History Series / PeppermintPark

''Peppermint Park'' was an {{edu|tainmentShow}}cational home video series produced in TheEighties by Televidics Productions and Mark V Productions. It features a cast of puppet characters who get together to teach children various different educational lessons, ranging from letters, numbers, colors, animals, and other similar topics through a series of lectures and songs. [[Series/SesameStreet Surely you've heard of the general premise before.]]

''Peppermint Park'' was an [[EdutainmentShow educational]] home video series produced in TheEighties by Televidics Productions and Mark V Productions. It features a cast of puppet characters who get together to teach children various different educational lessons, ranging from letters, numbers, colors, animals, and other similar topics through a series of lectures and songs.

The series itself is really obscure, having only been released on VHS and apparently limited to just six half-hour episodes. You'd be hard-pressed to find any actual copies of the tapes, but clips and full episodes from the series have been preserved for viewing on Website/YouTube.

* HerrDoktor: Professor Goodstuff, [[note]]or Gudschtuff, which is how he pronounces it[[/note]] some sort of dog/wolf puppet with a German accent who gives instructions on how to make simple toys. However, with his pointy ears and white lab coat, he looks more like a [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] knockoff.

-->'''Sparky''': At the end of our message we have to take the Sparky Pledge...Repeat after me: "I promise Sparky when I go home today, I will tell two people what Sparky [[RhymesOnADime had to say]]".

** The blonde puppet has a male voice in the "bubble liquid" sketch, but earlier in the same episode it has a female voice when it introduces the magician along with Little Bit.

%%* EdutainmentShow: Though the educational level is rather shallow and the entertainment level is up for dispute.%%

* OneBookAuthor: This series is CopiouslyCreditedCreator John Horton's only Website/{{IMDb}} credit. In fact, the whole show is ShroudedInMystery, with hardly any solid info about it or any of its participants on the Web. About all that can be stated for certain is that it was produced in Southern California in 1987, released direct to VHS, and offered up in syndication to low-power UHF TV stations shortly afterwards (though there's no record of any stations actually airing it).

* OneBookAuthor: This series is CopiouslyCreditedCreator John Horton's only Website/{{IMDb}} credit. In fact, the whole show is shrouded in mystery, with hardly any solid info about it or any of its participants on the Web. About all that can be stated for certain is that it was produced in Southern California in 1987, released direct to VHS, and offered up in syndication to low-power UHF TV stations shortly afterwards (though there's no record of any stations actually airing it).

* OneBookAuthor: This series is CopiouslyCreditedCreator John Horton's only Website/{{IMDb}} credit. In fact, the whole show is shrouded in mystery, with hardly any solid info about it or any of its participants on the Web. About all that can be stated for certain is that it was produced in Southern California in 1987, released direct to VHS, and offered up in syndication to low-power UHF TV stations shortly afterwards.

[[caption-width-right:300: Straight to video and straight to your nightmares.]]

If you haven't already gathered from this description, this series is also known for being a near blatant rip-off of ''Series/SesameStreet'', from its opening title sequence of candid film footage of children playing, to puppets giving educational lectures, singing songs about letters, and even filmed inserts of animals - even the [[AlliterativeName alliterative title]] is a give-away! The fact that the series has a character who shares Cookie Monster's definitive characteristic, and another shares his moniker with Ernie, doesn't help matters much.

The characters featured on this show have almost-eerily-realistic-looking heads, and almost all characters having gardening gloves for hands. Some of these characters include Ernie, who sings a song about the letter 'M'; Little Bit, a little girl with braided hair and a very muscular body who gives lectures about numbers; Piggle, an anthropomorphic ballcap-wearing pig who often screws up the lectures and demonstrations being made; and Maynard, and elderly man [[TheEeyore who is so depressed about being blue]] that all he eats is bleu cheese.

''Peppermint Park'' was an [[EdutainmentShow educational]] home video series that was produced in TheEighties by Televidics Productions and Mark V Productions. It features a cast of puppet characters who get together to teach children various different educational lessons, ranging from letters, numbers, colors, animals, and other similar topics through a series of lectures and songs.

** The blonde puppet has a male voice in the "bubble liquid" sketch, but earlier in the same episode it has a female voice when it introduces the magician along with Little Bit.t.

[[caption-width-right:300:The horror... ''the'' '''''horror!!!''''']]

''Peppermint Park'' was an educational home video series that was produced in TheEighties by Televidics Productions and Mark V Productions. This series, described as being, "Straight-to-video and straight-from-Hell," features a cast of puppet characters who get together to teach children various different educational lessons, ranging from letters, numbers, colors, animals, and other similar topics through a series of stale lectures and poorly-written songs.

