![]() Ken Rosner (voiced by Kevin Nealon) calls the customer service line of Irish Spring Soap to find out of Niles Standish calls a wedding chapel to arrange a ceremony so he can marry his aunt. Mark Premise (voiced by Jordan Rubin) is a paralyzed Stephen Hawking-like puppet who talks through a computer and calls a phone sex line. Bobby Fletcher calls an animal shelter inquiringĪbout adopting a dog temporarily to pick up women. Elmer Higgins calls a dentist about his teeth falling out. Gladys Murphy (voiced by Wanda Sykes) calls a prison about volunteering for conjugal visits. Chip Douglas calls a Taco Bell to test their phone etiquette and menu pronouncement. Warn her about a sinkhole and gives her some unusual directions in order not to erode it further. David (voiced by David Wain) calls a florist wanting to buy flowers for the funeral of his father, where his son Michael (voiced by Michael Ian Black) finds out for the first time that his grandpa is dead. Professor Ira Fermstein (guest voice Jeff Goldblum) calls a college and becomes sexually suggestive. To the Ballgame” to the man who answers the phone. Special Ed calls a baseball stadium and sings his version of “Take Me Out Rowling, and states that she hates children. Terrence books a book-signing appearance for Harry Potter author J.K. In the first episode, there are six calls made. Those are some of the more popular puppets, though there are many more. Bobby Fletcher (also voiced by Jim Florentine) always wears a beer helmet and belches while on the phone. Elmer Higgins (also voiced by Jimmy Kimmel) is an old puppet who seems to be out of it. Setting up events that in the description become naughty and/or creepy. Niles Standish (voiced by Tony Barbieri) is a proper English puppet who is always Chip Douglas (voiced by Fred Armisen) is a Latino puppet with a heavy accent. Birchum (voiced by Adam Carolla) is a war veteran that gets angry easily. “lady.” Terrence (voiced by Jimmy Kimmel) is always the assistant of a celebrity that sets up events and states the unusual demands of the celebrity. He is a mentally handicapped puppet who repeats stuff ad nausea and calls men The above-mentioned Special Ed (voiced by Jim Florentine) is probably the most un-PC and most popular. The show has many recurring characters that make calls. Show have never seen a rule against puppet nudity, so sometimes we see naked puppets, especially when they are crank calling a phone sex line. People make real crank calls, a la The Jerky Boys, and are represented in physical form by puppets (the people they are calling appear as puppets too.) The producers of the In case you have never heard of the show, the concept is very simple. ![]() Shows you that a show does have the possibility to grow in popularity, if not maturity (though this show never strived for maturity.) Comedy Central sent me the first two episodes of the third season, and I want to try to convince you to check it out if you haven’t before. They were all over the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards (remember the confrontation between Special Ed and Eminem?), and my brother even likes to quote from the show. Predicting that it wouldn’t be the next hit since “ South Park.” I now know that I am wrong on both counts, because we are now at the third season, and those crazy puppets are infectious…and a genuine hit. I thought it was okay but that it wouldn’t grow on me. When I reviewed the first season of Comedy Central’s “ Crank Yankers” last year, I wasn’t that impressed with it. Special Ed’s enthusiasm for mundane things like fried chicken or yelling “Yay! I peed in the pool!” has caught on with fans, and Florentine said his portrayal of Ed hasn’t resulted in much protest from mental-health advocates and the like.Home | Movies | TV | Music | Books | Video Games | FAQ | Links ![]() They’d say ‘That’s not funny.’ But the people at Comedy Central thought the puppet was cute and women would like it.” “But I played the CDs for women before they designed the puppet, and women didn’t like it. “They were like, ‘Man, Special Ed is going to be a hit, especially with the women,'” Florentine, a New Jersey native, said. The character, originally called The Retard (“I was being politically correct,” he said), appeared on Florentine’s CDs, which ended up attracting Comedy Central’s attention when it was assembling “Crank Yankers.” ![]() The calls are then acted out by puppets.įlorentine, a stand-up comedian by night, said he had nothing to do during the day, so when telemarketers would call, he’d see how long he could keep them on the line despite his antics. For those unfamiliar with the show, which is part way through its third season, you will find comics pretending to be characters calling unsuspecting people and introducing ridiculous, sometimes side-splittingly funny, situations.
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