Now, if you're looking for a place to play in.
Where friends are friends and green is green all day.
And if you're looking for a spot to stay in.
Where problems that you face together sometimes melt away.
Come on down.
Groundling Marsh is a Canadian Live-Action Puppet Show that aired on YTV starting in 1994.
The show took place in a magical marsh populated by creatures known as "Groundlings", which appeared to be any kind of combination of humans, animals, elves, and/or plants. The only exception was Stacks, a robot made of various junk sitting under a tree in the marsh.
The show generally followed the day-to-day lives of the Groundlings, showing them getting up to all kinds of various antics, hearing stories that were portrayed on the show in animated stills, and, in later seasons, dealing with Hegdish Yuckywood, the show's resident villainous presence.
Groundling Marsh contains examples of:
- Big Ol' Unibrow: Hegdish has a big fuzzy one.
- Black Dot Pupils: The whole cast has these.
- Fantastic Flora: The marsh has plants like this, such as the Tinkletree, which only blooms once in spring, and makes bell chime-like noises when wind blows through it.
- "Freaky Friday" Flip: In the episode "Tupelo Treat", Mud and Maggie temporarily switch bodies when they cook up the wrong recipe and make a body-swapping concoction by mistake.
- Jerkass: Hegdish. He's grumpy, grouchy, and likes messing with the other groundlings.
- Medium Blending: The show is mainly done in Live-Action puppetry. However, whenever the characters were telling a story, it would shift to animated stills.
- Multiple Head Case: Mud/Slinger, a two-headed Groundling who was two Groundlings sharing a single body.
- Pointy Ears: Galileo's ears are pointy.
- Ridiculously Human Robot: Stacks. He's a robot Galileo built out of random machines, and has human-level intelligence.
- Speaks Fluent Animal: Eco has the ability to speak to animals, rocks and plants. It's a skill she learned years ago.
- Super-Hearing: Crystal has long bunny ears that let hear hear things from really far away.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Maggie and Crystal respectively.
