Best tv shows like Puppets Who Kill
Last updated March 2024
Looking for tv shows like Puppets Who Kill? Provide your knowledge to guide others to films and tv shows you've previously watched that might also engage them. Assist in expanding the group of people raising videos between each other. We value your participation!
Plot Summary:
Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy programme co-produced by The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada on the Comedy Network in 2002, and in Australia on The Comedy Channel in 2004. In Puppets Who Kill, Rocko the Dog, Cuddles the Comfort Doll, Buttons the Bear, and Bill the Dummy are four live, anthropomorphic puppets with a history of delinquency and recidivism. Canadian courts sent each of them to a halfway house for puppets, operated by a man named Dan Barlow.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 470
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
Best tv shows and movies like Puppets Who Kill (2002):
Similar in 79%
TallBoyz (2019)
Plot Summary:
Some up-and-coming comics explore friendship, race, masculinity, and more throught the sketches they perform across the country.The series stars Guled Abdi, Vance Banzo, Tim Blair and Franco Nguyen.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy
Similar in 84%
CODCO (1986)
Plot Summary:
CODCO was a Canadian comedy troupe from Newfoundland, best known for a sketch comedy series which aired on CBC Television from 1987 to 1992. Founded as a theatrical revue in 1973, CODCO drew on the province's cultural history of self-deprecating "Newfie" humour, frequently focusing on the cod fishing industry. The troupe's name was an abbreviation of "Cod Company". Following the end of CODCO, two of the troupe's core members and an occasional guest collaborator, as well as some of their sketch characters, moved on to the new series This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, sketch comedy
Similar in 75%
'Orrible (2001)
Plot Summary:
'Orrible is a British television sitcom produced by the BBC. Broadcast in 2001, it was written by and starred Johnny Vaughan. Vaughan appears as a taxi-cab driver and wannabe small time criminal in Acton. Despite the BBC having high hopes and heavily promoting the series, it was panned by critics for the script and Vaughan's acting ability. It achieved very low viewing figures and ran for one series, and has never been repeated by the BBC. "Ultimately, it was shit" said Vaughan in a 2004 interview in The Stage.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
Similar in 86%
Scot Squad (2014)
Plot Summary:
Mockumentary comedy series following the life of scottish police officers from different areas of the force in a fly on the wall style.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, spoof, mockumentary
Similar in 86%
Da Kink in My Hair (2007)
Plot Summary:
Follows the lives of a group of women who let their hair down in more ways than one at Letty's, a vibrant and bustling hair salon in Toronto's Caribbean community. Novelette, Letty's smart and capable owner, has the answers to her clients' dilemmas but can't always figure out how to tame the tangles in her own life surrounded as she is by her outspoken eccentric sister Joy, her fourteen-year-old born-and-raised in Jamaica son Dre and her family of stylists including the wide-eyed new girl Starr and the wicked-tongued bad boy Nigel.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, sitcom
Similar in 77%
Reporting for Duty (2023)
Plot Summary:
When Suzano assumes the role of police chief at a new precinct, the timid newbie will have to prove his mettle to his fearless squad.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, detective
Similar in 81%
The Detectives (1993)
Plot Summary:
The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when the cases are solved) and retain their jobs.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: sitcom, detective, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, parody, detective series
Similar in 78%
Four on the Floor (1985)
Plot Summary:
Four on the Floor was a sketch comedy series which aired on CBC Television in 1986. Consisting of only 13 episodes, the series was a showcase for The Frantics, a comedy troupe consisting of Paul Chato, Rick Green, Dan Redican and Peter Wildman. In the U.K., it aired in Channel 4's traditional Friday night comedy slot, 10 June-2 September 1988. The introduction was voiced by Dan and Rick alternating each line, with video clips and sound effects interspersed in the opening. Although the series was quickly cancelled due to CBC budget constraints, it was an important influence on later Canadian sketch comedy, such as The Kids in the Hall.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: sketch comedy, parody, spoof
Similar in 75%
Impastor (2015)
Plot Summary:
Buddy Dobbs, a slacker on the run from a loan shark, steals a man's identity and ends up posing as a small town's new gay pastor.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, light, feel good, hilarious
Similar in 85%
The Knights of Prosperity (2007)
Plot Summary:
Eugene Gurkin has dreamt of opening his own bar for years, but his dead-end job as a janitor won't even fund a bottle of booze. In a serendipitous moment, he catches an episode of "E! News" and his passion is ignited. Soon Eugene recruits a group of average joes into his gang, The Knights of Prosperity, for a heist to finance their dreams. The initial target: rock icon Mick Jagger's super-luxe Central Park West apartment.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, not serious, humorous, exciting, tense, touching, suspenseful, offbeat, realistic
Similar in 85%
Community Squad (2023)
Plot Summary:
The members of a diverse vigilante group formed to boost the police's image are put in jeopardy when they stumble upon an unexpected drug deal.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Argentina
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
Similar in 82%
Greg the Bunny (2002)
Plot Summary:
