Oh sure, penguins. You’re soooooo good at walking on ice. We’re all supposed to learn to walk on ice just like you. Well, tell me, penguins: If you’re the ice experts, how come you keep falling on your adorable asses?

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Man, I never really knew that I thought penguins were kinda full of themselves until I watched this, and was like “haha, you guys look like stout admirals and here you are falling on your faces all over the place! Neener!” I seem to have an issue with emperor penguins. Not so much with the little punk guys, they’re cool and don’t seem to care too much when another penguin jumps on them from a cliff.

Those emperors needed to be taken down a peg, though! “Emperor” indeed.

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