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The Penguins of Madagascar Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 2012 - 2015
Episode 1
Feline Fervor
Mon, Apr 16, 201223 mins
Accidentally bounced out of the zoo from his bounce house, Julien is carried away by a bus he lands on top of. After jumping off, he is soon picked off the street by a woman named Gladys, who thinks he is a cat and brings him to her home. As the penguins, Maurice, and Mort begin a rescue mission, Julien is introduced to Gladys' other "cat," a ferret named Zoe who plays to Gladys' misconception in order to receive free meals and avoid returning to life on the streets. Though she shows no interest in him, Julien repetitively seeks Zoe's affection, which only serves to annoy her to the point of rigging a scratching post to eject Julien out the window. She winds up accidentally ejecting herself while demonstrating scratching post use to Julien, but is casually rescued as the penguins, Maurice, and Mort arrive. Julien then tells them that he is now domesticated and wishes to remain with his love, but Private convinces Julien to return to the zoo lest Mort take over as king.
Episode 2
King Me
Tue, Apr 17, 2012
Clemson arrives to inform Julien that he cannot have inherited the crown because he was born outside of Madagascar, and plans to take over as king himself. Lemur law, however, would still allow Julien to earn kingship by winning a competition, but he is too distraught to be much of a competitor. So to help Julien win, Kowalski uses his mind-switching machine to switch Julien's and Rico's minds to allow Rico to compete for the lemur. The plan succeeds for the first round of competition, but after Clemson discovers what the penguins had done, he makes it so that subsequent rounds are disadvantageous to the other penguins when they switch minds with Julien. But during Clemson's coronation after he wins the competition, Kowalski switches Julien's and Clemson's minds and Julien, in Clemson's body, decrees "Julien" king before the two are then switched back. While doing that, "Clemson" insults the gorillas and they angrily chase the real Clemson out of the zoo.
Episode 3
The Otter Woman
Wed, Apr 18, 201221 mins
Distracted, Alice places too many chlorine tablets into Marlene's pond, which bleaches Marlene's fur white following a brief swim. When she goes for assistance, Kowalski incorrectly believes that she is a rare Arctic mink; while grasping her tongue, he also misinterprets her name as "Arlene." Skipper and Julien quickly become infatuated with the "new" zoo resident, failing to listen to her insistence about who she really is and how her appearance changed. Later, after Skipper finds Arlene in Marlene's habitat with the latter unaccounted for, he suddenly suspects Arlene to have done something horrible with Marlene. "Arlene" is then confronted by the penguins and chased around the zoo until she is found by Alice and her natural fur color restored with hair dye. Afterward, as Marlene wonders to the penguins about why they didn't recognize her, Mort is seen with bleached fur, the second victim of over-chlorination.
Episode 4
Action Reaction
Thu, Apr 19, 2012
After the penguins foil Hans' raid on a weapons lab, a tube of Inflatium accidentally spills onto Skipper, causing his body to expand like a balloon whenever he gets angry and risk popping if it expands too much. The other penguins try to keep Skipper relaxed as he attempts to remain somewhat active in the unit, but when they are unable to prevent him from getting angry, they persuade him to work inside the HQ at a desk instead of going out on missions. But when the other three set out when Hans makes another attempt on the weapons lab, they are soon captured and Skipper has no choice but to go after them in his inflated state. His condition winds up protecting him as Hans fires weapons at him with no effect, with Skipper also able to use his body to attack Hans as well. When Julien arrives and inadvertently pins down Hans, however, Hans gloats that Skipper was not the one to defeat him, which angers Skipper to the point of finally popping. But rather than having blown apart, a normal-size Skipper emerges from within his burst outer body. Julien then spills Inflatium on himself, and Skipper rides him through the street.
Episode 5
Thumb Drive
Fri, Apr 20, 2012
While trying to obtain food for the chameleons, the penguins discover that the zoo's food shed is secured by a newly installed thumbprint-scanning lock. Kowalski believes he can hack the system to allow the lock to accept any thumbprint, and Maurice is temporarily recruited to help the penguins gain access. Feeling useful and happy to be doing something other than serving Julien, Maurice wishes to then continue being with the penguins, and together they plan a future raid on a weapons lab. In the meantime, Maurice participates in various thumb-related activities with the penguins while Julien struggles in his kingdom without Maurice there to help him. When the night of the raid arrives, Julien and Mort sneak along and Julien, in effort to show Maurice how dangerous penguin missions can be, triggers the lab's alarm by placing his rear on the thumbprint scanner. The facility locks down and lasers begin firing at the intruders until Maurice uses a remote-controlled tank to destroy them. He then agrees to return home.
Episode 6
Operation: Big Blue Marble
Sun, Apr 22, 201224 mins
The penguins are faced with a global battle when their food-making machine belches out a toxic cloud that threatens not just the zoo, not just the city, but the Earth itself!
Episode 7
Hair Apparent/Love Takes Flightless
Sun, May 6, 201224 mins
The Commissioner's toupee blows off and sticks to Maurice. Julien and Mort chase him, intent on beating the monster stuck to his head. The baboon ladies take Maurice in because they mistakenly think he's a male baboon.Shelly the ostrich gets stuck in cement and Rico can save her. Shelly falls for him hard as a result Rico's heart forever belongs to his doll. Shelly swipes the doll and tries hard to win his heart, but Rico doesn't budge and his doll is accidently hauled off in a truck.
