A PSA for What Qualifies as a Drug inThe Happytime Murders

When a world is divide between humans and puppets , you’re able to be sure everything is perish to be unlike .

Take drugs , for example . In The Happytime Murders , the upcoming radius - rated puppet comedy , drugs are n’t like they are in the normal populace . Cocaine , heroin , meth — these things do n’t have the same affect on puppets as they do on humans . Puppets necessitate something else . Something a routine more sweet . And here , io9 can exclusively debut a PSA about the drug of the puppet world .

Yes , that drug is syrup , which also extends to loot . As you ’ve seenin a few of the film ’s trailer , the puppets snort sugar ( among many other things ) to get high . It ’s just one of the many , many barbarian contingent director Brian Henson has tincture into his new motion-picture show , which surveil a pair of police investigator — one human , one puppet — as they traverse the scruffy underbelly of society to remove the murders of several has - been TV stars .