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A spin-off of the ''Franchise/{{Madagascar}}'' films that aired on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}. It is an AllCGICartoon featuring the penguins from the film series (Skipper, Rico, Kowalski, Private), as well as the lemurs (King Julien, Maurice and Mort) in the main cast and chimpanzees Mason and Phil as recurring characters. A new character, Marlene the otter, is part of the main cast, and while various zoo animals are introduced, the main cast from the films are not shown at all (save for Alex in one of the TV specials and even then he's only as a hallucination of Skipper's). Private, Kowalski, Maurice and King Julien have all had their voice actors [[PoorMansSubstitute replaced]] with some names you might recognize just the same.

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A spin-off of the ''Franchise/{{Madagascar}}'' films that aired on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}. It is an AllCGICartoon featuring the penguins from the film series (Skipper, Rico, Kowalski, Private), as well as the lemurs (King Julien, Maurice and Mort) in the main cast and chimpanzees Mason and Phil as recurring characters. A new character, Marlene the otter, is part of the main cast, and while various zoo animals are introduced, the main cast from the films are not shown at all (save for Alex in one of the TV specials and even then he's only seen as a hallucination of Skipper's).Skipper). Private, Kowalski, Maurice and King Julien have all had their voice actors [[PoorMansSubstitute replaced]] with some names you might recognize just the same.
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* JustEatGilligan: In all of the latter episodes where the Penguins have problems sleeping because of the Lemurs making too much noise, they never re-consider using earmuffs like they did in "Assault and Batteries", the first time in the series where this was an issue. Even odder, in "Operation: Break-Speare", Rico regurgitates a pair of earmuffs just so he can ignore Private citing Shakespeare, but the penguins never consider them using them for blocking the sound of the Lemurs.
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** In ''WesternAnimation/TheMadagascarPenguinsInAChristmasCaper'', there are camels and two elephants living in the zoo, camels are never shown in the show and Burt is the only elephant living in the zoo.
** Before Savio was introduced, there was a different snake living in the zoo that's nowhere to be found in later episodes.
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** The penguins slap each other frequently in the films, like Film/TheThreeStooges, whereas it's a rare occurrence in the show. This is probably abiding by childrens' network regulations so kids don't try to imitate it.
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* AnAesop: Like adult-oriented cartoons, the show plays with this; it may genuinely bring out some sound Aesops, but it very much brings out subversions to this by mostly throwing the Aesop away, especially at the last minute. They're not [[LostAesop Lost Aesops]], mind you, since they are done intentionally, and for fun.
-->'''Private''': But, Skipper, doesn't violence beget more violence?\\
'''Skipper''': It sure does, Private. It's a win-win!
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** "The Terror of Madagascar" makes things more confusing by revealing that King Julien attacking the Fossas did happen.....while the Penguins have no idea what they are until Kowalski explains it.

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** "The Terror of Madagascar" makes things more confusing by revealing that King Julien attacking suffering the attacks of the Fossas did happen.....while the Penguins have no idea what they are until Kowalski explains it.
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* AmbiguousSituation: How much of the events of the movies happened in this AlternateContinuity is never clarified. Is confirmed that The Lemurs are from Madagascar, the Penguins were there once and that Alex was living in the Central Park Zoo at some point before "a lot of crazy stuff happened". Besides that, it mostly ignores the movies.
** "The Terror of Madagascar" makes things more confusing by revealing that King Julien attacking the Fossas did happen.....while the Penguins have no idea what they are until Kowalski explains it.
** Given, we never see his kingdom (in this show at least) and that he's a major CloudCuckoolander, is left ambiguous whatever this version of King Julien is truly the King of the Lemurs or is [[SmallNameBigEgo just something he likes to proclaim about himself]].
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* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Frances, the main villain of "The Hoboken Surprise" has enough money and intelligence to create almost identical biomechanical android duplicates of the animals (to the point the Skipper duplicate has some of his fighting abilities) and a DNA scanner builded in the massage chairs. What does is her major ambition to have with this technology? [[AlmightyJanitor Become a zookeeper]]. You will think she could get further in other bigger areas with this amount of technological expertise.
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* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: When Private wishes that he was on a TV-show, Skipper replied that a show about the exploits of penguins would be too awesome for viewers to see.

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* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: Inverted. When Private wishes that he was on a TV-show, Skipper replied that a show about the exploits of penguins would be too awesome for viewers to see.
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* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Skipper and King Julien didn't have much of a relationship in the movies but they seemed to be in mostly cordial therms, given the Penguins had no oposition for him to join them in the airplane and even gave him a first class service. In this show they are SitcomArchNemesis, with King Julien being the most recurring problem the penguins suffer.
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* NotMeThisTime: In "Lemur See, Lemur Do", Julien accuses the penguins of sending a copy-cat robot to mock him, and Skipper admits they really are planning a way to mock him...but they're still working on it.
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* OutOfControlPopcorn: In „Popcorn Panic” after getting caught Skipper and Private decided to [[DestroyTheEvidence destroy stolen popcorn bag]] [[TooDumbToLive in incinerator]], which caused to poping it out so much, that it overflowed the zoo.
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* StableTimeLoop: Occurs in "It's About Time." Or a few, depending on how you look. [[spoiler: More specifically: Kowalski wants to build a time machine. During the expedition to steal necessary materials future version of Kowalski appears and asks Skipper to stop the construction to prevent TimeCrash. Soon afterwards ''another'' future Kowalski appears and asks Private to make sure the machine is finished for the same reason. Eventually [[NeverShallTheSelvesMeet all Kowalskis meet each other]], breaking time. Original Kowalski decides to go back in time and convince Skipper to stop the construction - cue Kowalski!2 saying it's him. Then Private remarks [[GrandfatherParadox that if he stops the contsruction, he will be unable to go back and stop the construction]], prompting Kowalski!2 to go back in time to make sure the machine is built - cue Kowalski!3 saying it's him.]]

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* StableTimeLoop: Occurs in "It's About Time." Or a few, depending on how you look. [[spoiler: More specifically: Kowalski wants to build a time machine. During the expedition to steal necessary materials materials, a future version of Kowalski appears and asks Skipper Private to stop the construction to prevent TimeCrash. Soon afterwards afterwards, ''another'' future Kowalski appears and asks Private Skipper to make sure the machine is finished for the same reason. Eventually [[NeverShallTheSelvesMeet all Kowalskis meet each other]], breaking time. Original Kowalski decides to go back in time and convince Skipper Private to stop the construction - cue Kowalski!2 saying it's him. Then Private remarks [[GrandfatherParadox that if he stops the contsruction, construction, he will be unable to go back and stop the construction]], prompting Kowalski!2 to go back in time to make sure the machine is built - cue Kowalski!3 saying it's him.]]
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* BallCannon: In "Badger Pride", the other penguins uses a tennis ball launcher as an artillery piece to blast Private and Marlene out of the zoo and into the park. Later, Private uses it to bombard the badgers, and accidentally hits Marlene again.
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* PostInjuryDeskJob: In "Action Reaction" Skipper is forced to pick desk job to avoid stress, which could make him explode.

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