Plonsters

Plonsters was 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.

Plot

The show features three small clay monsters, the Plonsters. They are Plif (the green plonster), who likes to do 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)

1. Pilot
2. Balloon
3. Record Player
4. Costume Box
5. Sharing The Dessert
6. The Circus
7. Blocks
8. Musical Clowns
9. The Cookies
10. Fishing

Season 2 (1988)

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. Supermarket
20. Camping Adventure

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 on YTV between the late 1990s and the early 2000s. The shorts were also shown on Eureeka's Castle.

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