Bump in the Night (TV series)
American stop-motion television series
Bump in the Night is an American stop-motion animated series by Danger Productions and Greengrass Productions. The show was filmed using stop-motion animation and aired on ABC from 1994 to 1995. It was created and directed by Ken Pontac and David Bleiman.
Synopsis
Mr. Bumpy is a small green, black-haired, purple-spotted monster with red, snail-like eyes and a bulbous nose living under the bed of a ten-year-old boy, where he eats dirty socks and dust bunnies as if they were delicacies. His best friends are Squishington, a small, anxious blue monster who lived in the bathroom's toilet cistern; and Molly Coddle, a Frankenstein's monster-like rag doll made of seven dolls belonging to the boy's sister who acts as the straight man to the others' crazy antics.
Other characters include Destructo, the boy's toy robot who sees himself as a cop and persecutes Mr. Bumpy for his actions. There is also the Closet Monster, who's made up of the boy's pile of clothes and chases after Mr. Bumpy.
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