Line #69 Main/HandPuppet


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7	->''"Oh god, there is a hand inside me! Aaaaaaaaaugh!"''
8	-->-- '''Sock Hannelore''', ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent''
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10	A puppet entirely operated by hand, usually with the puppeteer's hand inside. A common gag will involve the puppet acting [[ConsultingMisterPuppet implausibly independent of its puppeteer]], often by being argumentative, abusive, etc. If it ''is'' independent, it's a PerversePuppet or DemonicDummy.
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12	A prominent sub-type is the sock puppet, which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it sounds like]]: a Hand Puppet made out of a sock.[[labelnote:*]]On [[TheInternet teh intertubes]], a "SockPuppet" is an online identity that is actually an alternate account of another user.[[/labelnote]]
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14	Another sub-type, which is (somewhat disturbingly) common enough to qualify as its own trope, is the DeadGuyPuppet.
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16	See also {{Muppet}}s, which are generally more complex, involving both hands (at least -- some Muppets are operated by two people) for a more lifelike effect. BareHandedPuppetry is an even simpler version where uncovered body parts (not necessarily the hand) are treated as puppets. For examples where someone treats their own puppet as if it has opinions of its own worth considering, see ConsultingMisterPuppet.
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18	Not to be confused with SockPuppet.
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21	!!Examples:
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24	[[folder:Advertising]]
25	* The Pets.com mascot, a hand puppet where you can clearly see the puppeteer's watch on his wrist. The mascot outlived Pets.com and now shills for other businesses.
26	* The Creator/{{WGN}} "Nitecap" mascot is a hand puppet sheep encouraging you to stay up and watch instead of going to bed and counting sheep.
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29	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
30	* ''Manga/AstraLostInSpace'': Funicia, the TagalongKid of the B-5 planet camp group, often carries around Beego, a dog-like hand puppet modeled after the lead character of a popular InUniverse kids' TV show. It has the special ability of reading its wearer's thoughts, being able to vocalize them in its own gruff voice.
31	%% Needs Context * ''Anime/BestStudentCouncil'': Pucchan & Lance.
32	* In ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool'', Destrade High's Yamaguchi introduces a ventriloquist named Akira Nakao. He plans to have him as his right-hand man but quickly shifts the job over to Nakao's puppet, Mick.
33	* In ''Literature/DateALive'', Yoshino carries a rabbit puppet called Yoshinon. While she's shy, Yoshinon is confident and speaks his mind. She thinks he's real; when Shido commented on her ventriloquist act, she had no idea what he was talking about.
34	* Juri Kato of ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' (pictured above) has a sock puppet that she often uses to express her opinions and feelings instead of stating them outright as if they were her own. [[spoiler:After [[SacrificialLion Leomon's death]], [[EldritchAbomination the D-Reaper]] possesses it ([[AmbiguousSituation maybe]]) and, as a sign of her [[BreakTheCutie deteriorating mental condition]] ([[AmbiguousSituation maybe]]), it starts saying ''much'' [[MindRape darker things]] entirely on its own.]] In one nightmare sequence, she's shown as TheBlank but with a creepy smile much wider than a human mouth is capable of, while the puppet, sewn onto her arm, gnashes its teeth as drool drips. It was possibly a nod to the fandom jokes surrounding the evil sock puppet of doom from day one.
35	* In ''Manga/FutureDiary'', the fifth diary holder, Reisuke Houjo carries two hand puppets, which he treats as if they were actually real.
36	* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'', the chief corrections officer at [[TheAlcatraz Green Dolphin Street Prison]], Loccobarocco, opts to use puppetry to explain the rules to prisoners with his pink alligator hand puppet named Charlotte.
37	* This is how Akira and Yukari tell the audience watching the ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode'' movie how to use the Miracle Lights.
38	* The main character in ''Manga/MaisonIkkoku'' at one point is recruited into a college club dedicated to putting on puppet plays.
