is a Web Original project on YouTube from the mind of Canadian puppeteer and special effects artist Matt Ficner. The premise is exactly what you think it is: a series of mostly unconnected shorts using puppetry, while using a lot of horror tropes to elicit either that reaction or the other reaction. Either way, it has high-quality writing and excellent production values.The series can be seen on his YouTube channel here.
The series contains the following tropes:
- All There in the Manual: Most of the character's names
- Bloody Hilarious: about 50% of their stuff is this.
- Body Horror: Ohh, so much, due to the fact that puppets allow more "freedom" than typical zombie make-up.
- Clock Punk: Doc. Whotnought
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Yeah, pretty much.
- Funny Background Event: The Cafe segments are all about this.
- Gorn: Some of the scarier videos feature this trope in spades.
- Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Winston, who's always off-key when the Zombies sing.
- Muppets: Almost completely averted. Most of the characters have a distinctly "realistic" look, and the zombies have some... interesting parts about them. The only point that it's played straight is Happy Little Fuzzy Things, which gets promptly subverted.
- Reverse Cerebus Syndrome: The videos have steadily become sillier since the project first started.
- Shout-Out:
- Two of the zombies are named "Stan" and "Winston."
- The fat zombie has a striking resemblance to a boomer.
- The resident ditz has a passing resemblance to Beaker.
- Hostile Entities is an Affectionate Parody of Alien
- Dusty Zombies is one big Shout-Out to Kansas, who wrote the song "Dust in the Wind."
