Puppet Masters of None

This week, your favorite former puppeteers revisit The Muppet Show episode featuring comedy legend Gilda Radner, where the biggest scene-stealer isn't Kermit, Miss Piggy, or even Gonzo—it's a bottle of Muppet Labs Super Adhesive.
What starts as another "perfectly safe" demonstration from Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker quickly spirals into one of the show's funniest running gags, as the adhesive proves remarkably good at one thing: sticking absolutely everything to absolutely everything else. Before long, Muppets, props, and unsuspecting bystanders are becoming one giant felt-and-foam sculpture, while Gilda gamely throws herself into the escalating chaos with the commitment of someone who clearly understood the assignment.
We'll break down why this episode is such a masterclass in visual comedy, how the Muppets turn a simple gag into twenty-five minutes of comic gold, and why Gilda Radner's fearless, playful energy made her a perfect fit for the Muppet Theater. 
It's slapstick, super glue, and spectacular puppetry—the kind of episode that reminds us the best Muppet jokes don't just land... they stick.
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This week, your favorite fake puppeteers sit down with real puppeteer Kevin Carlson to pull back the strings on one of the most ambitious—and gloriously outrageous—marionette productions ever put on film: Team America: World Police.
From precision facial manipulation and explosive action sequences to the unique challenge of making silicone actors deliver Oscar-worthy melodrama (or at least convincingly vomit in an alley), Kevin shares what it was really like behind the scenes of the cult classic from the creators of South Park. With the face of all American actor Gary Johnston himself, we talk about the painstaking craftsmanship, the technical headaches, and the moments that had an entire crew wondering what on earth they'd signed up to do.
Along the way, we explore the artistry of marionette performance, the incredible engineering required to make those pint-sized action heroes run, fight, fly, and occasionally explode, and why practical puppetry can still steal the show in an age of CGI.
It’s strings, satire, and stories you won't hear anywhere else—straight from a puppeteer who had a front-row seat to one of cinema's most technically audacious puppet productions.
Because when the world's fate hangs by a thread... it helps to have a really good puppeteer pulling it.
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This week, your favorite former puppeteers blast off into the strange, slimy, and spectacular universe of Farscape—the cult sci-fi show that boldly asked the question: what if space opera had more puppets… and weirder ones?
Created by Rockne S. O’Bannon and brought gloriously to life by Jim Henson's Creature Shop, Farscape filled its galaxy with unforgettable alien characters—like the towering warrior "definitely-not-a-Klingon" Ka D'Argo and the delightfully grumpy Dominar puppet Rygel XVI.
We dive into how the show fused ambitious science fiction storytelling with jaw-dropping creature work, why Rygel might be the most expensive fart joke in television history, and what it’s like to act opposite a co-star who’s operated by five puppeteers and a small miracle. Along the way, we celebrate the show’s fearless weirdness and the way it pushed puppetry far beyond children’s television and into the outer limits of adult sci-fi.
It’s tentacles, tyrants, and top-tier animatronics—a reminder that sometimes the most alien thing in the galaxy… is sculpted foam latex.
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In this episode of Puppet Masters of None, your two former puppeteers return to the felt-lined battlefield to tackle one of the strangest creature features ever unleashed on an unsuspecting audience: Gremlins 2. But this isn’t just a casual chat about mogwai mayhem — it’s a wager. Will boldly insists that Gremlins 2 is a misunderstood masterpiece of practical effects chaos, while Ben is convinced it’s just a cinematic sugar rush that should’ve been locked in a Gremlin-proof vault.
With reputations (and a green oozed load of research) on the line, Ben finally sits down to watch this gremlin-fueled nonsense so they can once and for all definitively place it on the infamous space-to-carol spectrum. 
So the question is simple: Is Gremlins 2 secretly brilliant… or just gloriously unhinged?
 Place your bets and press play.
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This week, your favorite former puppeteers climb aboard one of the strangest stops in The Muppet Show canon: episode #308 featuring country icon Loretta Lynn, staged not in the familiar Muppet Theater… but on an abandoned train platform.
Yes, really. Through a series of very Muppet-y mishaps, the gang finds themselves putting on the show trackside — surrounded by luggage, questionable infrastructure, and the lingering possibility that the 3:15 to nowhere might actually arrive. Loretta, cool as a coal miner’s daughter, rolls with it all: singing her hits while frogs scramble, chickens wander, and Gonzo almost certainly violates several railway safety codes.
We unpack the episode’s delightfully ramshackle setting, how the change of scenery fuels the comedy, and why country music and train platforms feel like a match made in honky-tonk heaven. There’s something poetically perfect about Loretta Lynn bringing grounded, heartfelt storytelling to a show that’s literally off the rails.
It’s banjos, baggage carts, and backstage bedlam — proof that no matter the venue, the Muppets will raise the curtain… even if they have to nail it to a railway post first. 🚂🐸
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