Funday PawPet Show - Memorable Shows

Memorable Shows

The Funday PawPet Show has had many shows with unusual or memorable topics. Frequently, themed shows celebrate major holidays such as Christmas, New Year's, Halloween, Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving, the Fourth of July, and Christmas in July. On many occasions, the cast has gone out to various sites to film sequences. Some of the most notable of these shows include trips to conventions such as Fx and MegaCon to interview many of the guest celebrities. The cast has done interviews with the children (now grown up) from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. In that show, "Mutt" keeps getting thrown from one star to the next for asking them "stupid questions". Other celebrities that have been interviewed on the show include: Jason Marsden (Max Goof from A Goofy Movie), Jay North (Dennis the Menace), Jeremy Bulloch (Boba Fett from Star Wars), and Noel McNeal (Bear from Bear in the Big Blue House). The show also has "bumpers" or intros done by various individuals including the a cappella group Toxic Audio.

The show has many recurring gags. On the Easter shows, the viewers are challenged to find new and creative ways to destroy chocolate rabbits in "Chocolate Bunny Deaths". During the Christmas and Christmas in July shows, the cast takes part in white elephant gift exchanges on the air, from which some cast members have gone home with things like edible underwear, half of a sub sandwich, and a 5 pound container of lard. A Halloween show featured video of purple monsters attempting to scare the Trick or Treaters that appear at the front door of the house where the show is filmed.

"The Ferret Takeover Show"

Inspired by the film Being John Malkovich, the cast one by one enter a strange back door in the stage and transform into ferrets.

"The Drunk Show"

Inspired by an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati and intended to celebrate the show's 21st episode (the drinking age in Florida, although for various reasons the topic was ultimately pushed back to the 23rd show), the cast (all of whom agreed to give up their car keys and spend the night in the studio) took one shot of Rumple Minze for every half hour of broadcast time. This show is considered a somewhat controversial episode of PawPets.

"The Sinkhole Show"

This was another controversial show. This Halloween show ran a quick disclaimer at the very beginning of the broadcast stating that "the show is a dramatization." The disclaimer was run only once. During the course of the broadcast, cast members began talking about a sinkhole that had really formed elsewhere in Orlando. Later, the cast began to describe a fictitious sinkhole forming in the front yard of the house that was threatening to destroy it. At the end of the program, the cast tipped over the stage and severed all connections and feed lines, making it appear as if the house had indeed fallen into a sinkhole.

Portions of this episode were repeated in show # 352 (November 4, 2007) where Mutt explained "Yappy had literally ripped all of the plugs and power out of the wall (except for one in the bedroom) so no matter how techie you were, it looked like the entire show just dropped, there was no server, there was no nothing."

Ezra: "JR and I tipped the stage forward, Rasvar moved the lighting truss and Simba dropped a piece of drywall and a couple other things in front of the stage to make it look like everything was happening. Yappy had every single connection in the house yanked out of the wall, except for one, and that was the one that we had in the kitchen, and we were all huddled around one laptop, watching everyone's reaction when everything went dark."

Ezra continued: "Within about two minutes, every cellphone in this house started ringing, asking us how we were doing."

Poink: "They were pissed for weeks."

Mutt: "But about a month later, that was voted the best show ever."

"The Arthur Awards"

Named after the PawPet Show character Arthur Bronswager, this is a parody of the Oscars held on the Sunday night closest to the show, and features categories such as "Best Running Joke" and "Best Song they Never Play on the Show Anymore". Topics are selected about two months prior to the show, and viewers were able to vote on them from the PawPet Show's website.

"9/11 Special"

On the night of September 11, 2001 the cast quickly assembled for an impromptu show to help calm people and find out who in the community was directly affected by the 9/11 attacks. This is the only show that was intentionally never made available for the weekly download. Viewers sent the cast thank-you letters and awards for their efforts.

"2007 Telethon"

On November 11, 2007, the show raised $10,052 by the end of the show. This count does not include the auctions that were still going on or the donations being sent in via mail. The goal for this years telethon was $6,000. Also, a new audience record was set with 225 viewers in the chat room.

"2012 Gary Gnu Call-In"

On May 13, 2012, the voice of Gary Gnu, from "The Great Space Coaster" called in to the show "accidentally" while attempting to call his mother, Gnatalie Gnu, for Mother's Day. Immediately following the Gary Gnu call-in, puppeteer Jim Martin, who voiced the character, called in to talk about a fundraiser for the restoration of the program tapes and preservation in possible museums. When the episode started, the fundraiser had been underway for several weeks and had raised $185. By the end of this episode, over $1200 has been raised. Jim later thanked the "Furry community" for their generosity and the Funday Pawpet Show for "getting the word out". The goal amount for kickstarting the project was reached.