Greg the Bunny is an American television sitcom that originally aired on Fox TV in 2002. It starred Seth Green and a hand puppet named Greg the Bunny, originally invented by the team of Sean S. Baker, Spencer Chinoy and Dan Milano. Milano and Chinoy wrote and co-produced the Fox show. The show was spun off from The Greg the Bunny Show, a series of short segments that aired on the Independent Film Channel, which were based on the Public-access television cable TV show Junktape. A show spin-off, called Warren the Ape, premiered on June 14, 2010 on MTV.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, offbeat
Similar in 84%
Trailer Park Boys (2001)
Plot Summary:
Follow the booze-fueled misadventures of three longtime pals and petty serial criminals who run scams from their Nova Scotia trailer park.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, sitcom, humorous, witty, semi serious, funny, dark comedy, feel good, absurd, offbeat
Similar in 89%
Police Academy: The Series (1997)
Plot Summary:
Police Academy: The Series is a syndicated 1997 television series spin-off from the Police Academy series of films. Michael Winslow was the only actor from the Police Academy films to have a recurring role on the show, although several of the film's cast made occasional guest appearances. The series was written by Paul Maslansky and produced by James Margellos and Gary M. Goodman. Music by Ari Wise and Jim Guttridge.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: absurd, detective, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, not serious, slapstick
Similar in 85%
Little Mosque on the Prairie (2007)
Plot Summary:
Little Mosque on the Prairie is a Canadian sitcom that aired on CBC, created by Zarqa Nawaz and produced by WestWind Pictures. It was filmed in Toronto, Ontario and Indian Head, Saskatchewan. The series was selected and showcased at the 2009 Dawn Breakers International Film Festival in Zurich. On April 2, 2012, the series finale to Little Mosque on the Prairie aired on the CBC. In May 2012, Hulu announced it would begin airing the series under the name Little Mosque in summer 2012. The series will make its U.S. syndication debut on Pivot beginning in August 2013.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, touching, not serious, humorous, realistic, witty
Similar in 83%
The Invisibles (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Invisibles is a British 2008 comedy drama series created and written by William Ivory for the BBC. It was produced by Company Pictures, shot in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 78%
Hitmen (2020)
Plot Summary:
Having stumbled into a career in contract killing, misfits Fran and Jamie are not your typical killers for hire. Working out of their scruffy van, each episode follows the hapless duo as they try to carry out their latest hit, inevitably derailed by incompetence, bickering, and inane antics. As each hit goes south, our (anti)heroes are thrown into one bizarre misadventure after another, each full of oddball characters and unexpected dilemmas.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, funny, humorous, tense, light, unusual plot structure, disturbing, sitcom
Similar in 88%
Porridge (1974)
Plot Summary:
Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two inmates at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. "Doing porridge" is British slang for serving a prison sentence, porridge once being the traditional breakfast in UK prisons. The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight, which established that Fletcher would not be going back to prison again. Porridge was voted number seven in a 2004 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British sitcoms.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sitcom, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, fun
Similar in 82%
The Jane Show (2004)
Plot Summary:
The Jane Show is a Canadian television sitcom produced by Shaftesbury Films that was shown on Global from 2006 to 2007. The series stars Teresa Pavlinek as Jane Black, an aspiring novelist who takes a corporate job after her life undergoes a major upheaval. The show's cast also included Patricia Zentilli, Darren Boyd, Kate Trotter, Hardee T. Lineham, and Andrew Misle. Global originally aired the series pilot in December 2004, but retooled and redeveloped the program before ordering more episodes, which aired in 2006. The second season aired in 2007. The show was officially cancelled by Global on June 28, 2007.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 86%
Spitting Image (1984)
Plot Summary:
Spitting Image is an award winning British satirical puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. The series was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV from 1984 to 1996. The series was nominated and won numerous awards during its run including 10 BAFTA Awards, including one for editing in 1989, and even won two Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986 in the Popular Arts Category. The series featured puppet caricatures of celebrities famous during the 1980s and 1990s, including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and fellow Tory politicians, American president Ronald Reagan, and the British Royal Family. The Series was the first to caricature the Queen mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy, humorous, sitcom, political, absurd, controversial, surreal, parody, clever, realistic
Similar in 87%
Crank Yankers (2002)
Plot Summary:
Crank Yankers is an American television show produced by Adam Carolla, Jimmy Kimmel and Daniel Kellison that featured actual crank calls made by show regulars and celebrity guests, and re-enacted onscreen by puppets for a visual aid to show the viewer what is happening in the call. The show premiered in 2002 on Comedy Central and returned to MTV2 on February 9, 2007, running again until March 30, 2007. The show screened in Australia on SBS Television and The Comedy Channel between 2003 and 2008.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: adult cartoon, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sketch comedy
