The Funday Pawpet Show

Conan's Safety Show in case that TBS thing doesn't work out.

is the Internet's longest running interactive live puppet show. The show started netcasting weekly in November 1999. Due to problems with song royalties, the show took a hiatus after September 3, 2017. When it returned on September 9, 2018, though the show began to be broadcast biweekly, before it eventually returned a weekly schedule starting with the 2021 Easter show. The show runs four hours live from 6pm to 10pm Eastern Time Sunday Nights originating from the Orlando, Florida area. Every episode is available on the show's website. The audience interacts with the proformers via IRC channel and artwork sent in to the show through the aforementioned website. Being based in Orlando, the show is a favorite of many Disney Imagineers, and elements of the show have found their way into some recent productions. For those not familiar with the show, here is an article written by one of the main proformers to mark "A Decade of Silliness". Basicly the show is Monty Python meets the Muppets.

Tropes used in The Funday Pawpet Show include:
  • A Day in the Limelight: Carrot gets a cameo in the Disney movie Bolt.
  • Academy Awards: Around the time of the Oscar® Awards, the Pawpets sometimes offer The Arthur® Awards; named after cast member Arthur Bronswagger; and featuring categories such as "Best Song They Don't Play Anymore".
  • Affectionate Parody: In one memorable episode, the movie Being John Malkovich is parodied as one by one each cast member discovers a mysterious doorway in back of the stage that transforms them into ferrets.
  • Amusement Park: Several of the cast members work at one, and Mutt in particular is a big fan of roller coasters.
  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: From the official website: "THIS IS NOT A KIDS SHOW! It contains adult topics, accidental foul language, and rude smells."
  • Babies Make Everything Better: JR and Yappy share their baby books.
    • Also Tantrum Barker-Fox, a baby fox.
  • Big Eater: "The Heart Attack Grill"
  • Black Comedy: Though they tend to refrain from this (one show ended abruptly when a guest crossed the rating line hard), one episode had Blitz become tired of the noise and apparently beating the constantly shrieking baby fox puppet Tantrum to death with a suspicious vibrating implement. Every bit as inappropriate yet hilarious as it sounds.
  • Brain Bleach: Anything Fred Bedderhead sends to the show and/or Yappy emails to Mutt.
  • Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Quote 24. The first two items were mentioned just before the quote in a discussion about chickens in live theatre.
  • Broadcast Live
  • Camp Gay: Skippy "Skippages" D. Lion
  • Catch Phrase: Many many many over 10 years.
    • Arthur: "That's pretty spactacular!", "I'm Reeeeeeeee Calllllllllin!", "Multi Boobage", "Look into my eye!"
    • Bitch Voop: "Raaaaaaaaaaasvaaaaaaaaaaaar!"
    • Blitz: "I don't even know what that is!" (Although this is actually more a Mutt catchphrase ABOUT Blitz), "Oooohhhhh!", "Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" (at weird times like a guy Darwining down an elevator), "Oh, I know this song! It's in Rock Band!".
    • Carrot: "Bashweeeeeeeee!"
    • Ezra: "Wikiwikiwikiwikiwiki!"
    • Hugh Manatee: "I'm endangered!" "Oh sunuvabitch! Beeblblblblblb..." (referring to beebling)
    • Javafrog: "I'm into it!"
    • Lilly/Leisl: "This Is My Side!"
    • Mutt: "And there's nothing wrong with that," "OH MY GOD!", "I don't even know what that is!" (see above; Mutt is the usual instigator)
    • Shak: "Is it full of delicious candy?" "EGGS AREN'T WATER!"
    • Everyone: "Who pooted?"
  • Character Tics: Several. Derp the gator has his 'jazz hands,' Hugh rolls back and forth going 'flipper flipper flipper' as well as beebling, and Ezra scoots around on his back feetfirst while making the above mentioned 'wiki wiki wiki' noise.
  • Chatroulette: From Episode 495 the Pawpets meet 3 very "happy" girls.
  • The Chew Toy: Poink T. Weasel
    • Carrot is a literal chew toy, he is a dog toy repurposed into being a puppet.
  • Clip Show: The "Acid Flashback Segments", although, since the show isn't rerun the audience enjoys them more than other show's clip show episodes.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Java, Java, Java...
