Wonder Showzen

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Breaking News

[ February 23 2006]: Season 2 Launch Date + Video Clip!  EXCLUSIVE SEASON 2 PREVIEW CLIP Season 2 starts March 31st. HOW PSYCHED ARE YOU?!?!?!
[ January 28 2006]: Wonder Showzen on iTunes  wonder showzen is available at itunes. get the entire season. or, wait for the dvd and get the entire season and all the bonus footage and locker poster... some fans are also reporting that Apple doesn't have the episode names right. Birth = Health. Thanks Kevola for the info.
[ January 17 2006]: Wonder Showzen makes time.com TOP 10 of 2005!  Time.com Best TV of 2005. Wonder Showzen in top 10, along with The Office, featuring Steve Carell and other great shows.
[ December 29 2005]: Fan Questions on MTV Overdrive  People! Citizens!! Americans!!! Wonder Showzen will be answering fan questions for MTV Overdrive. Please ask away. Anything and everything. Include your name, age, home town so we can credit you. And then tune into Overdrive each week to see if your question was selected. All submissions are due before January 10th. Click here to submit your question today!
[ December 14 2005]: *EXCLUSIVE* DVD RELEASE DATE!  PFFR reports that the Wonder Showzen DVD will be released March 28th, 2006! Stay tuned for more information. We will have the DVD for sale up here on the site! More details in DVD News. Also TV Shows on DVD reports the same.
[ December 13 2005]: David Cross Hearts Wonder Showzen  Numerous fans have reported that the comedian David Cross (of Mr. Show and Arrested Development fame) is not only a huge wonder-showzen fan, but is also going to be in the next season! David confirms this here: bobanddavid.com If you are, or you know David Cross, please tell him we are huge fans here and would love to interview him for this website!
[ December 13 2005]: DVD Cover?  Chocolatebanana submitted an awesome fan-art DVD cover. Perhaps the new DVD coming in early 2006 will look like this? In DVD News
[ October 17 2005]: Wonder Showzen on Comedy Central  Comedy Central is showing two episodes of Wonder Showzen on Friday Nov. 11th and Nov. 18th at 1am.  Tell your friends and help spread the word and spread the love...
[ October 04 2005]: WONDER SHOWZEN LOOKING FOR TALENT !  We found an ad on CraigList:
"Wonder Showzen," is looking for someone who has talent in some kind of extreme sport (i.e. skateboarding, motorcross, snowboarding, BMX, water sports, etc.). Heck, even if you know how to break dance or bounce on a pogo stick, we could use you! Need athlete who can wear puppet costume while performing tricks. CraigsList
[ September 19 2005]: T-Shirts For Sale  The chain store Zumiez has started selling Offical Wonder Showzen T-Shirts. http://www.zumiez.com/

Archived News

[ August 25 2005]: Upcoming Event: Hands of God  Hands of God, a documentary about Christian puppeteers and ventriloquists, made by Alyson Levy and PFFR, will be playing in Chicago this weekend as part of the Chicago Underground Film Festival. Please inform all friends and enemies to attend.  Thanks.

Hands of God
Saturday August 20th
6pm (part of the Fun Fun Fun screening)
Theater One
Music Box Theatre
3733 N. Southport Ave., Chicago, IL
773-871-6604

It will repeat on Thursday  August 25th 5:45 (part of the Fun Fun Fun screening)
Theater Two
[ July 21 2005]: New Article: Innocence Lost  ... innocence? In this modern era, a backlash was inevitable, and it can be found on MTV2 in the form of Wonder Showzen. Wonder Showzen ...

World of Wonder


[ July 20 2005]: Online Petition  Should Wonder Showzen get more publicity? You decide.

Should Wonder Showzen get more publicity?


[ July 18 2005]: Interview with Aaron Augenblick  We had a chance to speak with Aaron Augenblick and ask him some questions that you, the fans, have asked us. Enjoy!

