THE SETTING - A room with a toy bin, finger paintings on the wall and children playing just outside in the hall might seem an unlikely place to find a group of people whose average age is 95.

On this particular occasion, Sherman saw no collar hanging in the usual spot, and so, after looking carefully, he then walked to the toy shelf (where the collars are sometimes inadvertently left) and searched through the toy bins.

Mr. Floppy (voice of Bobcat Goldthwait, puppeteer Allan Trautman): A smoking, drinking, and perverted gray stuffed bunny who lives in the Malloy basement, often discussing his life in "the toy bin", his success stories with women, or ranting about cynical topics.

Presumably responding to some inner prompting, it used to go off sometimes on a quiet afternoon, sounding for all the world like a billionaire rooster being audited and sending the father of its owner on a fevered search through toy bins and under the bed.

From its opening (a perfectly adorable "Star Wars" parody) to its Capraesque conclusion, this is seamless work with more metaphorical cleverness than that usually found in the toy bin.