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Muffin the Mule was a British children's programme first broadcast on the BBC in 1946 that is now forever tainted with allegations that it was a clever propaganda tool for South American drug cartels to smuggle cocaine into Europe. The show's supposed 'innocence' was later said to be a cruel lie to deceive children into accepting the weird antics of a stringed puppet as natural. Nearly all copies of Muffin's shows were later destroyed or dumped in the River Thames to save British television further embarrassment.

The show was first aired on the BBC in 1946 as an antidote to the Second World War and the subsequent Nuremberg Trials. There was a need to 'return to innocent fun' and Muffin was available. He was a wooden marionette mule, the supposed progeny of a rocking horse and stuffed a Spanish toy donkey. (Full article...)