39	* ''Manga/MidoriDays'' had Takkizawa, a figurine fanatic, who, much to the protagonist's dismay, becomes fascinated with hand puppets.
40	* In ''Anime/OkusamaWaMahouShoujo'' the female employee at Kashiwa Publishing uses one to speak with occasionally.
41	* In ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', Nekozawa has a hand-puppet cat named Belzeneff.
42	* Mubyou from ''Literature/OurHomesFoxDeity'' always wears two hand puppets and sometimes uses them to talk to people, which doesn't change the fact that her punches can shatter concrete.
43	* ''Manga/TheKurosagiCorpseDeliveryService'': Yuji wears a hand puppet named Kereellis that may or may not be an alien.
44	* Natsumi Aso from ''Manga/{{Sketchbook}}'' makes her own hand-puppets, which she uses to talk to herself about her favorite snacks.
45	* In ''Anime/RobotGirlsZ'', Doublas-chan both communicates and shoots beams from her puppets.
46	* In ''Anime/TribeNine'', [[spoiler:Kazuki and Ojiro's prior relationship]] is explained to both Haru and the audience when Fucho pulls out hand puppet replicas of the duo and acts it out.
47	* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'': In one of the films' many sharp departures from [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion the original anime]], Asuka has a hand puppet with "ASUKA" written on it that she's seen talking to in ''You Can (Not) Advance''. This seems at first to be a sign of hidden mental instability, but ''Thrice Upon a Time'' reveals that [[spoiler:it's a way for her to copy with CloneAngst]].
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50	[[folder:Comic Books]]
51	One of the illustrations in ''ComicBook/TheCrawlingKing'' is of a king hand puppet.
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54	[[folder:Fan Works]]
55	* How do you explain Imperial-Tau political intrigue to a crew of [[Fanfic/AllGuardsmenParty idiot guardsmen?]] With sock puppets!
56	** This gets repeated when the squad doesn't understand the complex and varied philosophies of the Inquisition.
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59	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
60	* ''Film/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'': During the investigation into Monty's disappearance, a sock puppet cop talks with the captain.
61	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame\|Disney}}'', Clopin has a small hand puppet of himself that acts fairly independently at times.
62	* In ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheMovie'', a child performer named Captain Kiddie has an extremely independent and sentient puppet.
63	* ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'' has Uncle Fritz and Aunt Petunia. Yes, somehow he married his hand puppet, and [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction they had children]]. Petunia's rather cranky and "goes for a drive" to calm down (he holds her behind a wall and an engine is heard). [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Bud only thought this was weird because she usually takes the Harley.]]
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66	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
67	* ''Film/GirlInterrupted'': Lisa regularly carries a hand puppet around the institution to mock her peers with. This also helps her lend credence to her own self image as a PsychopathicManchild.
68	* ''Film/{{Lili}}'': Paul's job at the circus, a hand puppeteer. Lili is so effortlessly charming when interacting with the puppets that she gets hired to be part of Paul's act.
69	* ''Film/MirrorMask'' starts with a pair of sock puppets arguing -- and for "sock puppets" read not only "made out of socks" but also "actually being worn on the puppeteer's ''feet''". (Although actually actually, when the scene was filmed one of the puppets was worn on a hand, as usual, to allow a greater range of facial expression.)
70	* In ''Film/TheLastOfSheila'' someone brings two hand puppets on a cruise. Later someone puts these on before attempting to strangle someone, and explains, "I didn't bring gloves".
71	* ''Film/SmokingCausesCoughing'': Chief Didier is a hand puppet. This film also features animatronics and PeopleInRubberSuits.
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74	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
75	* ''Series/Buzz2000'': One of the sketches was about Captain Harassment, which had Daryl Jones use a hand puppet (the titular captain) to fondle the butts of random women on the streets of UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}. The puppet was a rubber glove with a Canadian Flag cape.
76	* Series/{{Sooty}} and his friends Soo and Sweep, who have been on and off British television since 1955. They are never acknowledged as puppets in-universe. Other characters can be sock puppets as well, but they generally never stuck around as long as the three core characters have.
