[2] The series premiere formally occurred after the Nickelodeon 2009 Kids' Choice Awards with the episodes, "Launchtime" and "Haunted Habitat".
The penguins (Tom McGrath, Jeff Bennett, John DiMaggio and James Patrick Stuart) do not believe this allegation, and instead set out to investigate what really happened, eventually locating Maurice at a New Jersey dump.
The penguins and lemurs soon arrive at her habitat to investigate the scream, with Julien performing a song and dance routine designed to scare away the ghostly spirits to which he attributes the noise.
After reportedly finding an egg in her habitat, Marlene brings it to the penguins, hoping the fellow birds would watch over it.
As the other three penguins begin to place the egg through potentially dangerous training, Private fears for the safety of "Eggy" and cares for it lovingly on his shift until it is stolen by the lemurs.
Furious at all that work wasted when he had a spare crown the whole time, Marlene makes Rico regurgitate a crowbar so that she can beat up Julien.
Still desiring a vehicle, Julien steals Alice's zoo cart and soon challenges the penguins to a race, with the winner taking the loser's car as a prize.
The penguins agree, but after subsequently realizing that their car has no chance of victory in its current state, overhaul it to be race-worthy.
However, as the abuses continue, Marlene eventually reaches her breaking point and works with the penguins to transfer Rhonda away.
When Marlene subsequently learns that Rhonda is headed for a polar bear reserve, she and the penguins work to reacquire her and reroute her transfer to Hoboken.
They invite Marlene who initially accepts but panics after finding out the snow cone stand is outside the zoo, revealing she was born in captivity.
Phil and Mason suggest that Max pretend to be a "red Rhodesian slasher" an "ultra-rare, incredibly vicious wildcat", which is coming to the zoo.
After getting beaten up by the female during the courtship ritual, Max begs for help, so the penguins create a diversion for Officer X by disguising Mort as a rabid Chihuahua.
In the end Phil decides to just speak his true feelings to her via sign language, which Lulu understands except for the last part, which Mason then translates for her.
They head out and meet up with Fred, a clueless squirrel, who Kowalski first met in "Otter Gone Wild", and after a conversation, they figure out that The Archer is actually a con man by the name of Archie.
Later, during a chase, the groove-containing jar is shattered and its magic transferred into Skipper, who uses his newly acquired and undesired dance skills against Julien physically to force him into apologizing to Darla.
Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico wake up recovered from toxins and find the frog in the penguin's HQ playing Checkers with Private (who is still in the robot suit).
When Kitka, a female falcon, crashes at the zoo with a broken wing, a smitten Skipper insists that she stay to recuperate.
Bent on an agenda to punish the human race, the penguins' mad dolphin nemesis, Dr. Blowhole, kidnaps King Julien in an effort to lure the flightless force into a trap so that he can annihilate the team once and for all.