The characters featured on this show have been a source of nightmares for many, almost resembling characters from ''Film/TheGarbagePailKidsMovie'' with almost-eerily-realistic-looking heads, and almost all characters having gardening gloves for hands. Some of these characters include Ernie (no, not ''[[Series/SesameStreet that]]'' [[Series/SesameStreet Ernie]]), who sings a song about the letter 'M'; Little Bit, a little girl with braided hair and a very muscular body who gives lectures about numbers; Piggle, an anthropomorphic ballcap-wearing pig [[Franchise/TheMuppets with the voice of a frog]], [[Series/SesameStreet and the insatiable appetite of a certain blue monster]], who often screws up the lectures and demonstrations being made; and Maynard, and elderly man [[TheEeyore who is so depressed about being blue]] that all he eats is bleu cheese.

If you haven't already gathered from this description, in addition to featuring scary puppets and poorly-written songs, this series is also known for being a near blatant rip-off of ''Series/SesameStreet'', from its opening title sequence of candid film footage of children playing, to puppets giving educational lectures, singing songs about letters, and even filmed inserts of animals - even the [[AlliterativeName alliterative title]] is a give-away! The fact that the series has a character who shares Cookie Monster's definitive characteristic, and another shares his moniker with Ernie, doesn't help matters much.

The series itself is really obscure, having only been released on VHS and apparently limited to just six half-hour episodes. You'd be hard-pressed to find any actual copies of the tapes, but clips and full episodes from the series have unfortunately been preserved for viewing on Website/YouTube, where almost all of them are [[CriticalDissonance bashed out the wazoo]] in the comment sections. It has also been mercilessly mocked [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwgpDHrZ3UA in this YouTube Poop]].

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: As mentioned above, it doesn't take a genius watching clips to figure out this thing was obviously a very low-budget ripoff of ''Series/SesameStreet''.
* EdutainmentShow: Though the educational level is rather shallow and the entertainment level is up for dispute.

* EveryoneLovesBlondes: The main recurring non-puppet characters, The Story Lady and Magic Megan, are both blonde women.

* OneBookAuthor: This series is CopiouslyCreditedCreator John Horton's only Website/{{IMDb}} credit. In fact, the whole show is shrouded in mystery, with hardly any solid info about it or any of its participants on the Web. About all that can be stated for certain is that it was produced in Southern California in 1987, released direct to VHS, and offered up in syndication to low-power UHF TV stations shortly afterwards (whether any of them were desperate enough to air this show is unknown).
* OnTheNext: Each episode ends with this, and with the lack of quality control throughout the production, it should be no surprise that the previews often don't jibe with what actually happens in the next volume. Volume 6 has a generic one, which probably means that they knew it was going to be the last episode.
* ThePlace

** The blonde puppet has a male voice in the "bubble liquid" sketch, but earlier in the same episode it has a female voice when it introduces the magician along with Little Bit.

'''''Peppermint Park''''' was an educational home video series that was produced in TheEighties by Televidics Productions and Mark V Productions. This series, described as being, "Straight-to-video and straight-from-Hell," features a cast of puppet characters who get together to teach children various different educational lessons, ranging from letters, numbers, colors, animals, and other similar topics through a series of stale lectures and poorly-written songs.

** The blonde puppet has a male voice in the "bubble liquid" sketch, but a female voice when it introduces the magician along with Little Bit.

* InTheStyleOf: "I'm So Blue" kind of sounds like something Music/RandyNewman might come up with on a bad day.

If you haven't already gathered from this description, in addition to featuring scary puppets and poorly-written songs, this series also known for being a near blatant rip-off of ''Series/SesameStreet'', from its opening title sequence of candid film footage of children playing, to puppets giving educational lectures, singing songs about letters, and even filmed inserts of animals - even the [[AlliterativeName alliterative title]] is a give-away! The fact that the series has a character who shares Cookie Monster's definitive characteristic, and another shares his moniker with Ernie, doesn't help matters much.

The series itself is really obscure. You'd be hard-pressed to find any copies of this series on VHS, but clips and full episodes from the series have unfortunately been preserved for viewing on Website/YouTube, where almost all of them are [[CriticalDissonance bashed out the wazoo]] in the comment sections. It has also been mercilessly mocked [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwgpDHrZ3UA in this YouTube Poop]].

The series itself is really obscure, you'd be hard-pressed to find any copies of this series on VHS, however, some clips from the series have unfortunately been preserved for viewing on Website/YouTube, where almost all of them are [[CriticalDissonance bashed out the wazoo]] in the comment sections. It has also been mercilessly mocked [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwgpDHrZ3UA in this YouTube Poop]].

* ClockTampering: Snorkee attempts to slow down a clock, "That way, we can have more time for the show!" Knurkel tries to explain that slowing down a clock won't effect time in any way.