The Penguins of Madagascar (season 2)

After the penguins discover him in an underground bunker, legendary penguin agent Buck Rockgut drafts them to assist with apprehending the Red Squirrel, a top penguin enemy once brought down by Rockgut who has since escaped. Severely paranoid that they may be Red Squirrel agents, Rockgut begins to detain several zoo animals. Throughout, only Private believes such is wrong. He eventually tries using Fred as a Red Squirrel stand-in to trick Rockgut, but it backfires when Rockgut suspects Private of being the Red Squirrel himself. The other three penguins soon recognize Rockgut's errant paranoia and get him to leave by telling him the real Red Squirrel was in a made-up place called "Grrfurjiclestan". Later, a periscope is shown and it is shown that the Red Squirrel is real.

In anticipation of the arrival of the zoo commissioner, a security detail quickly examines the zoo and its animals for threats. But as they leave, Skipper believes that the agents have done an inadequate job, so he and the other penguins take it upon themselves to ensure the zoo is safe for the commissioner's arrival to cut the ribbon on a new children's zoo. In doing so, they soon uncover that a pigeon, Frankie (Jeff Bennett), has plotted to "drop one" on the commissioner's suit in retaliation for his implementation of anti-pigeon park regulations. Skipper then tells the other penguins about how he had failed to act under similar circumstances when the previous commissioner had been attacked with bird droppings containing blueberries, vowing to not let the same happen again. The penguins then chase after Frankie, with Skipper flying through the air using a jet-pack, but the pigeon soon ends up releasing his blueberry-infused vendetta. Skipper dives in When Kowalski informs him that "The package has dropped" and takes the hit for the commissioner, and his team is horrified at the resulting look of their leader. Fortunately, however, Skipper reveals that he was wearing a "pigeon-proof vest" as he pulls it off his body. The vest is soon launched at Frankie via a makeshift cannon, resulting in the pigeon suffering the same fate he had intended for the commissioner.

When the penguins hear the scream of a child, they soon learn it was the result of a boy having been bitten by a sheep at the zoo's petting zoo. Appalled by the sheep's attack, the penguins set off at night to retaliate against him. However, the sheep, Randy, soon tells the penguins that he was provoked to bite the boy because the boy had, among other things, beaten on him and had pulled out a clump of his wool. Convinced that they had wrongly judged Randy, the penguins decide to help him out to prevent further abuse by rowdy children. When their attempts at applying a slippery polymer, building up static electricity on Randy's wool, and hypnosis fail, the penguins decide to transport Randy to a farm to live out the rest of his life. Randy is soon taken to a farm by the penguins in a truck, but shortly after his arrival, Randy is horrified at the appearance of the other sheep there, who are sheered and appear to be in a cult-like trance. Consequently, Randy ends up back at the petting zoo, but when the same boy approaches him to attack him again, Randy kicks him away. It is then revealed that Skipper and Rico had taught Randy some of their commando fighting moves.

One century ago, the Golden Squirrel places the key to a hidden treasure into a time capsule to be buried in commemoration of the opening of the Central Park Zoo. When the time capsule is opened in the present day, the race is soon on between the penguins, lemurs, Marlene, and Fred to reach the legendary treasure before King Rat and his minions do. However, matters become complicated for the zoo gang along the way when the rats catch up to them and carry away Marlene in a failed attempt to gain possession of the key to the treasure. Later, the group displays symptoms of infighting when they confront their individual depraved desires for what could be done with the treasure once claimed, a curse forewarned by a mysterious, elderly squirrel who had stated prior that the treasure had to be destroyed. Eventually, after having gotten a hold of the key, the rats locate the treasure, but the gang soon catches up to them. Following a little more fighting amongst the group, it is revealed that Julien, as the "pure-hearted one" among them, is immune to the treasure's curse, and he proceeds to dispose of the treasure. When the animals return to the zoo and discuss their adventure, a pigeon comes by and asks Private to guard a crystal feather, but everyone but Skipper soon disperses, not wanting anything to do with another ancient mystery.

Special guest star: Debbie Reynolds as Granny Squirrel

Private is distraught when cockroaches appear in the HQ, taken in by Rico when threatened by an exterminator. In order to help the cockroaches return to where they originated, the penguins and roaches set out on a mission to defeat the exterminator. Following a long stakeout, Officer X, now an exterminator, arrives on the scene, and soon manages to tie up Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico as Private slips away. To save his teammates and defeat X, Private temporarily suppresses his feelings of disgust and covers himself with numerous roaches, which crawl off him and into X's clothing when the lights are turned off. X subsequently runs out of the building and Private suffers a delayed case of "the willies".

