Muppet Show (and movies) -- Search and Destroy

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I think I have mentioned this before, in regards to Debbie Harry and my balls dropping, by The Muppet Show was made in my home town. Often you would wait in line at Tesco's behind Miss Piggy buying a pack of 20 Rothmans.

Destroy: Muppet Babies. Especially the female Scooter.

― Pete, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

But the Muppet Babies Star Wars episode stays. Please.

― michele, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Search - The episode featuring Rudolph Nureyev as a special guest, when Sam The Eagle tried everything in order to look sophisticated, erudite and dignified whilst simultaneously getting more and more pissed off when Nureyev got dragged into a series of ludicrous acts. Plus the one with a pirate Glenda Jackson who ended up hijacking the show and making Gonzo walk the plank.

Destroy - The whole of that last series, especially the new characters, and the lack of Scooter and Rolf.

― Turnipfish, Wednesday, 27 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

Ooh this is way before I discovered the joys of ILX but I wanna revive it, I heart The Muppet show, it will never be beaten. Jim Henson was a genius, gawd rest 'is soul...

― Plinky (Plinky), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 17:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

HURRAH!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 17:13 (twenty-one years ago) link

i <3 joe raposo

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 30 October 2002 17:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

Beaker sings 'Feelings'

― koogy, Wednesday, 30 October 2002 18:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Search: Muppets From Space on DVD -- the commentary track. The in-character, done by Gonzo and Kermit and the director, commentary track, in which they discuss things like "wasn't it a nice coincidence that Ray Liotta happened to be working as a security guard?", i.e. talking about the making of the movie and yet at the same time pretending it actually happened.

Even if I absolutely hated the movie -- which I don't -- the commentary track would make it worthwhile. Also, while it doesn't hold up to the Jim Henson ones, it also leaves out the one thing which always bugged me in those: the Kermit/Piggy love plot.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 31 October 2002 09:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

Search: Muppet Treasure Island songs
"On occasion there may be someone you have to execute/But when you're a professional pirate/You don't have to wear a suit"

Destroy: That buggery little kid. Boil him in oil!

― Miss Laura, Thursday, 31 October 2002 09:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

Search: the 3D muppet movie at MGM, anything muppet on TV, any muppet specials, and of cource Labyrinth and Dark Crystal are the two best 'childrens' movies ever made.

Sadly I would say destroy (not totally): anything made after Henson died.
He was one of the great geniuses of the 20th century.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 31 October 2002 20:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

I managed to record 11 of the 12 episode of Muppets Tonight that were show in this country. The best episode featured Pierce Brosnan, being totally clumsy and inept, then at the end saving the studio from Terrorist Shrimps by firing clocks at them with a catapult (He was dressed in a huge shrimp outfit). Whilst Johnny Fiama sings to the tune of Goldfinger "Pierre's Brosnan, he's the guy, the guy with the clocks that fly, he just clocked that guy... Ooh"
Why did they cancel it? It was ace!

― Celeste, Thursday, 31 October 2002 21:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Here's a treasure:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1575208429

Make me a copy if you get it. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 31 October 2002 22:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

two years pass...

Search: Harry Belafonte!
Search: Peter Sellers!

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Search: Muppet Treasure Island
Destroy: Muppets from Space

― Adamdrome Crankypants (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Gonzo Presents Muppet Weird Stuff

― (Jon L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link

god the muppet show is so amazing

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I have the DVDs on my Netflix queue!

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:31 (nineteen years ago) link

I must watch The Muppet Movie again, I got a copy of the soundtrack and was amazed by how cynical and bitter I Hope That Something Better Comes Along is.

