There is always the classic, “what a dummy”. The main carachters great uncle dies and leaves him a house, they find his old ventriloquist dummy in a case in the attic, and its alive! “wackiness” ensues.
In an episode of *Everybody Loves Raymond, *Robert uses a dummy to teach driving safety, and as entertainment in a nursing home. At times, the dummy said things that Robert never would have. And in one scene, the dummy’s head was discovered in the freezer.
Traffic cop Timmy. Frank wanted to fight him when he called him “Shiny” 
I always liked Wayland Flowers and Madame.
Just noticed that this was a zombie thread-I feel like such a dummy.
Sylvester Key–the other ventriloquist in Dead of Night, not Michael Redgrave’s character but the one who gets stabbed–always stands out for me as that rarest of fictional characters, a nice, normal, well-adjusted, and not psychotic ventriloquist.
It’s because of the uncanny valley.
Horrifying!
They are pretty rare in real life as well. After suffering from ventriloquism as a child, I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s a mental illness being presented as a form of entertainment, like mime.
Zombies aside, there is of course “Franklin” from several episodes of Arrested Development, and the Canadian series Puppets Who Kill featured Bill, the psychopathic ventriloquist dummy who’s had 56 partners die in mysterious “accidents”.
Now that’s horrific!
But which is scarier, east coast ventriloquism or west coast ventriloquism?
(Does that mean he had a permanent woody?)
The twist: For a while, the dummy was suspected of being behind the mysterious deaths. Because the Evil Dummy is such a common villain.
The episode had plenty of horror. And also hilarious comedy–because it’s Whedon!