Skipper and Friends in the Penguin Races

Skipper and Friends in The Penguin Races was the co-headlining segment in The Bush, Looney, and Skipper Double Hour block, airing from September 6, 1969 to July 7, 1973. The show featured Skipper, one of the most popular Bush and Looney characters at the time, in a series of competitions on snow and ice and in water with other penguins, such as his little brother Little M, who was also in quite a few original shorts. Skipper's trademark villain, The Guy Who Poops Every Day, was oddly enough not a main cast member, and he only appeared in the penultimate episode. In modern Bush and Looney, yearly specials portray The Penguin Races (sometimes called The Penguin Games) as one hardcore race to the finish line instead of a series of competitions. After its 1973 cancellation, a new show debuted in 1975 under the simple title of Skipper and Friends, and it featured new Skipper cartoons that featured some of this show's characters, and also two other segments, often with such characters as Zak, Little-Kitten, or The Kitty Concert, and it lasted until 1979.

Characters
Skipper, now with the last name "Slyde", and Little M were the primary characters, as Skipper was always trying to protect Little M from danger like he would in The Guy Who Poops Every Day cartoons. Other characters included Skipper's cousin, Skippy, Skipper's protegee, Colin, and a female penguin named Slips, who along with Skipper and Little M made up "The Slyde Dynasty", Skipper's burly cousin, Jeff and his girlfriend, Ciana, as well as his close friend, Joel, a weak penguin that can't swim named Matteo, and his close friend, L|Lisa, a portly female penguin named Petunia, the biggest and most feared penguin, Penguin Monster, and two unintelligent penguins named Dillon and Dylan.