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28 Oct 2010
Boing Boing

I like this video from Chile's 31 Minutos. It's actually a send-up of older Chilean children's television...

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22 Oct 2010 The Monster Your Monster Could Smell Like
The Monster Your Monster Could Smell Like

Did they put something in the water this year at Sesame Workshop? Because all of sudden Sesame Street seems to be smarter, funnier and more relevant than it has been in years (whether or not it’s more effective as a form of education is a question I’ll leave up to the experts). For example, watch...

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26 Sep 2010 The Simpsons, Swazzle and Katy Perry
The Simpsons, Swazzle and Katy Perry

Looks like Katy Perry really likes puppets. Hot on the heels of the Katy Perry/Elmo “cleavagegate” controversy (see previous post) comes news that Katy Perry will be the first human guest star in Simpsons history. She’ll be appearing in a special Christmas episode that features the Simpson clan in puppet form, as created by Swazzle...

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21 Sep 2010
Elmo is Hot ‘N’ Cold with Katy Perry

This is a fun segment that recently aired on Sesame Street featuring Elmo and Katy Perry (who’s apparently a Muppet fan). In it Katy sings a re-worked version of her hit “Hot `N’ Cold” while chasing Elmo around and playing tag. It’s a very cute and all (there’s even a don’t-blink-or-you’ll-miss-it cameo by Oscar the...

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02 Sep 2010
Fighting Gravity Goes To The Top Ten

Fighting Gravity (see previous post) has made it to the top ten on America’s Got Talent. It still irks me to here the show’s judges use works like “Fresh” and “original” to describe Fighting Gravity (they aren’t either), but I have to admit that they are getting a  better and better each time they perform...

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26 Aug 2010
Original Muppets Donated to Smithsonian

The original Muppets have returned home to Washington. The Henson family has donated the original Kermit the Frog puppet - famously made by Jim Henson from his mother's coat and ping pong balls - to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American...

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21 Jul 2010
Does Fighting Gravity Got Talent?

Over the past few years America's Got Talent (as well as its British counterpart) have given some fantastic exposure to deserving puppetry acts like Gareth Oliver, The Gluvets and (most famously) Terry Fator. The latest puppetry act in the spotlight thanks to the "Got Talent" franchise is Fighting Gravity, a black light puppet and dance...

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20 Jul 2010 Team Smithereen
Team Smithereen

There been a lot of chat here and elsewhere about Team Smithereen since it was shot in 2008. It's now available to U.S. cable audiences Saturday mornings on Disney...

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16 Jul 2010 Mongrels
Mongrels

Mongrels is a new adult-oriented British puppet sitcom on BBC3 created by puppeteer Andy...

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20 Mar 2010
Puppet Pie on The View

Stacey Gordon had her puppets featured on the U.S. national morning talk show The View this week! The puppets in question are caricatures of The View's co-hosts Joy Behar, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Sherri Shepherd and Barbara Walters. They were originally commissioned last year by Etsy - where Stacey is a well-known puppet maker - as a...

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