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Out With The Great, In With The Horrible (2026) by Erica Crooks

The rich ruling class have an evil plan to control the masses by adding in status quo propaganda through culture. And they know exactly how to do it, through reboots and banning pop culture, fandom and entertainment industry workers.

Meanwhile a group of pop culture fans have been spying on them and trying to figure out their counterculture plan. But are they being spied on too?

(As seen at the Handmade Puppet Dreams: 48hr Puppet Film Project 2026.)

For more satirical puppetry by Erica Crooks, visit: https://linktr.ee/officialericcrooks (Websites, Social Media, Patreon & Shop)

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Transcript
00:02If we don't do something, the entire global hierarchical system will collapse.
00:08And I know exactly what we should do about it.
00:11Making President Donald G. Troom Lord and Master of the Universe!
00:15Starting World War III!
00:18I WANT TO RULE THE WORLD!
00:20The topic is saving the status quo using propaganda through culture.
00:24I WANT THE WORLD OUT OF MYSELF!
00:28You wanna time out?
00:29Mm-mm.
00:30Then shut up.
00:31I thought this meeting was for adults.
00:33Remember, this is top secret information.
00:35I don't want any leaks.
00:37I'm all ears, you fools.
00:39Why are we, the rich and powerful, having a meeting in this bad-shaped wooden building?
00:45It's disguised, so perhaps this plan is the most diabolical and inhumane.
00:50But I don't care!
00:51Tell him, reboots.
00:55They're going to be destroying all the great pop culture entertainment media and replace them with reboots.
01:01I heard it all.
01:02They admitted to everything.
01:03Ignoring the unions of artists and entertainment workers.
01:06Cancelled media that's already made.
01:09Using tax write-offs as an excuse.
01:11Using AI to replace everyone, everywhere, and everything.
01:15And the new entertainment is going to be just as bad as they are now.
01:19We gotta do something about it!
01:21We need to come together.
01:21May I make some suggestions?
01:24I brought muffins.
01:25One of my people is already stopping the enemy as we speak.
01:29So there's no need to worry.
01:30But why reboots?
01:32Isn't that just taking something great in pop culture and changing everything?
01:36So it's all things to everyone?
01:37So it can make the most profit?
01:39Even though the majority of the time it's absolute crap?
01:41Well that's all true.
01:43But when was America and Western civilization great?
01:45Before the 1960s counterculture era and before the golden age of animation?
01:50Cartoons and slapstick comedy, especially satire and parody, has made people think for themselves.
01:58And we cannot allow that to happen.
02:00It will destroy the status quo.
02:01Now the Trump-Nixon-McCarthy approach isn't working, in my opinion.
02:06We need to do it through kindness, of toxic positivity, and over-political correctness.
02:11Wink wink nudge nudge.
02:12I brought muffins by the way.
02:14We must show the powerful how civilized we are.
02:17Cooperate.
02:18You see?
02:18That's the key.
02:19Non-partisan reform.
02:21Centricism.
02:21Agree to disagree, but listen to far-right.
02:24Agh!
02:25Traitor!
02:25You're a spy!
02:26That does it.
02:27We're going over there.
02:28Now!
02:29What was that?
02:29Look!
02:30The walls are moving!
02:33We are the many, you are the few.

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