Plonsters is a children's television program

Television program

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 produced by Anima Studio für Film & Grafik GmbH in Hamburg

Hamburg

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, Germany

Germany

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, and Bettina Matthaei for Egmont Imagination. Each episode is about 3 minutes and 30 seconds long and is produced using stop motion

Stop motion

Stop motion is an animation technique to make a physically manipulated object appear to move on its own. The object is moved in small increments between individually photographed frames, creating the illusion of movement when the series of frames is played as a continuous sequence...

 animation

Animation

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 done with plasticine

Plasticine

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, also called claymation.

Plot

The show features three small clay monster

Monster

A monster is any fictional creature, usually found in legends or horror fiction, that is somewhat hideous and may produce physical harm or mental fear by either its appearance or its actions...

s, 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

Gibberish

Gibberish is a generic term in English for talking that sounds like speech, but carries no actual meaning. This meaning has also been extended to meaningless text or gobbledygook. The common theme in gibberish statements is a lack of literal sense, which can be described as a presence of nonsense...

. The plot of the show is usually that Plif and Plops play all kinds of pranks on Plummy, but she 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
• 11. TBA
• 12. TBA
• 13. TBA

Season 2 (1997)

• 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: 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 & Jack Blackall as Plummy (uncredited)
• 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 airs in Australia

Australia

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 on ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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 and in Norway

Norway

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 on TV3

TV3 (Norway)

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. It is also aired on Malaysia narrowcaster

Narrowcasting

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 Asia Media TransNet, showed in RapidKL coaches.

The Show also Aired on YTV between the late 1990s and the early 2000s.