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Plonsters is a German animated children's television program produced by Anima Studio für Film & Grafik GmbH in Hamburg, Germany, and Bettina Matthaei for Egmont Imagination. Each episode is about 3 minutes and 30 seconds long and is produced using stop motion animation done with plasticine, also called claymation. The title is a portmanteau of "plasticine" and "monsters". The characters also appeared in educational books.
Plot
The show features three little clay monsters, the Plonsters. They are Plif (the green plonster), who likes to play 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.
The plot of the show is usually that Plif and Plops bully Plummy by ruining everything he does (as well as excluding him from some activities whenever possible), but he gets back at them every time, and every episode ends with the three of them playing together peacefully.
Episodes
= Season 1 (1987 to 1993)
=The Cottage
The Butterfly
The Rocket
The Wilde West
The bee
The Tiny red balloon
The record
The meeting
Pudding
Empathy
Box of bricks
Privacy
The Cookies
Fishing
The Robot
Blind
The Kiosk
Coin
Clowns
The Frogs
Music
Grapes
The Machine
The Cookies
Means of Transport
Bowling Ball
The Sleeping Beauty
The Hiccups
The Wall
The Sack
No Fear of Large Animals
Limbo
The Carpet
The Simulant
The Pretzels
First Aid
The Dog
The Meeting
The Snowman
The Pipe
The Automobile
The Birthday
The Thistle
= Season 2 (1993 to 1997)
=Snow Hunt
The Beautiful Garden
Gone Fishin'
The Lonely Island
Home Sweet Home
Chaos at the Museum
Fata Morgana
Fashion Show
Checkmate
The Fruit Market
Going to Sleep
Feeding the Ducks
Safari
At the Fairground
Paddling
Running Up That Hill
Baking Cookies
The Treasure Hunter
At the Supermarket
Camping Adventure
Chaos and Untidiness
The Plonsters Fire Brigade
The Snake Charmers
Gold Diggers
Sports Weekend
The Dinner Party
On Thin Ice
Racecar Drivers
Honey Honey
Chemical Experiments
The Sculpture Comes Alive
At the Circus
At the Hospital
Bewitched Scarecrow
The Raspberry Bush
Playground Attractions
Dance with Plonsters
Surfing with Plonsters
Miniature Golf
Arctic Adventure
The Haunting Of Knight's Castle
Goin to Venice
Merry Plonsters-Mas
Picnic At The Beach
Plonsters Of The Caribbean
The Pear Tree
The Cuckoo Eggs
How The West Was Really Won
I Want To Ride My Bike
In Outer Space
Collecting Shells
Credits
Idea and characters (creator): 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
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 aired in Australia on ABC (9 April 2001 - 31 October 2014) and in Norway on TV3. It has also aired on Malaysia narrowcaster Asia Media TransNet, showing in RapidKL coaches.The show also aired in Canada on YTV between the late 1990s and the early 2000s. The shorts were also shown on Eureeka's Castle under the title Plastinots. In Brazil, the show aired on TV Cultura during the 90s on the Glub Glub program under the title Plastinots and in Portugal as Pollsters. In Italy, the show aired on Rai 3 sometimes during 2000s/2010s. In Ireland, the show aired on RTÉ as an integral part of the Bosco show sometimes during 1980s/1990s. In Japan, the show aired on Fuji TV as part of Hirake! Ponkikki. In Norway, it is known as Plipp, plopp og plomma. In Slovenia, the show aired on TV Slovenia under the title, Plastelinca.
Reception
The three monsters are remembered as part of the German collective imagination.
References
External links
Bettina Matthaei
Plonsters on ABC 4 Kids
Plonsters at IMDb