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What do you get when you mix puppets, global pandemics, and high school coming of age films? You get Puppet High, a hilarious new short posted at Funnyordie.com
When a viral pandemic raged across the globe a few years earlier, people didn’t turn into zombies, or rage monsters, or any of the other stuff you see in Hollywood films. Instead, they turned into … puppets. Luckily, scientists stopped the spread of the deadly contagion before all of humanity wound up looking like extras on Sesame Street. Unfortunately for the afflicted, there’s no cure for the disease – and now the world is comprised of two camps: human and puppet. This is the story of one family coping with the disaster and what happens in a high school where two similar yet different groups are forced to co-mingle.
Puppet High immediately evokes memories of Peter Jackon’s Meet the Feebles](Amazon.com: Meet the Feebles : Donna Akersten, Stuart Devenie, Mark Hadlow, Ross Jolly, Brian Sergent, Peter Vere-Jones, Mark Wright, Danny Mulheron, Jay Snowfield, Doug Wren, Peter Jackson, Danny Mulheron, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson, Stephen Sinclair: Movies & TV) – although it’s not nearly as raunchy. You do get some puppet nipples and human-puppet sex, so be aware cubicle workers. The story focuses on Matt Summers, a high schooler who’s now a puppet – “made of buttons and yarn” – and the trials and tribulations of being a teen who’s different. There are a lot of laughs in the two minute running time, and the guys who collaborated on the project seem like they have a lot of promise when it comes to filmmaking.
Hit the jump and check out the clip for yourself. It’s NSFW if you’re employed in a place that has a strict “no puppet nipples” policy.
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