truth bombs

lol i was rushing to quote "Scary Move"

http://blogs.whatsontv.co.uk/movietalk/files/2010/01/prophet-2.jpg

Shh, gonzo. The Nanny is coming.

i'm at work, who's gonna be the first to rule 34 Nanny from the Muppet Babies

I was just trying to stay away from the obvious FOZ joke.

Scary Move 4 is the name of my dance instructional video.

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

lol I never thought about that, that would make a good academic paper

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.

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.

Whole knows

what?

who knows, obv

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

haha holy shit

they puppetified the cartoonified puppets!? man

Yes! My friend's parents took me.

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

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

I think there were baby versions of Kermit and Miss Piggy in one of the movies.

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.

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.

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.

rugrats was alright

animated versions of infantilized puppet versions of puppet versions of animals
^can we make this longer?

muppet babies kinda just as terrible as rugrats come to think of it.

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.

h8ted rugrats, watched the shit out of muppet babies

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.

yeah every character on Rugrats looked like they barely survived fetal alcohol syndrome or something

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, 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.

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

carrot top iirc

nooooooo

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, March 7, 2012 12:38 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how do you start that off with "not to remove a layer"?

through being disingenuous

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")

hey forks i think we might both think this is funny: kyle

Christ you guys are making me feel old. Muppet Babies? Rugrats!? I was already in my 20s when this shit was around.

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, 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

iCarly has the same vibe

this whole question was solved in the unfilmed Farmer Nanny takes her Muppet Livestock to Market final episode

Muppet Babies was some scary shit

casper the friendly ghost is rolling his dead kid eyes at all of you

I remember the muppet babies were always in these massive desolate landscapes like outer space or something. Their "playroom" was really massive and cavernous.

that was the power of imagination you dool

ZOMG MUPPET BABBIES MORE LIKE WAITING FOR GODOT

more like the power of a small animation budget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QkzTX0bltY

only thing worse than muppet babies was tiny toons

tiny toons were bad, but at least had a bit of ambition and wit. worst thing abt that show was its fan culture.

"fan cultures" didn't exist on an elementary school level iirc