In 1987, some schmoe decided to cash in on the ongoing success of Sesame Street. The result, Peppermint Park: A show that's been described as straight to Video and Straight from Hell. This knock off is so horrendous that it's epic - From twerking scarecrows, to pigs who cause car accidents by stealing traffic lights, to creepy puppets who obsess over the letter M, to lackluster songs lazily rhyming words ending in ino (i.e. design-o) with rhino to songs about feeling blue and the letter M, this show pretty much the equivalent of nightmare fuel on a mix of LSD and Crack Cocaine. Only 6 episodes were made and physical copies are incredibly hard to find. When you do find a copy of this oddity, be prepared to pay some serious dough
What makes it more creepy is, the studio that made it was run by an adult film mogul with ties to the mafia and his business partner in the same situation (no joke!) It was even rumoured that before said studio faced its ultimate end (with one of the owners being murdered and the other being a suspect), Mike Nesmith (Yes, the same Mike Nesmith from the 1960's TV Rock band The Monkees) whom ran a straight to video distribution company was interested in buying the rights to Peppermint Park. Whether or not that's true, think of how crazy that would have been, one of The Monkees releasing a Sesame Street knock-off.
The first episode of Peppermint Park