After securing pretzels from a pretzel cart, the penguins notice that a boy on a school field trip had observed their operation, and believe him to be composing a dossier on them. Rather than take immediate action against him, Skipper instead wants to focus on the boy's "spy master," and they soon discover a museum brochure which has an exhibit on Madagascar, further adding to Skipper's suspicions on the boy. Julien then comes by and notices that his "royal booty scratcher" was in the photo of the museum display and requests the penguins get it back for him. When they turn him down, Julien assembles a ragtag "team" of his own to do the mission instead, with Mort taking on the role Skipper would for the penguins, Fred for Kowalski, Maurice for Rico, and Julien himself for Private.[12] Meanwhile, the penguins observe the boy, Ronald, telling his teacher about having seen their operations, but the teacher rejects his account. Shortly after, the school group leaves for the museum. At the museum, the lemur-led group pursues Julien's booty scratcher and the penguins attempt to get a hold of Ronald's notebook, leading him to again tell his teacher about being pursued by the zoo penguins. The penguins ultimately fail to obtain Ronald's notebook before the children leave the museum, in part because they got Julien's scratcher for him, but they successfully use a brainwashing helmet on the teacher after she reads Ronald's report.

After the penguins' short mission to recover a wild Marlene from the park after she had accidentally been knocked into it, Private learns that the zoo had acquired a badger exhibit. Afraid, Private begins to panic, but Marlene drags him to the exhibit to meet the badgers and get over his fear. When the two meet the friendly badgers, Becky and Stacy, all four soon become friends and spend the rest of the day together. But after the badgers surprise Marlene in her habitat that night, make her partake in undesired adventures, and fail to leave her alone, Marlene insists that they stop "badgering" her. Becky takes the remark as an insult, and Marlene soon fears retaliation from the angry badgers. Later, in a chase, Marlene and the badgers end up in the park, knocked into it by tennis balls launched by Private, where Marlene reverts to her wild form and easily takes down Becky and Stacy in a one-sided tussle.

Kowalski has invented a helmet that turns thoughts into actions, essentially granting the wearer the power of psychokinesis, which he dubs "the Helmet". While the penguins are playing with its power, King Julien notices it and becomes incredibly jealous. Late that night, Julien steals it and claims it as a crown to use its power for himself. Now with unparalleled powers, King Julien fires Maurice, now no longer needing his services since the Helmet now provides everything he needs, and continues to abuse the Helmet's power for himself. However, upon setting its power to 10 (the highest), Julien's thoughts and words become reality and cause chaos in the zoo until it eventually creates a tornado of telekinetic objects. In the end, however, the penguins separate the helmet from King Julien's head, ending the telekinetic madness (but at the same time burning off all his head hair) and Maurice returns to serve King Julien by giving him his old crown back to hide his baldness.

In the course of testing the HQ's new evacuation system, Private is flung into the koala habitat. When it soon becomes night, the marsupial, Leonard, awakens, terrified of Private since he is one of the zoo's "dangerously psychotic" penguins. After assuring Leonard that he has no intent to hurt him, Private leaves the koala habitat, only to return the next day to find him unconscious. Fearing for him, Private brings the koala back to the HQ, where Kowalski explains that koalas are nocturnal and Leonard himself awakens from his slumber as night approaches. While there, Leonard is accidentally launched from the now-overhauled HQ evacuation system and touches down in Midtown, provoking the penguins to set out to find him and bring him back to the zoo. Soon after locating him, however, their situation becomes more difficult when Leonard falls asleep in the daylight. Eventually, the team manages to get the sleeping Leonard back into the zoo just shy of nightfall, and once night comes, Leonard awakens and spots Marlene and fears her in the same manner he had the penguins, which Skipper chalks up to Marlene apparently having a bad reputation herself.