77	* Several ''Series/DoctorWho'' stories have used [[SpecialEffectsFailure hand puppets to represent the alien monster of the week]].
78	** An alien ambassador in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E5Timelash Timelash]]''. (Astonishingly, it ''wasn't'' the most ludicrously cheap special effect in the story.)
79	** The supposed Loch Ness monster in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons Terror of the Zygons]]''.
80	* ''[[Series/TreintaYUnMinutos 31 Minutos]]'', a Chilean children's NewsParody program, uses hand-puppets and sock-puppets prominently, and takes this trope to its logical extreme: using ''socks'' without even putting a minimal effort to convert them into sock puppets.
81	** Not only socks, but also ''gloves'' got used as puppets at some point or another; a boxing glove with goggly eyes is one of the news program's sports analysts.
82	* Jane's "truth snake" from ''Series/{{Coupling}}'' is a hand puppet in the form of a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything pink snake]] that expresses her hidden negative thoughts when she's [[MushroomSamba under the influence of mystery pills]] in one second season episode.
83	* ''Series/GoodEats'', a cooking program starring eccentric chef Alton Brown, features quite a few puppets. The most prevalent would be those he uses for yeast, which are sock puppets (that burp).
84	* Franklin, GOB's puppet from ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment''.
85	* Gitmo on ''Series/TheDailyShow'' (a terrorist Expy of Elmo.)
86	** Also {{Muppet}} Michael Steele, based on Jon Stewart's observation that RNC Chairman Michael Steele vaguely resembled a Muppet character from Series/SesameStreet (Simon, a restaurant patron in a series of sketches involving Grover as a hapless waiter).
87	* Sifl and Olly of ''Series/TheSiflAndOllyShow''.
88	* Mr. Flibble in the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonVQuarantine Quarantine]]".
89	* Craig Ferguson uses animal puppets on ''Series/TheLateLateShow''. They most often appear in the show's [[TheTeaser Cold Open]] and are voiced and operated by Ferguson himself. Regulars include Wavey the Cajun-Scottish Crocodile, and Sid the Cussing Rabbit.
90	%% Needs Context * Kukla and Ollie on ''Series/KuklaFranAndOllie.''
91	* Many characters on ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'' were hand puppets, most of them operated and voiced by Fred Rogers himself. Unlike most hand puppets in which the puppeteer's hand operates the mouth, Rogers favored the kind with solid faces whose speech would be simulated by bobbing the head with the middle fingers, while the pinky and thumb operated the arms.
92	%% Needs Context * Many characters on ''Series/LambChopAndFriends''.
93	%% Needs Context * Several characters on ''Series/CaptainKangaroo'' (classic versions).
94	* In ''Series/TheATeam'' episode "[[Recap/TheATeamS2E7TheTaxicabWars The Taxicab Wars]]", Murdock's latest tic is having a sock puppet named Sockey on one of his hands giving a running commentary to the team's latest job. [=BA=] gets so annoyed that he threatens both puppet and puppeteer to introduce them to his talking fist, Knockout.
95	* The newscaster from ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' is actually named [[PunnyName Howard Handupme]]. Baby becomes a fan of a show where all of the characters are sock puppets. After sitting down with Baby to watch the show, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids Earl finds himself getting sucked in as well]] [[ParentalBonus with all the adult dialogue that would easily go over a kid's head.]] Fran however, refuses to watch because they're puppets.
96	%% Needs Context * Former Creator/{{CBBC}} mascots Gordon T. Gopher and Edd the Duck.
97	* Ticket from ''Series/ResshaSentaiToQger'' is one of these. The Conductor swears it's a separate entity, and they often disagree and argue. Right is always trying to snag the puppet so he can prove that the Conductor is just messing with everyone's heads. If it means anything, we've seen the Conductor remove the puppet once, and it shows no signs of life. No one else was around.
98	* Gareth has one in the pilot of ''Series/CrossingJordan'' he uses for some sort of therapy.
