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==Film Cameos==
Famous puppets are: [[Alec Baldwin]], [[Sean Penn]], [[Tim Robbins]], [[Helen Hunt]], [[George Clooney]], [[Liv Tyler]], [[Martin Sheen]] (the Martin Sheen puppet is shown but with no lines), [[Susan Sarandon]], [[Janeane Garofalo]], [[Matt Damon]], [[Michael Moore]], [[Hans Blix]], [[Kim Jong-il]], [[Samuel L. Jackson]], [[Danny Glover]] and [[Ethan Hawke]] but [[George W. Bush]] and [[John Kerry]] are not featured.
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