I Hate Puppets So Much. I Dream About Puppets All Night. I See Strings On People. The Nice Thing Is We Can Just Take A Puppet And Put It In Front Of A Wall And Blow The Shit Out Of It.

-Trey Parker

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I Hate Puppets So

Trey Parker

I Hate Puppets So Much. I Dream About Puppets All Night. I See Strings On People. The Nice Thing Is We Can Just Take A Puppet And Put It In Front Of A Wall And Blow The Shit Out Of It.

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Hate

Puppets

I Hate

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