![]() Originally, the show was titled Prank Puppets it was renamed after Comedy Central lawyers deemed that it implied malice. The puppets are puppeteered by Ronald Binion, Rick Lyon, BJ Guyer, Victor Yerrid, Paul McGinnis, Alice Dinean Vernon, and Artie Esposito. An in-house puppet shop was set up for the following seasons to accommodate the fast-paced schedule of the show and the sheer volume of puppet characters required for each episode. The main character puppets for the first season were constructed by Bob Flanagan's company Den Design with additional puppets built by BJ Guyer, Carol Binion, Rick Lyon, Ron Binion, Jim Kroupa, and Artie Esposito. The puppets are then constructed based on the various marks' voices, and, along with a series of stock characters (such as "Niles Standish", "Bobby Fletcher", and "Special Ed") based on the performers' character voices, the calls are re-enacted for the skits. Adam Carolla, for example, took his radio program to Las Vegas once or twice a year, and while there would record new calls for the program. ![]() One result of this was the series' schedule of creating and airing new episodes was fairly sporadic due to most of the celebrities living in Los Angeles, having Los Angeles-based jobs, and so were only periodically able to go to Las Vegas to make calls. Under Nevada law, only one of the parties has to give consent (i.e., the caller), so prank calls can be recorded without the consent of the prank victims. The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 makes it illegal in most states to record telephone calls without both parties' consent. With the exception of a few outside sources (including previous material from Jim Florentine and the Touch-Tone Terrorists), all the calls are made from Nevada. Using the basic premises, the performers improvise most of their lines, playing off of the responses of their marks, with the intention to keep them on the phone as long as possible. Pilot Episode Ending (2003-present): The stars from every show (including the three little kids from every show from the said company) appearing inside the concentric circles in the same style as every single show saying "A-ba-dee aba-dee a-ba-dee, that's all folks!" with the words written down that say the said phrase on the top and "CREATED BY DAVID RUDMAN" and "PRODUCED BY SPIFFY PICTURES INC." on the bottom accompanied by the short version of "The Merry Go Round Broke Down".The performers are given a basic outline of a premise by the writers, and call telephone numbers from a list of selected targets (known as "marks"). Pilot Episode Show Title (2003-present): The said show's title is shown on the concentric circles in the same style as every single show with the show's stars inside the concentric circles with the words "CREATED BY DAVID RUDMAN" accompanied by the last half of "The Merry Go Round Broke Down". Pilot Episode Logo (2003-present): The print logo appears inside the concentric circles in the same style as every single show with "SPIFFY PICTURES" on the top and "Presents" on the bottom accompanied by the first half of "The Merry Go Round Broke Down". In Crank Yankers seasons 5 and 6, The emblem that says "Spiffy Pictures" jumps out with an accordion playing in the background but Spiffy doesn't say anything and winks. New logo (2018): The emblem zooms out with an accordion playing in the background while Spiffy says "Spiffy!" and winks.įinally at the end of the Jack's Big Music Show! episode, "Silly Show!", Spiffy says "Spagak!".įinally at the end of the Jack's Big Music Show! episode, "Spunky the Alien!", Spiffy says "Swinky!"įinally in the end of the Spiffy Studio Tours video, The special logo animates as normal, but with a harmonica playing in the background instead of an accordion. ![]() Old logo (2001-2009): The emblem that says "SPIFFY PICTURES" jumps out with an accordion playing in the background and Spiffy says "Spiffy!" and then winks with a ding-dong sound on a tangerine background.įinally at the end of each episode of "BunnyTown," the logo is already formed with Spiffy saying "Spiffy!" followed by an accordion playing in the background.įinally at the end of each episode of "Dog Cat Blog Chat," the normal logo animates as normal, but is zoomed in further than usual and is HD.įinally at the end of each episode of "Nature Cat" and "Donkey Hodie," the new logo animates as normal, but Spiffy does not say "Spiffy!" and winks still and ending music is heard. which is the same as its related company Little Airplane Productions. Spiffy Pictures is a American television production company that started in 2000 and founded by David Rudman who was related to Josh Selig located in Chicago, Illinois that consists manly of its most famous live-action comedy-adventure-musical television shows for Playhouse Disney, Noggin, Disney Channel, HBO Max, Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, Nick Jr., and PBS Kids.
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