#Meatlug N Pals

[thestalkerbunny]

I won't lie, Meatlug is so fun to draw sometimes but the second you give him like an ACTUAL body, he looks like a cat.

He's supposed to be a ferret. A really crappy looking ferret. Ferret made by the lowest bidder.

Ferret with mange. Just a touch of mange.

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[thestalkerbunny]

You can tell which one I started seriously and which one I ended with. (Spoiler started with Hatalad and ended with Keratin choking on a BOX)

A certain puppet arg got me going on good ol' Meatlug N Pals

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[thestalkerbunny]

You remember that made up show you made with the roadkill puppet? I been watching videos of old children tv shows and it make want to know more about it, like it's characters and behind the scenes story if you have thought of any.

okay so Let's TALK.

Meatlug's first proper appearance was in a comic I drew called 'The man in the vent. Which is sort of a thought I have sometimes cause I have a vent in my ceiling and I think about how TERRIFYING it'd be for there to be someone in my vent.

The idea of a video informing you of something happening in real time sorta sparked this whole thing. I didn't really intend for him to be a 'ferret' but he sorta ended up being....well a ferret. There wasn't really a way to explain WHY he looks like that.

Thing in a Bucket was honestly a creation I made to oddly enough express a sense of anxiety I didn't quite know I HAD yet. Just a sort of odd paranoid little creature that hides itself in a bucket and it's mouth is always bleeding because it chews on it's tongue out of worry.

Opossuracoocat was basically a fucked up looking hybrid creature that someone turned into a puppet and has resented it every since. He was originally a hand puppet. I decided to give him legs out of pity for him.

Hat-A-Lad is honestly a design I like a lot, he's sort of built like a trash can and he's stylized to look like those default designs of 'strangers' on those signs in neighborhoods saying they've got a neighborhood watch. He's sort of become a straw man if you will for general ignorance and stupidity. A sort of stand in for a viewer who may be getting into something bad or stupid (like MLM schemes or stranger danger)

I did do a comic with him once to sort of show better how his mouth seemingly works and how freakish he could be if he wanted to be.

Keratin was more of the latest creations, the idea stemming from a fancy sort of high quality puppet being saddled on a kid's puppet show. Keratin is actually the thing hair made of and he's sort of a monster made of just hair. I really like the high quality puppets you sometimes see in movies and stuff and then compared side by side next to kermit the frog looking fuckers.

For anyone curious, Keratin would be the very obvious gay rep in the show, not even subtle about it-people watching it would be like 'that rude monster is a homosexual' I mean the whole puppet cast is a little fruity in their own ways-but Keratin would be the one who is actually voiced by a drag queen and has a sort of hard to tell 'male/female' voice that layers over each other.

I have joked with friends the idea that Meatlug N Pals was a tv show made by collage students as a part of a large senior art project finale and was aired on a small local broadcast channel late at night (You know where the kids can't exactly see it) and for some reason even after that, the episodes continued to air.

Meatlug N Pals is just basically a children's puppet show that is aware it's built like a children's puppet show but insists on talking about adult topics like sex, divorce, how politics work, getting involved in a cult, taxes, shit like that. They also swear a lot.

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[thestalkerbunny]

I made a new puppet for ‘Meatlug N’ Pals’  His name is Keratin. His schtick on the show was teaching children the importance of good grooming habits, cleanliness and sometimes how to count (the recommended times to brush your hair? 100. Let’s get these brushies)

Because Keratin’s hair is so very long, it drags on the floor and gets a lot of dirt in it frequently and it turns black and he becomes very irritable when he’s dirty for too long. Things often get caught in it too, like missing things and junk. Sometimes people because it’ll wrap around your ankle and jerk the floor out from under you.

As a puppet in design, he’s much higher quality than others like Hatalad, Meatlug or Opossuracoocat (who are made of burlap, fake fur and roadkill in that order). He’s like this long ball jointed puppet that’s very well articulated and probably one of the bigger puppets on the show (he’s big enough to drape around your shoulders.) and is roughly 4ft long in size (rough estimate) most of the other puppets are maybe as big as your forearm because they’re like arm sock puppets really with support sticks on their arms so they can gesture.

Everyone else is ‘Oobi’ standards while Keratin is on ‘Dark Crystal’ level of quality.

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[thestalkerbunny]

My hobby nowadays is to make memes for a puppet show that doesn’t exist like it actually does exist.

Collectively, they are called Meat Pal’s cause they are the pals of  Meatlug. Who is a talking ‘ferret’ according to himself. Here to teach the children important things, like good grooming, culture and songs. But like....it’d be aired on Adult Swim because they won’t stop swearing and teaching sex ed and hitting each other with sticks.

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[thestalkerbunny]

In Opossuracoocat’s personal defense, none of them wear pants or have comprehensible genitalia or ever seen past their midriffs-Pants is less of a necessity and more of an optional courtesy

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[thestalkerbunny]

Who is the racoon guy of the meatlug pals?

Ah You mean OpossuracooCat.

He's basically a piece of patched together roadkill made into a children's puppet and highly resents his existence as a self aware creature that shouldn't exist. He teaches the Kiddies stuff about Nature and about Food.

He used to just sorta be a hand puppet thing when I first designed him some years back, but I've changed it up some so he has legs and stuff.

His segment on the show is that he'd go out in nature and he'd show us the great things about nature and the little critters of the forest (and probably get carried off by a dog screaming) and then later shows up and teaches us about simple cooking-like stuff a kid could do with mild to moderate parental supervision, like mashed potatoes or a nice mac N chee.

Fun fact: MeatLug and Pals is, ideally, a show that I would air on a adult swim for adults who just don't know jack shit about anything but can digest information more easily from swearing violent puppets.

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