Funday PawPet Show

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Funday Pawpet Show
Format Comedy
Created by Randy "Yappy" Fox
Starring KuddlePup (K.P.)
YappyFox
JakRabbit (J.R.)
Scott Garron (Simba)
Liesl Muckey
Terry Sender
Herbie Hammil
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 369 (as of April 2008)
Production
Running time 240 minutes (4 Hours)
Broadcast
Original channel Internet
Original run November 1999 – present
External links
Official website

The Funday PawPet Show is "the 'Net's first and only regularly scheduled four hour puppet show". It has streamed over the Internet Sunday nights from 19:00 to 23:00 Eastern Time from Kissimmee, Florida. Due to an increasing global viewership, effective November 25, 2007 the program will stream from 17:00 to 21:00 Eastern Time. The show started in November 1999, and is hosted by a variety of puppet characters. The Funday PawPet Show has sparked a few imitations in the US and various other countries. Groups such as Fluff & Such Productions, PawPets West, and PawPet North Coast have been inspired by the Funday Pawpet Show. The show is performed live at the Megaplex furry convention, held in Jacksonville, Florida as well as Anthrocon[1], held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Other puppetry events, such as Lionel Scritchie's Dormitory at Eurofurence were inspired in part by the Funday Pawpet Show.[2]

Contents

[edit] Cast and characters

K.P.
Ezra (sheepdog), Tod Ferret (ferret), Spoiler (donkey)
Yappy Fox
Rummage (raccoon), Randy Fox (fox), Scritch (ferret)
J.R.
Poink T. Ferret (ferret), Hugh manatee (manatee)
Simba
Crappy Doo Shorts (sheepdog), Spider (cow), Cow (spider), Arthur Braunsweiger (bobcat), Carrot (vegetable), JavaFrog (frog), Creepy
Herbie
Mutt (sheepdog), Scream Guy (phantom), Forrest (twig)
Liesl
Puddin' Shorts (sheepdog), Lilly Voop (fox), Audrey (ewe)
Terry
Shak (shark), Temp Ferret (ferret)
Bandit
A real Border Collie dog, owned by the show's creator, Randy "Yappy" Fox.

[edit] Frequently occurring show activities

ArtJam
The viewers are asked to contribute some (self-made) images on a chosen theme. Art submissions for the years 1999-2001 were sporadic and not always saved with date information. The Funday Pawpet Show website does retain an archive of all Art submissions with associated dates from 2002 to present.[3]
Picture Captions
The viewers are asked to send in a suitable caption for a picture that is shown. The captions are broadcast towards the end of the show.[4]
Roll Call
One of the cast members or guests reads the nicknames of those in the show's IRC channel while the "Jarabe tapatío" is played. For some broadcasts, such as ones with notable guests or notable upcoming holidays, a song matching the guest or holiday may be used instead.[citation needed]
Spits-or-Swallows
The cast eat and/or drink something their viewers have sent in, often consisting of a food or drink that is generally displeasing or may be an acquired taste.
Subservience
Inspired by Burger King's The Subservient Chicken, this segment consists of a cast member who appears on camera and performs actions based on suggestions from the audience.[5] Usually featuring fursuiters, there have been exceptions, such as Episode 315's Subservient Rasvar[6], Episode 362's Subservient Captain Jack Sparrow, and Episode 369's Subservient BassMan.
The Pink Flamingo Challenge
Show visitors are treated to some sort of pastry (preferably of a chocolatey nature) which they are encouraged to eat while viewing a short clip from the ending to the movie Pink Flamingos (in which "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" is played, while Divine chews and swallows dog feces). Since this portion of the film is disturbingly graphic, only the audience's reaction is shown to viewers. On some occasions, a substitute food item (such as a burrito) is offered; on rarer occasions, such as a fursuiting guest, no item is offered.[citation needed]
Shout Outs
Announcements, such as birthdays or shout-outs, sent in by viewers are read aloud. This usually takes place late in the show to allow time for submissions to be made.[7]
Garrison Skunk's Top 60 Quotes of the Night
A weekly listing of the current episode's funniest/oddest statements read by Poink, who alternates even/odd numbered quotes with others including Simba, Yappy, Ezra and Liesel. The feature was begun by long time viewer and contributor Garrison Skunk who wanted to preserve some notable quotes when it was announced that episode 324 was not being taped due to a machine error. As a joke, the feature retains the number 60 in its title despite growing in size to over 80 quotes a week, although there have been two alterations. In honor of episode 350, the name was changed to 'Top 350 Quotes of the Night', leading Ezra and Poink to rush through the first page's quotes 350 - 342, only to find quotes 341 - 61 consisted of a picture of cast member Eaglebeagle saying "Bloop!", with page 3 continuing as normally. The second time occurred, when after a three week hiatus while the cast were on vacation, Garrison presented the 'Top 20 Things Said in Channel Over the Past Three Weeks'.