Search above all: that incredible opening song/scene.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I HAVE THAT GONZO PRESENTS WEIRD STUFF ON YHS I JUST BOUGHT IT LIKE A WEEK AGO ITS AMAZING SYNTH ALIENS GOODNESS

― chaki in charge (chaki), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:33 (nineteen years ago) link

The Muppet 3D thing that Disney shows in the theme parks is half brilliant half clunky but half brilliant is better than no brilliant at all. Miss Piggy singing "Dream a Little Dream of Me" and eventually doing some involuntary waterskiing = classic.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:37 (nineteen years ago) link

I have been watching the Muppet Show (I downloaded all 5 seasons) and I'm enjoying it far more now than I did when I was a kid (the color scheme was frankly upsetting). I especially love the pug-ugly men who would be treated as sex gods -- truly this was the 70s.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Search: Show
Destroy: movies

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 01:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Search: Sweetums
Destroy:Scooter

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 02:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Anyone have the second Muppet Show album? (from 1978)

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 02:16 (nineteen years ago) link

i might have that around gator, i'll check!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link

I've got the second Muppet Show album on vinyl . . . . . somewhere . . .

It contains the best version of For What it's Worth done by anyone and the versions of Time in a Bottle and New York State of Mind are utterly superb.

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 02:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Who exactly were those guys who were in that Muppet Show Band? It was made in England, right? Were they English studio musicians?

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 02:46 (nineteen years ago) link

it was dr. teeth, animal, janis, and the rest! duh

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 02:57 (nineteen years ago) link

You forgot floyd! OK, glad that we've gotten that out of the way so quicky.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 02:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Should have been more specific... Anyone have the second Muppet Show album on some sort of digital format?

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 03:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe I did it that way on purpose, to allow somebody else to make the joke.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 03:09 (nineteen years ago) link

By the way I hate Ned, Adamdrome Squarepants, and gabbneb for not loving Muppets From Space, that shit rocks.

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 04:10 (nineteen years ago) link

You are mean.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 04:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Best thing ever is Animal vs. Buddy Rich drum battle.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 04:15 (nineteen years ago) link

This dude did was animal in a drumming duel with Buddy Rich.

(xpost!)

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 04:18 (nineteen years ago) link

That's amazing. If only there was a video clip of it.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link

It's truly, truly wonderful.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 04:23 (nineteen years ago) link

It was THE reason that at age 11, I decided to play drums, I kid you not.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.stanford.edu/group/blocklab/Muppets/animal%20Drums.jpg

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 04:31 (nineteen years ago) link

http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/icscotland/nov2003/3/7/00022B75-76EA-1FAF-B3A080C328EC0000.jpg

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 04:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Steve Whitmire - Kermit the Frog as The Scarecrow/Rizzo the Rat/Statler/Bean Bunny/Beaker
Dave Goelz - The Great Gonzo as The Tinman/Dr. Bunsen Honeydew/Waldorf/Zoot
Eric Jacobson - Fozzie Bear as The Cowardly Lion/Miss Piggy as The Wicked Witch of the East, The Wicked Witch of the West, Glinda the Witch of t
Bill Barretta - Pepe the Prawn as Toto
John Kennedy - Angel Marie/Sergent Floyd Pepper
Ashanti - Dorothy Gale
Queen Latifah - Auntie Em
David Alan Grier - Uncle Henry
Jeffrey Tambor - The Wizard
Brian Henson - Scooter/Sal Manilla/Janice
Rickey Boyd - Very Old Tom
Drew Massey - Clifford
Allan Trautman - Cow/Crow
John Henson - Sweetums
Tyler Bunch - Old Tom
Alice Dinnean - Foo Foo/Camelia the Chicken
Edward Hibbert - Stage Manager
Dan Payne - Weatherman
C. Ernst Harth - Earl

― Remy IS THE Snush (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 05:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh how bizarre, I have the second album and never knew it was Peter Sellers on the gypsy violin song.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Peter Sellers also does an excellent version of "Cigarettes, Whiskey and Wild Wild Women," in which he beats on a big bass drum, Salvation Army style. He introduces the song by saying something like "Friends, I am here to warn you of the sins of nicotine, alcohol and the temptations of Eve!"

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yeah, Hurting, who is in the second picture with Animal?

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Charles Grodin's romance with Piggy in the second film was disturbingly convincing.

Has Paul Williams written any formidable songs since TMM?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Ken L, it's Thierry Henry, who is a very attractive French footballer who appears in adverts for some car or other, and that's a still from one of those.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link

the muppet show albums should be rereleased in their original forms, goddam it...

