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Advertising
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 * Budweiser's ads for its Bud Ice brand from the mid-1990s starred the "Bud Ice Penguin", a creepy bird who terrorized drinkers in the vein of slasher/horror films in order to get some of their beer. The calling card of the bird was nonchalantly humming the opening bars to "Strangers in the Night". Dooby dooby doo...
 * Don't forget this brilliant Guinness ad.
 * Or this Canada Dry ad...
 * And From Latin America, there come the penguins of Bon Ice (and there are more ads with them; they just haven't been uploaded).
 * These penguins will take their potato chips... AND EAT THEM!
 * The French March of the Penguins commercial for Canal Plus.
 * More of an Aversion(Inversion?): the women is supposed to imagine penguins, though because the man is referring to the penguins as "Emperors", she imagines Napoleons taking the place of Penguins.
 * In the commercials for The General Auto Insurance, the General has a silent penguin sidekick which seems to serve no purpose.

Alternate Reality Games
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Anime and Manga
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 * As a penguin that apparently likes hot springs, Pen-Pen qualifies as the single least screwed-up character in the entire series. And even he has a tragic backstory. What does that tell you?
 * Let's not forget Chiyo herself donning a penguin suit during the Culture Festival in episode 16. So, so cute!
 * That same costume appeared in Kaorin's New Year's dream, which, in the anime, came before that Culture Festival. (In the manga, we didn't see her dream.) Whereas Sakaki, in the black bar below the part of the screen where she and Kaorin are riding away on a horse, knocked down the delinquent versions of Yomi, Osaka, and Tomo, Chiyo was simply put into a penguin suit. One wonders if the show is trying to suggest an origin for that idea.
 * The manga Tuxedo Gin has the lead reincarnated as a penguin and having to win back the girl with whom he'd fallen in love right before his death.
 * So does Yellow Tanabe (of Kekkaishi) in the manga outtakes.
 * Let's not forget Milly Ashford in that penguin outfit just a few episodes earlier!
 * A giant blue penguin.
 * Not very well, though. His toy is the very definition of both "kibble" and "shellformer"...
 * After her adoption by fans at large with the disappearance into history of the air conditioner she was created to advertise, Watanabe Yoshimoto's character Ecoko apparently acquired from somewhere a pair of penguin companions. Of course, she herself wears penguin themed clothing.
 * And of course, there's Sanrio's own Badtz-Maru.
 * And Tuxedo Sam
 * During a later rematch, Boris comments that Kenichi has grown, and his growth is metaphorically compared to a Pokemon-style evolution from a small, round penguin into a fierce, plumed Macaroni Penguin.
 * Don't forget Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch and it's comic relief character, a tightass penguin in a sailor suit named Hippo.
 * Pororo the Little Penguin

Comics
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 * Mind you, rumours claim that Sparky is actually an awk. And, really, who'd possibly believe an awk?
 * Binkley pointed out that Opus actually looked more like a puffin than a penguin, using a graph to illustrate. Opus responded with a graph that showed how Binkley's head looks like a carrot (it does).
 * It is telling that Opus originally was a one shot character, Binkley brought him to his dad thinking he was a dog. Penquin Power resulted in Opus pulling a Fonz and becoming the main character.

Fan Fiction
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Film
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 * There was a French-made parody in which, instead of Emperor Penguins, thousands of Emperors Napoleon struggled through the snows of Antarctica, gave each other pebbles, and finally had (off-screen) sex. Glorious.
 * In Australia, Madagascar 2 was promoted with the slogan "37% More Penguins".

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Literature
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 * This is Lovecraft. Everything is grotesque.
 * Everything you wouldn't normally see in New England, at least. Also, a lot of things you would normally see in New England.
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 * They can if they're wearing jetpacks.
 * It later explains it takes a penguin form regularly as a deliberate pose so humans will understand its motives as best they can. It also uses the form to explain to Phaethon how even a man about to be unjustily exiled can be happy: by following its nature.
 * L'Ile des Pingouins by Anatole France is a satire of French history, as lived by penguins on a faraway island.
 * Halliday and Resnick's "Fundamentals of Physics" textbook seems to have an odd preoccupation with penguins in the practice problems.

