We made this fun little remix of Neil Cicierega’s The Mysterious Ticking Noise (one of the most popular YouTube videos of all time) as part of a demo for a puppet building video podcast we were developing last year. Since our inspiration was a YouTube video, we tried to shoot it in a style that would retain the feel of user generated content. The finger puppets in the video were hand crocheted and we tried to make the puppetry well staged, but slightly amateurish…which wasn’t much of a stretch since making finger puppets look good on camera is a lot harder than it looks!

Special thanks go out to Melissa Mall for developing the Pocket Potter Puppet Pals patterns we based these finger puppets on and of course to Neil Cicierega for The Mysterious Ticking Noise and all of his other hilarious “Potter Puppet Pals” videos.