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Tyler Bunch
Tyler Bunch, also known as H.D. Quinn, is an American puppeteer, puppet designer, director, and actor. Career In addition to his work for the Jim Henson Company, Bunch has created and performed puppets for PBS, Nickelodeon and Disney's The Muppets Studio. He has acted in a few Off Broadway productions and has made appearances on American television shows such as ''Law & Order: Criminal Intent'', ''Person of Interest'' and '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' and video games such as ''Grand Theft Auto V'', ''Red Dead Redemption'', '' Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'' and ''Red Dead Revolver''. From 2007–2008, Bunch directed the PBS children's television series ''SeeMore's Playhouse''. He was also one of the puppeteers for the musical stage adaptation of ''Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas''. Credits Puppeteer * ''Sesame Street'' (PBS): Rico, Mr. Can You Guess, Prince Cha-Cha-Charming, Joe Doe, Dancing Monsters (assistant), Tom Twinkletoes, Ryan, "Pre-School Musical" announ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahlequah, OK
Tahlequah ( ; Cherokee language, ''Cherokee'': ᏓᎵᏆ, ''daligwa'' ) is a city in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, Cherokee County, Oklahoma located at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It is part of the Green Country region of Oklahoma and was established as a capital of the Cherokee Nation (19th century), 19th-century Cherokee Nation in 1839, as part of the new settlement in Indian Territory after the Cherokee Native Americans in the United States, Native Americans were forced west from the American Southeast on the Trail of Tears. The city's population was 15,753 at the United States Census, 2010, 2010 census, an increase of 8.96 percent over the figure of 14,458 reported in 2000. The 2019 estimated population is 16,819. Tahlequah is the capital of the two federally recognized Cherokee tribes based in Oklahoma, the modern Cherokee Nation and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians. Tahlequah is also the county seat of Cherokee County. The main campus of Northeastern Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SeeMore's Playhouse
SeeMore's Playhouse is an American children's television series using puppets to teach preschoolers about health and safety concepts. Characters * SeeMore the Safety Seal * Harry Hippo - Puppeteered by Eric Wright * Shades Wolf - Puppeteered by Eric Wright in season 1, David Stephens in season 2 * Basil Wombat - Puppeteered by Kenneth Mark Berman in season 1, David Fino in season 2 * Lottie Lamb - Puppeteered by Lindsey "Z" Briggs * Penny Pup - Puppeteered by Sarah Frechette * Barb Porcupine - Puppeteered by Carole Simms D'Agostino (Barb only appeared in Season 1, she was dropped in Season 2) * Various characters - Puppeteered by Mark Gale and others Segments The show has a few recurring segments in every episode It's Knock-Knock Time! The puppets and guest celebrities will tell knock-knock jokes to other with a wall reminiscent of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In ''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In'' (often simply referred to as ''Laugh-In'') is an American sketch comedy televisio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue's Room
''Blue's Room'' is an American puppet television series spin-off from ''Blue's Clues''. It was created by Traci Paige Johnson and Angela Santomero. The show aired on Nickelodeon as part of the Nick Jr. block, and it started out as short segments on ''Blue's Clues'' episodes in Season 6. In March 2015, the entire series was made available as part of the Noggin app. After Noggin removed the series in 2020, Paramount+ (at the time CBS All Access) added the series to its streaming service in January 2021. Premise The series centers around the title character and host of the show, Blue, a happy-go-lucky female blue puppy who talks and loves to sing, dance, and play with her new friends. Blue often interacts with her friends including Sprinkles, Blue's shy little brother who was introduced in the second season as the co-host; Roar E. Saurus (or simply Roary), an orange dinosaur who likes to practice roaring; Frederica, a purple doll who likes to pretend it's her birthday; and Polka Dots ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muppets From Space