99	* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperpup'': "Jimmy Olsen" is a mouse hand puppet who acts as {{Narrator}} and comments on the action of the story.
100	* The Jukebox Band from ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'' consists entirely of hand puppets.
101	* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'':
102	** Tom and Crow spend the opening segment of the ''[[Film/FugitiveAlien Star Force: Fugitive Alien II]]'' episode [[DiscussedTrope discussing]] the nature of puppets and their symbiotic relationship to man (particularly at what point a puppet stops being a puppet and becomes a costume), and come to the conclusion that Señor Wences (a ventriloquist who built his career out of talking to his hand) was "a cry for help".
103	** In the episode featuring ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E05TheMagicVoyageOfSinbad The Magic Voyage of Sinbad]]'', Joel completely freaks out Crow and Tom Servo with his channel cat puppet, based on a scene from the film. After Joel puts down the puppet to read a viewer letter, Gypsy spends the rest of the segment prodding the puppet, trying to get it to move again.
104	** The appearance of a cute kinkajou in ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S02E10KingDinosaur King Dinosaur]]'' inspires Joel to get a [[ViewerSpeciesConfusion lemur]] hand puppet and put on a skit about "Joey the Lemur" with Crow and Servo. Joel gets a bit carried away with his puppeteering, and the bots quickly get fed up with Joey the Lemur. For various reasons, the real MST crew considered this whole sketch one of the worst they ever did, so they [[SelfDeprecation mocked it]] in a later episode, ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E11LastOfTheWildHorses Last of the Wild Horses]]'': Dr. Forrester and Frank also get a hold of a Joey the Lemur puppet and decide to put on the same skit, prompting [[FauxHorrific screams of horror]] from Servo and Gypsy.
105	** Played straight in the revival episode ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S12E03LordsOfTheDeep Lords of the Deep]]'', when the [[FluffyTamer monster conservationist]] Dr. Donna St. Phibes shows up with one of the Lords of the Deep perched on her arm. The actress uses a fake arm prop, while her actual hand manipulates the Lord of the Deep puppet.
106	* In the classic Chicago children's TV series ''Series/GarfieldGooseAndFriends'' Garfield is a puppet goose who thinks he's King of the United States. Other puppets include Rhomburg Rabbit, Beauregard Burnside III (a dog), Mackintosh Mouse, and Garfield's brother Chris (short for Christmas) Goose.
107	* ''Series/ZondagMetLubach'': When the new Foreign Minister Stef Blok gave an interview, Lubach had the perfect explanation for the man's amusing verbal tics: he was practicing a sock puppet act.
108	* ''Series/HoldTheSunset'' features Methuselah, a crocodile hand puppet given to Roger when he fails a job interview for a toy shop. He quickly grows a bond with it and starts using it in a street act.
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111	[[folder:Music]]
112	* Music/TheyMightBeGiants, starting in 2009 Here Comes Science tour, have had a segment with sock-puppet alter-egos of the Johns dubbed The Avatars of They. They make use of the venue's projector, and exchange banter, usually lamenting their hard lives of living in a suitcase, following by [[SelfDeprecation belittling John and John]], referring to them as their "opening act". Quoth John Linnell, "They present us with an opportunity to let our real feelings out. We've also been using them backstage to work through some issues from our own childhoods. I think we're beginning to see a real breakthrough there. Only the first sentence is true."
113	** Additionally, "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head" is one of the more popular songs from their debut album, though in this case it's a metaphor for a menial, degrading job.
114	* Music/{{Buckethead}} isn't one to exchange words himself, so he instead lets his severed head friend Herbie do the talking for him, as seen in [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh-lJqNfT1E a guitar lesson]] and [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n0BWMxPcb98 an interview with]] Creator/{{MTV}}. Herbie also assisted Buckethead alongside Bootsy Collins during [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=abBisFhR78s a radio interview]], where Bootsy continuously told the host not to address questions directly to Buckethead, since he cannot speak. The host did so anyway. HilarityEnsues.
