Original title
Puppets Who Kill
Released
10/4/2002
Origin country
CA
Genre
Animation, Comedy
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
4
Number of episodes
53
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.
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.
Buttons testifies against an old boss and has the opportunity to make $5 million if he can keep his hands of the jury forewoman.
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 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.
Skip-Along Pete invites Rocko to his remote island planning to hunt him down for sport.
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 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.
Dash gets a job as a greeter for a department store; Miss Smith becomes obsessed with Dan.
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 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
Bill tries to sue the families of his victims for mental cruelty and is sentenced to castration for wasting the judge's time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Dan encourages Cuddles to be more creative in his artistic endeavours but is surprised when he sees the unusual source for Cuddles' newest creations. When Cuddles is believed to be dead shortly thereafter from an apparent suicide, interest in this ' work ' skyrockets and Bill and Rocko quickly move to advantage of this atmosphere.
Bill must deal with Corrections Canada's new social worker intern at their house. Meanwhile, Dan, Cuddles, and Buttons fight for their new neighbour's affections.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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