''Muppets from Space'' is a 1999 American science-fiction film, science-fiction comedy film directed by Tim Hill (director), Tim Hill (in his List of directorial debuts, feature film directorial debut) and written by Jerry Juhl, Joey Mazzarino, Joseph Mazzarino, and Ken Kaufman. The sixth theatrical film in The Muppets (franchise), ''The Muppets'' franchise, it is the first Muppets film to not be a musical and the first film since the death of Muppets creator Jim Henson to have an original Muppets-focused plot. In addition to the Muppet performers, the film stars Jeffrey Tambor, F. Murray Abraham, David Arquette, Josh Charles, Hulk Hogan, Hollywood Hogan, Ray Liotta, and Andie MacDowell. In the film, Gonzo (Muppet), Gonzo attempts to discover his origins. After he and Rizzo the Rat are captured by government officials during his search, Kermit the Frog and the rest of the Muppet gang set out to rescue them. The film was shot in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1998, and was released i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Electric Company (2009 TV Series)
''The Electric Company'' is an American television series produced by Sesame Workshop and developed by Karen Fowler. It is a reboot of the 1971 series of the same name. The series ran on PBS Kids Go! from January 19, 2009, to April 4, 2011, with reruns continuing on PBS until August 31, 2014. The series aired reruns on HBO Kids on HBO Family from January 1, 2016, until November 1, 2020, as part of HBO's deal with Sesame Workshop. On some services, the series is called ''The New Electric Company'' to distinguish it from the 1971–77 series. Conception The new version has similar short animations, sketches, and music videos to those seen in the original show, but each episode also features a story line designed to teach four to five vocabulary words with a mix of hip-hop- or contemporary R&B-style music. Each story revolves around the Electric Company, a group of tween and teen literacy heroes who battle a group of neighborhood vandals dubbed the Pranksters. The heroes' headqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Book Of Pooh
''The Book of Pooh'' is an American children's television series that aired on the Playhouse Disney block on Disney Channel. It is the third television series to feature the characters from the Disney franchise based on A. A. Milne's works; the other two were the live action ''Welcome to Pooh Corner'' (to which this series bears resemblance) and the animated ''The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'' which ran from 1988 to 1991. It premiered on January 22, 2001 and completed its run on November 29, 2004. It was repeated on Playhouse Disney until June 2, 2006 (May 2007 in the UK). The show is produced by Shadow Projects. Walt Disney Pictures released the first of two films, a direct-to-video spin-off film based on the puppetry television series titled '' The Book of Pooh: Stories from the Heart'' in 2001. The show became available to stream on Disney+ on its launch, November 12, 2019. Overview The series take places after the events of Milne's original stories since his son Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bear In The Big Blue House
''Bear in the Big Blue House'' is an American children's television series created by Mitchell Kriegman and produced by Jim Henson Television for Disney Channel's Playhouse Disney preschool television block. Debuting on October 20, 1997, it aired its last episode on April 28, 2006. Reruns of the program continued to air on Playhouse Disney until May 6, 2007. In 2004, The Jim Henson Company sold the rights to the show, including characters, content library and copyrights, to The Walt Disney Company; it is now owned by The Muppets Studio, a subsidiary of Disney that also owns, and is named after, The Muppets characters and copyrights. Plot Bear lives in the Big Blue House where he is caregiver for his friends Ojo, a bear cub; Tutter, a mouse; Treelo, a lemur; otters Pip and Pop; and narrator Shadow. He and his friends have many adventures together. Those normally include solving problems, sharing, cooperating with each other, and developing social/life skills. Each episode opens ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Between The Lions
''Between the Lions'' is an American animated/live-action/puppet children's television series designed to promote reading. The show was a co-production between WGBH in Boston and Sirius Thinking, Ltd., in New York City, in association with Mississippi Public Broadcasting, the distributor from seasons 5–10, in Mississippi. The show won seven Daytime Emmy awards between 2001 and 2007. It is created by alumni of ''Sesame Street'' and several season 2 episodes, notably in the ''Dance in Smarty Pants'' music videos, had a few characters from ''Sesame Street'' guest appearing. The show ran from April 3, 2000 to November 22, 2010, taking the schedule slot held by ''The Puzzle Place'' upon the latter's debut. Plot The series focuses on a family of clumsy anthropomorphic lions operating and living in a large, busy library called, “The Barnaby B. Busterfield III Memorial Public Library” starring alongside characters such as Click, an electronic, anthropomorphic computer mouse, the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elmo's World
