History Main / HandPuppetMockery

Closely related to PuppetShow, TheDollEpisode and {{Muppet}}. Compare and contrast with CopycatMockery and MuseAbuse, which usually doesn't involve puppetry. See PerversePuppet, DemonicDummy and VoodooDoll for the darker versions.

** In the "Three Champs and A Baby" skit, Creator/MikeTyson ([[Creator/TheWayansFamily Keenan Ivory Wayans]]) had a puppet of Buster Douglas to entertain the baby claiming that he took a fall in the ring to gain $2 million dollars.

->'''Thibaut Courtois:''' Hey you guys, sorry [[{{pun}} Gareth bailed]], but thanks for taking the rest of us out!
->'''Lionel Messi's Puppet:''' Now you are just like your season: [[DoubleEntendre Totally wasted!]]

* ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'': During TheVillainSucksSong "The Phony King of England", the Merry Men entertain Maid Marian with a puppet show featuring crude puppet versions of Prince John and Sir Hiss.

* In ''Film/TheSmurfs'', Gargamel has two puppets of Papa Smurf and Smurfette. Using them, he pokes fun at the fact that Smurfs consider having [[MassiveNumberedSiblings 99 sons]] and [[OutnumberedSibling one daughter]] to be normal, and that Smurfette "betrayed" him.

** When Peter began hosting a popular children's program, one of his characters was named "Saggy Naggy", a cantankerous and bossy hand puppet modeled after Lois that all the children hated. It got so bad that she ended up being pelted with various items by random children while shopping at a big box store as well as being beaten by Stewie, who struck her with a golf club.

->'''Lionel Messi’s Puppet:''' Now you are just like your season: [[DoubleEntendre Totally wasted!]]
-->--''WebAnimation/{{The Champions|2018}}''

* ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'': After Angie turns Oscar down, the jellyfish Ernie and Bernie mock him with hot dogs on a stick with condiment faces.

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* A variant in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Fat Butt and Pancake Head," where Cartman paints his hand to look like Creator/JenniferLopez and performs a racist ventriloquist act where Lopez talks about tacos and burritos. Bizarrely, the Latino community [[MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales loves it]], and Cartman's puppet becomes so popular that people, including her boyfriend Creator/BenAffleck and her record label, mistake it for the real Jennifer Lopez. Of course, this infuriates the real Lopez. During the episode, Cartman's puppet seems to gain a mind of its own, and the end of the episode reveals that [[spoiler:his hand is really a con man named Mitch Conners]].

->'''Thibaut Courtois:''' Hey guys, sorry [[{{pun}} Gareth bailed]], but thanks for taking the rest of us out!

-->--''WebAnimation/TheChampions2018''

->'''Lionel Messi’s Puppet:''' Now you are just like your season: [[{{pun}} Totally wasted!]]

* ''WebAnimation/TheChampions2018'' has Leo Messi using a hand puppet to project his most unsavory thoughts and opinions. In the Season 1 finale, Luka Modric reveals a hand puppet of his own, which goes after Messi and his puppet, leading to a comedic trading of insults.

->'''Lionel Messi’s Puppet:''' Now you are just like your season. [[{{pun}} Totally wasted!]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:"None of the other puppets will play with him, [[ADateWithRosiePalms so he has to play with himself."]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"None of the other puppets with play with him, [[ADateWithRosiePalms so he has to play with himself."]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350:"Poor Budrick has no one to play with, [[ADateWithRosiePalms so he can only play with himself."]]]]

This trope, however, moreso lies somewhere in the middle: it isn't evil, per se, but it can still be pretty malicious in its intent. A mocking hand puppet or what have you is usually modeled after the character being spoofed (but having another mocking puppet in the form of an animal meant to represent a human character for example can also exist) can be a rather unflattering portrayal of another character, [[{{Flanderization}} usually exaggerating their appearance and/or behavior]] out of embarrassment, especially since this trope is almost always in front of a crowd.

Depending on your audience, puppetry/ventriloquism/etc. can either be fun, a real talent or just plain creepy. You can use a dummy or puppet to entertain children, to show off a budding skill or to frighten others by it being possessed by evil, possessing you into evil or even possessing someone else into to be evil.