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A stink has been raised involving a skit from this year’s Gemini Awards featuring puppets forced to retire and living in a retirement home.

The story goes that the family of Bob Homme, the Friendly Giant, were not amused and did not authorize the use of Rusty the Rooster and Jerome the Giraffe. So they requested that all the Friendly Giant pieces on loan to the CBC and previously on display in the CBC Museum on Front be returned.

The public reaction has been quite mixed. Some say the family should get a sense of humour and get over it. Others think the skit was quite offensive and have expressed their dissatisfaction about the whole situation.

The CBC has officially apologized for the whole thing.

Simo says I don’t write about puppets enough. This one was actually in the queue!

Some Friendly Giant nostalgia:

The skit from the Gemenis:

Puppet Tears - insidethecbc.com
CBC says Sorry - theglobeandmail.com