Plonsters


Plonsters is a 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".

Plot

The show features three small clay monsters, the Plonsters. They are Plif, who likes to play practical jokes, Plops who is the cranky one and Plummy 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, but he gets back at them every time, and every episode ends with the three of them playing together peacefully.

Episodes

Season 1 (1987)

  1. Pilot
  2. Balloon
  3. Record Player
  4. Costume Box
  5. Sharing The Dessert
  6. The Circus
  7. Blocks
  8. Musical Clowns
  9. The Cookies
  10. Fishing

    Season 2 (1988)

  11. Snow Hunt
  12. The Beautiful Garden
  13. Gone Fishin'
  14. The Lonely Island
  15. Home Sweet Home
  16. Chaos at the Museum
  17. Fata Morgana
  18. Fashion Show
  19. Checkmate
  20. The Fruit Market
  21. Going to Sleep
  22. Feeding the Ducks
  23. Safari
  24. At the Fairground
  25. Paddling
  26. Running Up That Hill
  27. Baking Cookies
  28. The Treasure Hunter
  29. Supermarket
  30. Camping Adventure
  31. Chaos and Untidiness
  32. The Plonsters Fire Brigade
  33. The Snake Charmers
  34. Gold Diggers
  35. Sports Weekend
  36. The Dinner Party
  37. On Thin Ice
  38. Racecar Drivers
  39. Honey Honey
  40. Chemical Experiments
  41. The Sculpture Comes Alive
  42. At the Circus
  43. At the Hospital
  44. Bewitched Scarecrow
  45. The Raspberry Bush
  46. Playground Attractions
  47. Dance with Plonsters
  48. Surfing with Plonsters
  49. Miniature Golf
  50. Arctic Adventure
  51. The Haunting Of Knight's Castle
  52. Goin to Venice
  53. Merry Plonsters-Mas
  54. Picnic At The Beach
  55. Plonsters Of The Caribbean
  56. The Pear Tree
  57. The Cuckoo Eggs
  58. How The West Was Really Won
  59. I Want To Ride My Bike
  60. In Outer Space
  61. Collecting Shells

    Credits

The show aired in Australia on ABC 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.
In Brazil, the show aired on TV Cultura during the 90s on the Glub Glub program.