In the mid 1980s, Swiss animator Otmar Gutmann began collaborating with writer Silvio Mazzola on a claymation show about a penguin living in Antarctica, Pingu. The show has had international success because of its lack of dialogue (the characters speak in penguin honks, or "Penguinese") and its simple, often quirky stories which can be easily understood by youngsters in any country.
I remember seeing this scene when I was younger,
and this video has managed to get 20,582,337 views on YouTube!
Up to this point, there have been 157 episodes of Pingu, and there has even been spoofs of it. A few years ago, I came across Chav Pingu on YouTube.
There is another children's stop motion series that I came across a couple of years ago, named OOglies, produced by BBC Scotland for CBBC. It first aired in 2009 on both CBBC and BBC HD, and is still shown on TV now. The programme involves short, funny sketches of inanimate objects such as household items and food, all with googly eyes on, doing silly things around the house. There is no dialogue, only sounds they make, which means the audience can interpret what is said between the characters.
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