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| Fur TV | |
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| Genre | Adult puppeteering Black comedy Adult humor Comedy |
| Created by | Chris Waitt Henry Trotter |
| Written by | Jason Hazeley Joel Morris Chris Waitt Henry Trotter |
| Starring | Mak Wilson Don Austen John Eccleston |
| Voices of | Henry Trotter Phil Nichol Simon Greenall |
| Theme music composer | Chris Waitt |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 (and 2 pilots) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 22 minutes |
| Production companies | Yummo Warp Films MTV Networks Europe |
| Original release | |
| Network | MTV One |
| Release | 4 May (2008-5-4) – 22 June 2008 (2008-6-22) |
Fur TV is a British comedy adult puppet show aired in 2008 onMTV One. The show usesMuppet-style puppetry where the characters are shown to undertake activities such as drinking and having sex.
Originally a short film created by Chris Waitt and Henry Trotter which won BBC's Greenlight Award for Comedy in 2002,[1] and theRose d'Or for Best Pilot at the Montreaux TV Festival in 2004. Television broadcast was scheduled to 2003, the pilot finally aired on 28 February 2004 onBBC Two.[2] Another pilot calledFurry Avenue was made in 2004.[3]
MTV picked it up as a TV series and the show premiered in 2008. The show was produced by Waitt and Trotter's company Yummo,Warp Films andMTV Networks Europe.[4]
In 2009 MTV released a series of shorts, each about 3 minutes in length.
The main characters are 3frog-like puppets named Fat Ed Tubbs, Lapeño Enriquez and Mervin J Minky. Fat Ed is a foul-mouthed, violent, beer swillingheavy metal fanatic, Lapeño is aBrazilian sex god who is irresistible to women (and even to some men), while Mervin is a perpetually cross-eyed, mentally challenged and self-abusing pervert with a chronic addiction tomasturbation.
Each episode will generally relate to one of the characters specific traits:[citation needed]
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The song when Fat Ed beats up Mervin is Nightmare by Man Scouts of America.
It has broadcast on all MTV channels in Europe,MTV2 in Canada and MTV in Brazil, Colombia, Australia, New Zealand. In France it is known asTélé Poils, onMTV Latin America it is broadcast asTV de Ciertopelo, in Ukraine asВолохате ТБ (Volohate TB), in Russia asМохнатики (Mohnatiki) and onMTV Taiwan it is called偶們最風流 (Puppets Are Charming).