Fur TV is a British comedy adult puppet show aired in 2008 on MTV One. The show uses Muppet-style puppetry where the characters are shown to undertake activities such as drinking and having sex.

Production

Originally a short film created by Chris Waitt and Henry Trotter which won BBC's Greenlight Award for Comedy in 2002, and the Rose 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 on BBC Two. Another pilot called Furry Avenue was made in 2004. 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 and MTV Networks Europe. In 2009 MTV released a series of shorts, each about 3 minutes in length.

Plot

The main characters are 3 frog-like puppets named Fat Ed Tubbs, Lapeño Enriquez and Mervin J Minky. Fat Ed is a foul-mouthed, violent, beer swilling heavy metal fanatic, Lapeño is a Brazilian 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 to masturbation. Each episode will generally relate to one of the characters specific traits:

Episodes

Episode Title Original air date

Shorts

Episode Title Original air date

Soundtrack

The song when Fat Ed beats up Mervin is Nightmare by Man Scouts of America.

International broadcasts

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 as Télé Poils, on MTV Latin America it is broadcast as TV de Ciertopelo, in Ukraine as Волохате ТБ (Volohate TB), in Russia as Мохнатики (Mohnatiki) and on MTV Taiwan it is called 偶們最風流 (Puppets Are Charming).