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Listen Music Videos Puppets Myspace Page Web Comics Past Shows Short Films Midi Files Song Lyrics Video Game Links Tour Schedule Press E-Mail Us Merch Releases Mario 3 Interface Bio's: Steve Biloba Pocketron XP BJ 2.0 Chris Hixon		The Baboon Torture Division Puppet Theatre began as all good things begin, with a bottle of rum, and some bad ideas. Those ideas solidified in the form of a fifteen minute puppet show based on the history of the Baboon Torture Division. It was an attempt to familiarize the unfamiliar with the weaving storyline of Steve Biloba and his band of robots. Somewhere in the bottles of rum and doughnuts that followed, the script meandered into uncharted territory. What had started as mission to end the confusion of our loyal fans, transformed to a tale of Steve's conquest to seduce barnyard animals. And like all good things, the new script called for plentiful Mayonnaise.
		We handed out dozens of puppets to everyone in the audience, inviting the strong of heart to spontaneously become part of the show. Yes, it was a monumental day on a rooftop in downtown Los Angeles, and in the bold BTD tradition, most of the audience was turned into robots.
		Amazingly, the same people who invited us to play on that sunny rooftop invited us to play another event. The theme of this event was "castles". The Baboon Torture Division has never been in a real castle. We know almost nothing about them, nor would we like to. Our philosophy has always been one of achieving bliss through ignorance. One thing we do know is how to beat all the castles in all the Super Mario Brothers games, including the lost levels. So we work from what we know.
		Continuting the tradition, the next puppet show featured plenty of hardcore puppet-on-puppet action. Click on the image to watch the video.
		Unfortunately, there is no video recording of the pornographic and violent sequel to the original. The plot involves Mario discovering that the princess has bore him a bastard son. Mario leaves her to die after ripping the child from her womb, and attempts to introduce his own genetics into the child. His lab monkeys break free of their cages and cause everyone in the lab to geneticly fuse. The only way to fix the problem is by selective breeding. So the mutants breed and breed and it is hot XXX action.
		Whenever possible, each audience member will get a puppet to wear during the show. This often leads to strange behavior, altered preceprion, and sometimes, hot puppet love.
	Hamburger Awards	The Baboon Torture Division has long held the belief that Neil Hamburger is America's Funnyman. And when we had the oppertunity to present an award at an event he was hosting, we all felt a little honored. So to honor Hamburger, we made a puppet show where a bear chops off his penis, and then, as he is bleeding to death, they make a meal of the severed member, and then Hamburger offers the bear his own body, because he is after all a hamburger. To watch this magic moment unfold right on your computer, click the image to the left.
	Red Red Rose	We were asked if we would be interested in doing a room for a Valentines Day haunted house based on a very twisted Oscar Wilde tale. We were so interested it wasn't even funny. We planned to set up carny games for patrons to play, and a puppet show, and gross food to sell, and all sorts of stuff to make a fucked up experience of lovers on a date to the theatre. For insurance reasons, the haunted house idea was scratched, and the powers that be decided the event should be a opera, not a haunted house. Click the image to the left to see the results.
		We are currently producing a puppet version of our robot rock opera, In The Future There Will Be Robots. All your favorite BTD characters are here in puppet form, busting out of the puppet booth and into the real world. The DVD will be available in summer 2008.
		Our latest puppet theatre booth is made from lightweight PVC and fabric, stands over 8 feet tall, and has karaoke capabilities. We invite anyone to come pick a song and a puppet and rock out.