35 Facts About Puppets and the People That Stick Their Hands Up Them
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All we can do is speculate, but it must be really hard to pump out great work with a hand up your butt.
Sorry, we had to.
We’re 99 percent sure a ventriloquist has used some version of that joke before, but when we started gathering tidbits about movie and TV puppets, it’s all we could think about. As hard as it is to say that we have anything in common with ventriloquists, it seems like we share an affinity for juvenile jokes.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
Tom Servo & Crow
Meet the Feebles
Avenue Q
Randy Feltface
Walter
Crank Yankers
Greg the Bunny
Early Ventriloquism
Audrey II
Statler & Waldorf
Alf
E.T.
Michael Caine
Jeff Bezos
Gizmo
Jordan Peele
Source: Time
Kuato
Sources: Filmsite, Ranker, Screen Rant
Billy the Puppet
Fozzie Bear
Source: CNN
A Pinocchio Puppet
Sources: The Walt Disney Family Museum, Longtimers (via archive.org)
Michael Moore in Team America: World Police
Source: 15 Things Created As Revenge
Daniel Tiger
The Original Yoda
Knives Out
Source: Film School Rejects
The Croissant Road in Team America: World Police
The Opening Sequence in Team America: World Police
The Muppet SPA’AM
Source: Deseret
The Sex Scene in Team America: World Police
Jon Stewart
Alien3
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Blue’s Clues
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Source: Yahoo!