On this show, Seattle's City Council is a bunch of sock puppets

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On this show, Seattle’s City Council is a bunch of sock puppets

An anonymous group of artists began posting satirical videos of Seattle City Council members as handmade sock puppets to YouTube and TikTok in late 2024. (Genna Martin/Cascade PBS)

Josh Cohen
Sep 12, 2025

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Sure, the backdrop is a hastily drawn version of Council chambers, and the puppet is rough around the edges (not to mention wearing a hat with pink cat ears a la the 2017 Women’s March). But the puppet’s dialogue is actual audio of Kettle talking about the police department budget during a Council meeting, the YouTube channel name is The Seattle Channel and it’s not beyond the realm of possibility for government communications staff to attempt clever ways to engage people with dry policy things like the budget.
Then the song “Feed Me” from Little Shop of Horrors kicks in and a felt version of the musical’s carnivorous plant monster labeled “SPD” emerges to sing “Feed Me, Kettle!” — and it’s clear this is satire.

“Kettle Horror Budget Show” is one of more than 30 brief episodes of The Seattle Channel that have aired on YouTube and TikTok since November 2024, featuring sock-puppet versions of Seattle City Council members.

The videos’ dialogue is all taken verbatim from Council meetings. But it is distilled to brief moments from hours-long meetings and often grabbed from Councilmembers’ off-the-cuff asides. The episodes capture the absurdities and humor of local politics and always further the creators’ views that the current Council majority is acting on behalf of monied interests rather than everyday Seattleites. (Sock puppets, get it?)

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