When a boa constrictor arrives at the zoo from Hoboken, Skipper and Kowalski warn of the snake's dangers at a zoovenir shop meeting. Shortly thereafter, when Mort goes missing, the penguins confront the boa, Savio, to see if he had any role in the disappearance, but it is apparent from the configuration of his habitat that he had no means of escaping the enclosure. Later, when Maurice and Marlene go missing, the penguins continue to suspect Savio of eating the small mammals, and soon send Private out as bait, dressed as a monkey. When he disappears, the other penguins and Julien confront Savio once again, whereupon he breaks free from his enclosure by sending his tail through a ventilation shaft and deactivating his habitat's electronic locks via a keypad. Savio consumes Julien during the ensuing confrontation, but is ultimately defeated by Burt, who smacks Savio around before forcing those eaten to be expelled. Savio is then sent back to Hoboken the following morning.

Special guest star: Nestor Carbonell as Savio

After Private and Kowalski fail to impress Skipper during a combat-driving training course, Rico manages to impress him with his reckless driving ability. But after being told not to take the car out at night, Rico disobeys orders and takes it out for a spin and unfortunately wrecks it. He hastily tries to rebuild it, using one of Kowalski's latest inventions, The "Neurotronic laser targeting system". Rico feels guilty for what he's done to the car, meanwhile the automobile soon begins to act "haunted" as it attempts to vengefully run down Rico repeatedly. The penguins soon catch and they attempt to stop the car from hurting Rico. After the car knocks Skipper unconscious, Rico finally gains the courage to save Skipper and destroy the car with a bomb. After the car is destroyed, the Penguins notice Kowalski's targeting system was placed inside and thus Rico admits that he disobeyed orders when he took the car out at night. The Penguins however let him off the hook since Rico had gone through enough punishment when the car was "haunted".

Following a mission, Private accidentally crashes his airplane into a water main underneath the penguins' habitat, causing water to erupt from it. Alice takes notice and summons a repair man, Gus, whose efforts to repair the leak threaten the secrecy of the penguins' HQ. Although the penguins manage to conduct the repairs before Gus can the next morning, Gus refuses to take credit or payment for repairs he did not do and is determined to perform the service he was hired for, despite repeated sabotages by the penguins. After Skipper contemplates failure, the penguins eventually succeed when they create a fake zoo set-up in the park, which Gus repairs instead.

To dispose of it while pursued by police, two thieves toss a stolen diamond necklace into the zoo, which lands inside the lemur habitat. Having just made a wish on a star, Julien believes the necklace is his gift from above. After Julien shows his newfound jewels to the penguins the next morning, the penguins soon learn from TV news that the item was stolen. Meanwhile, the thieves return to the zoo to recover the loot but, despite the penguins warning of such, Julien refuses to relinquish the necklace. After taking possession of it, the penguins lead the thieves, who had been ejected from the zoo earlier, into a set-up at the jewelry store, where they are arrested by police.

An accident causes Skipper to believe he is a TV anchorman.

The penguins need to do some damage control after Private reveals the zoo animals' most personal secrets.

When the zoo closes for the Christmas holiday, the animals gather to begin work on Kidsmas, their annual holiday festivities mainly designed to delight the younger animals. Each animal is assigned a Kidsmas preparation task to perform, but Julien, desiring a different one, rearranges each animals' task. Said shuffling results in the lemurs being tasked with obtaining a Christmas tree, while Skipper has to take on the role of Santa. In hopes of being able to find "Santa's magic," Skipper and Private set out to locate the jolly old man, only to encounter multiple bell-ringing Santas and such look-alikes. Meanwhile, as the lemurs hunt for a tree before ultimately stealing one akin to the one in Rockefeller Center, chaos ensues at the zoo between different groups of animals over whether decorations should be rock and roll-themed or Dickensian. With such disarray, Skipper believes he has failed when the younger animals arrive for Kidsmas, but his spirits are lifted when the real Santa stops by to reassure him. All then embrace the spirit, singing "It ain't perfect, but it's Christmas".

Special guest star: Carl Reiner as Santa Claus

When Burt gets a hold of Alice's paintbrush, he paints a picture of an elephant with it on a nearly wall to the delight of zoo patrons. Meanwhile, Kowalski debuts plans for a device which could save civilization, though it has a 50 percent chance of severe worldly devastation. He ultimately decides to destroy the plans at the same time an art critic has come to look at Burt's paintings, with the plans accidentally blown by helicopter propwash onto one of Burt's easels and subsequently selected by the critic for display at a museum. To ensure that Kowalski's plans are never seen by any evildoing museum patrons, the penguins go to the museum, where Rico erases a plus sign on the diagram, replacing it with a Lunacorn. The critic, however, later rejects the piece due to this change.

