#Playhouse disney.com bunnytown games series#

So, to honor the 20th anneversary of Playhouse Disney I will reminisce about all of the playhouse Disney shows I watched as a kid. This smaller scale allows the sets to become quite elaborate, on a par with stop-frame animation sets.Playhouse Disney started started on 5/8/97 meaning that as of now it is 20 years old. The puppets do not interact with humans directly, so the scale can be smaller than other puppet shows which do, such as The Muppet Show. They have one tooth, or two in some cases, and a large, round, blue nose. The visual design of the bunnies is a simple 'bunny with an overbite'. Their mouths are moved by a trigger at the bottom, and invisible marionette strings work from above on other parts, such as hands and feet. They can take up to eight puppeteers to operate.

They are made from foam rubber and covered in fake fur, with wire supports in their ears. Many leading crew members have experience with Henson's characters. The bunny puppets are rod puppets similar to Jim Henson's Muppets.

Following the payoff of the running gag, all the bunnies gather to sing the closing song, It's a Bunnytown Life.

One example is a staring contest between an 11-year-old boy and an Idaho potato.

This is a spoof of sports contests and their telecasters.

Another journey to Peopletown to watch Super Silly Sports, hosted by Pinky Pinkerton.The Bunnytown Hop, done by a rock-and-roll band inspired by mega-groups such as Earth, Wind and Fire and Sly and the Family Stone.A journey to Peopletown to watch Red and Fred.One example has bunnies getting ready to race, but instead disco dancing in the first part, sleeping in the second part, followed by flying in the third part, and finally racing in the last part with the payoff that instead of a finishing tape, the bunnies run into a rubber band, and they rebound to the starting point.On the English soundtrack, the characters are voiced in various English-language accents, most notably North American.Д®ach episode features between ten and twelve segments as follows: Her signature exclamation is 'Oh me, oh my!'. Pinky Pinkerton (Polly Frame) is the host of the 'Super Silly Sports' segment who has a penchant for pink clothes. Red is the tall, fat man (Andrew Buckley), and Fred is the shorter, thin one (Ed Gaughan). Regularly appearing Peopletown humans include Red and Fred, a silent slapstick or pratfall duo in the vein of Laurel and Hardy. A bunny journeys through underground tunnels to view the entertainment from the safety of the burrow. Most of the action takes place in Bunnytown itself, but other locations include the King's castle, the high seas, outer space, and a jungle landscape complete with Great Wall of China.Д«unnytown is neighbored by Peopletown, inhabited by humans. Other original bunnies include Underwear Bunny and Norbert. Among others are the King and his court, pirates, Superbunny (performed by David Rudman) and his archnemesis Little Bad Bunny, Spacebunny Suzi who rides a rocket-powered scooter, two 'cave bunnies' and their dinosaur, Inventor Bunny (an Einstein-like bunny), and Farmer Gramps. The animated bunny characters are mostly archetypes found in pop culture and storybooks. It is slated to return in February 2012 on the new 24-hour Disney Junior channel. The final episode was scheduled to air sometime in 2009. The show is produced in Ontario, Canada with many of the outdoor segments done at Clarence Park and Verulamium Park in nearby St Albans.

#Playhouse disney.com bunnytown games series#

In France, the series began on January 27, 2008, and kept its original title Bunnytown. UK viewers got a premiere of this program on Januon the Playhouse Disney channel sublet of pay-broadcaster Family. It is produced by Bill Barretta, who currently worked for Jim Henson Productions. The program, created by David Rudman, his brother Adam and Todd Hannert, under their Spiffy Pictures banner, began airing in Canada on November 3, 2007, and in the USA a week later. It is Disney's first large-scale international production. Source Bunnytown is a children's puppet television series that airs on Playhouse Disney's block in the United States and Canada, as well as more than seventy other countries. Disney Junior (2012-) External links Official website