Weinerville
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| Nickelodeon's Weinerville | |
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 Weinerville title card, as seen on the show's opening sequence. |
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| Genre | Variety show |
| Starring | Marc Weiner Michael Laney as the voice of Boney |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes per episode |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Nickelodeon (USA) |
| Original run | 1993 – 1996 |
Weinerville was an American television series on Nickelodeon that was produced from 1993 to 1996. The show was based around a giant puppet stage which was designed to look like a city, called Weinerville. The show was hosted by Marc Weiner.
The show premiered on July 11, 1993. During the first season, all episodes ran in a two-hour marathon every Sunday. For the second season, which premiered on Memorial Day of 1994, the episodes aired daily. The show aired on Nickelodeon until June 30, 1997, although the Hanukkah special aired on December 21, 1997.
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[edit] Overview and characters
Weinerville was an audience participation comedy show focused on Weiner and his puppets. Some of these included:
[edit] Puppets
- Dottie, the Mayor of Weinerville
- Baby Jeffrey, who introduced Weiner at the end of each episode
- Big Pops, who was Pop's helper/ owner of the Diner. (only in Season One)
- (above featured Weiner's head and a small puppet body)
- Boney, a dinosaur who was beloved by children but hated them (the "theme song" to his show consisted of said puppet singing "I'm Boney, I'm Boney, leave me aloney")
- Pops, the local chef
- Louie, the local laundromat owner
- Schnitzel, a bird with a bad attitude (whose name was the other half of national hot dog brand Wienerschnitzel) (only in Season One).
- Socko, an inverted hand puppet who often liked to kick people, especially Marc.
[edit] Other sketches
The show also featured several non-puppet characters played by Weiner himself, the most notorious being "Captain Bob", a sea pirate played by Weiner that constantly cracked bad puns. On many shows, an audience member would be invited to climb aboard Captain Bob's pirate ship, where the host would fling water on him before the "tidal wave" (a bucket of water thrown by a stage hand) soaked the participant.
Members of the audience were also called down to participate in various activities during the main part of the show, such as helping to demonstrate items in the Weinerville General Store. A recurring joke on the show took place in the General Store, in which Weiner would sell comedic props similar to those of Carrot Top. Nearly everything in the store sold for $13.50. Occasionally, the "$13.50" gag was used in other segments, especially when Marc handed the participant anything.
Five-minute cartoons such as Mr. Magoo, Batfink and segments from The Alvin Show were also shown.
[edit] Weinerizing
The show always ended with Weiner choosing two people from the audience to get "Weinerized" (turned into puppets). The participants entered a contraption called the "Weinerizer", which appeared to then shrink them to the puppet size. These participants then competed in one of various carnival-style games in "Playland" that tested the skill of operating their puppet bodies. The runner-up received the "Silver Hot Dog", with the winner receiving the "Golden Hot Dog" as well as the "Special Topping" (a small amount of green slime dumped onto the player's head.) Occasionally, both players received the Special Topping (especially in the second season), and if the game involved pies, both contestants would be hit with pies themselves instead of anyone getting the Special Topping. The Playland stage was enlarged and revamped the second season to incorporate more elaborate stunts; these frequently had the contestants facing each other and squirting water or whipped cream at some target, usually soaking the other contestant in the process.
[edit] Episodes
| Season One: 1993 | Episode title | ||
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| 1 | Marc's Mother Visits | ||
| 2 | Spaghetti | ||
| 3 | Tooth Hurdy | ||
| 4 | Humidity | ||
| 5 | Spring Cleaning | ||
| 6 | Zip In Space | ||
| 7 | Missing Cartoon | ||
| 8 | Giant Spider | ||
| 9 | Haunted | ||
| 10 | Weight Loss | ||
| 11 | Football | ||
| 12 | Zip Stuck in TV | ||
| 13 | Bubblegum | ||
| 14 | Magic Episode | ||
| 15 | Talent Show | ||
| 16 | Hair Today Gone Tomorrow | ||
| 17 | Dottie's Birthday | ||
| 18 | (untitled) | ||
| 19 | (untitled) | ||
| 20 | (untitled) | ||
| 21 | (untitled) | ||
| 22 | (untitled) | ||
| 23 | (untitled) | ||
| 24 | (untitled) | ||
| 25 | (untitled) | ||
| 26 | (untitled) | ||
| 27 | (untitled) | ||
| 28 | (untitled) | ||
| 29 | (untitled) | ||
| 30 | (untitled) | ||
| 31 | (untitled) | ||
| Season Two: 1994 | Episode title | ||
| 32 | Ratville | ||
| 33 | Dottie's Replacement | ||
| 34 | Bought Out | ||
| 35 | Eric Von Firstenseconds' Spell | ||
| 36 | 60 Seconds News Report | ||
| 37 | Fire Safety | ||
| 38 | The Magic Lamp | ||
| 39 | The Puppet's Court | ||
| 40 | Broken Weinerizer | ||
| 41 | Censors | ||
| 42 | Louie Becomes a Citizen | ||
| 43 | Louie's Crush | ||
| 44 | Brain Switch | ||
| 45 | Paralle Universe | ||
| 46 | Boney's Spell | ||
| 47 | Weinervilla | ||
| 49 | Marc's Arians | ||
| 50 | Ego Crazy | ||
| 51 | Variety Show or Sitcom | ||
| 52 | Dottie's High School Reunion | ||
| 53 | The Time-Slot War | ||
| 54 | DTV | ||
| 55 | Sacko Framed | ||
| 56 | Royal Dottie | ||
| 57 | Dottie’s Dating Game | ||
| 58 | Weinerville: The Movie | ||
| 59 | Marc's Lost Memory | ||
| 60 | Zip Runs Away | ||
| 61 | Back to the Past from a Look into the Future | ||
| 62 | XR-3 Space Shuttle Game | ||
| TV Specials: 1993, 1995, 1996 | |||
| Special 1 | The Weinerville New Years' Eve Party | ||
| Special 2 | Chanukah Special | ||
| Special 3 | New Year's Special | ||
| Special 4 | Election Special | ||
[edit] E.A.G.A.H.B.E.D.D.
There was also a 13-minute educational VHS video made for the National Dairy Council called E.A.G.A.H.B.E.D.D. The title stands for "Eat A Good And Healthy Breakfast Every Day Day" and is done in the style of an abbreviated Weinerville episode, with the usual characters and sets but without the Playland segment.
