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    Meet the Feebles (1989)

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    Heidi, the vain, singing 400lb hippopotamus star of New Zealand’s beloved and top-rated TV show, the Meet The Feebles Variety Hour, discovers her lover, bleary-eyed producer Bletch the Walrus, is cheating on her – with a Siamese cat!

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    With very little time remaining before the show is to be broadcast, the assorted co-stars must contend with that situation and a number of other problems.

    Host Harry the Hare is ravaged by a fatal sex disease (referred to only as “the big one”) contracted through his debauched rabbit-like sex life; Wynyard the Frog is a Vietnam vet and heroin addict who needs a fix before his nightly knife-throwing act – in which he usually misses at least once; the devious Trevor the Rat hisses like Peter Lorre and shoots S&M porno movies in the basement with Daisy the Cow and Wally the Cockroach (until she accidentally crushes him to death by sitting on his face); Sid the Elephant is the target of a paternity suit from a small white hen; Mr Big is a whale crime king who runs the underwaterworld, and the Fly is a scurrilous muck-raking journalist who spends most of his time munching on faeces at the bottom of a toilet bowl.

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    Some of the nicer characters include shy Robert (or “Wobbit”) the Hedgehog who has just been hired to appear in the chorus and is immediately smitten with a cute little poodle called Lucille; fey director Sebastian the Fox (who sings a big production number about the joys of sodomy), and benevolent chain-smoking Cockney stage manager, Arfur the Worm.

    In the end, the jilted hippo goes bonkers and sets out on a Rambo-style rampage with an M60 machine gun, leaving the film awash with gore.

    Meet The Feebles presented puppets as never seen before – including puppet sex, puppet vomit, puppet crime, puppet drug addiction, puppet porn, puppet betrayal and puppet murder.

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    Future Lord of The Rings director Peter Jackson received a very mixed critical reaction to Meet The Feebles, divided between excessive praise and sharp condemnation.

    One thing is for sure – you’ll never look at The Muppet Show the same way again.

    Heidi the Hippo
    Danny Mulheron
    Bletch the Walrus
    Peter Vere-Jones
    Samantha the Cat
    Donna Akersten
    meetthefeeblesSebastian the Fox
    Stuart Devenie
    Dr Quack

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    Daisy the Cow
    Stuart Devenie
    Sandy the Chicken

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    Robert the Hedgehog
    Mark Hadlow
    Barry the Bulldog

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    Wynyard the Frog
    Brian Sergent
    Trevor the Rat

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    The Fly

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    Arfur the Worm
    Peter Vere-Jones
    Sid the Elephant
    Mark Wright
    Louie the Fish
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    Wally the Cockroach

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    Sheep

    Donna Akersten

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    Peter Jackson

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