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117	[[folder:Other Sites]]
118	* ''Website/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-764 SCP-764 ("The Obscene Show")]]. SCP-764-1 and SCP-764-2 are Theatre/PunchAndJudy puppets that can use ArtifactDomination on anyone who looks at them.
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121	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
122	* In the [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} World Wrestling Federation]], [[{{Wrestling/MickFoley}} Mankind]] once used a sock puppet named "Mr. Socko" to cheer up a hospitalized [[{{Wrestling/VinceMcMahon}} Vince McMahon]] in vain. The segment was a wild hit and Mick kept the sock around. Fortunately, his FinishingMove was placing a "nerve pinch" that put his hand into another wrestler's mouth so it fit perfectly that he'd stick the sock on his hand for the move, and thus a cultural phenomenon was born.
123	* Later on, Wrestling/SantinoMarella's Cobra strike was complemented by a neon-green snake sleeve he'd put on before using it. And yes, it once got into a fight with Mr. Socko, at 2012's ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble''.
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126	[[folder:Theatre]]
127	* Theatre/PunchAndJudy
128	* ''Creator/TheUmbilicalBrothers'': '''ACTION FINGERS!'''
129	* ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'': The plant puppets gradually get more complex until the second act where it's more of a giant set piece with a few moving parts rather than a puppet, but for the first two scenes, it's represented by a hand puppet operated by a puppeteer under a table through a hole in the countertop (for Scene I) and the lead wearing a false arm (for Scene II)
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132	[[folder:Video Games]]
133	* Kusano Shinpei from ''VideoGame/BungoToAlchemist'' likes frogs, thus he always wears a frog hand puppet.
134	* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'': [[BearsAreBadNews The Experiment]] speaks through the little girl hand puppet that's embedded on its right hand.
135	* Special character Maki from ''VideoGame/DaveTheDiver'' is a shy girl with some abandonment issues, so she speaks through a puppet designed to look like her faviroite animal, the clione. It's a very [[SirSwearsALot foul mouthed little thing]], but Maki starts relying on it less and less as she opens up and makes peace with her DisappearedDad.
136	* Used for therapeutic interviews in ''VideoGame/DieAnstalt''. It's implied that she may be a living being in her own right (like all the other LivingToys in the game.)
137	%% Needs Context * This is an obtainable expression in ''VideoGame/FableII ''.
138	* Both the Chompy Mage and the Sheep Mage have hand puppets in the ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' series.
139	* Socks from ''[=FaceBreaker=]''. As the name implies, he wears sock puppets on each hand that serve as both boxing gloves and his means of communication. This fact alone sums up the reason why he's found in an asylum.
140	* Funtime Freddy in ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation'' has a Bonnie hand puppet, which can jumpscare you.
141	* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'' has Threadie, a walking sockpuppet who has a body inside supporting the rest of their sock self.
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144	[[folder:Webcomics]]
145	* The main characters of the grim and strange ''Rocko & Socko'' sub-comic of ''[[http://plif.andkon.com/ The Parking Lot Is Full]]''.
146	* Elan from ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' has Banjo, God of Puppets. Later, Elan introduced a brother for Banjo in Giggles, God of Slapstick, which an island of orcs decided to take on as their patron deity.
147	* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2006/07/04/episode-716-we-built-this-city-on-rock-and-roll-and-mortar-and-bricks-and-cobblestones-wood-too/ Fighter has a hand puppet of Black Mage]].
148	* God from ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' primarily expresses Himself with hand puppets.
149	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' once had [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2010-07-16 a full-size filler comic]] with hand puppets dedicated to explaining a rewrite of the script that had resulted in a delay. There was also [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2006-10-27 a Question and Answer strip]] that used them to answer a question about the dialogue between a couple of the characters during an off-panel moment.
150	* In ''WebComic/TheMansionOfE'', the Weirdo Who Lives In The Attic has Fantod the hand puppet.