''Elmo's World'' is a segment that is shown at the end of the long-running American children's television program ''Sesame Street'' which premiered on November 16th, 1998, as part of a broader structural change to the show. It originally lasted fifteen minutes at the end of each episode. The segment ran until 2009, and then returned in 2017. The segment was designed to appeal to younger viewers and to increase ratings, which had fallen in the past decade. The segment is presented from the perspective of a three-year-old child as represented by its host, the Muppet Elmo, performed by Kevin Clash in the original series and Ryan Dillon in the 2017 reboot. The segment was developed out of a series of workshops that studied changes in the viewing habits of Sesame Street's audience, and the reasons for the show's lower ratings. ''Elmo's World'' used traditional production elements, but had a more sustained narrative. In 2002, ''Sesame Street''s producers changed the rest of the show to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's A Big Big World
''It's a Big Big World'' is an American children's television series that aired on PBS Kids from January 2, 2006, to January 8, 2010. The series was created by Mitchell Kriegman, the creator of the Muppet television series, ''Bear in the Big Blue House.'' After the series ended, reruns continue to air until April 30, 2010. The show revolves around a group of animals living in "The World Tree" in the rainforest along the Amazon River with the Pico da Neblina mountain background. The main character and host is Snook the sloth. The series was taped at Wainscott Studios (now the LTV (Local TV, Inc.) studios) at the East Hampton Airport industrial complex in Wainscott, New York. The only studio to use Shadowmation, a technique created by Mitchell Kriegman, to bring the puppets to life by combining live action animatronic characters with computer generated animation in real time, high definition virtual environments powered by video game engines. Characters * Snook (performed an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Best Of Elmo
''The Best of Elmo'' is a 1994 ''Sesame Street'' video originally released on VHS as part of the "My Sesame Street Home Video" series, the 16th and final title of the My Sesame Street Home Video series. A follow-up, ''The Best of Elmo 2'', was released in 2010, followed by ''The Best of Elmo 3'' (2015), followed by ''The Best of Elmo 4'' (2018). Plot As Maria leaves the Fix-It Shop carrying a large board of wood, Elmo walks by and accidentally bumps into her, dropping a bunch of pictures from his hands. After Maria helps pick them up, Elmo reveals that he is bringing them to the Monster-Art-Show and wants his friends to help decide what picture is best; Maria notices one drawing with Ernie and Elmo. Maria tells Elmo that she likes the previous drawing the most, which Elmo – to her surprise – says that she can keep (as there are plenty more pictures to choose for the show). Maria spots another picture and asks where he got all his ideas; Elmo says that it is because of using ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abby In Wonderland
''Abby in Wonderland'' is a 2008 American family film that adapts Lewis Carroll's '' Alice in Wonderland'' with the Muppets of ''Sesame Street''. Abby Cadabby stars in the " Alice" role. The feature-length adventure was released on DVD by Genius Products on September 30, 2008. In addition to receiving a DVD release, the film received a limited theatrical run in September 2008 through the Kidtoons family matinee series, and was aired on PBS Kids ''Feast of Favorites'' during the week of Thanksgiving 2008. It was aired again on December 29, 2008 on local PBS stations. Plot Abby wants very much to be in her own fairy tale. Elmo takes an interest in Abby's wish and tells her the story of "Alice in Wonderland". For a second Abby falls asleep and she opens her eyes to see that she is wearing a blue dress and blouse and Elmo has turned into a rabbit and is in a great hurry. Abby follows Mr. Rabbit down a tunnel. At the bottom, she loses her wand to Mr. Rabbit, who disappears at the end o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
