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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

Search: "...a bear in his natural habitat...a Studebaker"

Search: "What color are their hands now?"

Search: The scene in the show hosted by Rich Little where Gonzo's chickens, strewn across a lovely gazebo, sang Chanson D'Amour and each time they got to "Ra-ta-ta-ta-tah" Crazy Harry would come out and blow one of them up. Exploding French Chickens, the very essence of comedy.

God I miss the Muppet Show.

― Ash (ashbyman), Thursday, 13 January 2005 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link

D: the ringtone I downloaded from Sprint that said it was the Muppet Show themesong (I'm a dork, shut up) and then turned out not to be that so much as a series of electronic beeps, oh Sprint, how I hate you.

PS: You owe me $2

― luna (luna.c), Thursday, 13 January 2005 01:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Search: "In the Navy" with viking pigs

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 13 January 2005 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link

* All I need to say is the opening sequence:
Search above all: that incredible opening song/scene.

Which is always great and made even greater by the two "variations": the Statler and Waldorf wisecrack and whatever Gonzo does at the end.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.globalhermit.com/ilx/beaker-sings1.jpg http://www.globalhermit.com/ilx/beaker-sings3.jpg http://www.globalhermit.com/ilx/beaker-sings4.jpg

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 13 January 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link

This isn't a patch on the pants of Hurting's story, but I used to carry around a British Telecom phone card with a picture of Animal on it, waiting for the day when someone would tell me they were looking for a drummer and I could say "I happen to know a very good one, and he's very close at hand," thereupon "whipping out" said card.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Search: A Muppet Family Christmas, if only to see the Swedish Chef try to cook Big Bird.

― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 14 January 2005 06:16 (nineteen years ago) link

And Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas, which is pre-Muppets, but features a kind of proto Fozzie Bear.

― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 14 January 2005 06:20 (nineteen years ago) link

"LOOK AT THE PRETTY BIRDS UP IN THE TREES."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 January 2005 06:58 (nineteen years ago) link

(Muppet Show starts in 1976, Emmet Otter is 1977.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 14 January 2005 08:05 (nineteen years ago) link

six months pass...

Fuckin' RIGHT ON -- I didn't even realize season one is now out on DVD in full. Some fan site thoughts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 August 2005 12:36 (eighteen years ago) link

It's about time. I have all of the single-disc DVDs they put out but they only cover about half of the episodes. I'm glad they're finally doing it correctly.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

i got the season one disc a few days ago from work!! bliss

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 11 August 2005 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

i mean it's just the fucking best.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Search: Beaker
Destroy: Dr. Bunsen Honeydew

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Search: The Muppets trying to convince Gene Kelley all episode to do his "Singing in the Rain" number. Finally he explains to them that he can never do that again. Quite touching.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

i got the season one disc a few days ago from work!! bliss

UNFAIR. (Translation: why not me TOO dammit.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I believe Gene eventually sings a snatch of the song while holding an umbrella and walking around a lamppost, albeit without the fancy dance steps, no?

If you watch the somewhat annoying intros by Jim H's son Brian, he keeps on telling the same kind of story over and over again- "Elton didn't want to put on the feathers and the funny glasses, he had been changing his image, but somehow the Muppets had their way." 95% of the time you feel like "Dude, that was on the ACTUAL SHOW!"

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link

I believe Gene eventually sings a snatch of the song while holding an umbrella and walking around a lamppost, albeit without the fancy dance steps, no?

I think he just walks through the set. It's been a while, but I remember Rolf playing the opening vamp of "Singin in the Rain" over and over, and Gene launching into other songs that begin with the same vamp, until Rolf gives up.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

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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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