After Private is scratched and bruised when a mission goes awry, the other penguins leave him at the veterinary office. There, Private soon becomes smitten with Shawna, a new intern who tends to Private's injuries. Once fixed up, Private ponders the thought of getting injured again in order to see Shawna again, and intentionally does so when the initial mission is given another go. Private repeats this strategy until the others become suspect of his string of bad luck, eventually confronting him while in Shawna's care. Suspecting the others of bullying Private and having "avian insanity fever," Shawna cages and gives them an injection (which Skipper isn't too happy about) and states that Private will never share a habitat with them again. Not wanting to lose his friends, however, Private pretends to have avian insanity fever in order for Shawna to treat him like the rest of the penguins (including the painful injection).

A new lemur, Clemson, arrives at the zoo to the delight of Julien in having a new subject and the delight of Maurice in having someone else around to cater to Julien's every whim for a change. Mort, however, soon suspects the new arrival of being evil. Sucking up to Julien, Clemson soon replaces Maurice as the king's right-hand man, which Maurice has no qualms about until he and Mort witness Clemson talking to himself at night about becoming the new king. The next day, Clemson attempts to send Julien inside a prepared crate to the dreaded Hoboken Zoo, but his plans are thwarted with the penguins' assistance and Clemson ends up shipped off to Hoboken instead.

After several comic books are discovered inside a backpack, Skipper warns the other penguins of the dangers of the comic fan lifestyle and of the non-clandestine actions the superheroes contained within them execute and proceeds to dispose of the comics to thwart their negative influences. At night, however, the others secretly view the comics and then decide to act as a superhero team (Private as "Steel Penguin," Kowalski as "The Throbbing Cerebellum," and Rico as "Barf Bag"), foiling minor inconveniences throughout the zoo. When the zoo's clock is accidentally destroyed in the process, Skipper, at the moment unaware that his teammates were to blame, organizes an investigation. While investigating, the group learns of another caped person having been doing thefts around the zoo, which later turns out to be Julien, taking on the role of a villain ("The Masked Booty", his mask on his booty) after finding the disposed comic books himself. Skipper comically fights him as the superhero "Slappy Hurt-Punch" and Julien retires as a villain.

After intercepting a rat conversation, the penguins disguise Mort as a sewer rat to go undercover and investigate. There, he finds the rats were just choosing carpets for their sewer. But Mort accidentally blows his cover and gets caught. Skipper and Julien then go down to find him, but end up getting captured as well. They then find out that Mort is being hailed as the rat's new king, the 'Great One', because of the red birthmark on his tail. Mort then plans to lead an invasion on the zoo. After escaping their cell, Skipper and Julien retreat to the surface where they find the rats hugging and kissing the zoo animals. Mort then reveals that his birthmark is really just strawberry jelly he keeps as a snack. The zoo animals then turn on the rats, causing them to retreat back into the sewer. Skipper then congratulates Mort by making him an honorary penguin (like Julien in "Dr. Blowhole's Revenge").

When the penguins accidentally destroy Leonard's habitat during a game of hot potato, Alice decides to put Leonard in the kangaroo pen. At first Joey is pleased with having a roommate, but soon starts to get annoyed with Leonard's nocturnal antics (sleeping all day and keeping him awake all night). Joey then becomes enraged when Leonard accidentally bursts his bouncy ball. The penguins then rescue Leonard, which sets off a wild chase into the sewers. Leonard then begins to insult Joey, which angers him even more. After taking out the penguins and finally cornering Leonard, he confesses that if the penguins hadn't destroyed his habitat they wouldn't be in this mess. Joey somehow understands that, and the two become friends due to them both having a certain hatred towards the penguins.

Annoyed by the lemurs' loud music, the penguins arrange to relocate them to the adjacent petting zoo and move Roger to the lemur habitat. While Julien and Maurice soon take to the new habitat well, Mort, angry that Julien is allowing a trio of fluffy bunnies to touch his feet, dislikes the relocation. Meanwhile, Roger begins to get in the penguins' way, and the team begins to regret their relocation operation. Eventually, the lemurs are returned to their original habitat after Julien climbs about the Vesuvius twins, believing them to be bringing him snacks.

