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Puppets Who Kill
2002 - 2006 6.5 (6 votes) 4 Seasons
Official Website
Genres
Animation Comedy
Networks
The Comedy Network

Puppets Who Kill

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Producer: Shawn Thompson

Top Cast

Dan Redican
Dan Redican

Dan Barlow

Bob Martin
Bob Martin

Cuddles

Gord Robertson

Bill

James Rankin

Buttons

Seasons

Season 1 (2002)

No overview available.

14 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Pilot
2002-10-04

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Buttons, The City Counsellor And The City Counsellor's Wife
2002-10-11

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Cuddles Goes To Jail
2002-10-18

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Buttons Goes To Court
2002-10-25

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Bill's Brain
2002-10-31

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: The Island Of Skip-Along Pete
2002-11-08

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Rocko's Telethon
2002-11-15

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Cuddles The Safety Mascot
2002-11-22

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Dan's Crush
2002-11-29

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Dan The Greeter

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Cuddles Gets Laid
2002-12-13

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.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Dan's Umbrella
2002-12-20

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

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Mr. Quigley, The Asshole Next Door
2002-12-27

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 14: The Payback
2003-01-03

Runtime: 30 min
Season 2 (2004)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Bill Sues
2004-01-30

Bill tries to sue the families of his victims for mental cruelty and is sentenced to castration for wasting the judge's time.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Portrait Of Buttons
2004-02-06

Dan cons Buttons into thinking his portrait is cursed to reflect his evil to control him but accidentally drives the bear into a homicidal rage resulting in a bloodbath at the local church.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Prostitutes For Jesus
2004-02-13

Button's has an affair with a woman with a very jealous and murderous ""husband"" while Rocko and Bill take advantage of two prostitutes who have announced a holy mission to see that the terminally ill get laid.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Cuddles The Demon
2004-02-20

Dan's game with an Ouija board results in Buttons being possessed by a demon who intends to destroy the world and picks Dan as the virgin sacrifice he needs to finish the job.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Buttons The Geriatric
2004-02-27

Buttons picks an elderly rich widow as his ticket to the good life and is willing to kill anyone who tries to stop her changing her will to leave him everything.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Dead Ted
2004-03-05

Rocko's old cellmate Ted drops by to say hi and offer to share his hidden loot with him but dies accidentally before he can tell Rocko where its hidden

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Cuddles The Religious Icon
2004-03-12

Cuddle gains the power to heal by touch and becomes known to the neighbours as the Miracle Child but his popularity annoys Dan who sets out to destroy Cuddle's gift until he discovers he has terminal bowel cancer.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Bill's Got The Blues
2004-03-19

Bill is suffering from extreme depression because Dan's forbidden him to commit murder but Dan needs Bill to cheer up so he can have a chance at a successful Social Workers grant

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: Pizza Boys Are Missing
2004-03-26

In this episode many pizza delivery boys disappear. Rocko and Cuddles decide to take a job delivering pizza. In the meantime, Buttons lies to a pretty lady, (Meredith Henderson), to get what he wants. The truth about Buttons is uncovered though, and the case of the disappearing pizza boys is solved.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: Rocko Gets A Lung
2004-04-02

Rocko learns he's down to 2% of lung capacity and needs a transplant to survive but he's such a scumbag that no one's willing to donate them to him and he doesn't have the money to buy a new set. Bill's sent to a TV quiz show to earn the money but it turns out his genius at home was actually from cheating and in he's way over his head.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: Dan And The Necrophiliac
2004-04-09

At Uncle Harry's funeral Dan learns that the beautiful cousin he's always had a crush on is a necrophliac. Just how far will Dan go for the chance to get laid?

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Rocko And The Twins
2004-04-16

Cuddles' latest blind date turns out to have a siamese twin attached and wants him to find a date for her sister. Rocko barges into the situation and finds he's met his match in the bitter & angry sister. To everyone's surprise their mutual hostility turns into a passionate affair while Cuddles finds that the other sister is far more boring than her personal ad claimed.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: The Twilight Place
2004-04-23

Dan gets rid of the TV to stop the gang doing nothing but sitting around watching it so Cuddles and Rocko buy their own set from a thrift shop but it turns out to be cursed.