Interview with Aaron Augenblick


Super Double Secret Old School Archive

[July 14th, 2005]: Our secret network of spies have uncovered articles written about Wonder Showzen, they hope you enjoy the mysteries that they have uncovered.


IGN Intervews Waco and Roger Black
Danger Humor
Adam McKay: Kickin' It Like Larry King
Funny in Floods
The Wonder That Is Wonder Showzen
Have you seen this madness?


[July 2nd, 2005]: So NOW you KNOW!
Muckafurgason was an Indie Rock band. However, they did use humor in a few of there songs, such as "You Ain't A Man" and "Sweetie Pie," which both preview the subversive humor that Wonder Showzen is so full of.Muckafurgason, and especially John Lee, are close friends of They Might Be Giants, who, in fact, have written a song called "John Lee Supertaster," about the same. Ironically, this song appears on their children's album, "No." Also, I'm pretty sure one of the child photos in the Wonder Showzen opening is a picture of John. Look at the picture on the MF site and watch the intro closely, I think you'll know which one I mean.

Thanks goes to Geoff Matteson for this info.


[June 22nd, 2005]: Interview with Vernon and John
Here's a interview of John Lee and Vernon Chatman done by the Anchorage press.

When Puppets...Go Bad


BREAKING STORY [May 24th, 2005]: Wonder Showzen DVD COMING!!!
Our sources confirm that Wonder Showzen Season One DVD's will be released! This is great news for all the fans out there. This has been one of the most popular questions sumbmitted to the site. The DVD's should be out in November of this year. We'll keep you posted as this story develops.

[May 24th, 2005]: A Chewties theme song/ring tone was added. Thanks to Andrew S for the hard work (**note to Andrew, you might want to delete the hanging brain pic in your home directory). More CHEWTIES! We have the original artwork for the Chewties boxes! Suitable for framing.
[May 20th, 2005]: A memorial page was created for those of you who would like to mourn Him Senior. We added some really nice wallpapers of Him and other original images from the show.
[May 18th, 2005]: Yay, we finally have some Sounds up! Also, the images section has been expanded into two fun-filled pages.

BREAKING STORY [May 18th, 2005] New Season Information!! Our sources confirm that a new season is in the works! At least 6 episodes should be in production, hopefully to air early next year. Thanks to Solitarybubble for the initial report.


[May 16th, 2005]: New Episode Pages now accept comments! We need your help to build these pages up. We are especially interested in missing characters and quotes. NEW! [May 10th, 2005:]: New New Fan Mail Section Added!. You can now EMail Your Friends with a wonder-showzen.com postcard. Added a bunch of Amy Sedaris stuff and more general content.

[May 5th, 2005:]: New Notable Blog entrys. Turns out Vernon Chatman won an Emmy.

[May 4th, 2005: Puppets]: We have obtained information that Addiciton among Puppets is more wide spread then previously believed. [Submission by: Frankie Tuesday.

[May 3rd, 2005: Episodes]: New Notable Blog post from Josh @ blogsarefordogs. In-depth report on Aaron Augenblick from The New Journal (Delaware).



[May 2nd, 2005: Episodes]: Calibos, Lord of the Marsh, sent us some information about himself.

[May 2nd, 2005: Creators]: Added info on PFFR's entry to the 12th New York Underground Film Festival, which included Wonder Showzen. Also added some information on Him in the character section.


[April 30th, 2005: Notable Blogs]: Added blog post from comedian Jay Mohr. You may remember him as Christopher Walken on Opie and Anthony or as the host on "Last Comic Standing."

[April 30th, 2005: Reviews]: Added review from the prestigious Wayne State University newspaper and also The Georgetown Independent

[April 30th, 2005: Other Stuff]: We found this site that looked suspiciously like our favorite investigative reporting show, Beat Kids. However it is actually some wacky Japanese movie.

[April 30th, 2005: Core Show Stuff]: Uncle Salad sent us in some new information on John Lee. Thanks Uncle Salad, I hope you can live with yourself.

[April 29th, 2005: Site Stuff]: Check our tshirt and hat store at Cafe Press

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