Puppets Who Kill is a live-action 30 minute dark comedy series. The series is centered around four felonious puppets who've commited crimes and now live with their bumbling social worker Dan Barlow in a halfway house. They live with him in hopes they can some day be re-integrated into society, although it won't be easy. They are conniving, bitter, self centered and dangerous.
Do they remind you of someone? The following descriptions sure do sound and look like Senator John McCain!
Let's learn some info about these puppets from Wikipedia.
Rocko the Dog - Rocko is a dog puppet. In reality, he is a hard-cursing, chain-smoking misanthrope, but he was required to tone down his language and behaviour on the children's television show ( within a show) on which he worked. Eventually, the tension of trying to subordinate his personality overcame him and he went berserk on the set, ending his career. He is currently on medication to control his violent mood swings. Rocko is often the puppet with a plan; one that is rarely thought out and usually illegal.
Cuddles - Cuddles is an adorable comfort doll. However, he is a clear example of a passive-aggressive personality. He used to help people with their problems, but now he's the problem. His subordination of his own needs for those of others eventually led him to grab a rifle and start sniping at people on the ground from a high perch. Cuddles is generally the best behaved of the group, but his naivety often gets him and his compatriots into trouble. It is also apparent that he can't handle pressure well. He was designed by team of psychologists to be soothing to patients. Unfortunately, he got a little too stressed out from hearing other people's problems.
Buttons the Bear - Buttons is an adorable teddy bear with eyes made of two different buttons. However, despite his innocent appearance, he is in fact a promiscuous womanizer with no sense of sexual propriety. He lives by the motto "if it feels good, do it". Designed by marketing experts to be the charming corporate mascot for a giant multinational corporation. Too bad they forgot to give him any sense of morality. Buttons only goal in life is the pursuit of pleasure.
Bill the Dummy - Bill is a ventriloquist's dummy with an oddly menacing appearance, especially when he "smiles". Fifty-six of his partners have died in "accidents". He is in fact a psychopath, whose misbehaviour includes cutting off men's testicles to collect them, cannibalism, cold blood killing and placing explosives in toilets. His arch nemesis is the Rasputin-like Curious Bob, a former partner who has survived four murder attempts. In an episode showing Bill's trial, we learn some of Bill's past, and his apparent insecurities. His adopted mother, told the court of his past. We learn that Bill had some bowel problems as a child and would often defecate in his pants, thus earning him the nickname "poopy pants" from his peers.
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Let's look at some of John McCain's anger issues and philandering ways.
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In a July 5 NewsMax.com article, former Senator Bob Smith, a New Hampshire Republican who served with McCain on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said, "I have witnessed incidents where he has used profanity at colleagues and exploded at colleagues . . . He would disagree about something and then explode. "It was incidents of irrational behavior. We've all had incidents where we have gotten angry, but I've never seen anyone act like that."
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Former senator Bob Smith, a New Hampshire Republican, expresses worries about McCain: “His temper would place this country at risk in international affairs, and the world perhaps in danger. In my mind, it should disqualify him.”
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John McCain cupped a fist and began pumping it, up and down, along the side of his body. It was a gesture familiar to a participant in the closed-door meeting of the Senate committee who hoped that it merely signaled, as it sometimes had in the past, McCain's mounting frustration with one of his colleagues.
But when McCain leaned toward Charles E. Grassley and slowly said, "My friend . . ." it seemed clear that ugliness was looming: While the plural "my friends" was usually a warm salutation from McCain, "my friend" was often a prelude to his most caustic attacks. Grassley, an Iowa Republican with a reputation as an unwavering legislator, calmly held his ground. McCain became angrier, his fist pumping even faster.
It was early 1992, and the occasion was an informal gathering of a select committee investigating lingering issues about Vietnam War prisoners and those missing in action, most notably whether any American servicemen were still being held by the Vietnamese. It is unclear precisely what issue set off McCain that day. But at some point, he mocked Grassley to his face and used a profanity to describe him. Grassley stood and, according to two participants at the meeting, told McCain, "I don't have to take this. I think you should apologize."
McCain refused and stood to face Grassley. "There was some shouting and shoving between them, but no punches," recalls a spectator, who said that Nebraska Democrat Bob Kerrey helped break up the altercation.
click link to see entire articleThree reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. In his 1992 Senate bid, McCain was joined on the campaign trail by his wife, Cindy, as well as campaign aide Doug Cole and consultant Wes Gullett. At one point, Cindy playfully twirled McCain's hair and said, "You're getting a little thin up there." McCain's face reddened, and he responded, "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt." McCain's excuse was that it had been a long day. If elected president of the United States, McCain would have many long days.click link to see entire articleBut it wasn't until 2000 that McCain, possibly emboldened by Clinton's survival of his scandals, became the first confessed adulterer to have the nerve to run. Now, just a few years after infidelity was considered a dealbreaker for a presidential candidate, the party that presents itself as the arbiter of virtue may field an unprecedented two-timing trifecta.
McCain was still married and living with his wife in 1979 while, according to The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof, "aggressively courting a 25-year-old woman who was as beautiful as she was rich." McCain divorced his wife, who had raised their three children while he was imprisoned in Vietnam, then launched his political career with his new wife's family money. In 2000, McCain managed to deflect media questioning about his first marriage with a deft admission of responsibility for its failure. It's possible that the age of the offense and McCain's charmed relationship with the press will pull him through again, but Giuliani and Gingrich may face a more difficult challenge. Both conducted well-documented affairs in the last decade--while still in public office.
click link to see entire articleArizona Republic, March 1, 2007: After a whirlwind courtship, John asked Cindy to marry him. But there were some details to clear out of the way.
McCain needed a divorce from Carol, his wife of 14 years from whom he was never separated.