Similar in 84%
Single White Spenny (2011)
Plot Summary:
Single White Spenny is a Canadian television series that aired briefly on Showcase in 2011, and chronicles the misadventures a fictitious version of Spencer Rice, played by himself, has dating various women after his wife divorced him for being "an immature man-child emotionally incapable of a serious relationship." IFC Canada announced that Single White Spenny had been cancelled due to poor ratings and its inability to capture Kenny vs. Spenny audiences.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, sitcom, semi autobiographical
Similar in 87%
Dan for Mayor (2010)
Plot Summary:
Dan for Mayor is a Canadian television sitcom starring Fred Ewanuick that debuted on March 1, 2010 on CTV and The Comedy Network. It premiered the same night as Hiccups, a show created by Corner Gas star Brent Butt that also features fellow Corner Gas alumna Nancy Robertson. On June 7, 2010, both Dan for Mayor and Hiccups were renewed for a second season. The second season premiered on June 5, 2011. Neither show has been renewed for a third season.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, captivating, light, feel good, entertaining, realistic, not serious
Similar in 81%
Bandits (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kandemir is the head of a gang which conducts robberies. Their main goal is to rob fairly. What connects the members of the gang to one another is friendship. Unfortunately, everything changes after an old friend of Kandemir, Ali Rıza Kaptan’s goes to prison. Kandemir and the gang settle into an old neighborhood which seems quiet and peaceful. However, nothing is as how it seems in the neighborhood. They introduce themselves to their neighbors as the Nevizade family. Protagonists Kandemir, Ferdi, Karlos, Yaren, Bahadır and Derya have had hard times and when they gather under one roof these gang members still carry the traces of those hard times. Kandemir wishes to confront his daughter and show her that he is no longer a man of monkey business, while blood brothers Ferdi and Karlos who ran away from an orphanage still carry the misery of the streets; Yaren who came to İstanbul with the hope of being a famous singer is singing in taverns; Bahadır uses his genius for hacking computers and Derya joins the gang with her acting skills in order to save her father.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
Similar in 80%
Bakersfield P.D. (1993)
Plot Summary:
Bakersfield P.D. is a short-lived American television comedy series that aired on the Fox network in 1993-94. The show was based in the police department of the city of Bakersfield, California. It was shot with naturalistic lighting and without a laugh track. Fox canceled the show after one season, citing low ratings. The cable channel Trio reran the show under its "Brilliant But Cancelled" umbrella.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, detective, exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious
Similar in 87%
Happily Married (2020)
Plot Summary:
Huguette and Gaétan, Serge and Micheline send their kids off for three weeks of camp. Alone with their partners, things quickly turn awkward and the façades begin to crack. Who slept with whom, who is on whose conscience? Marriage, suburbia, hell in Quebec, 1974.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, absurd, dark comedy
Similar in 83%
The Muppets (2015)
Plot Summary:
The Muppets return to primetime with a contemporary, documentary-style show. For the first time ever, a series will explore the Muppets’ personal lives and relationships, both at home and at work, as well as romances, breakups, achievements, disappointments, wants and desires. This is a more adult Muppet show, for “kids” of all ages.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, sitcom, erotic
Similar in 80%
Corner Gas (2004)
Plot Summary:
Corner Gas is a Canadian television sitcom created by Brent Butt. The series ran for six seasons from 2004 to 2009. Re-runs still air on CTV, CTV Two and The Comedy Network in Canada. Deriving its name from the roadside gas station in the fictional town of Dog River, Saskatchewan, Corner Gas is the only gas station for 60 kilometres in any direction. Brent Leroy is the proprietor of the station and Wanda Dollard works at the station's convenience store as a retail assistant. An adjoining coffee shop, The Ruby, is owned by Lacey Burrows, who inherited it from her Aunt Ruby. The series completed its run following broadcast of its sixth season on April 13, 2009, with a total of 107 episodes. The show became an instant hit, averaging a million viewers per episode. Corner Gas has been the recipient of six Gemini Awards, and has been nominated almost 70 times for various awards. On April 6, 2009, Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall signed a proclamation that declared April 13, 2009, "Corner Gas Day" in Saskatchewan.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, witty
Similar in 80%
Kim's Convenience (2016)
Plot Summary:
The funny, heartfelt story of The Kims, a Korean-Canadian family, running a convenience store in downtown Toronto. Mr. and Mrs. Kim ('Appa' and 'Umma') immigrated to Toronto in the 80's to set up shop near Regent Park and had two kids, Jung and Janet who are now young adults. However, when Jung was 16, he and Appa had a major falling out involving a physical fight, stolen money and Jung leaving home. Father and son have been estranged since.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, psychological, light, sincere, feel good, humorous, sweet, captivating
Similar in 86%
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013)
Plot Summary:
A single-camera ensemble comedy following the lives of an eclectic group of detectives in a New York precinct, including one slacker who is forced to shape up when he gets a new boss.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 349000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, funny, detective, hilarious, captivating, light, intellectual, feel good