Fur TV
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Fur TV is a comedy puppet show produced by MTV Networks Europe
and airs on MTV channels throughout Europe. The show uses Muppets style puppetry, but in a more adult setting. The characters are shown to undertake human activities such as drinking and having sex
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obsessive, Lapeño (despite his Hispanic name) is a Brazilian sex god who is irresistible to women (and even to some men), while Mervin is a perpetually cross-eyed, mentally retarded, perverted, self-abusing fanatic with a chronic addiction to masturbation
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The storylines are allowed much greater freedom owing to the main characters being puppets. This fact is often played-on. For instance:
It has broadcasted on all MTV channels in Europe, MTV2
in Canada and MTV in Brazil, Colombia, Australia, New Zealand. In France it is known as Télé Poils, on MTV Latin America
it is broadcast as TV de Ciertopelo, in Ukraine as Волохате ТБ (Volohate TB), in Russia as Мохнатики (Mohnatiki) and on MTV Taiwan it is called 偶們最風流 (Oumen The Most Romantic).
MTV Networks Europe
MTV Networks Europe is a division of Viacom International Media Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom.MTV Networks Europe includes the multimedia entertainment brands: MTV, VH1, TMF, VIVA, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and Nick Jr...
and airs on MTV channels throughout Europe. The show uses Muppets style puppetry, but in a more adult setting. The characters are shown to undertake human activities such as drinking and having sex
Sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse, also known as copulation or coitus, commonly refers to the act in which a male's penis enters a female's vagina for the purposes of sexual pleasure or reproduction. The entities may be of opposite sexes, or they may be hermaphroditic, as is the case with snails...
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Cast
The main characters are Fat Ed Tubbs, Lapeño Enriquez and Mervin J Minky. Fat Ed is a foul-mouthed, violent, beer swilling heavy metalHeavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
obsessive, Lapeño (despite his Hispanic name) is a Brazilian sex god who is irresistible to women (and even to some men), while Mervin is a perpetually cross-eyed, mentally retarded, perverted, self-abusing fanatic with a chronic addiction to masturbation
Masturbation
Masturbation refers to sexual stimulation of a person's own genitals, usually to the point of orgasm. The stimulation can be performed manually, by use of objects or tools, or by some combination of these methods. Masturbation is a common form of autoeroticism...
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Format and plots
Each episode will generally relate to one of the characters specific traits:- Fat Ed's love of heavy metal and/or extreme violence.
- Mervin's sexual deviance and/or his idiotic good nature.
- Lapeño's ability to seduce any woman he wants and/or his career as a DJ.
The storylines are allowed much greater freedom owing to the main characters being puppets. This fact is often played-on. For instance:
- The episode where Mervin, Lapeño and Fit Ed (Fat Ed's well-toned cousin) end up taking a boat-ride up Fat Ed's butt, is only possible due to their puppet (Fur) status. The ending to this episode closely follows (and affectionately parodies) Apocalypse NowApocalypse NowApocalypse Now is a 1979 American war film set during the Vietnam War, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The central character is US Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard , of MACV-SOG, an assassin sent to kill the renegade and presumed insane Special Forces...
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- There is also an episode where Lapeño & Mervin are drafted into Ed's band, Stinkhole, and Mervin accidentally discovers the (until then mythical) brown noteBrown noteThe brown note is a theoretical infrasonic frequency that would cause humans to lose control of their bowels due to resonance. There is no scientific evidence to support the claim that a "brown note" exists....
(This is a note, that when played loud enough, will cause any listeners to immediately evacuate their bowels). A copy of the theme from a South Park episode entitled "The Brown Noise".
- In an episode which deals with Mervin's masturbation addiction, Lapeño and Ed try to stop Mervin from constantly pleasuring himself. After a series of luckless attempts, Ed simply rips Mervin's arms off, with nobody (not even Mervin) making a big deal about it.
- In another episode, Fat Ed claims that he killed TupacTupacTupac is a relatively uncommon male name. Notable people with the name include:*Túpac Inca Yupanqui , tenth Sapa Inca of the Incan Empire*Túpac Amaru , last indigenous leader of the Inca people in Peru...
and Biggie, and that Kurt CobainKurt CobainKurt Donald Cobain was an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the grunge band Nirvana...
"didn't exactly commit suicide", and that is the reason he can never return to the US.
Series 1
Episode Title Original air date- "Rent Boys/Hot Pussy" 4 May 2008
- "My Big Fat Gay Wedding/There's Something About Mervin" 11 May 2008
- "Mervin's Millions/Fur & Loathing" 18 May 2008
- "Bad Apples/Enter the DJ" 25 May 2008
- "Hungry for Love/Brown Fury" 1 June 2008
- "Ladies Love Lapeño/Arse of Darkness" 8 June 2008
- "Fist of Fur/Get Mervin" 15 June 2008
- "Merverella" 22 June 2008
Series 1.5
Episode Title Original air date- "How To Cook Shit With Mervin" 31 May 2009
- "Furry Movie Club" 7 June 2009
- "It's Your Fan Mail" 14 June 2009
- "Fat Ed's Furry Fucking Guide To Metal" 21 June 2009
- "The Furry Guide To Love" 28 June 2009
- "Stinkhole: Raining Brown" 5 July 2009
- "Fat Ed's Super-Fix-It" 12 July 2009
Production
Originally a short film which won BBC's Greenlight Award for Comedy in 2002 http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/12_december/11/greenlight_winners.shtml . It was turned into a pilot which aired on BBC2 in 2004 and won the Rose D'Or for Best Pilot at the Montreaux TV Festival. MTV picked it up as a TV series and the show premiered in 2008. In 2009 MTV began broadcasting a series of Fur TV 'Shorts', about 3 minutes in length.It has broadcasted on all MTV channels in Europe, MTV2
MTV2
MTV2 is a cable network that is widely available in the United States on digital cable and satellite television, and is progressively being added to analogue cable lineups across the nation...
in Canada and MTV in Brazil, Colombia, Australia, New Zealand. In France it is known as Télé Poils, on MTV Latin America
MTV Latin America
MTV Latin America is a cable television specialty service aimed at residents in Hispanic American countries. It was launched on October 1, 1993 as MTV en Español. The channel is a Hispanic American version from MTV...
it is broadcast as TV de Ciertopelo, in Ukraine as Волохате ТБ (Volohate TB), in Russia as Мохнатики (Mohnatiki) and on MTV Taiwan it is called 偶們最風流 (Oumen The Most Romantic).