Brock's Storpendous Puppet Hour premiered in 2007 as an extention of Brock Armstrong's love for children. He wanted a different kind of youth television. A show full of fun and also a show unafraid of dealing with tough issues that children really face. Not like those pansies at PBS. So the "Puppet Hour's" first season went on to win daytime emmys for two special episodes. One dealing with animal suicide. Another exploring both sides of the fence on the practice of torturing the elderly, all in a manner children could understand.
Writers Strike!:Unfortunately, one controversial episode in the winter of 2007 led to the show's cancellation. Brock Armstrong blames the episode's problems on the writers strike. Writing tasks were handed over to a stage-hand and part-time puppeteer Taft Jameson.
Taft wasn't a very good writer, and one script would prove the show's undoing. His script featured the birth of a new character, Hoarse Horse. According to the storyline, Horse played "Hoarse" and didn't speak up, leading to the massacre and dismemberment of his entire barnyard family. It was hoped Hoarse Horse would convince children of the dangers of not speaking up. The backstory was brilliant, but the way Taft wanted to introduce the new character stirred the pot.
A Scar is Born!:
The show took a mis-step when in an arts & crafts segment, the team sought to create the Hoarse Horse Character, live, on-air. Taft penned a segment to show kids how to turn their own stuffed animals into puppets. Brock and his clown side-kick Clownie Hauser MD set out to create Hoarse Horse from scratch. In front of 200 children, they began cutting the seams in the bottom of their stuffed Horse and then removing the stuffing inside. The graphic display of tearing Hoarse Horse's insides out left many children crying and some physically ill. The situation was made worse 
by the inclusion of 100lbs of ground beef just off set. It was a prop for the next segment to demonstrate how to choose meat safely when adults aren't around. Sadly, that lesson was never taught.
Horror on the Hoof:
Panic ensued as Brock puzzled over why the children in the audience were crying. Brock himself admits that what he did next only made things worse. 
Thinking the children were only disappointed in his delivery, Brock again brought out Clownie Hauser M-D to get the kids laughing. Clownie's costume was blood soaked from hauling in the meat, and his rough handling of the gutted Hoarse Horse only helped to send the children into something real Doctors call a "fear frenzy".
The cameramen and actors had to kick their way out of the studio to save their own lives. The children had to be hosed down for their own protection and soon the place was crawling with FCC agents. Production was shut down and Taft Jameson was fired for his ill-advised script. Later, Taft reminded everyone that he was a veteran of our war with Nova Scotia. He was hired back to work as a silentt page. To this day Brock Armstrong wishes that the number of children permanently scarred by the event could be reduced.