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)
  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
  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.

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

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