10 Awful Films Community Actors Want Us To Forget

10. The Happytime Murders - Joel McHale

The idea of puppets, a form of storytelling usually associated with children’s television, being placed in adult situations is not necessarily a bad one. (It worked for Team America, after all.) But the most important thing is that you have a good script, rather than just having the cuddly characters swear every five minutes and think that counts as a comedy.

The Happytime Murders, unfortunately, goes straight for the latter approach.

This misfire from the Jim Henson Company is set in a world where puppets and humans co-exist, with the puppets treated as second class citizens. As you can imagine, ham-fisted attempts to comment on real-life racism abounds. Melissa McCarthy, a human cop, is teamed up with a puppet private investigator to solve a murder. That’s about as deep as the plot gets.

Joel McHale’s “part”, if you can really call it that, is essentially just Jeff Winger if he had never met the study group and decided to become an FBI agent.

Just stick on an old episode of Sesame Street and give this one a miss.