Increase in Commercial Television Puppetry

[Sgt Floyd]

That is horrifying O_O

 

[D'Snowth]

Lately, I've been thinking with so many commercials utilizing puppets these days, maybe I do look into doing commercials... after all, commercials worked well for Jim in his early days: Wilkins and Wantkins, the LaChoy Dragon, etc.

 

[misspiggy5260]

YEA

 

[Muppet fan 123]

Last night's Community episode was a Puppet episode. Overall, the episode was a flop, but the puppet segments were pretty funny. They replaced the human actors with all puppet versions of themselfs, a shtick that was recently pulled by 30 ROCK.

You can watch the Community epsiode here:
http://www.nbc.com/community/video/intro-to-felt-surrogacy/n35399/
And if you're in Canada, you can watch it right here:
http://video.citytv.com/video/detail/2293791562001.000000/intro-to-felt-surrogacy/

 

[Drtooth]

It needed more Puppet Chang. Would have been a better episode with it.

And if they had a Puppet Troy and Abed in the Morning instead of that lame blooper reel.

I absolutely loved Puppet Abed. Looked like some freaky love child of Guy Smiley and Beaker. Troy looked like Cousin Skeeter. Think they used the same shape of nose.

 

[D'Snowth]

I just saw a commercial, it was either a bank commercial or an insurance commercial that featured a guy and his puppet doppelganger, I'm trying to find it on YouTube.

I wonder if JHC was involved with this one, because the puppet looked very much like a Muppet (and his voice sounded familiar as well, but I couldn't place it).

It was clearly a combination of traditional puppetry and CGI, because the arm rods were clearly visible throughout, but the puppet's eyebrows were obviously digitally manipulated.

 

[D'Snowth]

I found the commercial I was talking about... and apparently, the puppet appears in others as well:

They're funny, but I'm still not a fan of always relying on chromakey for full-bodied effects.

 

[Muppet fan 123]

I saw this truly amazing Lexus commercial on TV yesterday.

 

[KremlingWhatnot]

Sonic (The fast food company, not the Hedgehog) recently had a commercial featuring muppet-like puppets, and I just saw it a few minutes ago, but can't find it anywhere at the moment, but when I find it I'll post it as soon as I can.

 

[D'Snowth]

I check Sonic's channel on YouTube, they don't seem to have anything with puppets in it at the moment.