Growing up as the target age for watching a shit-ton of Muppet Babies, it really does annoy me when someone conflates the Muppet Babies with the Muppets (cf, Boosie calling Kermit a "cartoon" in this:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl_h5AbSVDw
― smangarang (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
that is prime innocuously angry thread material
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
I think it's the secret shame of an entire generation that we watched so much Muppet Babies
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, March 7, 2012 11:07 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― some dude, Wednesday, March 7, 2012 11:09 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wow
― simulation and similac (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
incidentally, that show seemed to have a tragic backstory lurking behind its sunny veneer, although I never quite figured it out. Was there a Lost-style finale that explained everything?
― simulation and similac (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
haha, wikipedia is with you:
]The show portrays childhood versions of the Muppets living together in a large nursery in the care of a human woman called Nanny (the whereabouts of their parents are never addressed).
― smangarang (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
also, like, probably with the constant film parodies, primed a whole generation of fuckheads for Family Guy and Scary Move 4.
― smangarang (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
You're making this sound like Saw or something.
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
'Scary Move 4' is the kind of meaninglessly benign typo that cracks me up so much for some reason
― some dude, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
lol i was rushing to quote "Scary Move"
― Mo Money Mo Johnston (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://blogs.whatsontv.co.uk/movietalk/files/2010/01/prophet-2.jpg
Shh, gonzo. The Nanny is coming.
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
i'm at work, who's gonna be the first to rule 34 Nanny from the Muppet Babies
― smangarang (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
I was just trying to stay away from the obvious FOZ joke.
― pplains, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
Scary Move 4 is the name of my dance instructional video.
― simulation and similac (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
who was it who had the whole rant about how many weird layers of abstraction there are in muppet babies? like...it's a cartoon version, of baby versions, of puppet versions of various species of animals? it really is pretty fucked up
― some dude, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
lol I never thought about that, that would make a good academic paper
― iatee, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
they're also extraordinarily small even for babies when you compare them to nanny's socks. But I guess if muppets are smaller than people, their babies would be smaller than human babies.
― simulation and similac (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
I think the that scale might have been to show how big and scary everything (including grownups) are to babies? Whole knows. I think y'all are now officially thinking too hard 'bout muppet babies.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
Whole knows
what?
who knows, obv
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
wait actually looking at images of it now they're not as small as I remembered. I think I may be remembering the live stage version of the cartoon version of baby versions of puppet versions of various species of animals
― simulation and similac (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
haha holy shit
― some dude, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
they puppetified the cartoonified puppets!? man
Yes! My friend's parents took me.
― simulation and similac (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
who was it who had the whole rant about how many weird layers of abstraction there are in muppet babies? like...it's a cartoon version, of baby versions, of puppet versions of various species of animals? it really is pretty fucked up --some dude
This is the funniest thing. I could read this post all day
― smangarang (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
the cartoon version of baby versions
Not to remove a layer from your theory but technically they are "cartoon/baby versions" of a puppet since there was never a non-cartoon baby version to play off of until later. This is only one layer
― smangarang (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
I think there were baby versions of Kermit and Miss Piggy in one of the movies.
― beachville, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
The Muppets Take Manhattan is the third in a series of feature films starring the Muppets. It was the first film solely directed by Frank Oz, who also performs Fozzie Bear, Miss Piggy and Animal in the film.The film introduced the Muppet Babies (toddler versions of the Muppet characters in a flashback/dream sequence). The Muppet Babies later received their own Saturday morning cartoon, which aired from 1984 to 1992.
― beachville, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npUdoua5JSs
Oh right, forgot about that. Muppet Babies: Origins.
Wow, '84 - '92 is a long run for a cartoon. No wonder I feel like I've watched so much of it.
― simulation and similac (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
jesus you guys didn't grow up wstching rugrats too did you? hate that fucking show. and i like most of the stuff my kids like. but i won't let them put rugrats on in my presence. feel like that show was around for decades.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
rugrats was alright
― simulation and similac (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
animated versions of infantilized puppet versions of puppet versions of animals^can we make this longer?
― Pup Shalom Dog Costume (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
muppet babies kinda just as terrible as rugrats come to think of it.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
rugrats was after my time. I caught a few episodes of it in passing. only thing I remember is one of them calling diapers "diapies" which infuriated me for some reason.
― beachville, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
h8ted rugrats, watched the shit out of muppet babies
― catbus otm (gbx), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
rugrats kinda hit every nerve for me cuz i hated the animation, hated their voices, and i thought it was totally unfunny. plus, the fact that it was sorta knowingly made for parents and kids to watch - parenting/child-rearing humor all the time with the horrible adult characters - made it even worse.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
yeah every character on Rugrats looked like they barely survived fetal alcohol syndrome or something
― smangarang (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
― smangarang (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, March 7, 2012 12:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
well yeah but it's a cartoon depiction of babies etc. a layer is a layer.
― some dude, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
to clarify there really is someone else who came up w/ this observation about Muppet Babies before me and i genuinely can't remember who, although since nobody else has pointed it out itt i'm guessing it wasn't an ilxor or anyone famous
― some dude, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
carrot top iirc
― Pup Shalom Dog Costume (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
nooooooo
― catbus otm (gbx), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
how do you start that off with "not to remove a layer"?
― meticulously showcased in a stunning fart presentation (contenderizer), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
through being disingenuous
― valleys of your mind (mh), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
it wasn't carrot top, that was forks's idea of "funny" (which, as we all know, needs scarequotes as much as carrot top's idea of "funny")
― some dude, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
hey forks i think we might both think this is funny: kyle
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
Christ you guys are making me feel old. Muppet Babies? Rugrats!? I was already in my 20s when this shit was around.
― Medical Dance Crab With Lesson (Trayce), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago) link
― smangarang (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, March 7, 2012 11:21 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah the lack of adults thing is what's fucked up like they are in some existential void or something
fast times are ridgemont high had the same thing going on wrt parents
― the wild eyed boy from soundcloud (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
iCarly has the same vibe
― Nultified Ancients of Man U (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
this whole question was solved in the unfilmed Farmer Nanny takes her Muppet Livestock to Market final episode
― Thu'um gang (jjjusten), Thursday, 8 March 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
Muppet Babies was some scary shit
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 8 March 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
casper the friendly ghost is rolling his dead kid eyes at all of you
― bnw, Thursday, 8 March 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago) link