Awesome Puppets

Sure, we get some new Muppets later this month, but the UK gets Mongrels for a second season. This warped, adults-only “multispecies” puppet show needs to find its way to the US. Now.

A puppet play depicting what happens after a whale dies. The whole concept doesn’t seem particularly intriguing, until the final part where you find out just how significant the whole process is.

A group of young filmmakers have been working diligently on a perfect shot-for-shot remake of Toy Story, using actual toys instead of CGI. Watch this clip for a comparison of one scene.

The puppets of Glove and Boots start messing with the space-time continuum when Fafa builds himself a time machine. Insanity kicks in right around 1:05 and pretty much never ends.

A brief and entertaining primer on how TV ratings are made. Courtesy of ESPN Research & Analytics and JESS3, who used puppets to capture the attention of to – oh, so that’s what ESPN stands for!

The smartass puppets of Glove and Boots are back, taking on all those annoying, intrusive ads that pay for all the video bandwidth you use up watching countless YouTube videos.

A puppet of Portal 2’s Wheatley by TRP-Chan. Has a glowing eyelight, moveable eyeplate and eyelids. Also speaks some of his lines from the game. See the build process here. (Thanks, Danni!)

Another educational video from Glove and Boots. The puppet duo track the lineage of the hipster and attempt to define those whose very goal is to not be defined. Oversimplified yet completely accurate.

(NSFW?) This video is for French DJ duo Mustard Pimp’s new single ZHM, but we’re thinking it should be called WTF. Here’s a hint: yeah that’s a puppet, but it isn’t being controlled with a hand.

Joey the War Horse is a stunningly lifelike puppet made by the Handspring Puppet Company. We’d recommend you watch the whole video, but if you want you can skip to 9:00 to see Joey in action.

While you won’t be able to buy Kermit or Ms. Piggy from the Muppet Whatnot Workshop, you can design your own Whatnot, one of the countless extras in Henson’s puppet-filled universe.

Davy and Kristin McGuire’s The Ice Book is a miniature theatre performance that blends animation, puppetry, and film to bring a pop-up book vividly to life in front of a live audience.

If we told them once, we told them a hundred times, it’s Spinal Tap first, then Puppet Show. SFX artist Kevin McTurk’s ghostly puppet show truly deserves placement at the top of the marquee.

Want to see your future? The only thing better than having your fortune told by an astrologer, is having your future told by a snarky, smart-ass orange puppet astrologer. What’s your sign?

LA is infamous for its crazy-bad traffic, so Superclogger decided to keep drivers entertained with these 4 to 7 minute vignettes in the back of a moving Mazda. Tailgate at your own risk.

A great collection of the Playhouse puppets created by Swazzle, Alex in Wonderland and the Chiodo Brothers for Pee-Wee Herman’s Live stage show, coming to Broadway in October. (Thanks Sean!)