Puppets Who Kill (2002)
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.
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Episode 1 - Bill Sues
Release Date: 2004-01-30Bill tries to sue the families of his victims for mental cruelty and is sentenced to castration for wasting the judge's time.
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Episode 2 - Portrait Of Buttons
Release Date: 2004-02-06Dan 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.
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Episode 3 - Prostitutes For Jesus
Release Date: 2004-02-13Button'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.
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Episode 4 - Cuddles The Demon
Release Date: 2004-02-20Dan'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.
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Episode 5 - Buttons The Geriatric
Release Date: 2004-02-27Buttons 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.
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Episode 6 - Dead Ted
Release Date: 2004-03-05Rocko'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
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Episode 7 - Cuddles The Religious Icon
Release Date: 2004-03-12Cuddle 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.
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Episode 8 - Bill's Got The Blues
Release Date: 2004-03-19Bill 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
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Episode 9 - Pizza Boys Are Missing
Release Date: 2004-03-26In 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.
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Episode 10 - Rocko Gets A Lung
Release Date: 2004-04-02Rocko 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.
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Episode 11 - Dan And The Necrophiliac
Release Date: 2004-04-09At 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?
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Episode 12 - Rocko And The Twins
Release Date: 2004-04-16Cuddles' 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.
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Episode 13 - The Twilight Place
Release Date: 2004-04-23Dan 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.