Plonsters

Plonsters is an animated children's television program produced by Anima Studio für Film & Grafik GmbH in Hamburg, Germany, and Bettina Matthaei for Egmont Imagination. Each episode is about 3 minutes and 30 seconds long and is produced using stop motion animation done with plasticine, also called claymation. The title is a portmanteau of "plasticine" and "monsters".

Plot

The show features three small clay monsters, the Plonsters. They are Plif (the green plonster), who likes to play practical jokes, Plops (the blue 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 (1979 to 1980)

1. The bee
2. the Tiny red balloon
3. the record
4. The meeting
5. Pudding
6. empathy
7. Box of bricks
8. privacy
9. The Cookies
10. Fishing

Season 2 (1993 to 1997)

1. Snow Hunt
2. The Beautiful Garden
3. Gone Fishin'
4. The Lonely Island
5. Home Sweet Home
6. Chaos at the Museum
7. Fata Morgana
8. Fashion Show
9. Checkmate
10. The Fruit Market
11. Going to Sleep
12. Feeding the Ducks
13. Safari
14. At the Fairground
15. Paddling
16. Running Up That Hill
17. Baking Cookies
18. The Treasure Hunter
19. At the Supermarket
20. Camping Adventure
21. Chaos and Untidiness
22. The Plonsters Fire Brigade
23. The Snake Charmers
24. Gold Diggers
25. Sports Weekend
26. The Dinner Party
27. On Thin Ice
28. Racecar Drivers
29. Honey Honey
30. Chemical Experiments
31. The Sculpture Comes Alive
32. At the Circus
33. At the Hospital
34. Bewitched Scarecrow
35. The Raspberry Bush
36. Playground Attractions
37. Dance with Plonsters
38. Surfing with Plonsters
39. Miniature Golf
40. Arctic Adventure
41. The Haunting Of Knight's Castle
42. Goin to Venice
43. Merry Plonsters-Mas
44. Picnic At The Beach
45. Plonsters Of The Caribbean
46. The Pear Tree
47. The Cuckoo Eggs
48. How The West Was Really Won
49. I Want To Ride My Bike
50. In Outer Space
51. 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 on ABC (9 April 2001 - 31 October 2014) and in Norway on TV3. It has also aired on Malaysia narrowcaster Asia Media TransNet, showing in RapidKL coaches.

The show also aired in Canada on YTV between the late 1990s and the early 2000s. The shorts were also shown on Eureeka's Castle under the title Plastinots.

In Brazil, the show aired on TV Cultura during the 90s on the Glub Glub program under the title Plastinots.

In Italy, the show aired on Rai 3 sometimes during 2000s/2010s.

In Ireland, the show aired on RTÉ as an integral part of the Bosco show sometimes during 1980s/1990s.

In Japan, the show aired on Fuji TV as part of Hirake! Ponkikki.

In Norway, the show aired on TV3 Norway under the title, Plipp, plopp og plomma, likely during 2008.

In Slovenia, the show aired on TV Slovenia under the title, Plastelinca.

External links

• Bettina Matthaei
• Plonsters on ABC 4 Kids
• Plonsters at IMDb
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