Live-Action TV
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 * And we cannot forget the giant penguin with electric tentacles from the "Scott of the Sahara" sketch.
 * And the scientific study that posited the fact that if a penguin was enlarged to the height of a human, its brain still wouldn't be as big as a human's but...it would be bigger.
 * And there's an amusing little short in which Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker prove that Penguins love to do the Bunny Hop (with fuzzy pink bunny ears no less!), and the Mambo.
 * Brian Henson said in an interview once that his father figured out early on that "If you can't get out [of a sketch], you either blow something up, or you eat something, or you just throw penguins in the air." Naturally, there were quite a few penguins thrown in the air over the course of the Muppet Show's run.
 * Don't forget Huggsy, Joey's bedtime penguin pal, which appeared in a few episodes.

Wal-Mart'', is Tony Kornheiser's penguin dance, which annoys Michael Wilbon to no end. Once, plushie penguins joined in on the fun. Wal-Mart'' had all of reality becoming extremely warped. One of the background jokes in a museum were the Nile Penguins. Wal-Mart'': Colin, during a "Weird Newscasters" game. ""Today there was an accident...a busload of penguins...PENGUINS! They don't do harm to ANYONE! And they only have sex ONCE a YEAR! Oh, the INHUMANITY!""
 * An ad for a direct download movie service had a non sequiter penguin made of gummy bears. It looked a lot like one of the ''
 * Subverted, sort of, by "Flight of the Conchords". Jemaine: "Bret, do you remember, back in New Zealand, there would always be penguins? Remember the penguins? I hate penguins. Do you remember how there'd always be penguins?"

Music
Wal-Mart, on the cover of a book the band wrote. Wal-Mart featured backup singers in penguin suits. Wal-Mart included. You're Welcome. Wal-Mart's 1988 Destination Docklands version of Oxygène 4 shows nothing but penguins waddling on the Antarctic ice. Wal-MartWal-Mart. Wal-Mart find out who's been naughty and nice. Wal-Mart's "I'm Going Slightly Mad" has guitarist Brian May dressed as a penguin while a real one follows him around.
 * Satan's Penguins, a black metal band. Covers also show penguins.
 * A music project centered around the animated little penguin Pigloo had several Top 20 dance hits in France, complete with music videos.
 * Soul singer Rufus Thomas had a minor hit with "Do The Funky Penguin".
 * Fleetwood Mac released an album in 1973 called, you guessed it, Penguin.

Newspaper Comics
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 * German comic Ingo Pien

New Media
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 * The popularity of the Poke the Penguin Flash game can be partly attributed to this.
 * And don't forget "Yeti Sports"!

Tabletop Games
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 * Ikuisuuden Laakso ("The Valley of Eternity") is a Finnish indie RPG, a philosophical game of epic heroism and tragedy... about penguins. Not a gag product, either, and really very good.

Theatre
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Toys
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Video Games
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 * Worth noting is that this is done by equipting a minor glyph (depending on level, a character can have up to 3 minor glyphs) that usually give you a small but useful ability. The penguin glyph has no impact on actual combat, and yet is still one of the most sought after glyphs.
 * Also, there are two new penguin vanity pets (little critters that follow you around and do nothing but look cute).
 * Also worth noting is the (rare) giant penguin known as King Ping.
 * And abundance of flocks of penguins which you can temporarily tame and have a crowd of penguins follow you. Wrath of the Lich King has a lot of penguins.
 * So many, in fact, that an Undercity Champion at the Argent Tournament Grounds in northeastern Icecrown
 * He was supposedly turning into a scorpion, but since in the game he transforms into penguin there's already another person who can turn into a scorpion (Sheeva)... well yeah. There's no explaining why he became a penguin instead. With explosive eggs for that matter!
 * In Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King, the Little King is followed around by a penguin who often is more snarky than helpful. Still, he's cute.
 * Penguins were actually a recurring theme in early Nintendo64 titles.
 * There is a secret squeaky penguin item that can be obtained in the Orc Campaign.
 * The first game by Yuji Naka's Prope can be played by penguins. Allegedly.
 * Zoo Tycoon featured emperor penguins for one of your attractions. Oh, and place an Emperor Penguin in the same pen as a T. Rex, and guess who eats who.
 * One of the bosses in Bonesaw: The Game is a giant penguin. That fires sub-zero blasts. And summons snowstorms with occasional hail. And flies.
 * They return in the sequel,
 * The reward for completing a maze in the prehistoric Mac game Amazing was a picture of a penguin blowing a trumpet.
 * Not to mention the robotic ones running around Banjo-Land.
 * Penguins were a recurring theme in early Nintendo64 games (including the previously mentioned Super Mario 64).
 * In Sonic Unleashed (the 360/PS3 version, mind you), Holoska, the continent based upon Antarctica (That, or loosely based on Alaska, hence the name) has Penguins standing around looking cute, in both the Day and Night stages. The ones in the Day Stages hang around the goal, and jump around when Sonic clears the stage.
 * Muppets Race Mania has penguins as a weapon pickup.

