About this season
Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy programme co-produced by The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada on the Comedy Network in 2002, and in Australia on The Comedy Channel in 2004. In Puppets Who Kill, Rocko the Dog, Cuddles the Comfort Doll, Buttons the Bear, and Bill the Dummy are four live, anthropomorphic puppets with a history of delinquency and recidivism. Canadian courts sent each of them to a halfway house for puppets, operated by a man named Dan Barlow.
Episodes (14)
1. Pilot
Aired 4 October 2002 • 30 min
2. Buttons, The City Counsellor And The City Counsellor's Wife
Aired 11 October 2002 • 30 min
When the guys at the halfway house learn all they have to do to get a satellite dish is for Buttons to sleep with the city counsellor's wife, they pressure him to do so. Meanwhile, Dan and Bill get in a battle of wills over the toilet seat.
3. Cuddles Goes To Jail
Aired 18 October 2002 • 30 min
Buttons testifies against an old boss and has the opportunity to make $5 million if he can keep his hands of the jury forewoman.
4. Buttons Goes To Court
Aired 25 October 2002 • 30 min
Dan sends Cuddles to jail for swearing and Cuddles ends up running the place by the end of his stay; Dan thinks that Bill might be the infamous testicle thief.
5. Bill's Brain
Aired 31 October 2002 • 30 min
Bill enters the hospital for a lobotomy unaware his surgeon has a secret grudge; Buttons has sex with a nurse in a storage room full of dangerous diseases.
6. The Island Of Skip-Along Pete
Aired 8 November 2002 • 30 min
Skip-Along Pete invites Rocko to his remote island planning to hunt him down for sport.
7. Rocko's Telethon
Aired 15 November 2002 • 30 min
Rocko goes on a telethon supporting people who were impaled and goes off the wall because Bill forgot to give him some pills to calm him down. Also, Buttons tries to hit on a woman on the telethon, and Cuddles winds up with a stripper while delivering money to the telethon.
8. Cuddles The Safety Mascot
Aired 22 November 2002 • 30 min
Cuddles has big shoes to fill when he replaces a legendary safety mascot who was killed on the job; Dan makes Rocko and Buttons work at a hazardous-waste site.
9. Dan's Crush
Aired 29 November 2002 • 30 min
10. Dan The Greeter
Dash gets a job as a greeter for a department store; Miss Smith becomes obsessed with Dan.
11. Cuddles Gets Laid
Aired 13 December 2002 • 30 min
Dan struggles to control Cuddles after Cuddles has his first sexual experience; Bill is paired with ventriloquist Curious Bob, a former partner he once attempted to kill.
12. Dan's Umbrella
Aired 20 December 2002 • 30 min
Dan leaves his umbrella at the CBC during a tour and has to fight the bureacracy to get it back. Bill finds and steals the CBC's secret collection of celebritiess brains
13. Mr. Quigley, The Asshole Next Door
Aired 27 December 2002 • 30 min
14. The Payback
Aired 3 January 2003 • 30 min