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"Oh, 'All About Puppetry.' Sounds fun."

"Puppetry?" she says as you go to the channel. "I dunno..."

"Not much for puppets?" you ask.

"Well, certainly not after the Puppet King did those body swaps," she says.

"Oh that's true," you say. "But it'll be okay, this surely isn't about evil puppets."

The cameras watch a puppet craftsman putting felt on a head mold. The fabric is pinned down and measurements are taken before cuts are made. Eyes are put on in the form of felt circles, and then a nose that is a felt ball, but no hair. The puppet's head is kept in that shape with a hard plastic shell, and then the inside of the mouth is worked on.

"That's actually really neat," Raven says.

The puppet eventually gets a body for the puppeteer's arm to go inside, and then arms of its own, which are controlled by sticks. In true Muppets fashion, the puppet "screams" and flails his arms as a test of the construction. You and Raven chuckle.

Other puppets are made, both felt Muppets and even some traditional wooden marionettes. Raven scowls at some of the puppets with nutcracker mouths. She is also not that pleased with seeing the demonstration of how the marionettes work.

"It's alright," you say, wrapping your arm around her and patting her on the shoulder. "It's alright."

The mechanics of the wooden puppets are shown and explained, and it's very fascinating seeing the levers and switches to move the eyes and eyebrows.

"I guess that's why the eyes never look dead center," Raven says. "It's either up for left or down for right, no real middle ground."

"No, I've seen some that can stay in the middle," you say. "Just more advanced ones."

"You had a mostly normal childhood," Raven says. "Were there any puppet shows like this you watched along with all those other British shows?"

"A few," you say. "My personal favorite was..."

A) Emu
B) Roland the Rat
C) Captain Scarlet
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