Webcomics
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 * The Peons, being set in Antarctica, is based off of this.
 * The Day it Snowed features truly adorable sentient penguins, and a penguin GOD.
 * They've crossed over to the artist's new comic, Jack Of All Blades—where they've gotten upgraded to ninja penguins.
 * Flaky Pastry mentions a thief who was driven insane by a magical trap such that he now only steals penguins. He briefly appears in a later strip, surrounded by penguins he's stolen, and suggesting to Prism that they go to the zoo together.
 * Pengcognito: an entire alternate universe of penguins

Web Original
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 * The Coffee With Bargo segment has a story revolving largely around a member of a "priestly class of super-powerful penguins."

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Western Animation
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 * On another episode, Homer accidentally hijacks a nuclear submarine. When he surfaces, he is held at gunpoint by the navies of several nations, including the "S.S. Antarctica" a battleship crewed by penguins.
 * In "Bart's Comet", penguins are shown flying away from the zoo as the comet comes closer.
 * Notably, this little penguin is pretty much the only character ever to really perturb the usually unflappable Bugs of Chuck Jones' direction - in the first cartoon mentioned, Bugs ends up running into the distance laughing hysterically.
 * Tex Avery's "The Penguin Parade" (1938) has lots of great stuff in it, from three penguins stopping in the middle of performing "When My Dreamboat Comes Home" just to make faces at us to the ending after a band ends its torrid performance:

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 * He truly was a horrible pilot, no matter how many stewardesses he bagged...
 * In "Bowl-O-Rama Drama", Dr. Doofensmirtz's evil plot involved giant robot penguins equipped with freeze rays.
 * In one particular episode, Marceline's dad was talking to a character off screen near the Ice Kingdom, calling him the most dangerous and evil being he's ever met. It was Gunter.
 * There are also penguins in Finn’s Imagination Land in “Rainy Day Daydream.”

Real Life
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 * The popular PengWIN video of a very lucky penguin outsmarting a killer whale.
 * In certain parts of South Africa, penguins will cheerfully go into restaurants... and people's cars.
 * In fact, wild penguins live as far north as the Galapagos Islands, which are on the equator.
 * There is actually a small colony of penquins living on an island that is just north of the equator.
 * Penguins can wander on beaches on the Falkland Islands that humans cannot because of land mines.
 * Meet TOFU.
 * Apparently, milk is too; because male Emperor Penguins lactate! It is stored in a sack by the esophagus.
 * Penguins is a nickname for highschool students in Chile due to their uniform's colors. A protest which was 1 month long and nearly every student in Chile was a part of was called ''The March of the Penguins"
 * Sad aversion: recently, lots of penguins have been found dead in the beaches of south Chile because of bird flu.
 * Festo has recently made robotic penguins, some even capable of flight.
 * The National Hockey League team, the Pittsburgh Penguins.
 * Japan stikes again. Five penguins at a zoo in Shimane Prefecture are wishing visitors a flappy Christmas.
 * Little Penguin wine. It's a pretty good wine for the price;and there is an adorable penguin on the label.
 * There is a town in Tasmania called Penguin. It has a large penguin statue (containing asbestos), penguins on the rubbish bins, small penguin statues, shops named after penguins, shops selling penguins and more. Other then that, its pretty dull. Definitely better with penguins.
 * The recently deceased Argentinian President Nestor Kirchner and his collaborators were nicknamed "The Penguins" because of Kirchner's birth place in the South of Argentina.
 * Chester Zoo now have webcams in their penguin enclosure.

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 * Theta Phi Alpha, a women's fraternity (sorority), uses the penguin as its mascot.

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