Removing emotions from all relationships and manipulating a person or a group of people to have them as puppets to allow benefit for yourself or for a certain cause.
This can involve forging personal relationships and all interactions to sway things in your favor.
Greg used the puppet theory so he could get all of his workers to believe he is the greatest boss in the building.
You're trying to hold in a crap while rushing to get to a toilet. The knurled protuberance of a turd pokes out of your anus. You are able to retract it back in. It repeats over-and-over again until you are finally able to fully relieve yourself at a toilet. This repetition is a Puppet Show.
I need to pull over and find a restroom because I've got a real PuppetShow going on right now.