''Plonsters'' is a children's television program produced by Anima Studio für Film & Grafik GmbH in
Hamburg
(male), (female) en, Hamburger(s),
Hamburgian(s)
, timezone1 = Central (CET)
, utc_offset1 = +1
, timezone1_DST = Central (CEST)
, utc_offset1_DST = +2
, postal ...
,
Germany
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, and Bettina Matthaei for
Egmont Imagination
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. Each episode is about 3 minutes and 30 seconds long and is produced using
stop motion
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animation done with
plasticine
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, also called
claymation
Clay animation or claymation, sometimes plasticine animation, is one of many forms of stop-motion animation. Each animated piece, either character or background, is "deformable"—made of a malleable substance, usually plasticine clay.
Tra ...
. The title is a
portmanteau
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Plot
The show features three small clay monsters, the Plonsters. They are Plif (the blue plonster), who likes to play
practical joke
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s, Plops (the green plonster) who is the cranky one and Plummy (the orange plonster) who is the cheerful one. They can morph themselves into anything, and their language is some kind of gibberish. The plot of the show is usually that Plif and Plops bully Plummy by ruining everything he does (as well as excluding him from some activities whenever possible), but he gets back at them every time, and every episode ends with the three of them playing together peacefully.
Episodes
Season 1 (1987)
# Pilot
# Balloon
# Record Player
# Costume Box
# Sharing The Dessert
# The Circus
# Blocks
# Musical Clowns
# The Cookies
# Fishing
Season 2 (1988)
# Snow Hunt
# The Beautiful Garden
# Gone Fishin'
# The Lonely Island
# Home Sweet Home
# Chaos at the Museum
# Fata Morgana
# Fashion Show
# Checkmate
# The Fruit Market
# Going to Sleep
# Feeding the Ducks
# Safari
# At the Fairground
# Paddling
# Running Up That Hill
# Baking Cookies
# The Treasure Hunter
# Supermarket
# Camping Adventure
# Chaos and Untidiness
# The Plonsters Fire Brigade
# The Snake Charmers
# Gold Diggers
# Sports Weekend
# The Dinner Party
# On Thin Ice
# Racecar Drivers
# Honey Honey
# Chemical Experiments
# The Sculpture Comes Alive
# At the Circus
# At the Hospital
# Bewitched Scarecrow
# The Raspberry Bush
# Playground Attractions
# Dance with Plonsters
# Surfing with Plonsters
# Miniature Golf
# Arctic Adventure
# The Haunting Of Knight's Castle
# Goin to Venice
# Merry Plonsters-Mas
# Picnic At The Beach
# Plonsters Of The Caribbean
# The Pear Tree
# The Cuckoo Eggs
# How The West Was Really Won
# I Want To Ride My Bike
# In Outer Space
# Collecting Shells
Credits
* Idea and characters (creator): Bettina Matthaei
* Animators: Isolde Bayer, Axel Nicolai
* Model makers: Katja Calvasova, Eva Galova, Beate Bojanowska, Anke Greß, Sandra Schießl, Lene Markusen
* Production coordinators: Torben Köster, Astrid Olthoff, Kerstin Sprenger
* Editor: Marco Rönnau
* Voices: Ralph Thiekötter
* Music: Petar Vanek
* Sound recording: STUDIO FUNK NG, Christoph Welsche, STUDIO NAMU PRAHA, Adam Memens, Jiři Jahl
* Executive producers: Ulla Brockenhuus-Schack, Christian Lehmann
* Director: Alexander Zapletal
International distribution
The show aired in
Australia
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on
ABC
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ABC or abc may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media Broadcasting
* American Broadcasting Company, a commercial U.S. TV broadcaster
** Disney–ABC Television ...
(9 April 2001 - 31 October 2014) and in
Norway
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on
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Television
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. It has also aired on
Malaysia
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RapidKL
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coaches.
The show also aired in
Canada
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on YTV between the late 1990s and the early 2000s. The shorts were also shown on ''
Eureeka's Castle
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'' under the title ''Plastinots''.
In
Brazil
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, the show aired on
TV Cultura
TV Cultura or simply Cultura, is a free Brazilian public television network headquartered in São Paulo
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during the 90s on the Glub Glub program.
In
Italy
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, the show aired on
Rai 3
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sometimes during 2000s/2010s.
In
Ireland
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, the show aired on
RTÉ
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as an integral part of the Bosco show sometimes during 1980s/1990s.
In
Japan
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, the show aired on
Fuji TV
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as part of Hirake! Ponkikki.
In
Norway
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, the show aired on
TV3 Norway
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Unlike its main rivals, NRK, TV 2 and TVNorge, the channel does not broadcast from Norway ...
under the title, Plipp, plopp og plomma, likely during 2008.
In
Slovenia
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, the show aired on
TV Slovenia
Radiotelevizija Slovenija ( en, Radio-Television of Slovenia) – usually abbreviated to RTV Slovenija (or simply RTV within Slovenia) – is Slovenia's national public broadcasting organization.
Based in Ljubljana, it has regional broadcastin ...