151	* In the earlier days of ''WebComic/SluggyFreelance'', Torg crafted "Mister Sock Lop" after [[KillerRabbit Bun-Bun]] disappeared for a few weeks. Bun-Bun was not amused, but did put Mr. Sock Lop to good use several times (such as distracting the Black-Ops Elves from his holiday killing spree, and dodging a hug from Kiki).
152	* ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'': Millie has a sock puppet[[note]]Slightly odd considering she's a BarefootCartoonAnimal[[/note]] of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush that she often brings out for the purpose of mockeries.
153	* ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'': An occasional recurrent joke is mildly flaky psychologist Tip Wilkin’s use of hand puppets as a psychoanalytical tool. Everyone but him seems to see this as silly, but he’s clearly a great believer in the technique.
154	* ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' has [=PeeJee=] start dating a puppeteer despite hating puppets of ''all'' sorts so much that she broke Aubrey's hand when the latter tried scaring the former with a sock-puppet.
155	* The ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' team was commissioned by Creator/{{Bethesda}} to do [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/fallout/images/c/cc/One_man_and_a_crate_of_puppets_a_web_comic.png a comic]] to promote ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', which tells the story of the sole occupant of Vault 77, a man who had nothing for companionship but a crate of hand puppets. Needless to say, he slowly goes crazy, culminating with him developing a psychotic SplitPersonality manifested through a Vault Boy puppet. The comic is referenced in ''Fallout 3'' itself, where the player can find a Vault 77 jumpsuit with a note from a terrified slaver who's worried that its owner will come looking for it.
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158	[[folder:Web Originals]]
159	* ''WebVideo/CLWEntertainment'': One of Manga/{{Doraemon}} is used in [[https://youtu.be/jWDCZBsyDu4 "Peanut.mp4"]].
160	* The entire cast of ''WebVideo/TheFundayPawpetShow''
161	* Most of the cast from [[http://www.normantweeter.com Norman Tweeter Productions]]
162	* WebVideo/MikeJ, a contributor on ''Website/ChannelAwesome'', has the Super Pissed Video Entertainment Sock.
163	* Zack from ''WebVideo/EchoChamber'' opens [[ShowWithinAShow Episode 1]] with a...um...puppet? Sure, we can call it that. It ruins takes by cawing loudly.
164	* Baby Manatee, the SnarkyNonHumanSideKick of ''WebVideo/ManateeGirlTheMovie'' is portrayed by one. At one point he's knocked on the ground and placed back on the off-screen puppeteer's hand by the heroine.
165	* Mitsunari Koga in ''WebVideo/DanganronpaRebirth'' owns a pair of hand puppets stylised after a horse and a deer as part of his shtick as the Ultimate Ventriloquist.
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168	[[folder:Western Animation]]
169	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' episode "Grubhog Day", Anne creates one as a replacement for the Grubhog when she and Sprigg help it escape.
170	* Mr. Garrison's puppet, Mr. Hat, from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. It's originally implied that Mr. Garrison is schizophrenic in some way, and uses Mr. Hat to act out his various repressed sides. The puppet is eventually phased out as Garrison becomes more disturbingly self-confident. It's kept somewhat ambiguous how sentient Mr. Hat actually is.
171	** They took the joke pretty far at times, like when Mr. Hat [[MindScrew broke Garrison and Chef out of jail by driving a truck through the wall]].
172	--->'''Chef''': [[LampshadeHanging How the hell did he reach the pedals]]?
173	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', Sheen ends up with his own public access show about hand-puppets.
174	* In the "Mother Nature" episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Timmy's Mom became a weather woman and so Timmy's Dad decided to be both the mom and the dad by using a hand puppet that looks exactly like Timmy's Mom. Timmy's Dad can't get along with the puppet.
175	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', Heloise has one that looks like Jimmy, whom she has compliment on her ponytail.
176	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'', The Human Ton has his good pal, the hand puppet Handy.