After learning of Savio's escape from Hoboken on a TV news report, the penguins organize an effort to protect the zoo from the vengeful boa after he took out Burt. Skipper is pleasantly surprised when Julien begins talking tough about fighting Savio, and partners with him as the group prepares the zoo for battle. Once Savio arrives, however, he gets past the animals' defenses and it is revealed that Julien had confused Savio with Fred. Savio soon cages the group, less Julien who runs off, and plans to consume them one by one so that the others will have to watch their friends be eaten. Savio is defeated, however, when Julien accidentally spills some butter flavoring, allowing him to slip from Savio's clutches, rendering the snake too slippery to move as he wishes, and allowing the others to slip through the cage's bars. Savio is sent back to the Hoboken Zoo and Burt readies himself for Savio, although he was too late.

When Private's Uncle Nigel visits the penguins, he quickly becomes a bore to all but his nephew. However, once they are alone, Nigel confides in Private that he is actually a spy targeting the Red Squirrel. The two soon head into Central Park to hunt for the villain, though Private does not believe he exists. However, Red soon appears; Nigel fights him and Private disarms his plant life-destroying missile before Red escapes. Later, at the HQ, the other penguins do not believe it when Private tells of taking on Red, and Nigel denies any confrontation took place. Soon, however, all of the other penguins but Private are taken captive by Red. It is then up to Private to rescue them, which he accomplishes after blinding Red with the light from a Lunacorn toy prior to Red slipping away again.

The penguins set off on a sailing trip to the Massachusetts coast, but poor weather abruptly tosses them onto the streets of Hoboken. There, the team is quickly noticed by humans, boxed, and brought to the feared Hoboken Zoo. But the sight that greets them there is not the wasteland they had expected; instead, the zoo is pristine. Soon, the team is greeted by friends and enemies Lulu, Hans, Savio, Clemson, and Rhonda who cheerfully welcome the penguins to Hoboken and tell them about Frances, a new zookeeper who has made their lives enjoyable, including by letting them use massage chairs. When Frances meets the penguins, she is equally as cheerful, though Skipper maintains that she is a "dark mastermind," even as his teammates begin to take a liking to Hoboken. The truth is finally revealed, however, when Frances puts Skipper down a chute into the ground, where he meets his teammates and the real Hoboken Zoo animals. Kowalski then explains that Frances had used the massage chairs to copy each animal into an android so as to have a clean zoo and be free of its "dirty" animals. Soon after, the real animals and the androids confront each other as a press conference to honor Frances' work is held by the parks commissioner. Shortly after the resulting damaged android of Skipper lands in his hands, he fires Frances, and the animal-android battle continues as the episode ends.

Special guest star: Megan Hilty as Frances Alberta, Jane Leeves as Lulu, Kathy Kinney as Rhonda, Larry Miller as Clemson and Nestor Carbonell as Savio

Note: This is a half-hour episode. Nickelodeon promoted it as "Operation: Vacation" in advertisements.

Alone on a secret mission in Shanghai, Skipper walks into a trap set by Hans and Dr. Blowhole which results in Skipper's memories being taken from him by Blowhole's "mind jacker" device before he falls into the ocean. Blowhole plans to use the mind-jacked information to aid in assaulting the penguins' HQ. Later, Skipper washes up on an island, confused about where he is and how he got there. To aid in helping him regain his memory, Skipper's mind hallucinates a "spirit guide" for him to follow in the form of Alex, a lion who had once been a Central Park Zoo neighbor. With "Alex" accompanying him, Skipper sets out to return to New York. Meanwhile, Blowhole has unveiled his Diaboligizer invention to his lobster minion Red One, a device which transforms those hit by its ray into evil creatures of destruction. Blowhole plans to use the Diaboligizer on Kowalski, Rico, and Private, and heads to Manhattan to carry out his plan. He enters the penguins' HQ at the same time Julien and Mort are attempting to pilfer Kowalski's experimental power cell, which Julien wishes to use to replace the dead battery in his MP3 player. With the power cell inside, the Diaboligizer's ray hits it instead of the penguins, resulting in the device increasing in size, floating in the air, and creating an energy bubble which causes the whole zoo to speak only through song. Blowhole manages to exploit this development by singing to tame the mutant MP3 player in order to take control of it and then leaves the zoo with it to unleash his wrath against the city. Skipper then returns and the penguins and lemurs then set out to stop Blowhole, which is accomplished when Skipper's singing serves as a distraction so that the power cell can be removed from the MP3 player. Skipper then activates Blowhole's mind jacker on him and Blowhole returns to Coney Island to perform as "Flippy". Back at the zoo, Skipper thanks "Alex" for being a helpful "spirit guide" and helped him to get back to the zoo. After this, Skipper and "Alex" give some high-fives to each other before "Alex" disappears as the camera fades to black.