― stevie (stevie), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I always loved Wayne & Wanda, the Muppet duo who were never allowed to finish a musical number:

"Catch a falling star, and put it in your pocket-"

*Star falls, set collapses & catches fire, curtain drops, cut to next scene*

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:25 (nineteen years ago) link

"Oh yeah, Hurting, who is in the second picture with Animal?"

I have to admit, I don't know. Jason Marsalis?

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Hurting, it's a famous soccer player. Read Liz :x's reply a few posts up.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 12 January 2005 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link

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the muppet movie is one of the best movies, as in ever.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 August 2005 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link

gmail albums here too pleeease! (delete obvious spamblock)

― kit brash (kit brash), Saturday, 13 August 2005 00:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I seriously almost agree w/you, s1ocki.

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 13 August 2005 01:55 (eighteen years ago) link

omg gmail me EVERYTHING EVER PLS KTHXBYE

(also, UK tips for DVD purchase please - i don't want to miss anything out, and i want to do it all chronologically)

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 14 August 2005 09:57 (eighteen years ago) link

"They don't look like Presbyterians to me!"
http://home.concepts.nl/~lwmkeijs/bb/bb004a.

― huell howser (chaki), Sunday, 14 August 2005 10:41 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.angelfire.com/ma/phrog220/pics/MrT-Animal-Kermit.jpg http://www.angelfire.com/ma/phrog220/pics/Gonzo-Breakdancing.jpg

― huell howser (chaki), Sunday, 14 August 2005 10:44 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.angelfire.com/ma/phrog220/pics/Cyndi-Lauper-Costume.jpg
http://www.angelfire.com/ma/phrog220/pics/Muppet-News-Flash.jpg

― huell howser (chaki), Sunday, 14 August 2005 10:46 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.angelfire.com/ma/phrog220/pics/Muppet-News-Flash.jpg

― huell howser (chaki), Sunday, 14 August 2005 10:47 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.angelfire.com/ma/phrog220/pics/Weird-Al-Fozzie.jpg

― huell howser (chaki), Sunday, 14 August 2005 10:48 (eighteen years ago) link

bravo, chaki! more please!

dammit, perhaps i'll just print them all off and make an actual magazine...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 14 August 2005 12:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Here's a YSI link for those first two muppet LPs, if anyone else wants to grab them...

http://s50.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1F2CNQRZL7MJ13NINI3LG818CL

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 17 August 2005 11:46 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

OK, I've lightened up on Scooter recently, if only for his rendition of "Six String Orchestra" and for singing lead on "Mr. Bassman" with Floyd.

― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I want to call all my kids Scooter

― peteR, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Waht was the name of the guy that blew up dynamite all the time?

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Search: classic Swedish Chef recipes (from wiki):

• Chocolate Mousse
The Chef announces he will be making chocolate mousse, for which he first prepares some liquid chocolate ("Yom-yom-yooom, ze chocolad!"), then proceeds to acquire the other ingredient: a moose (whose name is actually Mickey: Mickey Moose, a parody of Mickey Mouse).

• Lobster-Bandidos
The Chef's attempt to cook a lobster is ambushed by a gang of pistol-wielding moustachioed lobsters wearing sombreros and muttering in a quasi-Mexican dialect. They manage to free the victim from the pot, and intimidate the Chef by shooting the cleaver out of his hand.

• Fish Chowder
The chef attempts to cook a still alive fish, who steals his pepper shaker and also bites his nose.

• Spaghetti
The chef makes spaghetti, which comes to life and tries to run away, until the chef puts it back on the plate. The spaghetti tries to run away again, but the chef calls it back. The spaghetti then attacks the Swedish chef by strangling him.

― Huey in Melbourne, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

just got season three on dvd. soooo good. watch harry belafonte and alice cooper last night. alice cooper is such a shnook! in the best possible way.

also, i enjoy this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZqyFjVnWwto

― s1ocki, Thursday, 22 May 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link

The Season 3 Gilda Radner episode is one of my all time favorites.

