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TaralWayne In reply to EmmetEarwax [2019-11-17 04:21:51 +0000 UTC]

It might have been the Muppet Christmas, in which the Fraggles to appear (only to Kermit and his nephew Robin, however).  In the special, the Fraggles know nothing about Christmas by name, but do seem to celebrate something of the sort, in addition to the episode in which the Bell at the Heart of the Rock has to be struct to be started again.  In my writings, however, the Muppets are not a part of the Fraggle universe.  Geez... I can't have Muppets running around as real people ... there would be no limit to how ridiculous things could be.

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EmmetEarwax In reply to TaralWayne [2019-11-18 04:48:59 +0000 UTC]

I am reminded of a show perhaps called Fabricants, live action, but with live puppets interacting with live people. It did not last long. Some subject matter was offensive.
Another show, perhaps called Links, was a live-action police drama ,with a weird twist. The police would deal with monsters and myths like gnomes, mermaids, goblins, sphinxes, gorgons, centaurs, and even a Frankenstein-like thing (the star detective said he's made of plastic surgery excisions from about 180 people - and all of them bad drivers !). The informant is a gnome, and there is also something with tentacles that lives in the police station walls ! Intelligent: it surfs the 'net or plays poker. The first episode dealt with Black Widows (not the spider, but spider-women. )
I can not find the actual names on the 'net. Some shows only ran 1 or 2 episodes before getting yanked. A few were even cancelled  in mid-broadcast of the first show. (Turn-on...)

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TaralWayne In reply to EmmetEarwax [2019-11-19 08:52:10 +0000 UTC]

Did you ever see "Puppets Who Kill?"  It was produced by the CBC in Canada for about a year, and went a full season.  Maybe even two.  It was about a half-way house for puppets and teddy bears whose overseer was human.  The puppets were all guilty as hell -- the least of which was a mere pornographer, but one a full-fledged serial killer.  Their overseer was not altogether stupid, but for some reason did his best to cover up for the puppets instead of see them all locked up again.  Maybe they had something on HIM?  Anyway, there are no DVDs or tapes that I know about.

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EmmetEarwax In reply to TaralWayne [2019-11-19 13:39:18 +0000 UTC]

Puppets who kill ran 4 seasons. Bill the Dummy was the serial killer  Serial killers tend to collect "trophies" or "souvenirs" from their vitims. In Bill's case, it was the testicles. That was due to being ashamed of his own gonads (removed eventually) 58 victims ! He deserved the Chair. The  show ran on IFC , a network that I wanted to remove form my Cable lineup, due to one despicable movie about a zombie epidemic wiping out mankind *.

Thank you for refreshing my memory of one show: GREG THE BUNNY. (Not FABRICANTS -a note appending the Wikipedia article) I recall 2 incidents: Ist ,A funeral where a dead puppet(Rochester) was accidentally set on fire at his funeral. 2nd, a puppet urinating in a convertible.

* The movie, which I turned off halfway, had such GORE. Testicles explicitly torn off and thrown across a parking lot, horrible deaths from being drenched by strong acid from a ruptured container (this started the zombie epidemic, from some men changed by lesser exposure to the acid, and a brief glimpse of a medical photo of a penis eaten by cancer. There was also the gimmick of missing reels (twice ?)

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TaralWayne In reply to EmmetEarwax [2019-11-21 03:25:44 +0000 UTC]

I was going to tape the show, but before I got interested enough in it to want to save it, it was gone!  I never heard of it going to VCR or DVD...  Greg the Bunny I never saw.  There's one that is recent -- maybe still in theatres -- that seems to be a sort of Muppets knock-off, with detectives.  I didn't get a good vibe from it.

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EmmetEarwax In reply to TaralWayne [2019-11-17 13:20:12 +0000 UTC]

There was a series called "The Fabricants" or something, about puppet people in the human world. . It was a failure that was soon cancelled. Some subject matter was offensive.

I wish FOX would be put under the auspices of those of CBS,NBC, ABC, instead of being a garbage station. Also they can not be relied on to commit themselves to the  weekTV scheldule in the Sunday paper (this morning I buy it again.). The last FOX show that I watched regularly was BONES, a detective series & soap opera. It ended, but with some plot-threads dangling. I hope for a TV movie to wrap them up.

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Vrekandis In reply to FrostTheHobidon [2019-02-23 04:31:45 +0000 UTC]

I see what you did there...

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