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Pong Pagong is an anthropomorphic turtle, similar to Big Bird of Sesame Street, standing over six feet tall and towering over human co-stars and aged to be around six years old. Together with its co-muppet, Kiko Matsing , the characters were custom made in New York for Sesame . [ 1 ]
[5] [6] The series featured two Muppet-style characters Pong Pagong and Kiko Matsing. Both characters were inspired from a Filipino fable, "The Monkey and the Turtle", which was annotated to English by José Rizal in 1889. [7] Government support ended in 1984 and the co-production arrangement with CTW was cancelled. [8]
The origin of the story can be traced to the Ilocano, [3] which is linked to Indian arts. [4] The Ilocano version of the story offers an explanation on why monkeys don't eat meat. Versions of the story has a common theme of a weaker but cunning character (the tortoise or turtle) winning over a stronger adversary (the monkey). [3]
Sesame Street first aired in the Philippines in 1970. [1] [2]Negotiations for a localized production began in 1983, and the series was jointly created by Children's Television Workshop and the Philippine Sesame Street Project (PSSP), which was funded by the Philippine government.
It featured a turtle muppet named Pong Pagong (the show's counterpart of Big Bird) and a monkey muppet who lived in an abandoned jeepney named Kiko Matsing (patterned after Oscar the Grouch). Sesame ran for less than year when CTW decided to cancel its co-production in 1984 for unspecified reasons. [36] [37]
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Tong also has a brother called Katang who planned to take revenge on him at the middle of the story. His name is derived from the Visayan nursery rhyme Tong Tong Tong Pakitong-kitong, which is about crabs. Pagong - a tortoise who is helping Tong in his adventure. He amazes Tong with his collection of turtle eggs. Aso - a wild dog. He is a lost ...