The Real Shopping Penguin

A few days ago I stumbled across an unbelievably catchy song called “Shopping Penguin”. The video that went along with the song I saw on Youtube was a minute and change and song played over some clips of the Oliver Oken character from the Hannah Montana show. I thought this is a really funny and catchy tune and what a bizarre and random subject matter to tie the song to. What did Oliver Oken have to do with a shopping penguin? Oh well I thought it was late, I was amused and that was that. Or so I thought. As my daughter and I have been singing the song virtually non-stop for the past 48 hours I felt compelled to look into this a bit further and lo and behold I believe I have found the source of Shopping Penguin . The song is by silly song writer Parry Gripp who is singing about one of my favorite real life penguin stories of all-time, Lala the Japanese Penguin who loves to shop (for fish of course), and as the song goes “is never gonna to stop”.  Perfectly silly song for a perfectly silly penguin story.

Lala with penguin backpack goes shopping

 

Shopping Penguin

You would think a post that is titled Shopping Penguin would have something to do with Penguin Place, but I just came across a quick little youtube video of a montage of scenes of Oliver Oken with a song playing over the one minute vid called Shopping Penguin. Who is Oliver Oken you ask? Well, he’s kind of a lovable, dorky character on the Hannah Montana Show and I only know this because my daughter likes, no loves the show and I like to know what’s going into her brain. The song Shopping Penguin is so cool, cute and catchy (especially if you’re into penguins) that you’ll be singing it in or out of your head for the next 36 hours minimum. You’ll see.