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Spun off from a series of shorts produced first for public access, then for IFC, the truncated Fox sitcom "Greg the Bunny" takes place in a Who Framed Roger Rabbit universe where people interact with puppets.
Alas, it can only hold its illicit thrill until the novelty and surprise of it wears off. But in the western world, puppets are so embedded in our puerile, formative experiences (from "Sesame Street" to "Bear in the Big Blue House") that when they're subverted (as in Team America, for instance), there's something particularly naughty about it-above and beyond, perhaps, the specific offense. They're great teaching tools, the perfect bearer of allegory-hence the Japanese, with their tradition of sophisticated puppet theatre, have distilled it (as they have animation) into an adult medium.
"Welcome to Sweetknuckle Junction," "Sock Like Me," "Dottie Heat," "SK-2.0," "Piddler on the Roof," "Rabbit Redux," "Father & Son Reunion," "Jimmy Drives Gil Crazy," "Greg Gets Puppish," "Surprise!," "The Jewel Heist," "The Singing Mailman," "Blah Bawls"īy Walter Chaw What is it about puppets, exactly, that makes them the preferred avatars for children as they navigate the murky straits between childhood and adulthood? I'd hazard that there's a simplifying element to them, some sort of leavening of the peculiarities of human expression so that emotions aren't so subtle, so fraught with the landmines of nuance and subtlety.
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