The PJs - The sitcom THE PJs/FOX/1999 was the first black animated puppet series to air on primetime television. The PJs plots played out within the mythical inner city housing project (aka "PJs") where the opinionated building superintendent Thurgood Stubbs, (voice of Eddie Murphy) contended with his saintly wife, Muriel (voice of Loretta Divine) and a bevy of misfit tenants.

Called "Fat Albert for grown ups," THE PJs featured racy ghetto humor as well as sophisticated foamation puppet techniques created by Will "Claymation" Vinton (of California Raisins fame).