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Neil Cicierega, of Animutation fame, created two flash cartoons featuring hand-puppet versions of the main characters from Harry Potter. The humorous cartoons quickly gained popularity (even with Rowling herself and Daniel Radcliffe), and the Potter Puppet Pals series was born.Eventually, Neil and his friends moved on from animated shorts to live-action shorts featuring real puppets, and they've even done a couple of live shows with the puppets. The series is most famous for the number of memes it has spawned.Also, Neville is a butternut squash.Shorts include:
"Trouble at Hogwarts": Voldemort invades Hogwarts, and it's up to Harry, Ron, and Hermione to stop him.
"Potions Class": Snape describes Potions Class to Harry and friends in a very disturbing way. Not to mention Dumbledore wanting expired gorilla milk for his bowels.
"Wizard Angst": Harry's feeling cranky and pubescent today, and he doesn't know why!
"Mysterious Ticking Noise": The entire cast sings along to a mysterious ticking noise which unfortunately turns out to be a time bomb. (Yes, this includes Voldemort.)
"Wizard Swears": Harry, Ron, and Hermione learn magical profanity.
"School is for Losers": Harry Potter says school is for losers!
"The Awakening of the Incorruptible" (later renamed "Albus Dumbledore Lists Your Good Qualities"): The most epic Potter Puppet Pals short ever.
"The Vortex": A strange vortex appears, and Ron finally goes through puberty.
"Ron's Disease": Ron gets Wizard Lice, and only Hagrid can cure it.
"Snape's Diary": Harry steals Snape's diary, and he reads it aloud to Ron and Hermione.
"Mustache Buddies": Voldemort decides to grow a mustache and has Snape do it too.
"Ron's Parents": Ron has parents, Harry doesn't.
"Harry's Nightmares": Harry recalls a series of horrible nightmares.
"Ginny": Harry flirts with Ron's hot younger sister.
"Neville's Birthday": Harry, Ron and Hermione attend Neville's birthday party on threat of expulsion.
Some of the fans of this series made Fanvids of these Fanvids, using the same or similar programs and posted them on YouTube.
This series provides examples of:
Alternative Character Interpretation: invoked All the characters is exaggerated and twisted versions of the original Harry Potter characters, all in the name of Rule of Funny. Dumbledore is an outrageous ditz, Ron is a pathetic, effeminate Yes Man who adores Harry despite constantly being insulted by him, Harry is a self-centered Jerkass who is desperate for attention, and Snape is a Comically Serious loner who nobody takes seriously because of his tendency to get angsty over almost everything.
Dumbeldore also happens to be an android. A gay android.
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Heroic Sociopath: Harry. At one point he leads a half-awake Hagrid all over the school grounds to club everyone in sight. Except Voldemort.
Hollywood Pudgy: Harry constantly makes snide remarks about Ron's eating habits and weight, despite Ron obviously being build from the same puppet template as him.
Which is hilarious, considering that Ron in the books is extremely tall and thin.
Ho Yay: Ron has an obvious one-sided crush on Harry.
Apparently Harry returns Ron's feelings on a subconscious level through his attraction to Ginny, who is basically just Ron with Tertiary Sexual Characteristics.
Take That: "Awakening of the Incorruptible" has been declared to be a stab at fans who were whining about the sporadic updating. Not that they have a lot to complain about, "The Vortex" was uploaded shortly after.
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