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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

And the Elton John show is on the same Best of the Muppet Show disc as the Gene Kelly episode.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, when I get home I'll watch it again and set the story straight. You don't own it, Kenan? What are you waiting for?

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Good question.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.muppetcentral.com/guides/episodes/tms/season2/pics/intro_opening_arches.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 11 August 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link

is there a highlights dvd for those of us *just* young enough not to recall what all this fuss is about?

where they famous *before* the official 'show'?
had they been around for years already? was sesame street first?

― piscesboy, Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Sesame Street was early seventies but the Muppets date back to the fifties. There's a legendary series of clips they did as a series of coffee ads for local TV somewhere on the East Coast where a proto-Kermit threatens and often slays a lump of a Muppet for not drinking the correct coffee. Bemusing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:03 (eighteen years ago) link

piscesboy as mentioned above there are a few very good sampler discs... unless they've been deleted with this new collection.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:04 (eighteen years ago) link

the disc with the mark hammill episode is good. and that episode is COMPLETELY deranged, even more than the star wars christmas special imo.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Heheh. Does it live up to my memories as stated in the first post?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

even more. chewbacca dances (and so awkwardly)! TWO mark hammills!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Heheh, yeah, the double Hamill thing I remember.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link

If I were to recommend one disc it would have to be the one with Alice Cooper and Vincent Price. There's also a great disc that has John Cleese and Peter Sellers. The Debbie Harry episode is great too but I can't remember what else is on that disc.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link

OMG that Alice Cooper episode is so classic.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:12 (eighteen years ago) link

that box set looks amazing. although i'm bummed I read the review and found out about the stuff that got cut out (mostly some songs due to license issues; but the end joke in the pitch reel, with Kermit cussing! why would they cut that???? I wish I didn't even know it existed now if it's edited on the dvd....). I'm still buying it immediately.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Seeing Mark Hamill show up in full-on Luke Skywalker Bespin khakis around the time of Empire was an early bit of media convergence a bit too much for my young dorkling mind to handle.

― kingfish completely hatstand (Kingfish), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought that said "darkling" for a second.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 11 August 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link

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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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