The Penguins of Madagascar is a show about four penguins who don't live anywhere in Madagascar, but in the Central Park Zoo. As unfitting as the title may seem, the whole thing actually started from the film Madagascar, which involved the penguins, as well as a lion, hippo, zebra, and giraffe being stranded in Madagascar and made into slaves by the evil lord King Julien. Then the penguins built a plane and managed to fly off, but soon crash landed in Africa. Later in the sequel, the penguins managed to rebuild the plane and fly it back to New York, leaving the other animals behind. Sometime afterward, Nickelodeon decided to screw up two films at once by making an uninspired spin-off. To make it seem more "interesting", they put Julien in it.