Peppermint... STINKIN...Park. Terrible Kid's show

[D'Snowth]

You have to admit... THIS is probably the only segment from PEPPERMINT STINKIN PARK that actually utilizes somewhat decent puppetry:

 

[CaseytheMuppet]

I think I'm going to have nightmares...

 

[ZeppoAndFriends]

May I have the title, please? Embedded videos won't show up for me.

 

[CaseytheMuppet]

May I have the title, please? Embedded videos won't show up for me.

Peppermint Park "Red"

 

[ZeppoAndFriends]

Thanks.

 

[snichols1973]

gotta love the bear puppet in the peppermint place bit they detailed the head with the fur but then got bored and left the body and this is not bad but still creepy

all i can say is RUN KID RUN!!!!!!!!

Two things were unusually weird:

1. The Sam puppet's voice sounds like a bad imitation of Frank Oz

2. Sam used a bad "Blue J" pun to trick a kid out of a quarter....

 

[snichols1973]

Much like what Jim Henson did, taking old recordings and miming puppets to them, only here, they took stock puppets and produced filler.

Peppermint Place's puppets are goony looking, but not half as disgustingly off as Peppermint Park...

here's another Peppermint Place skit...

Dull if anything.

Whoever produced this segment made one little scientific oversight: Talc has a Mohs factor of 1, while graphite has a Mohs factor of 1.5. The video erroneously stated that graphite is the softest of all minerals....

1 Talc Mg3Si4O10(OH)2 1 ​

2 Gypsum CaSO4·2H2O 3 ​

3 Calcite CaCO3 9 ​

4 Fluorite CaF2 21 ​

5 Apatite Ca5(PO4)3(OH–,Cl–,F–) 48 ​

6 Orthoclase Feldspar KAlSi3O8 72 ​

7 Quartz SiO2 100 ​

8 Topaz Al2SiO4(OH–,F–)2 200 ​

9 Corundum Al2O3 400 ​

10 Diamond C 1600 ​

On the Mohs scale, graphite (a principal constituent of pencil "lead") has a hardness of 1.5; a fingernail, 2.2–2.5; a copper penny, 3.2–3.5; a pocketknife 5.1; a knife blade, 5.5[clarification needed]; window glass plate, 5.5; and a steel file, 6.5.[9] A streak plate (unglazed porcelain) has a hardness of 7.0. Using these ordinary materials of known hardness can be a simple way to approximate the position of a mineral on the scale.

 

[mo]

Am I the only one who wants to see the Nostalgia Critic review these?

 

[ZeppoAndFriends]

You have to admit... THIS is probably the only segment from PEPPERMINT STINKIN PARK that actually utilizes somewhat decent puppetry:

Nell Carter! NOOOOOOOOOOO!

Edit: Oh, yeah. Now it shows up.

 

[Slackbot]

Those puppets amaze me. They put in working eyes, and a mouth that can enunciate, like they were trying for good puppetry, but then stick the head on a giant, bloated body and use awful wrinkly gloves for hands. As for the quality, of the puppetry, well, that speaks for itself.

You can buy these VHS tapes on Amazon. Some are around $10, but volume 1 will run you $84.99.