177	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}'' cartoon "WesternAnimation/TheThreeLittlePups", the wolf-as-dogcatcher uses a cat puppet to lure the pups out of their houses. The sight of a wind-up mouse causes the puppet to act like a real cat.
178	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Peter gets a children's TV show and makes a puppet, "Saggy Naggy", that's based on Lois.
179	* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' did an entire episode on this called ''Sock Opera''. Mabel develops a crush on a guy named Gabe, who is really devoted to hand puppetry, to the point that she stages an elaborate musical using nothing but sock puppets in order to impress him. [[spoiler:She has to destroy the set in order to save Dipper (who is being possessed by Bill Cipher), and Gabe sees this as the worst possible thing to ever happen. He considers Mabel to be "making a mockery of his craft" and starts ''making out'' with the hand puppets he never takes off. Mabel realizes she dodged a bullet.]]
180	* The premise of ''WesternAnimation/AtomicPuppet'' is a superhero whose been transformed into a talking sock puppet that when protagonist Joey Felt puts on his hand, transforms the two into the superhero Atomic Puppet.
181	* In season 4's episode "Mime Your Own Business" of ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies'', Sam and Alex get turned into mimes and lose their ability to speak. Alex can't stand the voice synthesizer, so she decides to communicate with a hand puppet, in the process displaying her incredible puppetry which enables the puppet monkey to have infeasible dexterity and even emotional expressions.
182	* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "[=ChefBob=]", [=SpongeBob=] creates one to help him overcome his PerformanceAnxiety when Mr. Krabs makes him work in an open kitchen.
183	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic:'' In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E7MakeNewFriendsButKeepDiscord "Make New Friends But Keep Discord"]], when Discord opens a portal to another dimension, the members of that dimension are [[MediumShiftGag portrayed by real sock puppets]].
184	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'':
185	** In "De-Zanited", Dr. Scratchansniff has one called Mr. Puppethead, which he suggests the Warners talk to. He demonstrates by having a conversation with the puppet.
186	--->'''Yakko:''' Um, are you sure you don't want to see a p-sychiatrist?\
187	'''Scratchansniff:''' I ''am'' a p-sychiatrist... I mean psychiatrist! I am, I am, I am, I am! ''[In a fit of frustration, he tears out some of his hair with Mr. Puppethead's mouth.]''\
188	'''Yakko:''' Mr. Puppethead's hungry.
189	** In "Lookit The Fuzzy Heads", the Warners use hand puppets of themselves during their therapy session.
190	* ''WesternAnimation/FetchWithRuffRuffman'': An episode shows Bridget and Rosario hosting a puppet show at a hospital to ease Ruff's fears of them. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity Ensues]] due to Rosario's overly loud, scratchy, and melodramatic impression of Ruff.
191	-->'''Rosario (as a Ruff Puppet):''' ''[loud, scratchy, melodramatic voice]'' I '''BROKE''' MY '''LEG'''!
192	-->'''Ruff:''' ''[voice-over]'' Is that Ruff Ruffman or [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Marge Simpson]]?
193	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': The episode "Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake!" has various people around town attending Doofus Drake's birthday party, since they get a bag of gold if they stay for the entire party. There's just one catch: the adult has to bring a child, and if Doofus finds out that the guest is only here for the gold, he kicks them out. Flintheart Glomgold's "child" is a hand puppet replica of himself. He makes it surprisingly far into to party, but Louie gives it away by talking to the puppet while Glomgold is submerged in a pool.
194	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'' gives us Unicorse, a unicorn sock puppet that Bandit uses to agitate his wife Chilli and entertain his two daughters.
195	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' episode "The First Day", Luz pulls out sock puppet forms of her and Eda that she made to perform a "heartfelt sonnet", though Eda leaves before we can hear the performance. [[spoiler:In a bit of subtle foreshadowing, the Eda puppet's left eye uses a black button instead of a gold one, hinting at it changing color after she splits the curse with Lilith in the season one finale, and the Luz puppet's stitching hints at the scar she'll receive in the season two finale.]]
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