Fur TV
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{fiction|date=September 2011}}
{{Infobox television
| image = Fur TV logo.svg
| genre = Adult puppeteering
Black comedy
Adult humor
Comedy
| runtime = 22 minutes
| creator = Chris Waitt
Henry Trotter
| developer =
| voices = Henry Trotter
Phil Nichol
Simon Greenall
| starring = Mak Wilson
Don Austen
John Eccleston
| country = United Kingdom
| network = MTV One
| first_aired = {{start date|2008|5|4|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{end date|2008|6|22|df=y}}
| num_episodes = 8 (and 2 pilots)
| company = Yummo
Warp Films
MTV Networks Europe
| num_seasons = 1
| writer = Jason Hazeley
Joel Morris
Chris Waitt
Henry Trotter
| theme_music_composer = Chris Waitt
}}
Fur TV is a British comedy adult puppet show aired in 2008 on MTV One. The show uses Muppet-style puppetry where the characters are shown to undertake activities such as drinking and having sex.
Production
Originally a short film created by Chris Waitt and Henry Trotter which won BBC's Greenlight Award for Comedy in 2002,{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/12_december/11/greenlight_winners.shtml|title=BBC - Press Office - Greenlight Awards winners}} and the Rose d'Or for Best Pilot at the Montreaux TV Festival in 2004. Television broadcast was scheduled to 2003, the pilot finally aired on 28 February 2004 on BBC Two.{{Cite web|title=Broadcast - BBC Programme Index|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/430405fb57da407fb094f396cd2b1eef|access-date=2021-07-17|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=28 February 2004 }} Another pilot called Furry Avenue was made in 2004.Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/C4UhqjrAHX0 Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20190920185131/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4UhqjrAHX0 Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4UhqjrAHX0| title = Furry Avenue | website=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}
MTV picked it up as a TV series and the show premiered in 2008. The show was produced by Waitt and Trotter's company Yummo, Warp Films and MTV Networks Europe.{{Citation|title=FUR TV|url=https://www.chriswaitt.com/portfolio/mtvs-fur-tv|language=en-GB|access-date=2021-07-17}}
In 2009 MTV released a series of shorts, each about 3 minutes in length.
Plot
The main characters are 3 frog-like puppets named Fat Ed Tubbs, Lapeño Enriquez and Mervin J Minky. Fat Ed is a foul-mouthed, violent, beer swilling heavy metal fanatic, Lapeño is a Brazilian sex god who is irresistible to women (and even to some men), while Mervin is a perpetually cross-eyed, mentally challenged and self-abusing pervert with a chronic addiction to masturbation.
Each episode will generally relate to one of the characters specific traits: {{Citation needed|date=September 2014}}
- Fat Ed's love of heavy metal and extreme violence.
- Mervin's sexual deviance and his idiotic good nature.
- Lapeño's ability to seduce any woman he wants and his career as a DJ.
Episodes
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
=Shorts =
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
Soundtrack
The song when Fat Ed beats up Mervin is Nightmare by Man Scouts of America.
International broadcasts
It has broadcast 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 (Puppets Are Charming).