Puppets Who Kill

30min

Animation

Comedy

Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy programme co-produced by The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada on the Comedy Network in 2002, and in Australia on The Comedy Channel in 2004. In Puppets Who Kill, Rocko the Dog, Cuddles the Comfort Doll, Buttons the Bear, and Bill the Dummy are four live, anthropomorphic puppets with a history of delinquency and recidivism. Canadian courts sent each of them to a halfway house for puppets, operated by a man named Dan Barlow.

Episodes

Cast

Pilot

1. Pilot

30min

4th Oct 2002

Buttons, The City Counsellor And The City Counsellor's Wife

2. Buttons, The City Counsellor And The City Counsellor's Wife

30min

11th Oct 2002

When the guys at the halfway house learn all they have to do to get a satellite dish is for Buttons to sleep with the city counsellor's wife, they pressure him to do so. Meanwhile, Dan and Bill get in a battle of wills over the toilet seat.

Cuddles Goes To Jail

3. Cuddles Goes To Jail

30min

18th Oct 2002

Buttons testifies against an old boss and has the opportunity to make $5 million if he can keep his hands of the jury forewoman.

Buttons Goes To Court

4. Buttons Goes To Court

30min

25th Oct 2002

Dan sends Cuddles to jail for swearing and Cuddles ends up running the place by the end of his stay; Dan thinks that Bill might be the infamous testicle thief.

Bill's Brain

5. Bill's Brain

30min

31st Oct 2002

Bill enters the hospital for a lobotomy unaware his surgeon has a secret grudge; Buttons has sex with a nurse in a storage room full of dangerous diseases.

The Island Of Skip-Along Pete

6. The Island Of Skip-Along Pete

30min

8th Nov 2002

Skip-Along Pete invites Rocko to his remote island planning to hunt him down for sport.

Rocko's Telethon

7. Rocko's Telethon

30min

15th Nov 2002

Rocko goes on a telethon supporting people who were impaled and goes off the wall because Bill forgot to give him some pills to calm him down. Also, Buttons tries to hit on a woman on the telethon, and Cuddles winds up with a stripper while delivering money to the telethon.

Cuddles The Safety Mascot

8. Cuddles The Safety Mascot

30min

22nd Nov 2002

Cuddles has big shoes to fill when he replaces a legendary safety mascot who was killed on the job; Dan makes Rocko and Buttons work at a hazardous-waste site.

Dan's Crush

9. Dan's Crush

30min

29th Nov 2002

Dan The Greeter

10. Dan The Greeter

30min

Dash gets a job as a greeter for a department store; Miss Smith becomes obsessed with Dan.

Cuddles Gets Laid

11. Cuddles Gets Laid

30min

13th Dec 2002

Dan struggles to control Cuddles after Cuddles has his first sexual experience; Bill is paired with ventriloquist Curious Bob, a former partner he once attempted to kill.

Dan's Umbrella

12. Dan's Umbrella

30min

20th Dec 2002

Dan leaves his umbrella at the CBC during a tour and has to fight the bureacracy to get it back. Bill finds and steals the CBC's secret collection of celebritiess brains

Mr. Quigley, The Asshole Next Door

13. Mr. Quigley, The Asshole Next Door

30min

27th Dec 2002

The Payback

14. The Payback

30min

3rd Jan 2003

First air date

4th Oct 2002

Last air date

22nd Jun 2006

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks