Puppet Masters of None
Two former puppeteers (who know absolutely nothing) talk puppets, entertainment, and life.
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Episodes
112 episodes
Episode 110: Project Hail Mary
This week, your favorite former puppeteers blast off to the Tau Ceti system to talk about the true breakout star of Project Hail Mary—the lovable, five-legged alien engineer known simply as Rocky.In an age when Hollywood ca...
Episode 109: Puppet History: Opera Dei Pupi
This week, your favorite former puppeteers trade foam and fleece for wood, steel, and centuries of tradition as they journey into the spectacular world of Opera dei Pupi—Sicily's legendary marionette theater where every performance is pa...
Episode 108: The Muppet Show: Gilda Radner
This week, your favorite former puppeteers revisit The Muppet Show episode featuring comedy legend Gilda Radner, where the biggest scene-stealer isn't Kermit, Miss Piggy, or even Gonzo—it's a bottle of Muppet Labs Super Adhesive...
Episode 107: Team America World Police, Interview with Kevin Carlson
This week, your favorite fake puppeteers sit down with real puppeteer Kevin Carlson to pull back the strings on one of the most ambitious—and gloriously outrageous—marionette productions ever put on film: Team America: World Police
Episode 106: Farscape
This week, your favorite former puppeteers blast off into the strange, slimy, and spectacular universe of Farscape—the cult sci-fi show that boldly asked the question: what if space opera had more puppets… and weirder ones?<...
Episode 105: Gremlins 2 Part II: Gizmo's Revenge
In this episode of Puppet Masters of None, your two former puppeteers return to the felt-lined battlefield to tackle one of the strangest creature features ever unleashed on an unsuspecting audience: Gremlins 2. But this isn’t just a c...
Episode 104: The Muppet Show: Loretta Lynn
This week, your favorite former puppeteers climb aboard one of the strangest stops in The Muppet Show canon: episode #308 featuring country icon Loretta Lynn, staged not in the familiar Muppet Theater… but on an abandoned train platfor...
Episode 103: Gullah Gullah Island
This week, your favorite former puppeteers grab their sunscreen and head to the sandy shores of 90s children’s television to revisit Gullah Gullah Island — the Nickelodeon gem that gave us catchy songs, cultural celebration, and one of t...
Episode 102: The Valentine's Day That Almost Wasn't
This week, your favorite ex-puppeteers crack open a heart-shaped box of early-’80s television weirdness and revisit the 1982 holiday special The Valentine’s Day That Almost Wasn’t—a delightfully scrappy, foam-and-felt fairy tale that ask...
Episode 101: The Muppet Show; Sabrina Carpenter
They're back! You know they couldn't miss this one!This week, your favorite former puppeteers step back into the beloved chaos of The Muppet Show — but not the one that aired in the 1970s. Nope, it’s the glammed-up, vaudeville-m...
Episode 100: Season 1 Space to Carol Spectrum
One hundred episodes! How time flies! In honor of the hundredth Puppet Masters of None, the PMoN boys recap all the movies and shows that they have placed on the Space to Carol spectrum over the years. Which ones shall stay put, which ones shal...
Episode 99: Chucky, Part 1
This week, your favorite ex-puppeteers head straight into the uncanny valley to talk about the most homicidal hunk of plastic ever stitched together: Chucky from the Child’s Play franchise.From his humble beginnings as a ...
Episode 98: The Muppet Show: Señor Wences
This week, your favorite ex-puppeteers once again spin the magical monthly muppet wheel, where it landed on guest star Señor Wences proving that sometimes the funniest puppets are literally on the back of your hand.Armed with his fist-fa...
Episode 97: The Muppets Go to the Movies
This week, your favorite ex-puppeteers grab their popcorn and a bucket of felt as they revisit the 1981 television special The Muppets Go to the Movies.Part clip show, part genre spoof, and all chaotic charm, this special saw Ke...
Episode 96: Mac and Me
This week, your favorite ex-puppeteers tackle the foam-rubber fiasco known as Mac and Me—the 1988 E.T. knockoff so brazen, it makes you wonder if anyone at the studio had actually seen E.T. (or sobriety).We dig into the...
Episode 95: The Muppet Show: Peter Sellers
This week, our two former puppeteers revisit the delightfully bizarre—and terribly provocative—Peter Sellers episode of The Muppet Show. Sellers arrives not as himself, but as every outrageously caricatured persona you can imagine: a f...
Episode 94: Puppet History: Zozobra
This week, your favorite ex-puppeteers turn up the heat—literally—as they dive into the towering, flame-bound tradition of Zozobra, the giant puppet who goes up in smoke every year at Santa Fe’s legendary Fiestas de Santa Fe.<...
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Episode 93: Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince
This week, on PMoN your favorite ex-puppeteers leap headfirst into The Frog Prince—the 1971 Muppet television special that proved true love’s kiss is even weirder when the smooch involves felt.We revisit Kermit in his pre-Mu...
Episode 92: Dinosaurs
This week, your favorite retired puppet wranglers stomp into the latex-and-foam wonderland of the 1991 ABC sitcom Dinosaurs—the prehistoric family comedy that was part TGIF hug-fest, part biting social satire, and entirely ani...
Episode 91: Shrek: The Musical
Annnnnnnnnd WE'RE BACK! And what a triumphant return it is! In this ogre-sized episode, your favorite former-puppeteers-turned-podcast-hosts dive headlong into the swampy world of Shrek the Musical—because nothing says "puppetry" like ...
Episode 90: The Muppet Show: John Cleese
It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights, it's time to SPIN THE MUPPET SHOW'S MAGICAL MONTHLY MUPPET SHOW OF THE MONTH! And this time it landed on (drum roll) JOHN CLEESE! Premire member of legendary comedy troupe Monty Python...
Episode 89: Handmade Puppet Dreams: Amaterasu
**SMASH** **BREAKS GLASS** Well folks, here we are with another emergency pod, reviewing another one of Heather Henson's Handmade Puppet Dreams films. This time we opted to forgo spinning the wheel to just go ahead and watch a film suggested to...
Episode 88: Judy and Punch
Don't you just love it when you are searching through the endlessly growing maze of streaming titles and stumble upon a puppet movie you've never even heard of before? We here at Puppet Masters of None sure do! This week Ben was fortunate enoug...
Episode 87: Avenue Q Part 2
"The sun is shining it's a lovely day, but you've got lots of bills to pay." Welcome one and all to Puppet Masters of None's second explicit episode! While we try to keep it family friendly on this show, the content we are review today is so ad...