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The Creepy Puppet Project is a Web Original project on YouTube from the mind of Canadian puppeteer and special effects artist Matt Ficner. The premise is exactly what you think it is: a series of mostly unconnected shorts using puppetry, while using a lot of horror tropes to elicit either that reaction or the other reaction. Either way, it's one of the more entertaining shows on YouTube(and one of the weirdest), with some high-quality writing and excellent production values, and definitely Needs More Love than it already has.

The series can be seen on his YouTube channel here.

Tropes used in Creepy Puppet Project include:

All There in the Manual: Most of the character's names
Bloody Hilarious: about 50% of their stuff is this.
Body Horror: Taken Up to Eleven, due to the fact that puppets allow more "freedom" than typical zombie make-up.
Clock Punk: Doc. Whotnought
Conspicuous CG: Later videos used green screen backgrounds. It shows.
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Yeah, pretty much.
Funny Background Event: The Cafe segments are all about this.
Gorn: Some of the scarier videos feature this trope in spades.
Hollywood Tone Deaf: Winston, who's always off-key when the Zombies sing.
Muppets: Almost completely averted. Most of the characters have a distinctly "realistic" look, and the zombies have some... interesting parts about them. The only point that it's played straight is Happy Little Fuzzy Things, which gets promptly subverted.
Our Zombies Are Different: Singing zombies, need I say more?
Reverse Cerebus Syndrome: The videos have steadily become sillier since the project first started.
Shout-Out:
- Two of the zombies are named "Stan" and "Winston."
- The fat zombie has a striking resemblance to a boomer.
- The resident ditz has a passing resemblance to Beaker.
- Hostile Entities is an Affectionate Parody of Alien
- Dusty Zombies is one big Shout-Out to Kansas, who wrote the song "Dust in the Wind."
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-[http://www.mfproductions.ca/thecreepypuppetproject.htm The Creepy Puppet Project] is a [[Web Original]] project on [[YouTube]] from the mind of Canadian puppeteer and special effects artist Matt Ficner. The premise is [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|exactly what you think it is:]] a series of mostly unconnected shorts using puppetry, while using [[Uncanny Valley|a lot]] [[Gorn|of]] [[Body Horror|horror]] [[Our Zombies Are Different|tropes]] to elicit either [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|that reaction]] or [[Bloody Hilarious|the other reaction.]] Either way, it's one of the more entertaining shows on [[YouTube]]([[Widget Series|and one of the weirdest]]), with some high-quality writing and excellent production values, and definitely [[Needs More Love]] than it already has.
+[http://www.mfproductions.ca/thecreepypuppetproject.htm The Creepy Puppet Project] is a [[Web Original]] project on [[YouTube]] from the mind of Canadian puppeteer and special effects artist Matt Ficner. The premise is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|exactly what you think it is:]] a series of mostly unconnected shorts using puppetry, while using [[Uncanny Valley|a lot]] [[Gorn|of]] [[Body Horror|horror]] [[Our Zombies Are Different|tropes]] to elicit either [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|that reaction]] or [[Bloody Hilarious|the other reaction.]] Either way, it's one of the more entertaining shows on [[YouTube]]([[Widget Series|and one of the weirdest]]), with some high-quality writing and excellent production values, and definitely [[Needs More Love]] than it already has.
 The series can be seen on his [[YouTube]] channel [http://youtube.com/profile?user=cre8ivegargoyle here.]
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-=== The series contains the following tropes: ===
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 * [[All There in the Manual]]: Most of the character's names
 * [[Bloody Hilarious]]: about 50% of their stuff is this.
 * [[Body Horror]]: Taken [[Up to Eleven]], due to the fact that puppets allow more "freedom" than typical zombie make-up.
 * [[Clock Punk]]: Doc. Whotnought
 * [[Conspicuous CG]]: Later videos used green screen backgrounds. It shows.
-* [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]: [[Captain Obvious|Yeah, pretty much.]]
+* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: [[Captain Obvious|Yeah, pretty much.]]
 * [[Funny Background Event]]: The ''Cafe'' segments are all about this.
 * [[Gorn]]: Some of the [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|scarier]] videos feature this trope ''in spades''.
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 * [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: Singing zombies, [[Widget Series|need I say more?]]
 * [[Reverse Cerebus Syndrome]]: The videos have steadily become [[Denser and Wackier|sillier]] since the project first started.
-* [[Shout Out]]:
+* [[Shout-Out]]:
 ** Two of the zombies are named [[Stan Winston|"Stan" and "Winston."]]
 ** The fat zombie has a striking resemblance to [[Left 4 Dead|a boomer.]]
 ** The resident [[The Ditz|ditz]] has a passing resemblance to [[The Muppets|Beaker]].
-** ''Hostile Entities'' is an [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[Alien (Film)|Alien]]''
+** ''Hostile Entities'' is an [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]''
-** ''Dusty Zombies'' is one big [[Shout Out]] to ''[[Music/Kansas|Kansas]]'', who wrote the song "Dust in the Wind."
+** ''Dusty Zombies'' is one big [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Music/Kansas|Kansas]]'', who wrote the song "Dust in the Wind."
 * [[Widget Series]]
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 [[Category:Horror Web Originals]]
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-[[Category:Main/New Media/Horror/Sandbox]]
 [[Category:Creepy Puppet Project]]
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+[[Category:New Media]]