Plonsters

Plonsters is a 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 (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 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.

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

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