  • Cluster F-Bomb: A few of these lead to the Swear Jar, and a dollar per swear fine.
  • Cooking Show: Parodied with Cooking With Shak.
  • Cool Old Guy: Gof.
  • Cool Shades: Ezra.
  • Cute but Cacophonic: Tantrum and the Peckers.
  • Dirty Old Manatee: Hugh, whose interests and subjects of affection range from women in their golden years to Carvel's Fudgie the Whale.
  • Dog Walks You: Bandit, Yappy's dog, frequently tries to herd the cast members and guests.
  • Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off: Poink often brings up situations he dubs "Ass Beating Hours," where someone, most commonly his grandmother, would catch him misbehaving in some form or fashion and administer corporal punishment...creatively. Very creatively. He's admitted to being spanked with, among other things, a douche bag, a Stretch Armstrong toy, a piece of Hot Wheels track (with the pins exposed), and The Six Million Dollar Man. He admits he often deserves them though, having been a self-admitted hellraiser in his youth.
  • Drugs Are Bad: Meet Earl,the Eyeball.
    • The Drunk Show.
    • Episode 420.
  • Early Installment Weirdness: The show's first season has a few things that differ from the rest of the series.
    • The show didn't have a theme song until Episode 4, when "Soul Bossa Nova" became its theme song. It would remain as the show's theme song until Episode 397, when it was replaced with 2 the Ranting Gryphon's "Pawpet Song."
    • The first six episodes were filmed with Yappy's couch being used in place of a stage. From Episode 7 onward, an actual stage is used instead.
    • The show itself didn't even have an official name until Episode 8, when it was announced that the show would be called, "The Funday Pawpet Show."
    • In the first season, almost every episode ended with the closing credits theme from The Muppet Show. From Season 2 to Season 17, the show would instead end with "Adios, Au Revoir, Auf Weiderschein" from The Lawrance Welk Show instead.
  • Eek! A Mouse!: Often Florida wildlife will invade the live webcast, leading Ezra to envoke this trope, while Mutt commands the show's border collie to "Eat it, Bandit! Eat it eat it eat it!"
  • Endangered Species: Hugh Manatee.
  • Everythings Better With Bunnies: The Pawpets Mystery Science Theater 3000 "The Adventures of The American Rabbit"
  • Everything's Better with Chickens: BAWK!
  • Everything's Better with Monkeys: Jimmy Noneck.
  • Everythings Better With Vixens: All the Voops, especially Lilly and BV.
  • Excited Show Title!: The OMFG Blitz! Show.
  • Fan Art: A tradition on the show with the Art Jam segment, where images sent in by the viewers are shared live.
  • Fartillery: Yappy and JR for the most part.
  • Game Show: The show has presented versions of "Pawpet Match Game", "Pawpet Hollywood Squares", "Pawpet Deal or No Deal" and "Who Wants to Win Nothing and Like It?"
  • Getting Crap Past the Radar: Well, technically, there is no radar as the FCC doesn't govern internet shows. However the show likes to keep it to a PG-13 level, although somethings do get through from time to time.
  • Gone Horribly Wrong: Simba is challanged to eat an entire pack of Listerine breath strips.
  • Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: "Pawpets Pawpets/We will sing and dance/Pawpets Pawpets/We're not wearing pants".
  • Halloween Episode: Once a Season the show celebrates on the Sunday before the 31st. One year when Halloween fell on a Sunday, Yappy set up outside cameras to catch the reactions of Trick or Treaters who encountered screams, fog .... and a giant dog mascot upon ringing the bell.
  • Happy Birthday to You: "This is your birthday song, it isn't very long." (Or the even shorter version "Birthday song, very long")
  • Intercourse with You: The Pawpets do "Bad Touch"
  • Media Watchseal: Seal of Disapproval
  • Medium Awareness: Tantrum, of all people!

Ezra: (Trying to determan Tantrum's sex) Tantrum, what's between your legs?
Tantrum: All I see is an arm between my legs!

Poink: "Get up on screen or I will taser you."
Blitz: "You have a taser?" (Please note they're sitting next to each other beneath the stage and can see each other's hands.)

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