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3''Peppermint Park'' was an {{edu|tainmentShow}}cational home video series produced in TheEighties by Televidics Productions and Mark V Productions, with a [[Series/SesameStreet rather familiar sounding general premise]]: a cast of puppet characters 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.
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5The 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, sometimes by eating the objects being demonstrated; and Maynard, and elderly man [[TheEeyore who is so depressed about being blue]] that all he eats is bleu cheese.
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7The series itself is really obscure, having only been released on VHS and apparently limited to just six half-hour episodes. [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes 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.
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12* AlliterativeTitle: '''P'''eppermint '''P'''ark.
13* BigEater: Piggle. He once ruined one of Little Bit's lectures by devouring the plate of crackers she was using to demonstrate the number 4.
14* CartoonCreature: Two of the recurring puppets are Snorkee, a yellow dinosaur-looking creature, and Knurkel, a green dragon-looking creature.
15* 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 affect time in any way.
16* EdutainmentShow: It very much follows the lead of its role model ''Series/SesameStreet'', being a series of vignettes about basic things like letters, numbers and colors.
17* TheEeyore: Maynard. "I'm So Blue" is his ''theme song'', in which he sings about how blue he is. He used to be "red hot" when he was younger, but now he's so blue all he eats is bleu cheese.
18* FakeShemp: The Magic Megan segment in Volume 6 doesn't even have video; it's just stills of Megan with balloons while the (male) announcer describes the trick. Except, an OnTheNext at the end of an earlier episode actually shows a video clip of Megan doing the balloon trick, leading you to wonder if there was some kind of technical glitch that precluded them from showing the whole video.
19* GenkiGirl: Magic Megan is quite bubbly, putting a great deal of enthusiasm into explaining "magic tricks" like folding up pieces of paper or writing things on rubber bands.
20* 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.
21* InTheStyleOf: "I'm So Blue" kind of sounds like something Music/RandyNewman might come up with on an off day.
22* LeaveTheCameraRunning: A number of moments like this, with the dancing marionette scenes being the biggest offenders. The "show footage of animals while a wacky song about the animals plays" sequences also just meander on forever without much regard for editing or pacing.
23* TheMockbuster: Of ''Sesame Street'', down to having characters copy the mannerisms of certain Muppets like Kermit and Cookie Monster.
24* NonIronicClown: Sparky, a fireman-clown who gives fire safety tips and comes off as gruff, irritable and a bit bossy. He also seems to view fire safety as a basis for some sort of pyramid scheme.
25-->'''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]]".
26* OneBookAuthor: This series is CopiouslyCreditedCreator John Horton's only Website/{{IMDb}} credit, though he's known to have worked on other shows (including one of the 80s revivals of ''Series/TheDickCavettShow''). 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).
27* OnTheNext: Each episode ends with this. 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.
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29* PuppetShows: Of the educational variety.
30* ShortRunners: Apparently only six half-hour episodes were ever made.
31* ShoutOut: The Manhattan Ts (a bunch of T-shaped puppets who sing a jazzy a cappella song) are one to the veteran vocal group [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manhattan_Transfer The Manhattan Transfer]].
32* VocalEvolution:
33** About midway through the series, Piggle suddenly loses his Kermit-esque voice and gets a sped-up [[Franchise/AlvinAndTheChipmunks Chipmunk]]-like voice instead.
34** 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.

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