherly Love/Littlefoot	7.5	72
9	Antics on Ice/Showdown on Fairway 18	7.5	81
10	Street Smarts/Nighty Night Ninja	7.6	74
11	A Kipper for Skipper/High Moltage	7.8	80
12	Nuts to You/Terror on Madagascar	7.7	73
13	Mental Hen/Siege the Day	7.5	77
14	Tunnel of Love	7.2	86
15	P.E.L.T./Private and the Winky Factory	7.8	79
16	Best Laid Plantains/Skipper Makes Perfect	7.3	77
17	Marble Jar Head/Good Night and Good Chuck	8.2	75
18	Operation: Swap-panzee/Snowmageddon	7.9	77
19	Operation: Lunacorn Apocalypse	7.7	73
20	The Penguin Who Loved Me	8.1	95
21	Best Foes/Night of the Vesuviuses	7.2	84
22	Night of the Vesuviuses	7.3	51
23	Operation: Swap-anzee	7.5	50