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Greg the Bunny
- Genre: Comedy
Common Sense Media says
Clever, ultra-edgy satire about prejudice, with puppets.
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What parents need to know
Parents need to know that just because this comedy features puppet characters, like Sesame Street, it’s not aimed at children. The jokes are risqué and the situations involve such mature themes as jealousy, prejudice, disappointment, and office politics. Some scenes include puppets and humans drinking and there are many references to being drunk or high. Though there’s no sex, there are plenty of suggestive comments and some mild swearing. This is best for older teens and up who can understand the satire.
What's the story?
Hard up for work, Greg the Bunny asks his roommate Jimmy (Seth Green) to help him land a job with Jimmy’s dad Gil (Eugene Levy), the director of the popular children’s TV series Sweetknuckle Junction. Greg thinks he might get hired as an office assistant, but instead is cast as the new star of the show. Sweetknuckle Junction, the show-within-the-show, looks much like Sesame Street and other classics, where puppets interact like humans and everyone acts like the fur characters are just as real as anyone else. But on GREG THE BUNNY, the puppets are real; they walk and talk and bicker and have to work to pay the rent, just like other people. As Greg joins the series, he meets the entire wacky cast, including Count Blah (a vampire-like puppet eternally bitter that Sesame Street’s famous Count has stolen his act), Warren de Montague (a veteran puppet actor who may have a drug problem) and studio exec Alison (Sarah Silverman), who hopes Greg the Bunny will deliver a major ratings bump.
Is it any good?
Greg the Bunny is very funny and very original, but it’s definitely not for anyone who might actually enjoy any other show with puppets. This is a mature sitcom, with plenty of jokes about sex and liquor and office politics and money -- all the standard fare for other comedies that are broadcast towards the end of prime time.
The conceit -- that puppets are real and often the subject of discrimination -- opens the door to an entirely untapped vein of humor; racism has never been so funny. Actually, prejudice rarely works in jokes, but on this show it does. People who have fond memories of growing up watching Sesame Street and other PBS standards will find much here that seems familiar, and much more that is funnier and more complex than anything that ever made a five-year-old giggle.
What families can talk about
Families can talk about racism and stereotypes. Humans often make disparaging comments about the puppets in this series, including the highly inflammatory epithet “socks.” How does this compare to the ways some people discriminate against other races or classes of people? Do you think being prejudice against non-human puppets is any different from discriminating against people?
How do the puppets on this show, which act just like real, living characters, compare to the puppets on well-known children’s shows such as Sesame Street? Do you think giving the puppets adult feelings, including jealousy and lust, makes them more interesting?
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| TV rating: | NR |
| Cast: | Eugene Levy, Sarah Silverman, Seth Green |
| Genre: | Comedy |
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