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In a late-in-the-series sketch about Elmer wanting driving lessons, he mentions that she has died. Her son gave her a pet parrot who is well-versed in curse words.

Helen Higgins ( Susie Essman): Elmer's beautiful wife of over 60 years, she is an elderly Jewish woman who likes to proposition young men.

He frequently blames the situations he's complaining about on his gay grandson, Terrance Catheter. He makes complaint calls and frequently goes off on unrelated, long-winded tangents about his younger days and various irrelevant subjects.

Elmer Higgins (Jimmy Kimmel): A crabby, long-winded stereotype of an elderly man (based on Kimmel's grandfather).He is extremely rude and insulting, and known for generating copious amounts of gas and belching into the phone. Bobby Fletcher (Jim Florentine): Ed's drug-using underachiever older cousin.He also has 2 young children who use foul language and play juvenile pranks. Jimmy (Jimmy Kimmel): A Kimmel-based grown man who lives with his mother.He frequently refers to his time in Vietnam and 'smoking hash out of a human skull.' He lost part of his right leg in the war and 3 right-hand fingers in a carpentry accident. He has a 600- pound wife and conjoined twin daughters. Dick Birchum (Adam Carolla): A psychotic Vietnam War veteran whose hobbies include carpentry, Shotokan karate, spying on women in their beds or bathrooms by drilling holes or a hidden camera, and gun ownership.In the video-store call, he works in several references to The Shining.

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In two prank calls of his own (one to a movie theater and one to a video store), Ed reveals that his favorite movie is Air Bud. He makes a cameo in one of Bobby's prank calls, the 'Let Me Put My Brother on the Phone' call. Special Ed ( Jim Florentine): Bobby Fletcher's mentally challenged younger cousin who constantly repeats himself, makes random comments, and shouts his catchphrase 'Yay!' until the other caller gets frustrated.He frequently calls various services and asks for their price, then orders them to 'double it.' (Once even confusing someone by telling them to 'cut it in half, and double it!').

Niles Standish ( Tony Barbieri): The British Earl of Yankerville, he is a rich and eccentric middle-aged pervert with homosexual tendencies.Her many children do things like gluing her buttocks to the toilet and stealing money from a malfunctioning bank machine. Gladys Murphy ( Wanda Sykes): A boisterous black woman who makes embarrassing announcements, generally of a scatological or sexual nature.He regularly refers to himself in the third-person. Karl Malone: Jimmy Kimmel's impression of then-NBA star Karl Malone.Originally, the show was titled Prank Puppets it was renamed after Comedy Central lawyers deemed that it implied malice. The puppets are puppeteered by Ronald Binion, Rick Lyon, BJ Guyer, Victor Yerrid, Paul McGinnis, Alice Dinean Vernon, and Artie Esposito. An in-house puppet shop was set up for the following seasons to accommodate the fast-paced schedule of the show and the sheer volume of puppet characters required for each episode. The main character puppets for the first season were constructed by Bob Flanagan's company Den Design with additional puppets built by BJ Guyer, Carol Binion, Rick Lyon, Ron Binion, Jim Kroupa, and Artie Esposito.

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The puppets are then constructed based on the various marks' voices, and, along with a series of stock characters (such as 'Niles Standish', 'Bobby Fletcher', and 'Special Ed') based on the performers' character voices, the calls are re-enacted for the skits. Adam Carolla, for example, took his radio program to Las Vegas once or twice a year, and while there would record new calls for the program. One result of this was the series' schedule of creating and airing new episodes was fairly sporadic due to most of the celebrities living in Los Angeles, having Los Angeles-based jobs, and so were only periodically able to go to Las Vegas to make calls. Under Nevada law, only one of the parties has to give consent (i.e., the caller), so prank calls can be recorded without the consent of the prank victims. The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 makes it illegal in most states to record telephone calls without both parties' consent. With the exception of a few outside sources (including previous material from Jim Florentine and the Touch-Tone Terrorists), all the calls are made from Nevada. Using the basic premises, the performers improvise most of their lines, playing off of the responses of their marks, with the intention to keep them on the phone as long as possible. The performers are given a basic outline of a premise by the writers, and call telephone numbers from a list of selected targets (known as 'marks').