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This was a tough one. (Although, all things being equal, if the toughest part of your day is deciding which version of "Rainbow Connection" you like the best, you're having a better day than 80 per cent of the planet. But I digress...) After giving it a bit of thought, I've ranked the original...

I actually thought the proposal and Mahna Mahna ending was kind of cute and didn't sully the movie in any way. Maybe it's just the way Amy Adams grabbed that goofy moment and ran with it; it just worked for me. As I've previously mentioned, I found the ending montage rushed (especially Tex...

I like the Star Trek idea (nice tie-in to the first round of new movies with the original cast). James Taylor and Robin Williams would have been perfect fits too, and not just because of their bang-on Sesame Street cameos. From the list posted above: CCR, Caroll O'Connor, Carole King (whose "I...

I have rarely had an emotional state veering so wildly between happy memories of music and laughter and deep sadness at the loss of a respected gentleman as I do right now, thinking about Jerry Nelson and his life, death and legacy. The songs bouncing around in my head right now...Robin...

I missed "From The Balcony" so I was tickled to read all those quotes about more modern movies. Thanks for posting those - looks like that was a better concept than I visualized when I (finally) found out about it! Good quotes all around, everybody. Lots of my favorites here ("I've seen...

I consider myself lucky to have been born in the early '70s, which means that I'm old enough to have been touched by the work of Jim Henson and Richard Hunt before they passed away and also young enough to see that their legacy (and that of the now-retired Muppeteers) is still alive and strong...

I hesitate to come down too hard on Frank Oz for his recent comments because (a) he has as much right to make them as anyone else, (b) he arguably has MORE right to make them than anyone else, (c) he's responsible for many of my fondest childhood (and adulthood) memories and slagging him feels...

I don't think either Animal or the Swedish Chef have mellowed out. I love both of them as much as I always have and I'm thrilled that both are as prominent in the Muppet cast as they were in the Jim days. I'm honestly delighted with the continuity that Eric Jacobson has given to Animal (if it...

Thanks for that link, Mo. I was curious about that myself. It's interesting to hear Frank's assessment that the movie was "too safe" when the very concept of The Muppets - casting them as themselves (as opposed to MCC and MTI) and attempting to recreate the long-lost TMS vibe, on a big screen...

Thank you to everybody who's been posting links and reviews (special shout-outs to Sharilyn and Donald for their extensive blow-by-blow recaps). Those of us in "the wrong part of Canada" (or the wrong part of the rest of the world) salute you!!! I'm so, so, SO HAPPY that this worked as well as...

Any comments I could make about MT must be taken with a grain of salt, because I missed the second season (it wasn't shown on Canadian TV and I didn't have cable at the time) and I've only recently started digging up some of it on YouTube. That being said, my feelings about MT are summed up by...

I've enjoyed seeing both of The Muppets Go To The Movies and The Muppets Go Hollywood on YouTube over the past couple of years - it was the first time I'd seen either of them since I was seven or eight years old and WOW, they're STILL a treat even when watching them on an adult level. I'll...

I'm really enjoying and appreciating everybody's contribution to this discussion, particularly the respect everybody is showing to each other while tackling the issue. I can't speak to how Jim himself would have handled this as I've sadly never met the man, but I have the feeling that the...

It didn't happen with every TMS guest star, but part of what made that Alice Cooper episode so special is that the Muppet crew and the celebrity guest are clearly trying to embrace each other's worlds and having a good time doing it. I still can't believe they pulled it off. It's bizarre...

You know, I really didn't think Cookie Monster was going to be one of the classic Sesame Street characters that transcended the kiddie-TV box he so often found himself in... ...but between this and the Saturday Night Live audition reel (and subsequent cameo) and his screamingly-funny Colbert...

Wow - what a discussion we've got going here! Thanks for sharing, everyone. Sometimes it's just nice to come here and see I'm not the only one who cares about these characters and how they're portrayed and positioned in the modern era. On the original point of poor audience reaction: The...

Because it's the 4th of July, I'm thinking of the Hal Linden episode of TMS (because Statler and Waldorf were running the show and had a production number that inadvertently mixed up the 4th of July and Christmas) and remembering one of my favourite Gonzo lines from that fifth-season episode...

CGI can work for The Muppets in small doses (I think of the great "Duelling Musicians" commercial Brad Paisley did with Kermit five or six years ago) but I would be extremely disappointed to see the technology reduce or replace real-time use of the actual puppets. As has been mentioned many...

For some reason, this has been tickling me lately, even though I can't even identify which episode of TMS it comes from and why exactly it happened. There's a baby in Statler and Waldorf's box (one of their grandsons?) and Waldorf says: "I don't think this show is suitable for children!" To...

Whenever we watch The Muppet Movie together, Mrs. Otter loves to tell me how she saw it in theatres just as she wrapped up the tenth grade, and was so psyched to see the Muppets on a big screen for the very first time. I lived in a small town that was too far away from a movie theatre, so I...