The OAO Muppet Thread

[DrVenkman PhD]

My issue there is I associate the Foundation FOR A Better Life as being Mormon's with a new PR image (basically using the old Church of the Saturday Saints commercials but with a new name) to avoid the negative connotations youtube has put on them (with it coming to light how they frown upon black people and such).

I'll have to investigate.

 

[Mattdotcom]

haha do you mean the Church of Latter Day Saints or is it different in Canada? Either way, that's plain adorable.

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

"Saturday Saints" is what us kids used to call it back in the day.

 

[Mattdotcom]

...what kind of kids were talking about latter day saints...?

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

I'm not sure how old Venk is, but I'm 30, and when I was a kid they had commercials on TV all the time.

 

[Mattdotcom]

Oh, yeah, those commercials are television staples.

 

[BruiserBrody]

haha do you mean the Church of Latter Day Saints or is it different in Canada? Either way, that's plain adorable.

At Catholic Mass as a kid, I always thought we prayed for the Virgin Mary's "Intersection" and always wondered what roads and religion had to do with each other

 

[Mattdotcom]

The Muppets - The Pig With The Froggy Tattoo Teaser Trailer

 

[luke-o]

Haha I just came into post that!

If you haven't seen the original trailer:

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011) Official Teaser Trailer

 

[BruiserBrody]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6FDts-erVw

 

[King Kamala]

http://www.avclub.com/article/sesame-street-moving-hbo-fall-223816
Sesame Street is moving its new episodes to HBO in the Fall.

 

[Baby Shoes]

thank god we finally get that bert and ernie aids episode

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H916EVndP_A

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Fraggle Rock Complete Series Getting Blu-Ray Release

- All 96 episodes in the 12-disc set from the show's four seasons are FULLY REMASTERED IN HIGH-DEFINITION and presented with lossless audio on Blu-ray.
- All 13 Episodes of Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series
- Life on Set: Moments with Jim Henson
- Down at Fraggle Rock: Behind the Scenes (48-minute version)

A boatload of other extras too but too long to list ITT.

 

[BruiserBrody]

I watched some Fraggle Rock on HBO or something lately and it didn't do anything for me. Somethings just don't hold up to adulting.

 

[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1352670411071377409

If Jim Henson had lived, we probably would have gotten edgy '90s Muppets maybe?

 

[Baby Shoes]

That Melissa McCarthy puppet jizz Happytime Murders movie was done by the Henson company and was a project they had wanted to do for like over a decade until it finally got made into the bomb it was. They always viewed their properties outside of Sesame Street as being aimed more toward an older audience.

 

[Valeyard]

Henson would've made a better movie if he'd been involved. Not saying it would be good by any means but Henson was the only one who could make it at least forgettable instead of reviled.

Muppet Show is coming to Disney Plus by the way.

 

[Valeyard]

And no I didn't see the other thread about it until now.

 

[King Kamala]

That Melissa McCarthy puppet jizz Happytime Murders movie was done by the Henson company and was a project they had wanted to do for like over a decade until it finally got made into the bomb it was. They always viewed their properties outside of Sesame Street as being aimed more toward an older audience.

Yeah I almost mentioned The Happytime Murders in my post but honestly couldn't remember if it was a Brian Henson solo joint or an official Jim Henson Productions joint.

There are aspects of The Muppet Show, especially in its early seasons, that seem like it was made more as a show for adults that kids could also enjoy rather than vice versa.

 

[Valeyard]

I thought it was a Brian Henson passion project, first and foremost, to just make a gross rated R puppet movie. Jim could've made the premise work without the jizz and embarrassment.

The Muppet Show is awesome. The only aspect that has ever bugged me, and always had, was the canned laughter. I get that it's kind of a joke in itself but I just hate canned laughter in general.

 

[Baby Shoes]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1353820681667010560

 

[King Kamala]

The Muppet Show Edits Revealed - ToughPigs

The Muppet Show episodes will be unedited, but a few episodes will be missing at the Disney+ launch.

www.toughpigs.com

So The Muppet Show episodes are more complete than a lot of people thought there'd be. Only edits to 12 out of the 120 episodes and two episodes missing. Brooke Shields cause of music rights and Chris Langham (the writer for the show who replaced Richard Pryor super last minute due Pryor's attempted suicide) because he turned out to be a pedo apparently.

 

[alkeiper]

I thought it was a Brian Henson passion project, first and foremost, to just make a gross rated R puppet movie. Jim could've made the premise work without the jizz and embarrassment.

The Muppet Show is awesome. The only aspect that has ever bugged me, and always had, was the canned laughter. I get that it's kind of a joke in itself but I just hate canned laughter in general.

It's one thing to have a laugh track in a show like MASH. But the Muppet Show supposedly has a live audience watching the show. I feel like you have to add some sort of canned reaction in that environment to make it seem authentic. IMO watching these episodes its one thing the show is really good at. It doesn't feel like they're recording on a soundstage with no audience except the crew. But they are.

 

[King Kamala]

I never had a problem with the canned laughter cause The Muppet Show is kind of a meta, show within a show.

 

[Big Beard Booty Daddy]

I've really enjoyed watching The Muppet Show since last Friday. It's been a wild trip. My daughter, who is very picky with what she watches, wasn't interested at first. She's watched the new Muppet Babies, so she knows the characters and like them, but she didn't want to try watching this. I had it playing on my tablet as we were playing board games. She kept looking over and fell in love with the show.

 

[alkeiper]

My kid was a bit intrigued but kept asking for the real Muppets. She's a project.

I started with season four because I have the first three on DVD. A lot of great stuff. Some of it doesn't age well (hence the disclaimers). Jonathan Winters, I've read a lot about how he was one of the funniest comedians ever. His episode though doesn't click at all.

 

[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1364618199254327300

Hope Disney+ gives us Muppets Tonight at some point in relative near future.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Was watching some Muppets yesterday with the gf, and in the S1 episode with Peter Ustinov Kermit & Peter are having a little back and forth about the writers for the show, and Kermit jokes that a hat rack is the lead writer. Jump ahead to the closing credits, and in the Writers section the last name listed was The Hatrack.

 

[Epic Springs]

Why did nobody bother to tell me that they made Gonzo trans in the Muppet Babies revival?

Seriously though, it's cool they're portraying these issues.