The first season (released on DVD this week) earned the show a cult following among critics and depraved souls, introducing the world to a cloying and disrespectful puppet named Clarence (voiced and manipulated by co-creators John Lee and Vernon Chatman) who travels the streets of New York to infuriate the angry, the innocent and the unwitting. With the second season premiering Friday, the real wonder of "Wonder Showzen" is how the producers persuade parents to let their kids participate in something that's so wildly inappropriate.

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