[edit] Memorable shows

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The Funday Pawpet Show has had many shows with unusual or memorable topics. Frequent themed shows celebrate major holidays such as Christmas, New Years, Halloween, Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July and Christmas in July.[citation needed] On many occasions, the cast has gone out to various sites to film sequences. Some of the most memorable include trips to conventions such as Fx and MegaCon to interview many of the guest celebrities. The cast has done interviews with the children (now grown up) from the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. In that show, "Mutt" keeps getting thrown from one star to the next for asking them "stupid questions".[citation needed] Other celebrities that have been interviewed on the show include: Jason Marsden (Max Goof from "A Goofy Movie"), Jay North (Dennis the Menace), Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett from "Star Wars"), and Noel McNeal (Bear from "Bear in the Big Blue House").[8] The show also has "bumpers" or intros done by various individuals including the accapella group, Toxic Audio.[citation needed]

The show has many recurring gags. On the Easter shows, the viewers are challenged to find new and creative ways to destroy chocolate rabbits in "Chocolate Bunny Deaths".[citation needed] During the Christmas and Christmas in July shows, the cast takes part in white elephant gift exchanges on the air, from which some cast members have gone home with things like edible underwear, half of a sub sandwich, and a 5 pound container of lard.[citation needed] The Halloween show has recently featured video of purple monsters attempting to scare the Trick or Treaters that appear at the front door of the house where the show is filmed.[citation needed]

"The Ferret Takeover Show"
Inspired by the movie Being John Malkovich, the cast one by one enter a strange back door in the stage and transform into ferrets.[9]
"The Drunk Show"
Inspired by an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati and intended to celebrate the show's 21st episode (the drinking age in Florida, although for various reasons the topic was ultimately pushed back to the 23rd show), the cast (all of whom agreed to give up their car keys and spend the night in the studio) took one shot of Rumplemintz for every half hour of broadcast time. This show is arguably the most controversial episode of Pawpets.[citation needed]
"The Sinkhole Show"
Another controversial show. This Halloween show ran a quick disclaimer at the very beginning of the broadcast stating that "the show is a dramatization." The disclaimer was run only once. During the course of the broadcast, cast members began talking about a sinkhole that had really formed elsewhere in Orlando. Later, the cast began to describe a fictitious sinkhole forming in the front yard of the house that was threatening to destroy it. At the end of the program, the cast tipped over the stage and severed all connections and feed lines, making it appear as if the house had indeed fallen into a sinkhole.

Portions of this episode were repeated in show # 352 (November 4th 2007) where Mutt explained "Yappy had literally ripped all of the plugs and power out of the wall (except for one in the bedroom) so no matter how techie you were, it looked like the entire show just dropped, there was no server, there was no nothing."

Ezra: "JR and I tipped the stage forward, Rasvar moved the lighting truss and Simba dropped a piece of drywall and a couple other things in front of the stage to make it look like everything was happening. Yappy had every single connection in the house yanked out of the wall, except for one, and that was the one that we had in the kitchen, and we were all huddled around one laptop, watching everyone's reaction when everything went dark."

Ezra continued: "Within about two minutes, every cellphone in this house started ringing, asking us how we were doing."

Poink: "They were pissed for weeks."

Mutt: "But about a month later, that was voted the best show ever."

"The Arthur Awards"
Named after the Pawpet Show character Arthur Bronswager, this is a parody of the Oscars held on the Sunday night closest to the show, and features categories such as "Best Running Joke" and "Best Song they Never Play on the Show Anymore". Topics are selected about two months prior to the show, and viewers were able to vote on them from the Pawpet Show website.[10]
"9/11 Special"
On the night of September 11, 2001 the cast quickly assembled for an impromptu show to help calm people and find out who in the community was directly affected by the 9/11 attacks. This is the only show that was intentionally never made available for the weekly download. Viewers sent the cast thank you letters and awards for their efforts.[citation needed]
"2007 Telethon"
On November 11, 2007, the show raised $10,052 by the end of the show. This count does not include the auctions that were still going on or the donations being sent in via mail. The goal for this years telethon was $6,000. Also, a new audience record was set with 225 viewers in the chat room.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Anthrocon 2007 draws thousands to Pittsburgh for furry weekend", Wikinews, 17 July 2007. Retrieved on 2007-07-31. (English) 
  2. ^ PawPet.de - Furry Pawpetry in Europe (July 3, 2001).
  3. ^ Funday PawPet Show: Art Jam.
  4. ^ Funday PawPet Show: Picture Captions.
  5. ^ Mutt, Ezra, EagleBeagle, Blue. (2007, March 25). Funday Pawpet Show #326 (H.264, RealMedia) [Television production]. Retrieved on 2007-03-28. Event occurs at 1:29:45.
  6. ^ Episode 315
  7. ^ Funday PawPet Show: Live Show Shout Outs.
  8. ^ Fox, Yappy (2007-02-07). Fps-list: Wiki. Retrieved on 2007-03-28.
  9. ^ Taylor, Rob (2003-06-22). Funday Pawpet Show #173 - Flashbacks - June 22nd, 2003 - Timeline. Retrieved on 2007-03-27.
  10. ^ Taylor, Rob (2003-04-16). PawpetShow#163-Arthur Awards!-Timeline. Retrieved on 2007-03-27.

[edit] External links

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