Worst/creepiest puppets/puppeteer work

[mr3urious]

Fofao is a pretty impressively-made creature, I have to admit, and certainly way better than much of Vila Sesamo's characters. He just suffers from being hideously designed.

 

[Drtooth]

Most of the other puppets on this list are creepy by being cheaply slapped together. I cannot say the same for that guy. He's too well made, and Uncanney Valley is the reason why he looks creepy. He looks like a real human with... uh... whatever the Elephant Man had, I guess? I guess Brazil likes ugly puppets or something.

I remember some Portuguese language show with puppets doing a parody news show of some sort (their version of Telechat, but with human puppets) someone made me watch that made it hard to sleep that night. They were more cartoonish, but suffered greatly from Uncanney Valley.

 

[Drtooth]

Wow... just... just Wow... 2 oven mitts talk about not knowing what a sandwich is.

Words escape me. And what's with that verbal tic of going "whachahatcha?"

 

[Mo Frackle]

 

[MikaelaMuppet]

Dooley is scary looking.

 

[MikaelaMuppet]

Dagnabbit Cracked...

Okay... this is hard. I actually can no longer say how creepy and disturbing Oogieloves is, because this is a hundred times worse. That hat is frightening!

That triangle shaped thing looks like cheese.

 

[Drtooth]

Really, Size Small.... really...

Glad to see they had a puppet budget of "Let's rip socks off of people on the street and glue felt to them."

 

[MikaelaMuppet]

Dooley and Pals is not that bad, but Colby's Clubhouse is worse.

 

[Drtooth]

"If that's the Happy World, I'd hate to see what the Sad one is like!"

 

[mr3urious]

That Christian show on the AV Club article about the Smile of a Child network where the host rips the hearts out of puppets to see what's inside is pretty morbid, but the puppets themselves don't look half bad, certainly a lot better than other examples there.