I am 26 years old now and remember watching a movie when I was a kid (so in the 80's) that was about these puppets that were human and they had real human friends. They went between the kids home and the puppets world. There was something about one of the puppets getting suck in the washer or dryer but I think it was the washer. It was a good movie and I think that my daughters would like to watch it.