Special guest stars: Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Blowhole and Wally Wingert as Alex the lion.

Kowalski unveils his latest invention: "nanites," tiny robots which are capable of operating any mechanical object, thus freeing the penguins of time spent on chores. Skipper initially fears the nanites will become another of Kowalski's disastrous inventions, but changes his mind after Kowalski demonstrates that the nanites are programmed to not allow any harm to come to a penguin. Unfortunately, the programming has the unintended consequence of the nanites becoming overprotective, first by inhibiting the team's rescue of Barry the poison-dart frog when his tongue is caught in the cotton candy machine- although they are able to outmaneuver the nanites and save Barry anyway- and later by containing them in their HQ. The nanites fight back against the penguins' attempts to shut them down by assembling a large robotic form from various pieces of technology around the zoo, but are unstoppable until Kowalski is injured after his attempt to hit the robot with an EMP causes it to fall on top of him, with the nanites then self-terminating because they had violated their penguin non-harm protocol.

Following the fourth failure of Kowalski's "Nextoskeleton" invention in many months, Private spots something more horrific than Kowalski's crash: an unflattering doodle of himself on a nearby wall. Private then asks the snail that drew it why he had done so, and learns that the snail, Dale, hates him for having stepped on him the previous spring in the park. Private has no memory of the incident, but wishes to make things right; his efforts result in accidentally crushing Dale twice more, causing the other animals to believe that Private is a monster. King Julian tries to help Private, but ends up making things even worse for him. Later, Dale gains access to Kowalski's Nextoskeleton and wishes to exact poetic justice: to step on Private the same way he had been stepped on with the suit, leading to a battle between the penguins and Dale. But when Private points out that the suit belonged to Kowalski and that it was he who stepped on him, not Private, Dale realizes his mistake and apologizes to Private for the misunderstanding, agreeing to tell the others that Private is not a monster, but after he takes his revenge on Kowalski.

Hunter, a young leopard seal pup, is accidentally brought to New York inside the fishing nets of Antarctic poachers Cecil and Brick. Though fearful of her at first, after he rescues Hunter from a fish-processing hopper, Private asks the other penguins to help return her to Antarctica. Though Hunter presents herself as a non-penguin-eating "fishetarian," the others fear her predatory instincts and decide to help her only as far as launching her from the HQ into the East River with the instruction "go south". Not wanting Hunter to have to travel to Antarctica alone, Private launches with her, forcing the others to have to follow by submarine. In Antarctica, a group of leopard seals led by Hunter's father wishes to eat Private, but he is quickly declared off limits after Hunter tells of Private saving her. The other three penguins, however, are slated to become a meal. Hunter and Private try to explain that seals and penguins need not be predator and prey, but the message is lost when Hunter shows off a friend move she and Private had done together involving shaking Private in her mouth, which is misinterpreted as a hunting technique. After feeling sad that she is not understood, Hunter, along with Private and Julien, who had been a submarine stowaway, rescue the other penguins, though the hungry seals pursue. But when Private saves Hunter's father from falling off a ledge in the process, he accepts that natural instincts are not everything.

Note: This episode was a half-hour special

The penguins wish to bring an extinct Waitaha penguin back to life, but end up cloning a dodo instead due to Skipper's grabbing of the wrong feather from the museum during a hasty retreat. The cloned bird, Dode, after introducing himself as a daredevil, manages to subsequently blow himself up with Rico's flamethrower just as the penguins begin to discuss how to help him. Dode is then cloned repetitively, only to manage to get himself killed through various reckless actions each time, which Kowalski attributes to dodo DNA having evolved to lack fear genes through centuries of having no natural predators. The penguins then insist that their next Dode wear safety gear, and chase after him when he refuses. In the process, Kowalski's cloning machine is accidentally tipped over, cloning untold numbers of dodos before exploding and losing its life-giving Higgs boson particle, making future cloning impossible. These final Dodes then recklessly kill themselves, except for one which the penguins manage to save by daring him into having a staring contest with a taxidermied dodo at the museum, which he begins doing for perpetuity.