The Muppet Show's 10 Weirdest Moments

Posted by Miss Cellania in Funny on September 15, 2009 at 12:58 pm

From your experience of watching Sesame Street and the Muppet movies, it’s difficult to picture how surreal and edgy The Muppet Show was. Unless you remember watching it!

Imagine it from a TV executive’s point of view: a weekly variety show, in an old vaudeville theater, featuring puppets, and a mix of A, B and C-list celebrities that catered to both kids and adults. That’s not a pitch… it’s a just list of random words that don’t go together. Unfortunately, it’s that weirdness that’s been lost to the ages, as these days the Muppets are remembered more as a kids’ show instead of the more adult, primetime comedy it was.

The Muppet Show’s 10 Weirdest Moments has video clips of sexual innuendo, violence, and surreal guest stars that bring back fond memories. Link -via Look At This

 
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The Cookie Monster Interview

Posted by Alex in Cartoon & Comic on May 21, 2009 at 1:41 am

Elizabeth Blair of NPR has interviewed many people, but she may have just met her match in Cookie Monster. From a February 2009 All Things Considered interview:

Years before Sesame Street, Muppet creator Jim Henson made a very similar monster who ate snack foods and computers in television commercials. The basic look and spirit were there, but the character we know today was still a ways off.

Enter puppeteer Frank Oz. For nearly 30 years, Henson and Oz were an extraordinary team. Cheryl Henson, Jim’s daughter and the president of the Jim Henson Foundation, says the two men shared a subversive sense of humor. Their Muppets were regulars on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show.

It was later, on a Muppet game show, that the cookie-fixated creature we know emerged, Oz says. The winning contestant was offered the chance to choose a prize: a vacation, a new house, $10,000 cash, or a cookie. He chose the cookie — and the Cookie Monster was born.

Om nom nom nom … COOKIEEE!!! … Link | The Cookie Monster Interview [embedded YouTube clip]

 
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Henson's 11

Posted by Miss Cellania in Movies & SciFi, Video Clips on April 21, 2009 at 9:57 am


(YouTube link)

This is what we would have enjoyed if Jim Henson had produced the movie Ocean’s Eleven. -via Unique Daily

 
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Six Degrees of Puppets

Posted by Stacy in Blog & Internet on January 14, 2009 at 11:41 pm

Worth 1000 contests always fascinate me, so Worth 1000 + Muppets (most of them are Muppets, anyway, but you’ll also find Wallace, Chucky and Alf) = pretty sweet. This particular contest asked Photoshoppers to stick puppets in unlikely situations. The one above is by taltieri is probably my favorite, but Animal in 300 and Bert and Ernie in 3:10 to Yuma are pretty awesome too. The Kermit and Miss Piggy entry is just… disturbing.

Link to the whole gallery

 
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Fun Facts About the Origin of the Muppets

Posted by Alex in Cartoon & Comic, Movies & SciFi on January 12, 2009 at 1:53 am

From our pal mental_floss, here’s a really fun post by Stacy about the origins of … the Muppets! Here are two of my favorites:

12. You have to love Statler and Waldorf. I couldn’t find much on their particular inspiration, but I can tell you that they’ve been around since the 1975 Muppet Show pilot. They are named after popular New York City hotels (the Statler Hotel was renamed the Hotel Pennsylvania in 1992.) Guess what Waldorf’s wife name is? Yep… Astoria (she looks startlingly like Statler.) FYI, Waldorf is the one with the mustache and white hair. Statler has the grey hair. Apparently Waldorf has had a pacemaker for more than 30 years.

Link – via i met a possum

Oh, I almost forgot: did you know that Statler and Waldorf now have their own YouTube account?

 
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Ode to Joy, Beaker-Style.

Posted by Stacy in Music, Video Clips on December 31, 2008 at 10:50 am

With a cameo by Statler and Waldorf. This made my morning.

 
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