- Gilda sings "I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major General" with a 7 foot tall carrot (she wanted a parrot but...well, you know the rest)

- Muppet Labs! Gilda helps Dr Bunsen & Beaker test their new super-strong glue...it all goes pearshaped and everyone gets stuck to the glue.

- Gilda does her tap dance number stuck to practically every muppet on the show...proving beyond a doubt what a shining star she was for comedy.

If you've forgotten how much you love Gilda, this one'll remind you.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 23 May 2008 01:54 (fifteen years ago) link

All this made me go and watch the Peter Sellars one on Youtube. Lovely stuff.

― James Morrison, Friday, 23 May 2008 02:39 (fifteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

Christ.

― Matt DC, Friday, 23 January 2009 00:34 (fifteen years ago) link

whatevs get one Meet the Feebles

― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 23 January 2009 00:42 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

RIP Muppet Show bandleader Jack Parnell

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 August 2010 14:13 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

My wife is getting to see the movie today! Jealoussssss

― I AM HAVING A HARD TIME FINDING REASONS TO INVEST IN YOUR BUSINESS (admrl), Thursday, 6 October 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link

I'M NOT JEALOUS OR ANYTHING

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 6 October 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link

I will totally be taking my daughter to see this

at the same time I kinda wish the PR materials didn't feature Segel so heavily, I can't remember them ever doing that w/humans for the other movies

― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 6 October 2011 20:10 (twelve years ago) link

Might get to review it, I hope at least one of the cameos is frightening (bet Mickey Rooney)

― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 October 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link

I am looking forward to this movie to an extent I find sad.

― DaTruf (Nicole), Thursday, 6 October 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link

nine months pass...

Me on the first Muppet Show album: http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-muppets-muppet-show.html

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 13:00 (eleven years ago) link

Search: Tales from Muppetland. I probably watched The Frog Prince and Hey, Cinderella! about 100 times growing up. Both were pretty great; I do not think they have been released on DVD yet, which is a shame.

Also, Muppets Take Manhattan rules.

― cwkiii, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link

nice review Marcello. great record.

― giallo pudding pops (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link

is known to me

oh go on then.

― ¥╡*ٍ*╞¥ (sic), Thursday, 2 August 2012 00:12 (eleven years ago) link

eight years pass...

Destroy: Whoever at Disney decided to give the Swedish Chef human hands in the last one.

― Matt DC, Friday, 16 October 2020 20:52 (three years ago) link

The Swedish Chef has always had human hands!

― OrificeMax (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 October 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link

Yeah, I was going to say.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 October 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link

Is that really true?

― Matt DC, Friday, 16 October 2020 22:21 (three years ago) link

*Does quick YouTube search*

Yes you are quite right, it just looks much creepier in HD.

― Matt DC, Friday, 16 October 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link

two years pass...

What in the goddamn world

https://gizmodo.com/its-a-very-merry-muppet-christmas-tv-movie-kermit-2002-1849829198

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 22:05 (one year ago) link

I highly recommend you watch the movie and see what Kermit discovers. (If one were to look online for it, and one found such a video of it, one might consider beginning at 1:02:14.) In case you can’t legally purchase it, let me tell you a few of the things that have happened in a Kermit-less world:
* Fozzie is a pickpocket
* Miss Piggy pretends to be a Jamaican fortune teller on a 1-900 pay phone line
* Rizzo the Rat is forced to torment contestants on Fear Factor and then be eaten alive
* The Muppet Theater has become a sleazy nightclub holding raves where Dr. Honeydew lets people in, Scooter dances in a cage, and Beaker is a terrifyingly buff bouncer
* Doc Hopper’s Frog Legs fast food franchise goes national, since Kermit wasn’t there to stop it in the first Muppets film

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link

Should you wish to explore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm_WSZcdv6A

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link

And if you're wondering who that is in the still there: “Matthew Lillard as Luc Fromage, a foppish French choreographer”

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 29 November 2022 22:07 (one year ago) link

It's very bad and forgettable for most of its runtime but cage dancer Scooter is perma-scorched onto the back of my eyes.

― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 29 November 2022 23:53 (one year ago) link

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