The Bronx Bunny Show

I just saw some of this and think it's the stupidest thing I ever saw. Smutty adult humour may not have been done on puppets before, really, but not like this. A stupid rabbit and badger saying the f word and really lame sexual jokes.

All they do is interview celebrities and really awful cartoons. Engelbert Humperdink's name may sound like a disease but you can't really do much with that joke, can't you? The interview with the swedish model just concentrated on her breasts. Lame. Watch Letterman or Leno or Parkinson or Ross, anything but this!

This is SO funny. 2 sleazy Noo Yoikers in a trashy cable channel studio doing for Sesame Street what Flesh Gordon did for comic book heroes.. Top notch guest interviews and all the while Teddy Tourettes living up to his name and singing about slamming his c*ck in the door, just for entertainment. BB just about puts up with TT insulting the guests cos he's stoned out of his head most of the time. I wasn't looking for 'mature' entertainment and I got what I was looking for.. fun, brash and down-right hysterical.. The spoofs of other shows and pop/rap music videos are funny enough but Teddy T's take on porn playing a pizza deliver man and a plumber with his stick on 'tache and trademark ciggie hanging out of his mouth are perfect. The short cartoons of the guitar playing gerbil and his guide to your insides are so awful they're fantastic. I now know what my pancreas is for!

The first series was an Irish production by the team behind Zig & Zag, Double Z Enterprises for Channel 4 / E4. I think Zig & Zag worked mainly because they timed it right. In the late 80s\early 90s there was a penchant for slightly risqué humour as well as TV that appealed to both children and (stoned) adults see also Maid Marion and Her Merry Men, The Crystal Maze and Rainbow.

The puppets Teddy T (a giant panda with a cigarette in his mouth) and Bronx Bunny (a brown bunny) some how manage to be even more grotesque than Zig & Zag. I'm not doubting the talent of Mick O'Mara and Ciaran Morrison, especially when it comes to voice acting and improv. I just don't like the characters.

This came out in 2003. The "American" series was 2007 and featured bigger guests. Unfortunately like a lot of TV at the time it suffers from featuring celebrities who were of the moment: Steve-O, Judy Reyes, Jessica Alba, Seymore Butts. And occasionally household names: Hugh Hefener, William Shatner, Bryan Cranston. It's basically interviews with the puppets swearing in every sentence with really crass comedy sketches such as, Teddy T (a giant panda) having sex with a woman to spoof porn films! And Sesame Street-style spoofs spelling out words like Skank Ho. I'm not offended or bothered by it, there's just no cleverness to it beyond the basic premise of spoofing Kid's educational TV. There a lot of crude comedies I find hilarious: Bottom, The Young Ones, Nathan Barley, Curb, F Is For Family, even the odd Hale and Pace sketch; unfortunately this is isn't one of them.

Series 1 is still available on All4 for the curious. Series 2 is available on Prime USA.

Deep in the Bronx, a bunny runs a small cable access show where he interviews celebrities and tries to keep control of his drugged-up friend Teddy T as he continually comes on to the female guests and takes any opportunity to get his little panda c*ck out on television. Interspersed with the guests are small animated sections that teach the youth the ways of the Bronx.

I watched this as it was described as an adult puppet show and I assumed it would be like the funny bits of the Adam & Joe Show. The I realised that it was made by the Zig and Zag creators and that the word adult didn't mean mature - it meant dirty! The show is structured into 3 or 4 minute guest spots and minor little animated bits in-between. The animated bits spoof Sesame Street and are generally just dirty songs or words. Other bits include strippers shaping themselves into the shape of numbers or Teddy T having sexual fantasies. The actual guest spots include some reasonably famous celebrities (for example the most recent episode had Ming Na and Jessica Alba) however they are very short and the puppets say at least 4 times as much as the celebs. I wondered why Alba bothered when all she had to do was be the focal point for smut from Teddy T - however this is much the case for most of the guests. The interviews are of no value as they have no discussion and the smut is just embarrassing rather than funny.

In fitting with the Bronx setting, the two characters both speak with Nu Yark accents and say the words `sh*t', `f**k', `c*ck' or `motherf**ker' at least every five or six words. This makes it feel rather `adult but not actually funny. The characters are also not really characters but just mouth pieces for smut and swear words. They are basically Zig and Zag but with more cursing - if that's your thing then this is for you and good luck, you clearly have lower standards for `humour' than I do.

Overall this is rather a waste of 25 minutes. It isn't very funny and the interesting guests are only really used as a focal point for smut and heavy innuendo (if you could call it that). It isn't funny but I imagine that teenagers and students will find it on late night tv and lap it up like sheep! For me, I gave it a few episodes and that was more than enough.

Are you kidding me??? The Bronx Bunny Show was the funniest thing to hit our screens in YEARS!! I think those first comments were either written by an uptight 80 year old nun or someone who didn't actually watch the show at all. I enjoyed the entire series thoroughly and myself and about 5 mates cancelled all our plans on Friday nights to watch it! We're just waiting and hoping for another few episodes...or maybe at least a Christmas special?? Please Channel 4??!!! Those last comment were misleading. The fact is, those last 2 members obviously take offence to swearing and programmes of an adult nature in which case, DO NOT WATCH LATE NIGHT ADULT ENTERTAINMENT!!! It's as simple as that! It annoys me when people make unfair judgements on a genre of TV show/ music/ clothes etc etc that is just never going to be to their taste. I hate Reggae....does that mean Reggae is crap?? Surely not??? I thought the whole concept of The Bronx Bunny Show was brilliant - the whole parody of a Sesame Street/ educational type show was really clever and TV has been crying out for a show like it. The swearing was not in lieu of jokes and the dynamic between the bunny and the bear was real classic comedy duo stuff. The pole dancers making the number of the day with their bodies was brilliant! Turned the whole "women as objects" idea on its head completely. And we all loved the "essential Spanish phrases"!! A few of them were taken down for subsequent use! I loved the eclectic mix of guests - I don't think we will EVER get to see Wonder Woman sleazed over by a panda again!! Favourite interviews have to be Johnny Rotton and Steve Schrippa from the Sopranos. And Teddy's home porno movies were hilarious. And the Gerbil cartoons were pant-wettingly funny! Such a good take on those awful 80's info-mations we all had to watch in biology class!! I want to know what the writer of that first comment finds funny - they're probably more of a Jasper Carrot's "About Me" fan. Which is fine! You're obviously more of pc person! I honestly can't say enough good things about this show. If you do get a chance to see it, for the love of God WATCH IT!! And join me in writing to Channel 4 to demand it comes back!!! Bring back Bronx and Teddy....he's a dirty bear!!