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8 | ''Puppets Who Kill'' was a Canadian-produced BlackComedy series from Creator/TheComedyNetwork that centered on the lives of four puppets who had been sent to a halfway house run by the cynic Dan Barlow (played by Creator/DanRedican) as a last ditch effort to rehabilitate them as every other effort had failed. |
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10 | The puppets themselves were: |
11 | * Rocko the Dog (Creator/BruceHunter), who after suppressing his very child-unfriendly personality snapped on set; |
12 | * Cuddles (Bob Martin), a comfort doll whose consistent curbing of his own desires ended up with him shooting people with a rifle from a roof; |
13 | * Buttons the Bear (Creator/JamesRankin), a sex maniac who had a good life until his private deeds were released to the public and he was fired. |
14 | * [[DemonicDummy Bill the Dummy]] (Gord Robertson), a psychopath with a constant [[SlasherSmile smile]] and a taste for [[ImAHumanitarian meat]] who had 56 partners die in tragic "accidents". |
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16 | The show tended to balance itself on the edge of a knife, often crossing the line [[CrossesTheLineTwice more than twice]] and happily embracing the darkly humorous tone inherent in a show about living puppets who regularly break the law. |
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19 | !!This series provides examples of: |
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21 | * AnimateInanimateObject: The puppets are treated and behave like humans, even having organs both internal and sexual, despite otherwise being made of felt and wood. |
22 | * AssholeVictim : A lot of people the characters meet are sometimes this. |
23 | %%* AxCrazy: Bill, Rocko sometimes. |
24 | %%* BerserkButton: Do not call Cuddles a rooster. Just don't. |
25 | * BlackAndGrayMorality: Almost everyone is a jerk in some way, and often deserve the horrible things that happen to them. |
26 | * BlackComedy |
27 | * BrainInAJar: [=CBC=] has a whole room filled with them. |
28 | * BrainwashedandCrazy: Cuddles on more than one time. |
29 | * ButtMonkey: Buttons, Cuddles and Dan share the title. |
30 | * TheCasanova: Buttons. |
31 | * TheChessmaster: Dan |
32 | * ClusterFBomb: The show has quite a lot of them. |
33 | * CreepySouvenir: Bill collects testicles. |
34 | * DeadpanSnarker: Dan, Rocko and Bill. |
35 | * DepravedKidsShowHost: Rocko is this mixed with NiceCharacterMeanActor. |
36 | * DoesThisRemindYouofAnything?: In Cuddles the Manchurian Candidate, which originally aired in 2005, a [[GeneralRipper rogue US General]] invades Canada to acquire Canada's water supply. He calls it [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror Operation Liberation]]. |
37 | * EmbarrassingNickname: "Poopy pants". [[spoiler: Bill]] |
38 | * EscalatingWar: It ended with an exploding toilet. |
39 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Bill and Rocko. |
40 | * GirlOnGirlIsHot: Buttons' reaction to being saved from a PsychoLesbian and her girlfriend moments before his death is one of disappointment, because it meant he would miss the lesbian make-up sex. |
41 | * ILoveTheDead: The plot of the final episode is [[spoiler: Buttons' ghost]] stealing Dan's girlfriend by being a better lay. |
42 | ** Dan's cousin Hazel in "Dan and the Necrophiliac" makes love to a dead relative at the funeral they're attending. Rocko, the only one who saw this, is forced to [[SecretKeeper keep it between them]], but he tells Dan anyway. This ends up with them formulating a scheme for Dan to get some from her, only for him to find out the funeral home director also is into screwing corpses. |
43 | %%* InTheStyleOf: "The Twilight Place" is one to ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', with Creator/RonPardo [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed as]] Creator/RodSerling providing narration. |
44 | * KarmaHoudini: The puppets sometimes get away with crimes they do mostly Bill and Rocko. |
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46 | ** 2 Lesbians in the episode Dead Ted get off scot-free from forcing a vacuum into Button's genitals |
47 | ** A similar couple in the episode Prostitutes for Jesus gets away with leaving Button to almost get burned alive. The same could said with some minor characters in some episodes. |
48 | * ImAHumanitarian: Just one of Bill's many traits, with several of the episodes often focused on his habits. |
49 | * KavorkaMan: Dan. |
50 | * LargeHam: Most of the minor characters and Buttons. |
51 | %%* LaughablyEvil: Buttons. |
52 | * MrViceGuy: Dan means well, but is mainly interested in the halfway house's funding and his own job, even willing to [[SelectiveObliviousness look the other way]] when the puppets commit crimes. |
53 | * OnlySaneMan: Dan seems to play this roll. |
54 | * PsychoLesbian: Buttons is nearly killed by one for having sex with her girlfriend, who only slept with him in the first place because [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys seeing her act psychotically jealous turned her on]]. |
55 | ** In Dead Ted, Buttons is tricked by a lesbian woman and her girlfriend into giving his sperm away. |
56 | * SerialKiller: Bill has killed people in various episodes though it's offscreen |
57 | * SignOfTheApocalypse |
58 | * SlasherSmile: Bill's default expression. |
59 | * SociopathicHero: Bill, in spades. He's the smartest among the cast, and is often the one who saves them from their problems. Too bad his solutions usually involve cannibalism and violence. |
60 | * {{Squick}}: In-universe, Dan gets increasingly grossed out over the process of inserting a camera up a urinary tract in "Bill's Brain". |
61 | * ThreatBackfire: One episode had Bill being ransomed by some mafia types, who threaten to send him back [[FingerInTheMail piece by piece]]; when the others refuse to cooperate, they do just that, cutting Bill up and sending the bits back to the halfway house. It never occurred to them that Bill is a puppet, and all the others have to do is stitch him back together again. |
62 | * WideEyedIdealist: Cuddles. |
63 | * VillainProtagonist: The main cast is this |
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