Episode 8
Smotherly Love/Littlefoot
Sun, May 13, 201224 mins
Marlene wants to see a concert, but she becomes a monster every time she leaves the zoo! A maternal possum moves in with the penguins and smothers them with love.
Episode 9
Antics on Ice/Showdown on Fairway 18
Sun, May 20, 201224 mins
The other penguins agree to take Private to see "Lunacorns on Ice" to cheer him up. A putter is at the center of controversy when the Amarillo Kid returns to the zoo.
Episode 10
Street Smarts/Nighty Night Ninja
Sun, May 27, 201223 mins
Watching too many ninja movies has brainwashed Leonard the koala. During the day, as he sleeps, he terrorizes everyone by sleepfighting. Private is left to babysit four adorable ducklings as the rest of the gang tries to crash a monster truck rally.
Episode 11
A Kipper for Skipper/High Moltage
Sun, Jun 3, 201223 mins
Skipper agrees gives a day off from training to the first penguin brings him a kipper. The penguins are determined to make opening day a blockbuster movie! The penguins need his powers to knock Alice out.
Episode 12
Nuts to You/Terror on Madagascar
Sun, Jun 10, 201223 mins
Fred stumbles onto a jackpot oak tree which is loaded with acorns. Fred and Julien enter a partnership looking for ways to spend on the good life. The Red Squirrel has designs on the loot though and captures the hapless twosome in order to squeeze the acorns out of them. A special delivery has come from Madagascar. A baby Fossa! Everyone is enchanted by the little tyke except King Julien, who sees him as a lemur-devouring predator, and he has the toothmarks on his butt to prove it!
Episode 13
Mental Hen/Siege the Day
Sun, Jun 17, 201224 mins
Watching too many ninja movies has brainwashed Leonard the koala. During the day, as he sleeps, he terrorizes everyone by sleepfighting (as opposed to sleepwalking).Private is left to babysit four adorable ducklings as the rest of the gang tries to crash a monster truck rally (unsuccessfully). The ducklings are a rowdy bunch and throw a party, inadvertently attracting party-crashing rats and wasps who attack the party food.
Episode 14
Tunnel of Love
Sat, Feb 14, 2015
Rico gets some teenage beavers to fix a collapsing tunnel, but romance interferes with their work.
Episode 15
P.E.L.T./Private and the Winky Factory
Sun, Jul 29, 201223 mins
King Julien's archrival, Clemson, returns in another attempt to claim the lemur crown. This time the sneaky lemur has a document that "proves" King Julien is not the legitimate king because he wasn't born in Madagascar.
Episode 16
Best Laid Plantains/Skipper Makes Perfect
Sat, Nov 3, 201223 mins
When a massive sneeze from Rico causes the underground tunnel system beneath the zoo to rupture, Skipper calls in 4 cute beavers to fix the situation. Ever have one of those rare days when everything you do goes just right? Skipper's having one of those perfect days, and he decides to use the opportunity to settle an old score - he plans to break into the Danish embassy and clear out the disparaging file they have on him.
Episode 17
Marble Jar Head/Good Night and Good Chuck
Sat, Nov 10, 201223 mins
How in the world is Rico supposed to behave well when King Julien has kidnapped his doll, Miss Perky, with the intention of marrying her?
Episode 18
Operation: Swap-panzee/Snowmageddon
Tue, Dec 24, 201323 mins
The Space Agency sends Private to the moon. His ticket is downgraded to one-way and the other birds can't monkey around if they hope to get him home again./ Snowmageddon hits and traps Skipper and Marlene in the convenience store with X, while Kowalski and Private get snowed into a tree with Fred.
Episode 19
Operation: Lunacorn Apocalypse
Tue, Nov 24, 201523 mins
The Penguins are faced with a World Domination battle when Private accidentally unleashes KuchiKukhan the Destroyer of Worlds. Can they stop him in time to save the World?
Episode 20
The Penguin Who Loved Me
Wed, Nov 25, 201524 mins
After testing out and falling out of his anti-gravity socks, Kowalski is approached by a platypus named Parker, who asks that he come with him. Kowalski asks for a reason and Parker says he needs to say one word. The next scene shows Kowalski grabbing a myriad of items from his lab and leaves in a hurry. Curious, Skipper unveils a monitoring station on their HQ's multi-purpose door (which is the same door to Kowalski's lab) to check the surveillance tapes. After accidentally showing footage of Private doing an impression of Skipper and Rico drinking spoiled milk, they find the footage of Parker and Kowalski, revealing that the platypus said, "Doris", Kowalski's dolphin crush. Skipper declares this to be trouble; Private, slow on the uptake, realizes that Skipper has been spying on them all.
Episode 21
Best Foes/Night of the Vesuviuses
Sat, Dec 19, 201523 mins
Kowalski invents an enemy detector but it doesn't work. Old enemies are now friends & old friends are now enemies. /The annual Zoo Snooze is here! This year the Vesuvius Twins buy up all the tickets. The zoosters plan to exact sweet revenge on the twins.
Episode 22
Night of the Vesuviuses
Sat, Dec 19, 2015
When the Vesuvius Twins buy all the tickets to the annual zoo sleepover, the penguins try to plant a seed of good inside the troublemakers.
Episode 23
Operation: Swap-anzee
Sat, Dec 1, 201223 mins
The Space Agency sends Private to the moon. His ticket is downgraded to one-way and the other birds can't monkey around if they hope to get him home again./ Snowmageddon hits and traps Skipper and Marlene in the convenience store with X, while Kowalski and Private get snowed into a tree with Fred.