The show stars Pecola, a curious and hyperactive penguin who tries to help the people of Cube Town but often wreaks havoc instead. Pecola is an orphaned penguin who lives with Pecolias, his grandfather. Cube Town is a small, isolated coastal village that contains an art museum, a beach, a lighthouse, and a canal. It is located adjacent to Crescent Bay surrounded by the Rookery Mountains coastal range and serviced by regular ships which deliver mail, food, and other supplies, as well as occasional tourists from a nearby metropolis named Cubic City. The heights above it lead into Glacier Valley which is snowbound even during summer.

Cube je malé a útulné mestečko, kde na námestí nájdete úplne všetko - budovy, parky a väčšinu obyvateľov. Jediným nespokojným obyvateľom je malý, zvedavý a dychtivý tučniačik Pecola. Je vždy v centre diania - či sa snaží vyhrať súťaž v doručovaní zásielok, ktorú organizuje miestna pošta, alebo pomáha miestnym hasičom. Aj keď má vždy tie najlepšie úmysly, jeho dobre mienená pomoc spravidla spôsobí v meste totálny chaos.