Runtime: 30 min
Season 4 (2006)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Joyride
2006-03-02

The puppets steal a car parked near a local variety store. However, they are unaware of the car's owner or the fact that the car contains unwanted baggage - a dead body!

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 2: Dan and the Garden Shears
2006-03-09

Dan resolves to get back garden shears from his neighbor but seems to be stymied when the neighbor dies and is buried with the garden shears. Meanwhile, Buttons plans to steer clear of a tryst with a woman supposedly cursed to have her lovers die unexpectedly but his plans goes awry.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 3: Mr. Big
2006-03-16

After acquiring a Falcon, Cuddles is mistaken by a group of criminals as the legendary mobster ' Mr. Big ' and the consequences could be deadly for Dan and the others

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 4: Dan Is Dead
2006-03-23

Dan is presumed dead and his will reveals that he was a multi-millionaire at the time of his death. However, the puppets discover that the will had an odd provisal: the money would go entirely to the one person who could prove they loved Dan the most.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 5: Bill and the Berkowitz's
2006-03-30

A dispute between Rocko and a local drug dealer climaxes with a dead mailman at the door of the halfway house and Bill being blamed for it. To rehab his image, Bill befriends an elderly couple but this doesn't turn exactly as he planned.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 6: Oedipus Dan
2006-04-06

Dan's mother arrives for a short visit at the halfway house. After a series of unfortunate accidents, and a little subtle encouragement from Rocko, she begins to believe that Dan has an Oedipus complex. To make matters worse, Dan is told he may fall victim to the Oedipus prophecy that foretells nasty events for him and his parents.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 7: Buttons and the Dying Wish Foundation
2006-04-13

When news comes out that Buttons runs a slave labor factory that produces Buttons the Bear dolls, Buttons looks for a way to restore his public image. Rocko suggests contacting a foundation that grants wishes of terminally ill people but Buttons quickly finds out that granting such a wish isn't a short term fix as he thinks. Meanwhile, Dan is annoyed when Bill keeps interrupting at the most inopportune times and Rocko, with great reluctance, agrees to help out a former prison inmate.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 8: Bill's Wedding
2006-04-20

A minister and his wife pay a visit to the halfway house and in a short amount of time, Buttons starts fooling around with the wife, to the dismay of the minister. Meanwhile, Bill is set to marry a woman he has known only briefly even as reports circulate of a beautiful woman killing people at an alarming rate.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 9: The Rival House
2006-04-27

Dan learns that Correction Services will be closing down one of the halfway houses in the area with the other run by an arch rival of Dan's. With the other house populated by seemingly perfect puppets, Dan and his charges seem destined to lose this competition.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 10: The Hostage
2006-05-04

Buttons' trip to Rio lands him in hot war financially and he resorts to kidnapping a wealthy businessman as a means to extricate him from the mess. Dan tries to get Corrections Canada to hire a maid to clean the house for him.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 11: A Few Feuds
2006-05-11

A series of misunderstandings lead Rocko, Bill, Buttons and Cuddles to believe each of them is trying to kill one of the others in house. Meanwhile, Dan finds himself caught up in an old feud betweeen two warring families.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 12: Dan's Ideal Woman
2006-05-18

Dan tells Buttons of his ideal woman and is horrified when Buttons finds and seduces a woman that fits that description. Meanwhile, Bill starts to build bombs as a hobby and Rocko tries to get in shape with equipment he steals from others.

Runtime: 30 min
Episode 13: Buttons the Ghost
2006-06-22

Dan and Buttons are involved in a car accident with Buttons left in a near death coma as a result. However, Buttons' ghost appears at the halfway house and quickly makes Dan's life miserable as only he can. Frustrated, Dan resolves to rid himself of the ethereal presence through any means necessary.

Runtime: 30 min

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